Travel & Experiences
Two mega-rock groups straight out of the 1970s round out the Fremont Street Experience’s Rock of Vegas 2015 free summer concert series on Sunday, Sept. 6.
Aug. 18, 2015
Music
Kiss and Blue Oyster Cult are the loudest New Yorkers of them all.
March 24, 1988
When Blue Oyster Cult last sped through this area a year and a half ago, the group’s performance was wildly uneven, swaggering between full-tilt abandon and the sort of lassitude that’s all too understandable in grown men still playing adolescent fantasy music as they enter their 40s.
Feb. 6, 1991
Ear-torturing decibel levels, flash pots and smoke machines.
Sept. 10, 1994
Just about every impassioned rock fan has experienced the disappointment of his or her favorite band neglecting to play a relatively unknown but personally beloved song in concert.
Dec. 30, 1995
Bring out the smoke machines, the black leather and the ear plugs: Blue Oyster Cult, the sinister heavy metal demons of the 1970s, will be appearing tonight and Thursday at the Bacchanal nightclub on Kearny Mesa.
March 30, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Faithful viewers of MTV, it’s time once again to temporarily cease and desist from being a lethargic couch potato and get in on some of the on-screen action yourself.
Aug. 23, 1989
Outside of Motorhead’s timeless Lemmy, rockers age like everyone else, and there comes a point when they might be wise to consider--once they start to look like their dads and, hence, suited for careers in accountancy and such--whether continuing to squeeze into leather pants and grimacing on stage with a hot-rodded guitar isn’t just a little bit silly .
Aug. 25, 1989
When old, exhausted arena rockers like Aerosmith and Cheap Trick crept into their crypts for the big sleep early in this decade, somebody apparently neglected to drive stakes through their hearts to make sure they would never wake up again.
Nov. 5, 1988
In the mid-’70s, such hard rockers as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple ruled the airwaves and filled arenas with guitar pyrotechnics, bombastic stage antics and, at the time, rebellious image.
Jan. 2, 1996