R&p: Concert Review #3!?
July 18th, 2009 | 
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time for our third concert review: styx/reo speedwagon with opener . 38 special(i included styx and reo speedwagon together as a co-headline because they played for the same amount of time)
i have never really been a . 38 special fan, and they weren’t particularly entertaining live. . . not bad but definitely not blowing the doors off the place
reo speedwagon was very good as i expected them to be, they are a band sort of geared to the whole arena rock deal and a large part of that is playing a solid live show. . . the only disappointment i had was that they got 2 of my favorite songs of theirs(can’t fight this feeling and take it on the run) done within the first 4 songs
styx was surprisingly very good, i was lowering my expectations for them due to the absence of dennis deyoung but james young proved a sufficient replacement, and overall they put on a very good show. . . my lone gripe here was that even with a limited amount of time to play they killed off some time with instrumental solos, which was cool but it cut out a couple of songs i would have liked to see them perform, but all in all a very solid effort
so, what is your opinion on these three bands?
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PLEASE tell me that REO finished with Roll With The Changes. That’s absolutely my favorite song by them! Also not much of a .38 Special fan. Styx is OK in small doses, in my opinion.
- Love and Peace -
Edit: Ah, that’s OK. Still a good song. They did play it though, right?
Oh thank God lol. I’m gonna see them pretty soon. That makes me happy ha ha. Did REO close or did Styx?
I’d say my expectations (and experience) would have been about the same as yours, Sabes… that is, 38 Special has never really caught my attention/ I liked rocking out with REO Speedwagon a LOT in the ’80s/ and Styx has a bunch of good songs, but I’ve only ever owned one of their albums and it was never in heavy rotation!
Sounds like fun, tho…
I can’t help but to agree with that person! Yankee fans don’t have souls!
Yankee fans have no souls