NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: AC/DC/Foo Fighters Venue: Metlife Stadium, 1 Metlife Stadium Dr. , East Rutherford, NJ Date: Friday 10/2/26 Ticket: $220 (Seat 4 Row 9 Seat 20 via Ticketmaster with 2 $25 off coupons) 8:30pm AC/DC Active: 1973 (Sydney, Australia)  Latest Release: Power Up (Columbia, 2020) Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlis t AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 7:00pm Foo Fighters Active: 1994  (Seattle, WA) Affiliated: Nirvana, Sunny Day Real Estate, Germs Latest Release: Your Favorite Toy (Roswell/RCA, 2026) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify It had been a good ten years since I last saw AC/DC, having skipped the tour Brian Johnson had to ultimately sit out due to hearing issues.  I saw the one before at the same MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.  I don't remember whether it was Giants Stadium then, but I was in the bowl of the arena.  This time I got the front section of the floor to the left of the stage behind th...

  Bill: Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Venue: Forest Hills Stadium , 1 Tennis Pl. , Forest Hills, Queens, NY Date: Thursday 10/1/26 Ticket: $49.27 (Sec 202, got upgrade to Sec 7 Row A) 7pm Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band Active: 1957 (Liverpool, UK) Affiliated: The Beatles, Steve Lukather (Toto), Colin Hay (Men At Work), Warren Ham (Kansas, Toto), Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), Greg Bisonette (David Lee Roth), Buck Johnson (Aerosmith) Latest Release: Long Long Road (UMe, 2026)   Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify I hadn't seen Ringo live since my first time way back in 1989.  That was when he started his format of surrounding himself with other hitmakers to pad out his Beatle and solo hits while he plays drums on other people music.  It's a good concept for Ringo, although I fantasize about seeing him in a club or theatre with him focusing solely on his own material.  Toto's guitarist Steve Lukather has been entre...

   Bill: Cate Le Bon/Lucrecia Dalt/Dagmar Zuniga Venue: Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave. , Maspeth, Queens, NY Date: Wednesday 9/30/26 Ticket: Free (Dice was $38.17 all in) 9pm Cate Le Bon Active: 2007 (Penboyr, Carmarthenshire, Wales) Latest Release: Michaelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify When Cate Le Bon did her Psychic TV cover " Just Drifting ,"  there was a certain air of familiarity with it, but I didn't quite know what it was.  Could this be Leonard Cohen? Bryan Ferry?  Nick Cave?  I was running the contenders through my head and I did not think of Genesis P-Oridge.   Cate Le Bon has been a Mojo darling for some time and what I have heard over the years I liked enough for her to be on my endless bucket list to see.  Well the free Gods of experience bestowed entry to Knockdown although I couldn't get there in time to see the recently David Sylvia...