Lord, summer's over halfway gone and I haven't seen any live music! And it isn't for lack of opportunity; lots and lots of boomer bands have been on the road this year. This site, boomernet.com has a nicely organized list of tours along with links to websites. Among them I'd consider is Tom Petty and Neil Young though I'll probably just wait for Young's Deja Vu concert to come out on DVD. Other potential choices are Chicago, Elvis Costello and Joe Cocker along with the dynamic combo of Robert Plant and Allison Krauss.

It'd be tempting to see Journey, Jethro Tull and and Steely Dan but I'm thinking about two songs each would do it and for that I might as well crank "Wheel in the Sky" and save fifty bucks. Not tempting whatsoever is Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss or the flipping Eagles. Maybe it's because I teach guitar and can't escape having certain riffs requested on a regular basis, but there are just some songs, Hotel California and Sweet Home Alabama among them, that I wish could be given a rest for a decade or so to give everyone a chance to recover. Then, maybe, they might sound good again.

But maybe not...