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Concert scene picks up with Buckingham, Jett
from: cincypost.com
by Rick Bird
The fall concert season kicks in with a vengeance the next week with plenty of action at the clubs and theaters, ranging from a punk goddess to a Christian rock princess, a Fleetwood Mac legend to a jam band guitar hero. Here's a look at the highlights:
Lindsey Buckingham, often credited with giving Fleetwood Mac its pop/folk vibe when he joined the band in the mid '70s (with Stevie Nicks), is back on the concert trail with his first solo album in 14 years. It is a very different release from the lush arrangements associated with the guitarist/songwriter. His minimalist new release, "Under the Skin," is mostly solo and acoustic, a project getting rave reviews. Buckingham said his inspiration for the departure from his heavily textured pop was Joni Mitchell's "Blue," a guitar and vocal classic.
Buckingham plays the Taft Theater at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets $35, $29.50. (No opening act). He does bring a band along, so the set is expected to be a little more than playing his new quiet album.
Last summer JOAN JETT proved she still doesn't care about her bad reputation, showing a younger generation how it's done as the headliner of the mosh pit fest, the Warped Tour, playing to mostly rave reviews. Now she's back on the road with her own tour, playing Bogarts at 8 p.m. Friday ($25). Openers: Eagles of Death Metal and Valient Rhorr.
Earlier this year Jett released "SINNER," her first CD in a decade. "SINNER" keeps intact Jett's bad reputation with a great collection of edgy sexual and political tunes - as provocative as anything the current indie rock scene has been putting out.
Jett could spice up the political season with her biting and rowdy "Riddles," a knock on political doublespeak in general - and at one point George W. Bush in particular - as she sings: "Clear skies baby/Healthy forests/No Child Left Behind/Wake up people/Big Brother is watchin' you.
"It's not about name-calling," Jett insisted about the tune. "It's just commentary about what's going on in this country and the way we are spoken to, which tends to be Orwellian almost. I just want to be able to talk to people. I feel we are so rigid, we don't dialogue at all. There are many issues I would agree with conservatives about. But once you shut it down, you build up your walls."
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