Lions and Tigers and Concerts Oh My!

As it was mentioned in my post '10 to 100' I have the following concerts to look forward to:

Jason Aldean and Kenny Chesney in July
Kid Rock and Foreigner in August
Shania Twain In August 
AC/DC in September
 And I will be buying Rolling Stone's tickets Monday
This will be my second round of the Rolling Stones, very exciting!

But there are so many more concerts to attend! I feel like the next half of 2015 is looking to be a huge concert season. I'm just struggling to figure out which ones I can afford seeing. I have to consider who I've seen and who I haven't. It pains me to even think that I have to miss any of them. Maybe someday I'll actually be a sponsored concert goer, or maybe I can do crowd funding. But right now I just like going to concerts and it's up to me to pay for them. I'll keep you informed as I continue to carefully pick and purchase all of my future concert endeavors. 

Sorting through the concerts is difficult. Here's why... You have Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, Scorpions, Aerosmith, Marilyn Manson & The Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, Jimmy Buffet, Rush, Under The Sun Tour (as mentioned in my 1990s post), The Eagles, U2, Steve Miller Band, The Who, and that's just the tip of this big ass concert iceberg.
I'm also looking forward to seeing Ozzy Osbourne playing Vegas in October, which will...

 

...mean funding an entire epic Vegas trip. For a while now, and especially after seeing Shania Twain in Vegas I've been aching for Ozzy to have a stay in Vegas. Luckily my prayers have been answered. There isn't much information on the month long stint in Vegas. However it is promised to be a state of the art performance. I'm clearly really getting my hopes up for this. This reminds me of when I got to see Billy Joel and Elton John do their Face to Face tour. I knew they had toured before, and I was just hoping they would come around again. Then not too long after my hopes for a tour, my concert prayers were answered. I really need to dream up scenarios more often. For the betterment of humanity aha...
If you're like "wait!, what?" yeah! Billy Joel and Elton John. I know, your jealous. It really was a fantastic show. The show started with both of them coming out onto the stage, and performing a medley of each others hits. Then Elton John was given the floor, to perform a series of his fantastic songs. They both got together to perform in the middle leading into Billy Joel to perform a set of his beautiful songs. Ending the night with both of them banging out the classic 'Piano Man'. I've had the privilege of seeing Billy Joel once more at the Hollywood Bowl. The Face to Face concert being at The Honda Center. Billy Joel is more of a favorite of mine. I enjoy his songs more. However I found that Elton John truly put on an amazing performance. Making each performance truly something special. It's now my favorite way to see either of them. When I saw Billy Joel by himself I was just missing Elton John a little bit. I was supposed to see Elton John perform in Vegas doing his Million Dollar Piano show. However the particular date I was supposed to see him, he was out sick. I was of course refunded my money but again, another show that I'm sure would have been absolutely stunning. The music of Elton John with a financial backing of a Vegas casino.

As mentioned in an earlier post I was hoping to see Blue October on the night this is being posted, but I have such a monstrous day of work  the day after (tomorrow), I can't fathom getting home late from a concert and struggling through a heavy work day right after. My goal is to at the very least hit 100 concerts by the end of 2015, so I need to figure this out!