First Ever Peach Music Festival

Set for August 10-12 near Scranton at the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain and Sno Mountain Ski Area & Water Park, the lineup also includes Zac Brown Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, O.A.R., Warren Haynes Band, Railroad Earth, Blackberry Smoke, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Dark Star Orchestra, The Wailers, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Trigger Hippy, Toubab Krewe, Grimace Federation, Tauk, Cabinet, Miz and ..........

The Allman Brothers Band!!

If you're on the East Coast or can get there, this one's certainly for you.

Limited number of passes available. Act quickly.

Aerosmith to Announce "Global Warming"

BPD has just learned that early next week, mighty Aerosmith will announce their giant 2012 "Global Warming" Summer tour.

While details remain a bit sketchy, here's the inside scoop on dates and venues:

Sat 06/16/12 Minneapolis, MN Target Center

Tue 06/19/12 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena

Fri 06/22/12 Chicago, IL United Center

Sun 07/01/12 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Tue 07/03/12 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live

Thu 07/05/12 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace Of Auburn Hills

Sat 07/07/12 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater

Tue 07/17/12 Boston, MA TD Garden

Sat 07/21/12 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center

Tue 07/24/12 East Rutherford, NJ IZOD Center

Thu 07/26/12 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena

Sat 07/28/12 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center

Mon 07/30/12 Houston, TX Toyota Center

Wed 08/01/12 Denver, CO Pepsi Center

Sat 08/04/12 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena

Mon 08/06/12 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl

Wed 08/08/12 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome

Passes for Aerosmith are always in high demand, so don't wait a single second. Request yours right now!!

KISS + Motley Crue Summer Tour

The video gives you the whole story. Below, we give you the dates. Don't wait a second to request passes for this one!

Wed 09/12/12 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center

Sat 09/15/12 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

Sun 09/16/12 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center

Tue 09/18/12 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain

Wed 09/19/12 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center

Fri 09/21/12 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center

Sat 09/22/12 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater

Sun 09/23/12 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre

Setlist: Bruce Springsteen

Razmatazz writes to us:

Hi everyone over at BPD. I'm sorry this is a little bit late but it took a long time for my body temperature to return to anything near normal.

Anyway, here's the setlist from The Boss' recent show at the Apollo Theatre in NYC:

We Take Care Of Our Own
Wrecking Ball
Badlands
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
The E Street Shuffle
Jack of All Trades
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
Mansion on the Hill
(Acoustic)
The Way You Do the Things You Do
(Smokey Robinson cover)
634-5789
(Wilson Pickett cover)
The Rising
We Are Alive
Thunder Road

Encore:

Rocky Ground
(With Michelle Moore)
Land of Hope and Dreams
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
(+Hold On I'm Coming Snippet)

Member Review: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt

Hey, OldTime 22 here.

Although getting the chance to meet and greet one of my favorite performers would be more than OK, getting to be with two of them was other-worldly. This was my good luck when BPD got me backstage for An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt.

Two identical chairs separated by identical tables, with a wingspan's distance between them. The stage was both sparsely adorned and illuminated. Under the simplicity of the lighting, they suddenly appeared: Lyle Lovett, the lanky country crooner, dapper and smooth, seated to the left, and John Hiatt, the gritty, soulfully bluesy, alt-country rock 'n' roller to the right.

The commonality that closely binds them however, is one of great friendship and admiration for the each other. Billed as "An Acoustic Evening with" they together embarked on a journey of celebrating their well-worn cannon of tunes.

Immersed in the intimacy of the atmosphere, the performers settled in with an unscripted structure allowing each to contextually volley off of the other, as well as leave ample room for audience lob-ins. The dry sense of humor shared and appreciated by both, mastered by Lyle, flowed thick throughout the night, as anecdotal set-ups served each song, and complementary gestures were given at songs close. At times the banter was so sarcastic it was difficult to discern whether compliments were genuine, or whether we were to await their punch line.

Before John began "My Dog and Me," a beautiful song of companionship between a man and his dog, he told of how the ill-tempered dog took to nipping, and had to be stowed in a trailer that housed the family's furnishings during a renovation project. Not approving of the move, the dog ate his way through the half metal half wood door, to which Lyle responded, "Now that's a good dog." When asked if John belonged to any of the popular Social Media outlets, he replied that he "was hooked up, both with Twitter and Facial." With that, Lyle presented him an online birthday request received from Rebekka, to play "Dust Down a Country Road," after which commenting on the distinct canine contrast with the earlier "My Dog and Me," eluding to the lyrical verse "If I had a bullet I'd put it in this gun, and catch that old dog napping, I'd shoot him before he runs." The interchanges continued in like fashion throughout the night. Lyle told of someone whom inherited a gold tooth from her grandmother who had recently passed, and had plans of melting the tooth down for a ring to wear. Lyle used the set-up as segue into "Creeps Like Me."

A truly remarkable highlight of the evening was Lyle's cover song by the late Walter Hyatt titled "Understand You," a song that John commented on containing everything that a woman wants to hear, with Lyle responding, "Hyatt was quite clever." Another Lovett standout was the hilarious "The Girl with the Holiday Smile," off his new release titled Release Me. Any Christmas song with an opening line like "I met a hooker at the grocery store," will hold my interest.

Hiatt shined during "Icy Blue Heart" and "Feels Like Rain," despite few struggles at times with cord changes and forgotten lyrics. It's precisely what made this show enduring, and authentic. Like sitting in their living room remembering and reflecting on stories and songs that have over the years unified a tight-knit fan base, one that anxiously awaits their next outing.

Oh, joy!!

Thanks, Oldtimer.

Now that the concert season is realy gathering steam, requests forbackstage passes are flooding in. Make yours soon.......................and if you're not yet on board with us, what are you waiting for. Join today.

Member Review: Jack White

Member StephaneeLu, not having yet come down from Cloud Nine, sent this in:

This was absolutely crazy.

BPD got me special invites/passes to an exclusive gig to celebrate the third anniversary of Jack White's Third Man Records label — and more importantly, for JW to perform songs from his upcoming solo album.

Everything about the event — held in White's intimate in-house concert venue — was off the charts. Invitations were issued on cardboard volvelle wheels. The VIP reception took place in the lounge of the Third Man complex, where giant stuffed animals and dinosaur skulls sat outside White's old-timey office door ("John A White III, DDS: Family Dentistry"). I downed crab cakes, sliders and mac-and-cheese hors d'oeuvres while quaffing custom cocktails and grazing at a candy buffet. Everyone had to surrender cellphones + wallets at the door.

Without a doubt, however, the coolest part of the evening was a JW's two-sided performance. "Is it OK if we play a couple of new songs for you?" he asked after taking the stage in a powder-blue western suit (it seems to be his new colour). "We'll play some old numbers too." And he did, leading his two new bands through a roaring 19-song set drawn from both Bluderbuss (due in April) and his work with The White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather.

Backed by the the female sextet he recently debuted on Saturday Night Live, White opened with the Stripes' crunchy 2001 gem Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, then introduced three Blunderbuss cuts: The piano-driven Missing Pieces, the punchy Sixteen Saltines and the southern soul stirrer Love Interruption, the latter featuring the vocals of Ruby Amanfu. Also worthy of praise: Drummer Carla Azar (who hammers the skins like Bonzo's ghost) and keyboardist Brooke Waggoner (who supplies the nuanced shadings that characterize White's moodier, love-scarred new material). "You think the ladies can play?" White asked. It was a rhetorical question; they rocked way harder than a band with a standup bass, violinist and pedal steel player has a right to. Not that White wasn't holding up his end. Switching between a Gretsch solid-body electric and an acoustic — and occasionally donning a Telecaster, to the delight of the guitar-geek next to me — he peeled off searing solos, though he seemed happy to share the spotlight.

After more oldies (Raconteurs' Top Yourself, Dead Weather's Blue Blood Blues, White Stripes Hotel Yorba and You're Pretty Good Looking) and one newbie (the piano rocker Hypocritical Kiss), White and the ladies closed with the Stripes' We're Going to Be Friends and fled the stage, much to the chagrin of the crowd. But it wasn't the end; only intermission: After a quick change, White — now in black pants and burgundy T — returned with the same all-male band that accompanied him on SNL.

They picked up where the women left off, blasting through another set heavy on fan favoes (My Doorbell, Cut Like a Buffalo, Steady as She Goes, Seven Nation Army) and peppered with new fare (the propulsive Freedom at 21 and the folksy Weep Themselves to Sleep). If anyone found it odd to watch White play old songs with new bandmates, nobody raised the issue, including Dead Weather singer Alison Mosshart and Raconteurs / Weather bassist Jack Lawrence, who were both in attendance.

Once again, the drummer stole much of the show — Daru Jones' animated showmanship were fairly magnetic — though multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplin also earned stripes. Between rock workouts, White indulged his rootsier side with a pointed reading of old Hank's You Know That I Know, eventually closing the show with a sweet singalong of Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene.

After, the bash moved back to White's lounge, where he hung out by the turntable and chatted with all of us.

BackstagePassDirect, I don't even want to know how you pulled this off. I ony want to say that you are the absolute f'ing best!!

Set List:

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

Missing Pieces

Sixteen Saltines

Love Interrupted

Hotel Yorba

Top Yourself

Hypocritical Kiss

You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)

Blue Blood Blues

We're Going to Be Friends

*****

Freedom at 21

My Doorbell

Cut Like a Buffalo

You Know That I Know

Weep Themselves to Sleep

Ball & Biscuit

Steady as She Goes

Seven Nation Army

Goodnight Irene

Sounds like you had an OK time, StephaneeLu . Happy to have made it happen for you.

Our members DO have the best times. Want some? Join BackstagePassDirect today.

John Mayer Scraps Tour

Scratch that "passes still available" notice we put up 2 short weeks ago.

We've just learned that John Mayer will announce tomorrow the scrapping of his 2012 tour due to the return of the granuloma on his vocal chords that was treated surgically last year.

We will auto-refund all monies for passes purchased.

Get well soon John. We miss ya.

Setlist: Radiohead

Longstanding BPD member Stevie2shoes writes:

Radiohead was f'ing awesome last night and meeting them was awesome X5!!

Here's their setlist:

Bloom
Little By Little
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Morning Mr. Magpie
The Gloaming
15 Step
Codex
Cut a Hole
These Are My Twisted Words
Airbag
Identikit
Lotus Flower
There There
Feral
Idioteque
Reckoner

Encore:

Separator
All I Need
Myxomatosis
Everything In Its Right Place

Encore 2:

Give Up the Ghost
Nude
Paranoid Android