JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

[Gwreck]

Surprisingly accurate description, that.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 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. [youtube]qEWVwynKK3M[/youtube]

That clip should seriously be the new RickRoll.

[G-Fafif]

Bump. Or any dance you like when you're hot blooded.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gotta coach Little League tomorrow or I'd be there on the double (vision).

[G-Fafif]

Tentatively going with a pal who I don't think is predisposed to hang around to extend his blue morning, blue day deep into the blue night. But it will be tough to be there and not wait for a show like this.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Free concerts after a baseball game? WTF Mets? Couldn't you get someone better than Foreigner? Maybe you could've spent that money on an outfielder who can hit.

[Ceetar]

Citi Field acoustics suck btw, for concerts anyway.

[Gwreck]

It's the quality of the sound system, not the acoustics.

A free post-game concert with a hastily-assembled stage and PA system is unlikely to sound good.

McCartney in 2009 sounded good, mostly because they were using a world-class system and had four days to set up for the show.

[Edgy MD]

Out in the street it's 6 a.m.
Another sleepless night
Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head
From what went down last night

No we won't have our own little ways
But somehow we keep it together
You hear me talk, you don't hear what I say
I guess it don't even matter

[Frayed Knot]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Free concerts after a baseball game? WTF Mets? Couldn't you get someone better than Foreigner?

Neither Loverboy or Journey were available.

[Edgy MD]

Journey > Foreigner

Loverboy, probably not > Foreigner

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, Journey for whatever reason is above doing post-Mets-game concerts, while Loverboy is below that level.

Foreigner. Just right for 45 minutes of free entertainment in a major city.

[Edgy MD]

Wondering where Loverboy has been playing this month?

5/31/2013 Windsor, ON Beaverfest
6/08/2013 Syracuse, NY Taste of Syracuse
6/15/2013 Laughlin, NV AVI Resort and Casino
6/22/2013 Petaluma, CA Sonoma-Marin Fair
6/23/2013 Pleasonton, CA Alameda County Fair
6/28/2013 Omaha, NE Memorial Park
6/29/2013 Las Vegas, NV Cannery Casino

May 31st isn't technically this month, but I couldn't resist Beaverfest and neither could you.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

• 5/31/2013 Windsor, ON Beaverfest

May 31st isn't technically this month, but I couldn't resist Beaverfest and neither could you.

Wondering where Loverboy has been playing this month?

Have you tried their official snack food?

[dinosaur jesus]

And when the tour bus is low on gas . . .



Canadians.

[Zvon]

My band in the late 70's was named Split Beaver. We were big in Canada.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Journey > Foreigner

In the same way that taking a hammer to your foot is better than taking one to your hands.

[Guest d'Kong76]

How come they can't get the Bay City Rollers for a
post game concert?

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Journey > Foreigner In the same way that taking a hammer to your foot is better than taking one to your hands.

Haters gotta hate.

There isn't really a currently active version of the Rollers. But Les McKoewn is fronting something he calls Les McKoewn's Bay City Rollers (which, on the other hand, probably is no less authentic than Mick Jones' current incarnation of Foreigner).

Dates in June

Sat Jun 15 Town Hall Glaisnock Street Cumnock, Cumnock, Scotland
Sun Jun 23 Whitehaven Festival, UK

No stateside gigs listed for 2013, I'm sorry to say. I'll keep you up to date, though.

[G-Fafif]

Foreigner rocked several thousand of us, which should reassure lead singer Kelly Hansen (or HANSEN 10, per his blue Mets jersey), who seemed anxious about ascertaining whether we were ready to rock. He was still asking with minutes to go in the hourlong set.

"Head Games" > Met games, at least the one that preceded the concert.

Kelly made mention of us being in the "bleachers" with our "pretzels and hot dogs" as prelude to slowing it down with "Waiting For A Girl Like You," a ballad for which there was no need to put down any pretzels and hot dogs. (Concessions remained open for Foreigner's show, though not for the Mets-Marlins 20-inning jam.)

Mick Jones, freshly inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, crawled out of his deathbed (or so Kelly made it sound) to help us rock on "Feels Like The First Time," and a few other numbers. Mick has liver spots on his forehead, but is gonna keep rockin', he just can't stop.

"Jeff from Foreigner" at one point during the game exhorted us from in front of the buffet in the Hyundai Club to chant "Go Mets," and then "Let's Go Mets". A patron behind him was choosing from among entrees as he was getting us psyched.

They performed a nice national anthem. The American national anthem, in case you were wondering, what given their Foreign-ness.

Thom Gimbel did Junior Walker's sax intro proud on "Urgent".

Drummer Chris Frazier ominously thumped us into a town without a name, in a heavy downpour on "Juke Box Hero".

During "Cold As Ice," CitiVision forgot to flash images of John Buck.

Our participation was requested on "I Wanna Know What Love Is," though not for the part about heartache and pain, which seemed most apropos considering Kelly addressing us as "METS FANS!" throughout the show. (There was a sizable helping of Cubs fans on hand who presumably rocked.)

"Hot Blooded" ended the festivities because how're you supposed to follow that?

Tight, well-crafted, polished, save for a moment of feedback which a visibly annoyed Kelly addressed with "we're gonna get rid of that feedback." Better a postgame concert than the usual postgame "ohmigod, I just spent three hours watching the Mets sleepwalk to another dismal loss" recriminations. Those waited for the ride home.

Foreigner: Not an enterprise I ever loved nor an enterprise I ever disliked. They were just always around as I made my way from junior high to high school to college. So was Craig Swan.

Shaun Marcum's a terrible opening act.

[Edgy MD]

That's a heckuva summation. The only thing that feels distinctly not-very-big-league about the proceedings is turning a semi-counterfeit band member "Jeff" into the official cheerleader for a team he''s probably not very familiar with. I imagine he had the same role with the Akron Aeros three nights ago.

GarRonKei could not say enough about how good the national anthem was ("Best of the year") during one of the innings when they couldn't say much about anything else

I had forgotten that was Junior Walker on "Urgent." That was a pretty inventive nu wave solo for an old rhythm and blues guy.

[ashie62]

Say what we will, but Foreigner had more than their share of hits.

Now get the dang Rollers in...On a Saturday night...

[G-Fafif]

I had forgotten that was Junior Walker on "Urgent." That was a pretty inventive nu wave solo for an old rhythm and blues guy.

Junior's version, for Desperately Seeking Susan soundtrack:

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[Edgy MD]

Strange bedfellows all over that record. Mutt Lange producing. Thomas Dolby on keys.

[Frayed Knot]

Tampa Bay has a [u:13575hu4]KC + the Sunshine Band[/u:13575hu4] post-game show on their schedule.

[Edgy MD]

Lucky sods.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Lucky sods.

Give it up.

[Frayed Knot]

Nationals advertising upcoming post-game shows by Gavin DeGraw and Sammy Hagar (not on the same night).