British grunge, hard rock band Bush and American alternative rock giants Live joined forces for co-headline summer tour called Alt-Imate, in order to celebrate 25th anniversary of their respective groundbreaking albums, Sixteen Stone by Bush and Throwing Copper by Live. Both bands have proven to be mainstays in their respective genre, and Bush is going through their revival, regaining old glory after almost a decade off the music scene.
Right now Bush is working on their new album set to be released sometime in the Fall of 2019 and will be called The Mind Plays Tricks On You. The album is told to be much heavier than previous ones and have already released first single called Bullet Holes, which is featured in the new Keanu Reeves action movie John Wick 3 and is included in the current tour setlist.
Besides vocalist Gavin Rossdale, Bush have only one more original member left – Robin Goodridge on drums. On bass is Corey Britz and on guitar Chris Traynor, they have all been together since reuniting in 2010. Fittingly their setlist has a heavy rotation of tracks from the debut album Sixteen Stone, opening the set with Machinehead, and wrapping up with three straight – Little Things, Glycerine and Comedown, with Everything Zen in the middle of the set.
During Little Things Gavin left the stage to make a prolonged tour through the seating sections to meet fans and sing the song together with them. There were kisses and hugs, and a nightmare for security guards. Venue was packed, and with capacity for 17 thousand people it took about ten minutes for Gavin to get back on stage.
From older songs, the band played Swallowed, The Chemicals Between Us and The Disease Of The Dying Cats. From the revival era there were only three songs, besides Bullet Holes, Bush played This Is War and The Sound Of Winter. It was classic Bush performance, engaging, spectacular and with some good old grunge elements of Gavin playing guitar in all the awkward positions he could imagine.
Things got more serious when it was New Jersey neighboring state of Pennsylvania alternate rock band Live came on stage. They opened with The Dam at Otter Creek, All Over You and Selling The Drama, all three songs from the celebrated Throwing Copper album. Ed Kowalczyk showed all his many talents during that span, singing, playing guitar, drums and acoustic guitar. All together they played eight songs from the anniversary album including the first three, Shit Towne, Iris, I Alone, White Discussion and to end the show with Lightning Crashes.
The band had all original members on the stage. Besides Ed there was Chad Gracey on drums, Patrick Dahlheimer on bass and Chad Taylor on guitar. Despite Live embarking on a two year hiatus and split from Ed for another five years until 2017, they were playing as a very close knit group, showing no signs of those times.
Live also played two covers, R.E.M. Losing My Religion and The Rolling Stones Paint It Black. Other notable song played during the set were Lakini’s Juice. The tour continues until the beginning of September, so if you are lucky enough living near the city they will play, you must go, this is a must see show.
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Photos by Andris Jansons
BUSH and +LIVE+ The ALT-IMATE Tour 2019 Dates:
Friday, July 26, 2019 Appleton, WI Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium*
Saturday, July 27, 2019 Council Bluffs, IA Stir Cove at Harrah’s Casino*
Sunday, July 28, 2019 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 New Orleans, LA Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square
Friday, August 02, 2019 Wichita, KS Hartman Arena
Saturday, August 03, 2019 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
Tuesday, August 06, 2019 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre^
Wednesday, August 07, 2019 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion
Friday, August 09, 2019 Tuolumne, CA Black Oak Casino – West Side Pavilion*
Saturday, August 10, 2019 Costa Mesa, CA OC Fair*
Sunday, August 11, 2019 Tucson, AZ AVA Casino*
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Rogers, AR Walmart AMP
Friday, August 16, 2019 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Saturday, August 17, 2019 Miami, FL Bayfront Park Amphitheater
Sunday, August 18, 2019 Jacksonville, FL Daily’s Place
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Atlanta, GA Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
Friday, August 23, 2019 Essex Junction, VT Champlain Valley Expo*
Saturday, August 24, 2019 Baltimore, MD MECU Pavilion
Sunday, August 25, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE*
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Allentown, PA The Great Allentown Fair
Thursday, August 29, 2019 Wantagh, NY Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
Friday, August 30, 2019 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Wednesday, September 04, 2019 Dayton, OH The Rose Music Center at The Heights
Friday, September 06, 2019 Tinley Park, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Saturday, September 07, 2019 Allegan, MI Allegan County Fair*
Sunday, September 08, 2019 Rochester, MI Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
*not a Live Nation date
