The Best Chicago Concerts of 2011

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A.V. Fest, Aragon Ballroom, Arcade Fire, Ben Harper, Best of 2011, Bret Michaels, Charlie Sheen, Chicago, Chicago Theatre, Christina Perri, Chuck Berry, Congress Theater, Dave Matthews Band, Dave Matthews Caravan, Drive-By Truckers, Edward Sharpe amp; The Magnetic Zeros, Fitz amp; The Tantrums, Florence and The Machine, Horseshoe Chicago, Hum, Imelda May, Jeff Beck, Kids These Days, Les Paul, Lincoln Hall, Marshall Crenshaw, Martyrs’, Material reIssue, Mavis Staples, Motorhead, Pat Dinizio, Paul McCartney, Poison, Roger Daltrey, Rush, Schubas, Screaming Females, Smashing Pumpkins, Steve Earle, Steve Earle and The Dukes amp; Duchesses, Taste of Chicago, The Bottle Rockets, The Flaming Lips, The Hideout, The Hideout Block Party, The Lemonheads, The National, The Riv, The Smithereens, The Venue, The Vic, Toots amp; The Maytals, U2, UIC Pavilion, United Center, Viper Alley, Wilco, Wrigley Field

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The Best Chicago Concerts of 2011

Filed under:
Concert Reviews, Uncategorized

Tags:
A.V. Fest, Aragon Ballroom, Arcade Fire, Ben Harper, Best of 2011, Bret Michaels, Charlie Sheen, Chicago, Chicago Theatre, Christina Perri, Chuck Berry, Congress Theater, Dave Matthews Band, Dave Matthews Caravan, Drive-By Truckers, Edward Sharpe amp; The Magnetic Zeros, Fitz amp; The Tantrums, Florence and The Machine, Horseshoe Chicago, Hum, Imelda May, Jeff Beck, Kids These Days, Les Paul, Lincoln Hall, Marshall Crenshaw, Martyrs’, Material reIssue, Mavis Staples, Motorhead, Pat Dinizio, Paul McCartney, Poison, Roger Daltrey, Rush, Schubas, Screaming Females, Smashing Pumpkins, Steve Earle, Steve Earle and The Dukes amp; Duchesses, Taste of Chicago, The Bottle Rockets, The Flaming Lips, The Hideout, The Hideout Block Party, The Lemonheads, The National, The Riv, The Smithereens, The Venue, The Vic, Toots amp; The Maytals, U2, UIC Pavilion, United Center, Viper Alley, Wilco, Wrigley Field

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Pink Floyd Experience

Friday, February 17, 8:00 pm

Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, 2132 Hillside Rd, Storrs Mansfield, CT, $10

There’s nothing like a Jorgensen Cabaret Series event for sheer enjoyment and relaxation. It’s the best entertainment around in a cozy nightclub setting with candlelit tables on the floor. Sandwiches, dessert, alcohol and other beverages are available for purchase. Doors open at 7:00 pm.

Featuring the complete WISH YOU WERE HERE Album

The Pink Floyd Experience is much more than just a flawless recreation of the legendary songs that spanned decades in their appeal. PFX echoes everything that made Pink Floyd one of rock roll’s greatest icons. It’s a celebration of the music, the themes and the innovation that this great band brought to fans around the world. It is Pink Floyd, up close and personal, without losing the scope and power of their performance.

In a two-hour show, performed live with six musicians and over $2.5 million worth of production equipment on stage, the Pink Floyd Experience should come with a warning for potential “retinal damage.” But fans won’t turn their heads away as the massive light show and HD projection brings the show right onto their laps. Even the icons that Pink Floyd have made their own – from the blinking eye to the marching hammers – have all been translated into clever hooks along the ride. Imagine your hair literally swept up by the helicopter that introduces their next song. Hear the cash registers in “Money” or the clocks in “Time” run around the room in full quadraphonic sound. And not to leave the fans wanting for more, the show finishes with a 12-foot long Pig blimp that flies over the audience and balconies in final homage to Pink Floyd’s most familiar image! There’s much, much more from the classic airplane crash to floating eyeballs in the crowd…but we’d better leave a few surprises for the actual show.

Visit http://jorgensen.uconn.edu/events/?sort=datesortdir=ASC for more information and to purchase tickets. Ticket information can also be found at http://jorgensen.uconn.edu/tickets/.

 

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Pink Floyd Experience

Friday, February 17, 8:00 pm

Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, 2132 Hillside Rd, Storrs Mansfield, CT, $10

There’s nothing like a Jorgensen Cabaret Series event for sheer enjoyment and relaxation. It’s the best entertainment around in a cozy nightclub setting with candlelit tables on the floor. Sandwiches, dessert, alcohol and other beverages are available for purchase. Doors open at 7:00 pm.

Featuring the complete WISH YOU WERE HERE Album

The Pink Floyd Experience is much more than just a flawless recreation of the legendary songs that spanned decades in their appeal. PFX echoes everything that made Pink Floyd one of rock roll’s greatest icons. It’s a celebration of the music, the themes and the innovation that this great band brought to fans around the world. It is Pink Floyd, up close and personal, without losing the scope and power of their performance.

In a two-hour show, performed live with six musicians and over $2.5 million worth of production equipment on stage, the Pink Floyd Experience should come with a warning for potential “retinal damage.” But fans won’t turn their heads away as the massive light show and HD projection brings the show right onto their laps. Even the icons that Pink Floyd have made their own – from the blinking eye to the marching hammers – have all been translated into clever hooks along the ride. Imagine your hair literally swept up by the helicopter that introduces their next song. Hear the cash registers in “Money” or the clocks in “Time” run around the room in full quadraphonic sound. And not to leave the fans wanting for more, the show finishes with a 12-foot long Pig blimp that flies over the audience and balconies in final homage to Pink Floyd’s most familiar image! There’s much, much more from the classic airplane crash to floating eyeballs in the crowd…but we’d better leave a few surprises for the actual show.

Visit http://jorgensen.uconn.edu/events/?sort=datesortdir=ASC for more information and to purchase tickets. Ticket information can also be found at http://jorgensen.uconn.edu/tickets/.

 

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Pink floyd – the great gig in the sky (early mix)

Pink floyd - the great gig in the sky (early mix)

The early version of this great song, recorded in 1972, without Clare Torry’s voice. It’s taken from the “Immersion Edition” of The Dark Side of the Moon….

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David gilmour – remember a day (live holland tv 2008)

David gilmour - remember a day (live holland tv 2008)

High Quality…

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Jobing.com Arena, 12/30/11

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Jobing.com Arena
Friday, December 30, 2011

See also:

Our complete Trans-Siberian Orchestra slideshow.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a lot like Christmas itself: The pretty lights are a good distraction from how over-the-top and annoying it can be. Both have some classy elements and are good for family fun, but after a couple hours, New Year’s can’t come soon enough.

That’s not to say Trans-Siberian Orchestra didn’t put on a good show. The band had an impressive production that could give the Pink Floyd experience a run for its money. TSO is notorious for its light show for good reason: Jobing.com Arena was filled with as many lasers as a typical electronica show, at least during the heavy songs anyway.

TSO’s other claim to fame is its broad appeal. Its largest fanbase is obviously the Christmas demographic, and you can’t fault them for it, it’s what the group does best. Last night also attracted a few closet metalheads that timidly threw up the horns every so often, but when you’re sitting in a sea of stagnant fans, it’s hard to get really into the music without looking like a jackass.

Maybe I’ve been to too many quote unquote rock shows, but TSO could have benefited from that sort of jackassery. The show’s highlights were tons of fun: Lasers, fire, fog machines, dancers, and guys that looked like Fabio. I appreciate both hard rock and classical music, and seeing them fused together was great. After all, what better way to get ‘youngins interested in Beethoven than pairing the Fifth Symphony with distorted guitars and fireballs?

TSO’s performance was an ensemble of various talents. Prog rock versions of holiday classics like “Carol of the Bells” were sprinkled amongst solo performances of a female singer with enough vocal range to shatter a glass and a narrator that looked and sounded like James Earl Jones. This fella told a story of a young girl summoning an angel to earth after making a wish on a neon sign in an old city bar, for lack of stars in the sky. It’s the classic Christmas tale: Peace on earth, be kind to your fellow man, yada, yada, yada.

At first our humble narrator was entertaining, ushering in a starry night and a flurry of fake snow, but after awhile it wore thin, just like the homeless man’s extended solo later on. It was a weird scene.

The first half of TSO’s set combined Christmas and vague political commentary. I’m not sure what mixing videos of John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous speeches had to do with the performance, but it was interesting and weird, much like TSO’s music.

The narrator briefly strayed from his Christmas tone to speak of people in Belfast, Burundi, Darfur, and Palestine killing in the name of the Lord and getting rewarded for bad deeds. He had an interesting point, until he talked about how the angel was moved by a lone cello playing Christmas music on the battlefield. Bring back the fire and lasers already!

After rocking versions of The Nutcracker Suite, the production took an ominous bad ass turn, displaying a large fanged snake opening and closing its mouth…oh, and there was fire once again. This seemed like the logical end to TSO’s performance because it was pretty epic, but no, the lights faded out and yet another musician had a solo.

This happened three or four times until some guitarists and violinists climbed on a riser to perform above the crowd. The group returned to the stage, alongside the Glendale chapter of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, to go out in a blaze of glory complete with colorful fireballs, fireworks, and of course, lasers.

Critic’s Notebook:
Last Night: Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Jobing.com Arena.
Personal Bias: Love light shows, hate Christmas music.
The Crowd: Very diverse: Old ladies, kids, a guy dressed as Santa, prog rock geeks.
Overheard in the Crowd: “This sounds like Van Halen.”
Random Notebook Dump: While I’m that glad $1 from each ticket went to Florence Crittendon, I’m a little disappointed that less than 6,000 people were at the matinee show.

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Jobing.com Arena

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Jobing.com Arena

9400 W. Maryland Ave., Glendale, AZ

Category: Music

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Pink floyd – careful with that axe eugene (live in brighton 1972)

Pink floyd - careful with that axe eugene (live in brighton 1972)

Live in Brighton, 29-06-1972 – High Quality…

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Pink floyd – pigs on the wing, pt. 2

Pink floyd - pigs on the wing, pt. 2

Animals is the tenth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released in January 1977. A concept album, it provides a scathing critique of the social-political conditions of 1970s Britain, and presents a marked change in musical style from their earlier work. Animals was recorded at the band’s studio, Britannia Row, in London, but its production was punctuated by the early signs of discord that several years later would culminate in keyboardist Richard Wright leaving the band. The album’s cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist and writer Roger Waters, and photographed by long-time collaborators Hipgnosis….

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Atom heart of the golden dog – pink floyd remixed

Atom heart of the golden dog - pink floyd remixed

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