Joe Harrison
Metallica Invades Chicago
This past Monday evening, January 26th, Metallica performed in front of a full house at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont located just outside Chicago, Illinois. If you are a fan of the 80’s version of Metallica, this show was as good as it could have gotten. Not only did they play their newer songs from Death Magnetic, but they played duo’s of their older songs going from "Creeping Death" to "Ride the Lightning", "Sad But True" to "Enter Sandman", and then from "One" to "Master of Puppets".
Van Halen Returns to Chicago
As for their recent concert at the Allstate Arena, Van Halen put on an impressive performance, which took crowd participants back to the Roth era lasting from 1978 to 1984. Starting off with songs from their debut album "Van Halen" and finishing off with songs from "1984", Eddie, Alex, and Dave showed that they...
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