After much soul searching,I've decided...

[Maddy McCall]

...that the worst part of living in the bible belt is that no good bands play big venues here.

The only act scheduled for the Mississippi Coliseum is frickin' Larry the Cable Guy.

When I was a teen/young adult, there was a different rock band in the coliseum every weekend. No one plays here now.

I can go to the House of Blues in New Orleans and see some good bands. But that's it. Sometimes the Coliseum on the Gulf Coast gets decent acts, but NOTHING is scheduled for this summer worth seeing.

You guys who have choices in concerts are so lucky. Nothing is going on here. :grr:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Not even in Biloxi?

[Maddy McCall]

3. Not this summer.

Nothing worth seeing. Tom Jones is playing, and I might go see him, but I want to take McCall Jr. to see his first rock concert. The Black Crowes were on the Coast a couple of weekends ago...missed that. Now nothing else big is coming up. :(

[AverageJoe]

2. Jesco White!

The Dancing Outlaw!

I've heard rumors that he's living in very dire straights these days. I don't know what's true and what's not, but Jesco White is clearly an American original.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Jesco is having hard times.

There are a couple of update pages on the internet. He's basically become a recluse, and Norma Jean is in a nursing home now.

It's really sad.

[Jessica]

12. I read about that in our local paper.

It was very sad. :(

[coloradodem2005]

4. I feel for you man.

[Maddy McCall]

7. In the late mid to late 80s...

I saw Cinderella, the Scorpions, Van Halen, DLR with Vai, Poison, Ratt...the list goes on....Oh, and I saw SRV in 90. No one plays the coliseum anymore. :(

[CornField]

6. We got Styx and Willie Nelson in Iowa!

See, it could be worse. ;)

[Maddy McCall]

8. I'd love to see Willie Nelson.

Styx? I'll pass. :D

[Shell Beau]

26. Hey now, leave Willie out of it!

[MuseRider]

9. Honey I KNOW!

We can go to Kansas City to hear good bands but even our state fair has announced they can no longer afford the big acts (they were mostly country anyway, not my cup o tea). I am on the programming committee for our orchestra and we are having our 60th year celebration next season. Some of the top line acts are 6 figures just to get them without their entourage. It is a sad thing but the tickets to the big names make it almost impossible anyway for anyone not in the upper income tier to go. Sad, what the hell is happening?

[GalleryGod]

10. That's the cool thing about living in the Greater Philly Area

Mary Chapin Carpenter...June 8th...4th row, Aisle.:woohoo:
only 50.00:applause:

[spacelady]

11. We recently saw Willie Nelson in Biloxi and The Black Crowes in

Gulfport. Try living in Mobile--NOBODY plays here!

[Maddy McCall]

14. I'm so damned jealous! I didn't realize the Crowes had been...

on the coast until last Friday. :grr:

Actually, New Orleans is much closer for me. At any rate, a concert equals a hotel stay, either way.

I'd love tho have seen Willie, too.

:hi:

[jobycom]

17. I saw a lot of bands in Mobile in the early 80s, too

My ears are still ringing from Cheap Trick.

[GOPisEvil]

13. Come to Austin.

We've been known to have a decent musical act or two come through town. :)

[Maddy McCall]

15. I know.

I'm freakin' jealous. You guys get good acts all the time.

:hi:

[jobycom]

18. I moved from Gulfport (actually Saucier) to Austin

It's a nice thing. You miss the beach and pine trees, though.

[Maddy McCall]

20. Yeah, I like the coast.

Did you ever get out to Ship Island? It's gorgeous out there. Bluest water I've ever seen.

[jobycom]

21. Yeah, I've got some warm, sunburned memories from there, too

When I go back home now we go over to Gulf Shores a lot, and eat at Lambert's in Foley. Might not now, of course, but when they get it livable again...

I miss the Coast. I still can't think of romance without imagining lying on a pier on a fall night.

[Maddy McCall]

22. That's so sweet.

We travel down to the coast several times a year. We stay at the Quality Inn, which is on the sand (don't have to walk across Beach Boulevard).

I'm getting a hankering to visit right now. Might have to go down this weekend. :D

[jobycom]

23. I was planning the same thing, but unfortunately

I won't be able to. Friggin' job.

My parents still live there, as well as a lot of old friends. I go down for Mardi Gras, and a few other random times a year. Sigh... I'll make it sometime!

How far up do you live, that you only make it a few times a year?

[Maddy McCall]

24. I live in the SW part of the state.

I'll PM you.

[jobycom]

16. Ah, the memories of the Coast Coliseum

I saw a lot of concerts there in the early 80s.

[Maddy McCall]

19. Between Jackson and the Coast...there was always a big-name...

act to see. No more, sadly.

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

25. Well I saw the Allman Brothers and Lynard Skynard

a week ago, so I beg to differ!!!!!!!!!!!! :headbang: