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Mac Sabbath at San Diego's Brick by Brick - The Mockstrosity Tour
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Self-described “drive-through-metal” parody band Mac Sabbath partners up with mariachi-meets-metal band Metalachi to please any diverse crowd. The packed house crams up to the stage that has been decked out with a BBQ grill, several mustard and ketchup squeezy bottles and mannequin clown heads billowing smoke on cue flanking the ends of the stage. A […]
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R.E.M.itation
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Please accept this invitation to discover R.E.M.itation! The worlds most authentic R.E.M Tribute Band! Even if you weren’t a hard core REM fan this So Cal based tribute band is respectfully worth giving up some rem‘s for any night of the week and they might have you realizing you were a bigger fan than you knew! On the beautiful Earth Day of April 22, 2017 The Strawberry Bowl Festival Amphitheater in Garden Grove, California was filled to it’s acoustically perfect capacity with shiny happy people! Yep! I said it! R.E.M.itation is the brainchild of Rich Slepack who plays the role of Bill Berry on […]
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Geoff Tate's - The Whole Story
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The Coach House, located in San Juan Capistrano, opened its doors for what is to become an amazing evening with multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Geoff Tate. The lucky people in attendance that night experienced what Geoff is calling “The Whole Story ‘Ryche’ Acoustic Tour”. The band will be highlighting songs from all 17 albums of […]
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ZZ Top: The Cars and Guitars
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Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill are dedicated to their music and are also dedicated classic electric guitar and vintage amp collectors. They are equally well known for their personal custom guitars, many of which were co-designed by Gibbons. Gibbons likes his custom instruments with a neck conforming to the specs of his highly-prized 1959 Gibson […]
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UFO - Lights Out at HOB
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UFO is an English rock band which was formed in 1969. From early hard rock to heavy metal this group is the definition of British heavy metal. Over a career spanning 48 years, UFO has released 22 studio albums, 14 live recordings and 16 compilation albums. They achieved success in the late 1970s and early […]
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Tokyo's Motor Fist is Straight Up Perfection
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On the heels of his recently released solo album, United States based, Ted Poley (Danger Danger), delivers again. This time teaming up with Trixter’s, Steve Brown and the results are a lively and addicting trip back to hard/melodic rock’s heyday! Released under recording giant, Frontiers Music, Srl, Ted and Steve’s side project, Tokyo Motor Fist’s, […]
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Place Vendome - Close To The Sun
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I have very quickly become a huge fan of the AOR symphonic and melodic rock that is currently coming out of Europe and Place Vendome, may well be my favorite so far this year. Based in Germany, Place Vendome, is the brainchild of Frontier, Srl, President, Serafino Perugino. That being said, what could possibly go wrong […]
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Maps To The Hollywood Scars Volume One Is Rock-Incarnate
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I keep hearing Rock is dead, and then I hear music like this and call BULL! Rock is alive and well, and Maps To The Hollywood Scars’ first EP, Volume One, gives you just that. From moment one, that crunchy guitar and steady rock beat makes your toe start tapping and you chin to start […]
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saxon
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The show started out with the Jared James Nichols band. Jared James Nichols is a Hard Rock American singer, songwriter and guitarist from the state of Wisconsin who released his debut EP, “Old Glory and the Wild Revival,” in 2013. In July 2015, he released a full-length album of the same name. Once again Jared […]
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americas diamond
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Neil Diamond is a well-known singer song-writer and legend in the music industry and America’s Diamond gives you the closest Neil Diamond experience you can get.Backstage360 recently had the honor of witnessing this great tribute to Neil at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. Jay White started his journey as a Neil Diamond performer […]