Local music updates

So far, it's still a virtual wasteland this summer. No real sparkle. Nothing to get excited about.

The only new name popping up is John Legend for a Wednesday show in July. No venue confirmed, but it won't be Multifest and it's unlikely to be Mountain Stage.

FestivALL is still exactly what is was --though the civic center has a convention for the Jehovah Witnesses (a return engagement) and Dora The Explorer (that screams art and culture). Jeez, makes you wonder if the civic center has it in for the city's arts and music festival. A big (er... medium) name, mainstream (or attractive alt act) show would do wonders for the thing. Surely, someone has thought of this.

Of course, maybe music is a lot harder sell in this area than I thought, not that anyone appears to be trying very hard to draw a crowd. For example, Huntington has Molly Hatchet coming to Riverfront Park in August. You might be thinking, "Holy shit. I thought those fuckers were dead." Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Apparently, not dead enough.

I guess Black Oak Arkansas was booked.

Ah well... maybe you should go ahead and get those Booker T and the MGs tickets. If you're going to spend your money, you might as well give it to them. Nothing else is going on.

Ticket count

I must have completely screwed the pooch on the last count for the Booker T and The MGs show. Based on my current count, they have 986 tickets available for sale. Which would mean they somehow magically added 97 tickets or I can't add. Let's figure on the latter.

So, about those tickets...

Of course, the concert is a good two months away. Commercial coverage for FestivALL hasn't started and they're not really pitching anything to the media -at least, nobody is pitching anything to me, but maybe they don't have anything to announce. This could be it. All I've heard about so far for FestivALL is the Buddy Guy addition to Mountain Stage. It's nice, but not something to pump your first about and yell woo-hoo. It's more like, "Well, Mountain Stage at the Clay Center. Gee, that's going to cost at least eleven dollars more. I sure wish they could get The Flaming Lips. That would be fun and the wanker lead singer might wear those stupid antenna."

Anyway, with the Booker T tickets, maybe everybody is waiting to see if anything bigger or better comes along. Everybody is watching their money. They want to be excited. I don't think anybody is feeling it yet. At least, I'm not.