Love Iggy! Thanks for sharing. Must have been a great show.
Alex Wong and Vienna Teng Saturday at The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI. Alex was the opening act and Vienna joined him near the end of his set. I had not heard Alex before but he was good. Vienna was wonderful, she’s an artist to see live. Very comfortable performing and interacting with the audience. My wife loved it, and that doesn’t happen too often.
Just got back from attending a Navy Reunion in Nashville. One of the tours we went on was to the Grand Ole Opry. We are not really into country music, but I can appreciate what the Opry means to those who are. I was not familiar with all the musicians that played that night, but I was familiar with Shinedown. The place went wild when Carrie Underwood came out to introduce Shinedown.
The pictures I took were not that great as we were sitting in the nosebleed section. It was really high up! Anyone who is afraid of heights would not be comfortable up there. Ask me how I know! 
If anyone knows the other acts that played that night, I do have a least one picture of each I could post.
Took a couple weeks traveling around Germany and took in a good bit of music - so here are the terrible shots I got mostly during curtain calls.
Started with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin at the Konzerthaus in Berlin. Im not a huge ancient instruments fan but they really were talented at it. The violin Soloist was OK. Lovely room.
The highlight was Sir Simon Rattle and Janine Jansen at the Berliner Philharmonie - fantastic room, excellent conducting, unmatched playing of Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto by Janine, and of course a near perfect orchestra. This was probably curtain call #2
No photos from a Jazz show we went to at the Opera house in Leipzig. It ended with a set from the Bobo Stinson Trio. I like Bobo, but his drummer needed ALL the attention and was kinda annoying in the end. The Opera house (pictured here from inside the Gewandhaus) is like walking into a 1960s Soviet embassy or something. Styling unmistakable.
Saw two shows at the famous Gewandhaus which benefits from more modern/non-soviet styling.
First a 10-person audience with the organist who talked about the organ and played us some Bach - was great but mostly in German.
Finally a chamber concert of various pieces from various composers all based on a book from the late 1800s written by an Australian woman who moved to Leipzig to study music and ended up becoming an author instead. There was a large group of very nice Australians there who traveled just for the show as they were members of the authors “Appreciation Society”
Why does that view seem so familiar? 
How was the show? I’ve been tempted to get tickets to this tour as I’ve never actually seen Billy or ZZ Top but it is the night after a show I already have tickets and I’m old now. It’s still tempting me and I’m basically asking you to talk me into it.
We saw Brisco at the Bluebird in Denver on February 5th with Wells Ferrari opening. My wife got me listening to Brisco this past year and they put on a good show.
Tonight we went to see The Record Company at the Gothic in Denver. They were great and we had a fantastic night but I never got around to taking a photo. They came out for the encore and played One More Saturday Night for Bob Weir. Got me all worked up even now that I’m home a couple hours later. I don’t know why his death hit me so hard but I do miss him and am so glad to hear the music live on.
I thought it was great, as did the audience (multiple standing ovations). Lots of ZZ Top deep cuts. Off the top of my head, they played “Waitin’ for the Bus > Jesus Just Left Chicago”; “Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers”; “Francine”; “La Grange”; “Brown Sugar” (from ZZ Top’s First Album, not the Rolling Stones song); “Just Got Paid”; “Thunderbird” and “Blue Jean Blues.”
In addition, they played some good blues covers (Jimi Hendrix, early Fleetwood Mac).
Was BFG as fiery as when I saw ZZ Top in 1991 at NYC’s Madison Square Garden? No … but to see BFG in a small theater (@ 800 seats) with SRV & Double Trouble founding member Chris “Whipper” Layton on drums was an opportunity I could not pass up. BTW, Mike “the Drifter” Flanigin is excellent on bass and Hammond B3. It was a 3.5-hour roundtrip drive to/from Rutland, and I thought it was well worth it. (YMMV, of course.)
