Captured! By Robots, March 28, 2017: Shows I’ll Never Forget
I’ve never seen anything like Captured! By Robots, and I’m still not sure what to make of it.

I’ve never seen anything like Captured! By Robots, and I’m still not sure what to make of it.

This wasn’t just any opera; this was the Florentine Opera Company presentation of Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni.’ But that meant little to me, I confess.
I did not know Chuck Berry was a black man until he stepped on that Des Moines stage.

Jamey Johnson is confident and solid, offering straight-ahead country music that’s performed with conviction.

La Original Banda el Limon, Banda Maguey and others performed at the gorgeous Eagles Club Ballroom – a space built for the likes of Glenn Miller.

By now, you think you know what happened at Kanye West’s Nov. 17, 2016 concert at San Jose, California. You probably do not.

Alice Cooper once said he enjoyed “playing the heavy – a bizarre vaudevillian character.” The same remains true today.
In recent years, I’ve said some pretty negative things about Anthrax frontman Joey Belladonna. I’d like to use this opportunity to take all of those things back.

The night was a success. The concert had been enthusiastically received. But was it Yes?

The show was an hour and a half late. Audience members were understandably nervous. Then, in strode Billy Joe Shaver — all 77 years of him.