Teen Idols Show Las Vegas

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Ironically enough at the “Teen Idols” show no one was under fifty. I will even go as far as to say that no one UNDER 50 will even be remotely interested in this show. But for those of us who ARE over 50 it was a terrific ride down memory lane of the sixties. These three men, now all between 64 and 68, represented the heart of the teen pop music of the sixties, with Mickey Dolenz being from The Monkees, Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Peter Noone from Herman’s Hermits.
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Lady Gaga: Las Vegas

Lady Gaga went through a series of costume changes during her show Thursday at The Pearl.

Lady Gaga balances grace with bawdiness

By JASON BRACELIN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
If she ever had to walk in Dorothy’s ruby red shoes, she’d never want to peek behind any of Oz’s curtains.

Lady Gaga’s mission: to put the “art” in “artifice,” the “super” in “superficial.
In this context, appearance isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

“We are nothing without our image, without projection,” Gaga announced as part of a pretaped video montage projected onto the towering video screens that bookended the stage during a sold-out show Thursday at The Pearl at the Palms.

This was the first of two nights that Gaga’s “The Monster Ball” tour would take over the venue in what the chart-topping changeling has called “the first-ever ‘pop electro opera.’ ”
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Journey at the M Resort Henderson

Journey - Neal Schon (guitars, backing vocals), Deen Castronovo (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Arnel Pineda (lead vocals), Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals), and Ross Valory (bass, backing vocals)

I’m not going to belabor the point, this is the fourth time I’ve seen Journey, once with Steve Perry, once with Steve Augeri and twice with Arnel Pineda.
Journey is Journey and they are always amazing and put on a first rate show. Before the show Jonathon Cain was in the lobby mixing with fans. The show went on right at 8PM and they played a solid two hour set.
The only distractions were the venue. I was seven rows from the front, so I could see the whites of their eyes onstage. It was outside at the pool, which is huge and inviting, if it were July or August. Instead, it is October and it was 70 degrees with 35MPH winds that blew the suspended speakers and lighting rigs around like wind chimes, blew over chairs and made it too fucking cold to really enjoy the show. Even midway through the set Arnel donned a heavy jacket (see video below).
The other venue negative was the stage was too small to contain Journey—Arnel specifically, who had little-to-no room for his leaping,kicking, twirling and racing.It was like putting an overly rambunctious kitten in a small cardboard box.
There were projection screens on each of the stage, which people were watching and videotaping with their cellphones rather than watching the real thing on stage. Crowds were on balconies at restaurants watching as a full moon loomed overhead. Read the rest of this entry »

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Aerosmith and ZZ Top in Las Vegas

Review by the Phantom Jackass.

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Steve Tyler and Joe Perry

I’m afraid this is the concert that broke the proverbial camel’s back. Last year saw a large group of classic rock concerts hitting the road, with Boston, Journey, Heart, Styx, anybody who was around back in the seventies was back again last summer. And of all the shows, only Journey and Trans-Siberian Orchestra were worth the trouble it took to get there.
This year it’s slim pickins. Only ZZ Top and Aerosmith together were promised to be the show of the year. Local papers were stating, “If you see only one concert all year, this is it!”
Unfortunately, the cost and the trouble to get to it and stay through it far outweighed the enjoyment.
You would think the hottest bands in America over the past 30 years playing in the hottest American resort town during a hot summer with hot babes wearing next-to-nothing would be a veritable gift from the rock gods. Instead, it was a battle to fight the traffic, with all valet parking being filled hours before the show leaving hundreds of cars anxiously roaming in search of a place to park before the show started.

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Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: Great Gams for 60+

Okay, once again I get to suspend my sexual preference, at least for an evening, and attend the greatness that is the Divine Miss M. Bette Midler, who, at 63 is as raunchy and bawdy as ever. She seems to be in great shape, pacing the stage in Peg Bundy fashion and calling out to “Let’s hear it from the Jews, now let’s hear it from the Christians, now let’s hear it from the gays!”
Playing at the same venue as Elton John and Cher, this time we got free orchestra tickets. The show starts out really quite ingeniously.
For the time the audience is loading in you’re looking at a projected graphic advertisement of Bette’s “The Showgirl Must Go On,” with her in white hot pants sitting in the middle of the Nevada desert. Then as the show actually starts the graphic pulls away to show that it’s a billboard on the side of the long desert stretch of highway leading into Vegas. Donkeys and buzzards stare at us as the band walks over the boulder backdrop and takes place on the stage. A tornado rips through the desert tearing apart the billboard. It picks up cars and trucks on the highway and spins them around a la Wizard of Oz. The tornado tears through the desert and into Las Vegas, tearing up the strip. The tornado heads to Caesar’s Colosseum and proceeds to blow it apart as the stage gets hit by wind and smoke (the tornado is entering the theatre) and from the midst the Divine Miss M appears out of the tornado.
With her backup singers The Harlettes and her dancing show girls, the Caesar Salad Dancers, they go through a series of popular songs from the 30s through the 80s. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cher at the Colosseum

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Cher and Cher Alike, In a Town of Impersonators Here’s the Real Deal.

review by king lizzard

It’s about time we post something new here, it’s been a busy winter.
 Wednesday night I had to suspend my gender preference for 90 minutes and attended the Cher show at the Colisseum at Caesar’s Palace. Before I get more in depth, let me say that I recognize and acknowledge the fact that she’s a legend
and a fuckin’ Oscar winner (this plays into the show).
However, John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band confirms that just because you’re a legend doesn’t mean you can’t suck.
That being said, let’s get into it, shall we?
Now this was the venue that was originally built for Celine Dion, and is now home to Cher, Bette Midler and Elton John (review coming of him soon).
When you enter the Colisseum you’re greeted by a large screen showing fanning stars and a New Age “floaty” music on an endless loop. This was cool, but before a rock/pop concert do you really want your audience all mellowed out and spacey?
And true to form, the show that was supposed to begin at 7:30 wound up closer to 8:00, although I must say that every seat in the house was packed for a Wednesday night (yes, I got in for free, like always).
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