RIP Johnny Winter

Blues/Rock musician Johnny Winter passed away July 16th at the age of 70.Link to NY Times article.He was on tour in Europe at the time; but I have to assume that is how a musician wants to go, playing the music you've created for fans right until the end.

My neighbors probably hate me because I currently have his "And" album blasting from my turntable at full volume, and it is 2am. 

It saddens me that yet another extremely talented musician has passed away, and good music is dying with these artists. I'm so thankful for our technological ability to save the music of these pioneers indefinitely, below is just one of these amazing songs by the late, great Johnny Winter.

Concerts 2014

Here's the shows for 2014 so far:

1. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
2. Amon Amarth / Enslaved / Skeletonwitch
3. Dark Tranquility / Omnium Gatherum
4. Children of Bodom / TYR / Death Angel
5. Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock Tour: Lacuna Coil / Sick Puppies / Cilver / Eyes Set To Kill
6. Faster Pussycat
7. Slayer
8. Cage The Elephant / Foals
9. Powerman 5000 / Knee High Fox
10. KISS / Def Leppard
11. Mushroomhead
12. Jack Russell's Great White
13. Mötley Crüe / Alice Cooper
14. Boston / The Doobie Brothers

15. Deep Purple
16. Faster Pussycat
17. The Pretty Reckless
18. Combichrist / William Control / Davey Suicide

Lifetime total: 173

Concerts 2013

Better late on posting this than never I suppose. Here is the list of shows I saw in 2013:

1. The Who
2. Sabaton
3. Testament / Flotsam & Jetsam
4. Black Veil Brides / William Control
5. GWAR
6. Bon Jovi (in SLC)
7. Bon Jovi (in Las Vegas)
8. Alice Cooper / Marilyn Manson
9. Green Jellö
10. Dick Dale
11. Ted Nugent
12. Rush
13. Gigantour: Megadeth, Black Label Society, Hellyeah
14. Whitesnake
15. Danzig / Doyle
16. Havok
17. Andrew WK
18. Kamelot / Delain
19. Dokken / Firehouse
20. Helloween
21. Watain
22. Living Colour
23. Rob Zombie / Korn
24. Overkill / Kreator
25. Faster Pussycat
26. Mike Tramp

Lifetime total at the end of 2013: 155

Concerts!

I started saving my concert ticket stubs in 2004 and I display them in my room.

Pre-2004 concerts: 

1. REO Speedwagon (My very first concert!)
2. Styx / REO Speedwagon / Eddie Money
3. Journey / Styx / REO Speedwagon

2004:

1. Tesla
2. Scorpions / Tesla

2005:

1. Mötley Crüe
2. Slaughter / Steven Pearcy (Ratt) / L.A. Guns
3. FireHouse / Y&T / Eric Martin (Mr. Big)
4. ZZ Top
5. Judas Priest / Anthrax

2006:

1. Tesla / Eric Martin (Mr. Big)
2. Poison / Cinderella
3. Alice Cooper
4. Vince Neil
5. Kansas
6. Megadeth
7. Trans-Siberian Orchestra

2007:

1. Dream Theater
2. Ozzy Osbourne / Rob Zombie
3. Trans-Siberian Orchestra  

2008:

1. OneRepublic (it was a date...)
2. Marilyn Manson / Ours
3. Vans Warped Tour (got a free ticket)
4. Molly Hatchet
5. Journey / Cheap Trick / Heart
6. Foghat
7. Unearth / Whitechapel (I went with a friend who like Unearth, and I discovered Whitechapel)
8. Trans-Siberian Orchestra

2009:

1. Combichrist
2. Skid Row (w/o Sebastian Bach) / L.A. Guns
3. Warrant (w/o Jani Lane RIP) / April Wine
4. Trivium / Whitechapel (I went for Whitechapel)
5. Scott Weiland
6. REO Speedwagon / Styx / 38 Special
7. Blue Öyster Cult
8. Mayhem Festival 2009: Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Killswitch Engage, Job For A Cowboy
9. Mötley Crüe
10. Def Leppard / Poison / Cheap Trick
11. Marilyn Manson
12. 38 Special
13. Foreigner / Styx / Kansas
14. Trivium / Whitechapel (Again, I went for Whitechapel)
15. Dethklok (yes the cartoon band from Metalocalypse)
16. Satyricon / Chthonic
17. The Black Dahlia Murder
18. Combichrist
19. Rob Zombie
20. Trans-Siberian Orchestra

2010:

1. Tesla
2. Cinderella
3. Ratt
4. Job For A  Cowboy / Whitechapel
5. L.A. Guns
6. Iron Maiden / Dream Theater
7. Kings Of Leon
8. Bret Michaels (Poison)
9. Rush
10. Scorpions / Tesla / Jackyl
11. Asia
12. Creedence Clearwater Revisited 
13. KISS
14. Slaughter / Frank Hannon (Tesla)
15. The Cult
16. Rob Zombie / Alice Cooper
17. Slayer / Megadeth / Anthrax
18. Watain / Goatwhore
19. Marduk
20. Sacrificial Slaughter / The Pagan Dead 
21. Black Label Society / Children Of Bodom
22. Bret Michaels
23. Mushroomhead 

2011:

1. Queensrÿche
2. Blue Öyster Cult / Foghat
3. Eluveitie / 3 Inches Of Blood
4. Linkin Park
5. Whitechapel
6. Bon Jovi (in Las Vegas)
7. Bon Jovi (in SLC)
8. Frank Hannon (Tesla)
9. Bulletboys
10. Tesla
11. Death Angel
12. Danzig
13. Accept
14. Bang Tango
15. Faster Pussycat
16. Black Country Communion 
17. Mötley Crüe / Poison / New York Dolls
18. Lizzy Borden
19. Def Leppard / Heart
20. Kamelot
21. Dream Theater
22. Evergrey / Sabaton
23. Judas Priest / Black Label Society / Thin Lizzy
24. Mayhem / Keep Of Kalessin
25. Guns N' Roses / Black Label Society 
26. Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Total Concert Amount At End Of 2011: 97