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Motley Crue tickets once represented one of the biggest draws on the market. The band was wildly successful in the 1980’s, and their concerts were as highly-acclaimed as any in the world given their high-flying pyrotechnics, unexpected visual effects and loud style. The band is going back on tour with Aerosmith, and a look at their past will explain why the latest set of shows will no doubt draw fans by the millions.

Formation

The band came together in 1981 in Los Angeles when each of the members met after playing in separate local acts that had not experienced much success. The members began to come together as a cohesive unit by spending several nights partying and jamming, and they soon discovered that an over-the-top approach to music was a common bond that each of them shared.

Given this style, they attracted a local manager, Allan Coffman, who had a connection with one of Motley Crue’s first roadies, and they began to record tracks as well as play often in local clubs. Coffman helped the band gain notice in several ways, including mixing their first release on a small independent label and touring Canada. The Canadian tour got Motley Crue noticed because they stirred up controversy north of the border. They got into trouble in Edmonton when they arrived in their heavily-spiked stage gear and even arranged a hoax with local police where an anonymous caller stated that there was a “bomb on stage.”

Although their methods were far from orthodox, they did what they had set out to do by getting noticed. As a result of their first release and the buzz they created in Canada, the band landed their first recording contract with a major label, Elektra Records, and they immediately got to work on their first mass-marketed release.

Climbing the Ladder

With the new label came new management and it was in 1983 that the band really began to take the music scene by storm. They played the US Festival that year and began to establish themselves as a household name due to their outlandish outfits, notorious partying and raging live shows. Motley Crue tickets had become the next “hot” thing, and the band strategically began to release albums behind these legendary live shows.

Over time, the band released seven high-end studio albums, beginning with Shout at the Devil in 1983. Every one of their releases climbed towards the top of the album charts, and millions of Motley Crue albums have been sold worldwide. That doesn’t mean that Motley Crue didn’t deal with their share of struggles.

Hurdles

The band was highly successful, but they collectively dealt with one major problem that nearly tore the band and their individual lives apart – addiction and substance abuse. All the notorious partying began to take its toll, and several incidents caused problems.

In 1984, singer Vince Neil was charged with DUI and vehicular manslaughter when he was in a head-on collision on his way to the liquor store. The accident killed his passenger, and Neil was sentenced to 30 days in prison.

In 1987, bassist Nikki Sixx overdosed on heroin and nearly died. In fact, he was declared legally dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, but a persistent medic refused to give up, and managed to save his life with shots of adrenaline and vigorous CPR.

Eventually, management staged an intense intervention and refused to let the band continue to work until they had completed a hardcore course of rehabilitation. The members listened, and by the end of the 1980’s they had for the most part recovered from their addictions.

That doesn’t mean that this partying-style exuberance isn’t still present in their shows. If you want to see a band that’s as in-your-face as any in history, you need to secure Motley Crue tickets today.

This site focuses on classical music and their composers, a tradition which originated before radio and recordings, back when all music was live music. It was played by live human beings for other live human beings, with everybody together in the same room. When heard in this way, classical music can have a special excitement.

Hearing classical music in a concert can leave you feeling refreshed and energized. It can be fun. It can be romantic. It can be spiritual.

It can also scare you to death.

Classical music concerts can seem like snobby affairs full of foreign terminology and peculiar behavior. It can be hard to understand what’s going on. It can be hard to know how to act. It can be hard to find the restroom.

In some ways a concert is like a ballgame; both concerts and ballgames have their rules of behavior and their rituals, and both can be baffling if you don’t know what’s going on. (I’m still trying to figure out how, in the middle of a baseball game, when everybody is talking and eating hot dogs, and nobody is watching the game, all of a sudden everybody – except me – knows to leap to their feet and pay attention.)

If you haven’t been to a live concert before, or if you’ve been baffled by concerts, you should start thinking about going to one now to experience how relaxing and enjoying the music can be.

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Velvet Revolver is a hard rock supergroup that is currently on tour in the U.S. this fall. Velvet Revolver consists of three former members of Guns N’ Roses — Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum— plus Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, and Dave Kushner.

Velvet Revolver recorded their first track “Set Me Free” for the Hulk soundtrack in 2003 and also did a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Money” which is featured in the movie The Italian Job. The band played its first live gig at the El Rey in Los Angeles in June 2003.

Velvet Revolver recorded their first album, Contraband, in the latter part of 2003 and the album was released in June 2004. Contraband debuted at #1 on the Billboard album charts, #11 on the British album charts, and #2 on the Australian charts. The first single, “Slither,” topped a composite world modern rock chart in June, reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #5 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. “Slither,” which is also the band’s first music video, reached #56 on the Billboard Hot 100, Top 40 on a European composite chart, in Canada, and in Australia. Since then, the band has released three more singles: the ballad “Fall to Pieces”, the hard-rocker “Dirty Little Thing”, and “Come On Come In”.

As of August 2005, Contraband had sold more than 2 million copies in the United States, and the rigorous touring in support of the album has reached global scales. As of now, the band has toured both the United States and Europe twice, while also hitting Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Velvet Revolver performed at Live 8, playing “Do It For the Kids,” “Fall to Pieces,” and “Slither”. The band also recorded a new song entitled “Come On, Come In” for the 2005 movie Fantastic Four. During 2005, the group announced that a second album was in the works. In December 2005, the band set Libertad (Spanish for “freedom”) as the working title of the album.

In September 2006, Matt Sorum confirmed via Camp Freddy Radio on Indie 103.1 that the band had recently signed a deal with Rick Rubin to produce the new album. However, on his website, Sorum later claimed that former Stone Temple Pilots producer Brendan O’Brien will be producing the album.

It was announced on May 11, 2007 that as a precursor to Libertad, the band will release an EP in June titled Melody and the Tyranny. On May 13th, 2007, Duff McKagen announced that possibly 2 songs from Libertad (”She Builds Quick Machines” and either “Let It Roll” or “Get Out The Door”) will be playable on the upcoming videogame Guitar Hero III.

On the June 8, 2007, the music video for “She Builds Quick Machines” debuted in the UK. On the 8th of June 2007, Velvet Revolver played a slot at the UKs Download festival. They played: “Do It For the Kids”, “Slither” and “Sucker Train Blues” from their first album Contraband. They also debuted a number of songs from Libertad, including “She Builds Quick Machines”.

On Thursday the 21st of June 2007, Velvet Revolver performed in a concert that was streamed live via MSN MUSIC.

After scrapping the original May 29 release date, Velvet Revolver has settled on July 3 to unveil its second RCA album, “Libertad.” On June 23rd 2007, four songs of the album were available in full stream audio onto the internet ten days before retail on BestBuy’s website. Libertad then debuted at #5 on Billboard 200 with 92,000 albums sold.

Velvet Revolver can be seen on tour in the U.S. starting August of 2007.

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If the concert tickets don’t sell out, you can possibly find cheap concert tickets the day of the event. But, holding out on a concert you really want to go to may turn into a bad idea if the concert does sell out. Also, you can find people in local newspapers with extra tickets trying to sell them. Be careful though, it is illegal in many places to purchase or sell concert tickets above the face value of the ticket. All of these suggestions take a few minutes to research and the benefits will be the perfect concert ticket for your show!

SUTRA MAGAZINE attended the soul diva, Regina Belle’s concert on 28 November 2007 at the Grand West Casino in Cape Town, South Africa.

And what a spectacular performance it was!

Accompanied by Phil Perry and Glen Jones, Regina Belle put up one of the most memorable performances that Cape Town, South Africa has ever seen! With many R&B ballads under her belt, this Grammy Award winner left many fans breathless with her smooth soulful sultry sounds! Regina Belle surfaced as a creative, charming soloist on the urban contemporary scene.

Born in New Jersey, Regina’s music career began in gospel, although she was also fascinated by R&B during her youth. Belle performed in a New Jersey vocal band, and her tertiary education encompassed opera and jazz.

Regina captivated the audience with accounts of past experiences and songs that had great significance in her life, the sentiment and passion she feels toward music and her fans were clearly illuminated.

People will see that I love God, that I love my family and that I absolutely love music. Regina Belle

By the words of Phil Perry, former band member of Earth Wind & Fire, “the concert and genre of music is old school mixed with the new, if there was no old school, there would be no new school, and it’s all about the Blues…!”

The concert was a breathtaking, set of much-loved R&B staples, swinging jazz standards, moody torch songs and old school classics all conveyed in Belle’s intense choice of words and the lingering fire in her voice.

Pop music artist Paul Maxwel’s recent concert introduced hundreds of followers to his new album, “Love and Pride,” during a May 3 gathering at Casino Torrequebrada, Benalmádena.

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Maxwel was supported by a crowd who gradually ended singing the songs and actively participating in the launching of his new album, “Love and Pride.” Two hours was enough to show the audience the consolidation of a globalized project and the result of years of Paul Maxwel’s hard work in la Costa del Sol.

For the “Love and Pride” launching, Paul Maxwel performed with a band of bass and guitar, drums, percussion, piano and keyboards, a wide metal section and a solid chorus. The result: an overwhelming sound in strong dosages that predicted an incredible live performance able to electrify a room full at its capacity.

Over the first half of the concert, Paul Maxwel — dressed in white — warmed the audience up. Starting with deep guitars that slowly met the musical paths stressed by the piano, more allegro themes showed up in cascade and revealed Paul Maxwel’s musical roots (the end of the ‘70s beginning of the ‘80s) added by electric virtuosity and intense percussion.

Over the second half of the concert, Paul Maxwel was dressed in black. The show developed with Paul at the piano in communion with a devoted audience and revealing the artist’s most intimate face (”I’m waiting for your love”). Furthermore, Paul added some great and classic song versions like Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.” He left the most intimate songs — “You changed my Life” and “We all need friends,” a sincere and astonishing song that Paul used to thank his producer Michel Guérillot and his sponsor and friend Povl Lautrup, the Swedish tycoon — for the end.

Once again, Michel Guérillot’s previous words on Paul were confirmed: “Paul Maxwel is a shy and intimate person — as all composers are — who transforms himself into someone close in the short distance. As well, he turns into a melodic stream on stage. He owns an extraordinary strength.”

Love and Pride promises a selection of ballads, dynamic and pure rock songs. The inspiration of “Love and Pride” comes from the challenges the artist had to confront throughout his life and the boost of all the people who believed in him from the beginning of his career and to whom the album is dedicated.

News and information on pop music artist Paul Maxwel, as well as his recent concert, can be found at: www.paulmaxwel.com or www.wingrovemusic.com.

Originally from Connecticut, John Clayton Mayer, born on October 16, 1977, is an American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. John Mayer
attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of nineteen but dropped out after two semesters. He then moved to Atlanta, Georgia with his college friend and bandmate, Clay Cook in 1998 where his musical talent continued to evolve.

Local producer and engineer Glenn Matullo helped John Mayer to record the independent EP Inside Wants Out. His first commercial single release was No Such Thing. The EP included only eight songs, all with Mayer on vocals and guitars. He then began to tour locally throughout Georgia and the surrounding states with EP’s co-producer David “De-La” LaBruyere. http://www.ticketmayor.com Follow-up album, Heavier Things was released in 2003 and brought critical and commercial success even though it did not sell well. Mayer, however got a Grammy for Song of the Year in 2005 for his most successful single to date, Daughters. John Mayer dedicated the award of live performance to his grandmother, Annie Hoffman, who passed away in May 2004. He also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Hal David Starlight Award.

Due to collaborations with hip hop artist and producer Kanye West, John Mayer concert tour received praise from rap heavyweights like Jay-Z and Nelly. Together they appeared on rapper Common’s song Go!. John Mayers Starting out with acoustic rock he made a transition towards the blues genre with the formation of the John Mayer Trio. Released on September 12, 2006, his latest studio album Continuum has a strong blues influence. Mayer suggested the album was intended to combine his signature pop music with the feel, sound, groove and sensibilities of the blues. Two of the tracks from his trio release Try!- The funky “Vultures” and the blues centerpiece Gravity were included on Continuum. John Mayer won two Grammy awards for Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Waiting on the World to Change at the 49th Grammy Awards in February 2007.

John Mayer bio encourages audio taping at most of his live performances to give his fans the opportunity to recreate the live experience.

To date, he has toured with Maroon 5, Guster, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers, Teitur, and Sheryl Crow. Crow also appeared on the Cars Soundtrack with him and co-headlined a tour that ran from August to October 2006 and together they traded numerous on-stage shenanigans. Apart from music, John Mayer’s interests include stand-up comedy, design, and writing. John Mayer has written pieces for several magazines including Esquire. He has also played himself on various programs, including CSI and on Chappelle’s Show. John Mayer appeared in a New Beetle commercial playing a First Act guitar in a display of the Volkswagen’s newest feature: outlets for an electric guitar, allowing it to play through the car’s stereo.

Writer Michael Bamberger chronicles the high school’s senior class president, a huge John Mayer fan, and his school’s quest for the ultimate prom in his book called Wonderland. Mayer appeared at the Pennsbury High School prom on May 14, 2004, in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Rolling Stone magazine covered that performance.

As John Mayer is a big fan of XM Satellite Radio’s Ron and Fez and Opie and Anthony shows, he stopped in unannounced to the Ron and Fez Show on June 14 to premiere his latest single, then appeared on Opie and Anthony on July 26.

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Those who have seen Elvis
alive in concert were very lucky. Seeing Elvis
in his glittering jumpsuits and his jet black hair with the trademark sideburns feels so tremendously beyond the limits of consciousness even in those days. Throw in his famous pelvis dance and hysteria follows. Well, those were the days.

Fortunately, many of his concerts are documented and recorded on video. And avid fans, particularly those who are from the current generation, can still view the legend that was Elvis as if he were still making tour performances around the US.

Elvis’ Concerts By Location

There are many documented Elvis concerts available in music stores and video shops. As a fan, you have to know the venues where Elvis held concerts before you start a video library of his performances. The following categorizes Elvis’ concerts according to major venues in his legendary career.

Early Memphis Performances

The year was 1954 when Elvis started doing concerts. He started out with amateur concerts and benefit performances before he had his first few shows as a professional. Elvis’ first concerts early in his career were held in his hometown of Memphis. But it is said that Elvis’ real start was when he performed at a high school show a year earlier in 1953.

Elvis’ first few performances on stage were held in places like the Bel Air Motel, the Eagle’s Nest, and the Bon Air Club; all in Memphis. His growing fame soon took him to other nearby states like Texas, Arkansas, and of course, Louisiana.

Las Vegas Shows

After being busy with other interests like film and recording, Elvis came back to Las Vegas to do a series of annual concerts from 1969 to 1976. His concerts in Las Vegas were always sold out no matter if his performance was fantastic or characterless, which happened occasionally. Elvis’ regular performances in Las Vegas were usually held during summer and after the Christmas season.

Lake Tahoe Concerts

Elvis performed in Lake Tahoe intermittently from 1971 to 1976. These live performances were rarely documented and are considered to be rare, very few pictures and recordings from there have been released.

Tour Concerts

Elvis started a series of concert tours beginning in 1970. Beginning from Texas, his concert tours took him to Florida, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and other popular cities in the US. The most famous of these concert tours was Aloha held in Hawaii. His last performance before his death was in Indiana.