After having to cancel last year’s tour due to repeated bouts of Covid 19 circulating thru the band, Ringo Starr (and his All-Starr Band) have just added an entire Fall leg to their upcoming tour, adding nineteen more dates to the schedule!
The whole thing kicks off shortly (like in about ten days!) … and yes, Chicago is now officially a stop on the tour!
May 19th – Temecula, CA – Pechanga Resort Casino
May 20th and 21st – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre
May 23rd – Long Beach, CA – Terrace Theater
May 24th, 26th and 27th – Las Vegas, NV – Venetian
Theatre
May 28th – San Diego, CA – Humphreys Concerts
May 30th – Prescott Valley, AZ – Findlay Toyota Center
May 31st – San Diego, CA – Humphreys Concerts
June 2nd – Eugene, OR – Cuthbert Amphitheater
June 3rd – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
June 4th – Woodinville, WA – Chateau Ste Michelle Winery
June 6th – Denver, CO – Bellco Theater – Denver Convention Center
June 7th – Colorado Springs, CO – Pikes Peak Center
June 9th – Lincoln, CA – Thunder Valley Casino
June 10th – Jacksonville, OR – Britt Festival
June 11th – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
June 13th – Salt Lake City, UT – Eccles Theater
June 15th – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
June 16th – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre
June 17th – San Jose, CA – San Jose Civic
And now …
Sept 17th – Ontario, CA – Toyota Arena
Sept 19th – Tucson, AZ – Linda Rondstadt Theater
Sept 20th – Albuquerque, NM – Rio Rancho Center
Sept 22nd – Kansas City, MO – The Uptown
Sept 23rd – St Louis, MO – The Fox
Sept 24th – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
Sept 26th – Clearwater, FL – Coachmen Park
Sept 27th – Atlanta, GA – The Fox
Sept 29th – Indianapolis, IN – The Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
Sept 30th – Milwaukee, WI – Miller High Life Theatre
Oct 1st – Minneapolis, MN – Mystic Lake
Oct 3rd – Grand Rapids, MI – DeVos Performance Hall
Oct 5th – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
Oct 6th – New Buffalo, MI – Four Winds Casino
Oct 7th – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
Oct 9th – Charleston, WV – Charleston Coliseum
Oct 10th – Columbus, OH – Mershon Auditorium
Oct 12th – Little Rock, AK – Simmons Bank Arena
Oct 13th – Thackerville, OK – Winstar Casino
OK, this is pretty cool …
Sent in by Tom Cuddy …
Alex Trebek once
interviewed Gordon Lightfoot on a 1960s teen dance show
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/08/alex-trebek-once-interviewed-gordon-lightfoot-on-a-sixties-teen-dance-show.html
Why You Shouldn’t Care Too Much About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-shouldn-t-care-too-074851529.html
Gary
One big mistake in the article …
Sheryl Crow didn’t finish second in the fan voting …
In fact, she didn’t even make The Top Five, each of whom earned a vote on the official Rock Hall Ballot (although NONE of the other Top Five Candidates made it into The Hall this year.)
Second place went to Cyndi Lauper (who also led the pack at various time during the fan vote) … but her name was nowhere to be found when the list of 2023 Inductees was announced.
There is, however, one major strand of truth here …
Once all of the “obvious” candidates were inducted, early on, it left a very shallow pool of artists to choose from moving forward. I mean, let’s face it … how many artists in the History Of Rock And Roll can measure up to acts like Elvis and The Beatles … Buddy Holly and The Rolling Stones … Chuck Berry, Little Richard … Ray Charles, The Everly Brothers, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, The Supremes and The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, The Platters …
But by 1990, all of these artists were already in.
How do you award equal weight to some of the artists who have been inducted since?
(Sure, somebody like Michael Jackson who turned the music world upside down, was a “given” … and even he had to wait until 2001 to be inducted as a solo artist … but nearly every year since, there have been at least two or three head-scratchers on the list that make you wonder what THEIR criteria is vs. the rest of the world’s … especially when you see SO many great, deserving names still not inducted.)
To paraphrase Bobby Lamm …
Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? (kk)
