Guest poster - Concert Review

I'll get to the top 5 candy bars a little later today but wanted to post this review of the hottest tour this summer...no not Billy Joel, not Bruce Springsteen, not even the Doobie Brothers/Chicago double bill. Its the Regeneration Tour 08'! The review is courtesy of my 80's protege "D Lep". Read on...

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So just wanted to recap last nights concert..... we had 5th row dead center seats for the Regeneration tour with Naked eyes, ABC, Human League, Flock of Seagulls, and Belinda Carlisle. So from being that close you could deff tell who aged good and who took a toll from the drugs and bad plastic surgery...

The show opened up with Naked Eyes... I was really excited the lead singer came out and started to play his acoustic guitar and sang Always Something There to Remind Me.. kept saying that a couple of times then the rest of the band came out and started to Jam sounded awsome and better than the cd i thought... they are coming out with a new album and sounded really good but deff a good show and they ended the show with Promises Promises.

The Flock was up next I didn't know what to expect seeing the lead singer was the only original member left in the band.... They were deff on some type of drug or drunk because wow they were spacey thats for sure... I did enjoy some of there tunes (Wishing I Had A Photograph of you was played really well and I Ran was great not only because they guitarist played the rips really well but because everyone in the audience came for that one song almost....

Then ABC came on didn't know what to expect other than a weird band but infact they put on a show that was unreal they also are coming out with a new CD... they opened it up with a Look Of Love and then went into Poison Arrow.... the lead singer and i believe the key boards' were the only two originals because the rest of the band was Belinda Carlisles.... But they kept a great show going and ended it with Be Near Me..

Then came Belinda Carlisle most of the people didn't even know Human league was still to come so they thought this was the end of the show with her coming on.. She didn't age good at all plastic surgery didn't look to go either face lift not a good idea... But i must say she sounded great and sounded like she did with the GO Go's she sang two of her hits then stopped and looked that crowed and said what kind of show would this be without a song from my old band... the place went nuts she went into 4 Go' GO songs and the last two songs she sang were We Got The Beat and Heaven Is A Place On Earth. I must say she really did put on an amazing show and sounded great.. Most of the people left after her.

Then Human League came on. Personally not a big fan they were the "creepy" 80's music really weird a cross between Dépêche Mode/Duran Duran and Marilyn Manson almost kind of presence on the stage... they had 8 members on stage... the drum set was all electronic, a key boards', a Dj, and a guy who just stood there with a lap top all of these members were in black and there equipment was all in white i mean you couldn't find any other color then the guitarist. It was cool, it was like a synthesizer type guitar all cool points. the only 3 original members from 81 were the two lady vocals and the lead singer when the women started to sing he was in the back standing there like the villain from Hell Boy wearing a long silver coat with dark sunglasses and a bald head... creepy but it was a good show...

So that was that rumors of next years line up they asked some of the bands... the Bangles, Level 42, the cars Tears For Fears to name some........