JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Friday night concert series returns this season. Upgraded? Upgraded.

� Foreigner, June 14 (after a game with the Chicago Cubs)

� Nas (!), July 19 (Philadelphia Phillies)

� O.A.R., Aug. 2 (Kansas City Royals)

� Third Eye Blind, Aug. 23 (Detroit Tigers)

I've got illmatic tickets for 7/19 already.

[Gwreck]

That's Queens native and life-long Mets fan Nas.

I just might go to that one.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Foreigner touring with fake vocalist these days.

I don't get the whole O.A.R. thing.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Foreigner touring with fake vocalist these days.

He's a Foreigner foreigner! They're fucking playing head games with us!

[metirish]

He sounds scarily like the real singer...it's weird.....

I wonder if they tailor the performers to the opponents?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Seems like kind of a step down for O.A.R., no?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metirish wrote: He sounds scarily like the real singer...it's weird.....

eh. Foreigner IMO is the worst sort of dinosaur rock hanger-oners. One original member left, and it's not the singer, but they live off those guys accomplishments, going as far as to re-record all their parts for pointless "Greatest Hits" collections that don't replace the originals but compete with them for (mostly virtual) shelf space. In the meantime they record new stuff but make it exclusively for sale at Wal-Mart, so you know they are preying on the poor and stupid more than usual.

All that said you'll prolly find me with a bic lighter standing on the dugout. DAMN YOU FOREIGNER.

[Edgy MD]

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/wicked squinty-faced air guitar flourish

[Edgy MD]

The Foreigner Crimeline:



Boring but necessary factoid to know: The band chose the name "Foeigner" because the band had both multiple Brits and some Americans. Looks like it became the Mick and Lou Show pretty early on. I'm curious about that Jack Allen Smith era.

[ashie62]

Touring later in their careers is a retirement plan of sorts for the dinosaurs..

[Vic Sage]

the band was Jones, McDonald and Gramm. They did the first 3 albums together, which were all huge and contain almost all the good songs in their inventory. The 4th album ("4") happened after Jones tossed McDonald out so he (with Gramm) could write all the songs. It has some big songs, too, but was softer and mushier than its predecessors. Though they had a few more hits in later years ("I want to know what love is"), not a single note they wrote or played after "4" in 1981 is worth listening to again. That's about 30 years of them being basically a FOREIGNER cover band. Even the most generous definition of the band as basically being Jones & Gramm would date the group's demise as 2002. I don't know what the carcass is that calls itself FOREIGNER now other than Jones' glorified solo project with hired hands brought on to give hollow renditions of former glories.

as for touring as a retirement plan for dinosaur bands, these groups used to be able to live off their music libraries, but with digital piracy basically undermining the industry and destroying the market, so bands find they have to tour to live. Others live to tour, and would be on the road regardless.

[Edgy MD]

Well, the trick then would be for the actual musicians to tour, but I imagine the frontmen/brand owners have little great motivation to welcome back the old bandmates who bring relatively little brand association in exchange for the bigger paycheck. The friggen Eagles kicked out Don Felder after a million years as recently as 2002 when they decided he wasn't needed to sell the brand. "Let them eat residuals," says Don.

The real retirement plan is to get your damn back catalog into car commercials or Joseph Gordon-Levitt movies.

[ashie62]

Less original members divides into the check better.

[Edgy MD]

Yes, that's sort of exactly what I'm saying.

[Frayed Knot]

One of the advantages in breaking up and then later reforming 'The Eagles' --well, an advantage if your name was either Glenn Frey or Don Henley anyway-- was that Frey & Henley were able to re-set the parameters of the band to where they got the biggest bulk of the money generated by the band's second act, something that was in direct contrast to the dynamic in many new bands where the 'we're all in this together'/equal partners type of brotherhood tends to dominate.



That chart shows 'Foreigner' as going through more drummers than Spinal Tap.

[Edgy MD]

And nothing says that rumored Led Zeppelin reunion tour just ain't happenin' like Jason Bonham going on tour with bloody Foreigner for half a decade.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Seems like kind of a step down for O.A.R., no?

Really? Of the four here, without research, I'd say that O.A.R. had the shortest/lowest commercial peak/audience-size peak.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mick Jones gets big gigs after Mets games. The Lou Gramm Band is playing honkey-tonks in Reno. And eating all the Foreigner drummers, looks like.

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[bmfc1]

How many people stay after a game for concerts?

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: How many people stay after a game for concerts?

not a lot. and it's not like Citi Field was designed acoustically.

[metsmarathon]

Ceetar wrote: bmfc1 wrote: How many people stay after a game for concerts? not a lot. and it's not like Citi Field was designed acoustically.

it wasn't exactly designed for baseball either.

sorry, too easy

[Farmer Ted]

I just got an email blast notifying me that I can one of the first to have the privilege of buying tickets for...

wait for it...


wait for it...


wait for it...





Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band. It's like I'm in 1983 all over again.

[Frayed Knot]

Or, as it's known now, Bob Seger and the Silver Hair Band.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm going to that game. When is it?

[MFS62]

Why isn't this thread in the Non-Baseball Forum?

Later

[Edgy MD]

Because rockin' out after a baseball game is baseball-related.

Seger, I'm buying.

[seawolf17]

I'm thinking Mr. Seger needs to wear shirts with sleeves.

[Gwreck]

Except Bob Seger is not playing a free show after a baseball game. If you want to see him, you will need to buy a ticket to his show in Brooklyn on April 16. (Or wherever else he's playing this tour).

I saw him at the Garden in 2007. Fun show but an audience filled with people who crawled out of the Seventies for the evening.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, I was afraid Bob had kept himself off the after-baseball-free-concert circuit.

I guess it had to do with Tom Cruise's undies and Chevy Trucks.

[G-Fafif]

Gwreck wrote: Fun show but an audience filled with people who crawled out of the Seventies for the evening.

Picturing Bruce Boisclair holding a cigarette lighter aloft for "Mainstreet".