Night Ranger & Loverboy, in Charlotte together Saturday

[Seven Wishes2]

Free show - Speed Street, the night before the Coca Cola 600.

Night Ranger starts playing the main stage at 8 pm, and Loverboy has the 10pm slot. Anyone interested?

[RedWingFan]

Free show - Speed Street, the night before the Coca Cola 600.

Night Ranger starts playing the main stage at 8 pm, and Loverboy has the 10pm slot. Anyone interested?

Damn. Wish it was closer. Have fun if you go.

[AR]

Loverboy will have an EXTREMELY tough act to follow. Night Ranger are as good as anyone live these days.

[Seven Wishes2]

They've always been amazing. I dragged my formerly grunge-obsessed friend to a Neverland Tour show in '97 in Myrtle Beach, and he said it was the single best concert he'd ever seen - and promptly went out and bought their whole catalogue.

[slucero]

NR should kick ass...

Reno has always been a gamer..


should be a good show!

[RedWingFan]

The NR/Foreigner/Neil show was the first time my wife saw Night Ranger live and she LOVED them. We're going to make the 4 hour trip to see them play a casino in Manistee Michigan. Tickets go on sale on the 6/1. Can't wait for a great 90+ minute show.

[Seven Wishes2]

Wow. What an amazing show. That was flat-out the tightest and best I have seen NR. The crowd was going ballistic! Most everyone there hadn't heard "Eddie" before...and the response was over the top! Kelly, vocally, sounded the best I've heard him since the late '90's. Brad was bombastic, Joel was flat-out fantastic, even employing Jeff Watson's eight finger tapping technique during the "DTMYLM" solo. And Jack might be the best and most energetic performer in the MR genre. The dude OWNS the crowd wherever he goes.

Now, I'm a HUGE Loverboy fan, and thought their last CD (Just Gettin' Started) was one of the best records of the 00's, or whatever the fuck the past decade was called. And Reno SOUNDED great, although he is singing down a full step these days, and holds back on most of his trademark upper-register stuff. However, he LOOKED like one of those Weebles from the 70's. I was under the impression he had lost a ton of weight, but he still looks ENORMOUS and can barely move. Paul Dean is still a great player, but he's more immobile than Mick Mars. Doug Johnson, who I believe has dabbled in writing operas, seemed determined to bore the crowd with a ten-minute Pat Metheney-flavored keyboard "solo" that belonged on Sirius' Water Colors, not at a rock show. Everyone sort of had a "WTF" expression on their faces (especially the notoriously fickle and leathery NASCAR crowd). Frenette can still whale on the skins, thakfully. Ken "Spider" Sinnaev is not deserving of his nickname. Perhaps "Stoneface"? I don't know.

Before the gig, I would have ranked Loverboy just slightly behind NR, based on the thirty or so shows I've seen between both bands since 1983. However, that gap has widened considerably. And whereas I reasoned Loverboy was the main reason I was going to shell out $100 for a ticket to the Journey/Benatar show this fall, I'm not so sure anymore. Perhaps it's just impossible to follow a live act as impressive as Night Ranger. I know a lot of people thought they were better than Foreigner and Journey last summer. Guess what? They were right. I'm gonna be seeing NR and Foreigner in Atlanta at the end of August, and possibly the DC show, too.

[Real rock fan]

Out of interest, what did both bands play?

[Moon Beam]

Wow. What an amazing show. That was flat-out the tightest and best I have seen NR. The crowd was going ballistic! Most everyone there hadn't heard "Eddie" before...and the response was over the top! Kelly, vocally, sounded the best I've heard him since the late '90's. Brad was bombastic, Joel was flat-out fantastic, even employing Jeff Watson's eight finger tapping technique during the "DTMYLM" solo. And Jack might be the best and most energetic performer in the MR genre. The dude OWNS the crowd wherever he goes.

Now, I'm a HUGE Loverboy fan, and thought their last CD (Just Gettin' Started) was one of the best records of the 00's, or whatever the fuck the past decade was called. And Reno SOUNDED great, although he is singing down a full step these days, and holds back on most of his trademark upper-register stuff. However, he LOOKED like one of those Weebles from the 70's. I was under the impression he had lost a ton of weight, but he still looks ENORMOUS and can barely move. Paul Dean is still a great player, but he's more immobile than Mick Mars. Doug Johnson, who I believe has dabbled in writing operas, seemed determined to bore the crowd with a ten-minute Pat Metheney-flavored keyboard "solo" that belonged on Sirius' Water Colors, not at a rock show. Everyone sort of had a "WTF" expression on their faces (especially the notoriously fickle and leathery NASCAR crowd). Frenette can still whale on the skins, thakfully. Ken "Spider" Sinnaev is not deserving of his nickname. Perhaps "Stoneface"? I don't know.

Before the gig, I would have ranked Loverboy just slightly behind NR, based on the thirty or so shows I've seen between both bands since 1983. However, that gap has widened considerably. And whereas I reasoned Loverboy was the main reason I was going to shell out $100 for a ticket to the Journey/Benatar show this fall, I'm not so sure anymore. Perhaps it's just impossible to follow a live act as impressive as Night Ranger. I know a lot of people thought they were better than Foreigner and Journey last summer. Guess what? They were right. I'm gonna be seeing NR and Foreigner in Atlanta at the end of August, and possibly the DC show, too.

Thanks for offering your say so's here, Sir.
Good to see this.