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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

June 11th

The gig posters from the June 11th, 2009 Leeroy Stagger show I saw at the Haven Social Club in Edmonton.

The Wallflowers Live in Edmonton June 6th 2025

Last Friday Cuz, Buzzard and I went to the Wallflowers concert at Midway Music Hall. Even though game two of the Stanley Cup Finals was the same night, we still went. We were able to watch the first two periods before we went to the show. The opening band Brother Elsey we weren't really interested in seeing so we figured we could see at least two thirds of the game. Well by the time we got to the venue, we still ended up seeing most of the opening. I was actually surprised by how many people were already at the show with the hockey game on. I guess not everyone was interested as us in the game.

So the opening band Brother Elsey is a band from Detroit consisting of twin brothers Brady Stablein (vocals and guitar), Beau Stablein (vocals and bass) and Jack Stablein (vocals and guitar). their music is a mix of country, folk a little rock. I thought they were alright but nothing I would go out of my way to see again.

Brother Elsey.

During the intermission between bands the hockey game was still on, so lots of people were keeping their eyes on there phone for updates of the big game. Well with a minute left in the game with the Oilers trailing by a goal, a guy in the crowd near the front of the stage, which is where we were, lifted his phone up high and had the game streaming on his phone, so of course everyone in his vicinity was watching, well with 18 seconds left in the third period the Oilers tied the game up, at that point the crowd lost their shit, lots of cheering and high fives all around, we were going to OT. And at that point, The Wallflowers hit the stage. Was it all the cheering that brought the band on, or were they keeping an eye on the game and knew now was the time to come on. Regardless, here were The Wallflowers led by Jakob Dylan of course.

I was super excited about seeing The Wallflowers again as the last time I had seen the band live was in 2001 when they opened for John Mellencamp, and the last time I had seen Jakob Dylan was in 2010 doing a solo set at the Edmonton Folk Festival. So it had been too long since last seeing him play.

The band opened their set with the song "Sleepwalker" from the 2001 album Breach. The Wallflowers last album was Exit Wounds released in 2021 an album that I really liked, so I was looking forward to hearing some songs from the album. And they didn't disappoint, playing a handful of songs from the album. One of the songs from said album that I really wanted to hear "The Dive Bar in My Heart" was played early in the set, and it sounded awesome. Jakob and his band were great and I was surprised to see Chris Masterson on guitar, who usually plays in Steve Earle's band The Dukes.

Of course the songs that got the biggest cheers and singalongs were from The Wallflowers biggest selling album Bringing Down The Horse released in 1996. hard to believe that album is almost 30 years old already, wow! Songs played from that album were "God Don't Make Lonely Girls", "One Headlight", "6th Avenue Heartache" and "Three Marlenas". In the middle of the set, I was surprised to hear Jakob do the Van Morrison song "Into the Mystic" and man did he ever do a great job of it. To close out the set they did another song from his latest release Exit Wounds, a song I really wanted to hear live and he did it, the song being "Who's That Man Walking 'Round My Garden". So fucking awesome.

With lots of cheering we got the band out for an encore which included two covers, starting with the Cat Stevens song "Wild World" and then into an old Tom Petty song "The Waiting". then one more song which I totally forget what it was now. All and all an awesome concert. Good times!!!

The Wallflowers.

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

June 10th

My ticket stub and reviews from the Dr. Hook concert I saw on June 10th, 1990 at the Edmonton Convention Centre. Though the reviews are terrible, I know myself and many others in attendance had a hell of a time.