Rocks Off has been both eagerly anticipating and dreading this week for months now. Anticipating because several of our all-time favorite bands are playing within the span of a few days, as are a couple of our favorite newer bands (though neither is especially new anymore) and one that we started out liking before ignoring them for several years and then, after finally coming around to the album that made them the newest American band to break into the arena/amphitheater atmosphere, begrudgingly sort of like again. (Guess which one that is.)
Dreading, though, because we also enjoy much more mundane activites such as eating, sleeping, reading, feeding our cat and, well, not doing anything at all. Rocks Off doesn’t think we’re going to get to do much of that this week. Boo hoo, we know.
Rocks Off is not going to every show this week – we couldn’t even if we wanted to. But between us, Rocks Off Jr. and a couple of fearless freelancers, all the following shows will be covered right here between now and next Monday. Since we were curious ourselves, we looked up each one on concert wiki setlist.fm to see what we were in for. We thought we’d share it with our readers in case you’re on the fence about participating in any of what we’ve come to call “Hell Week.”
Bear in mind set lists are subject to change, but probably won’t, at least not much. Of these, only Drive-By Truckers and Anthrax are not from the same tour that brings these artists to Houston. See you at the merch booth.
PIXIES Brady Theater, Tulsa, Okla., September 18
Intro Film (Un chien andalou)
Dancing the Manta Ray
Weird At My School
Bailey’s Walk
Manta Ray
Debaser
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
I Bleed
Here Comes Your Man
Dead
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Mr. Grieves
Crackity Jones
La La Love You
No. 13 Baby
There Goes My Gun
Hey
Silver
Gouge Away
ENCORE 1
Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
Into the White
ENCORE 2
Caribou
Vamos
U-Mass
Where Is My Mind?
Gigantic
SMASHING PUMPKINS The Venue, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 17
Astral Planes
Ava Adore
Drown
As Rome Burns
A Song for a Son
Today
Eye
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
United States
Spangled
Tom Tom
Stand Inside Your Love
Tarantula
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
ENCORE
Freak
Gossamer
KINGS OF LEON 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre, Tampa, Fla., September 18
Crawl
Molly’s Chambers
My Party
Mary
Fans
Revelry
Closer
Pyro
Four Kicks
The Bucket
Notion
Radioactive
Sex on Fire
On Call
Back Down South
Trani
ENCORE
Knocked Up
Manhattan
Use Somebody
Black Thumbnail
THE BLACK KEYS 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre, Tampa, Fla., September 18
I’ll Be Your Man
Strange Times
Everlasting Light
Next Girl
Chop and Change
Howlin’ For You
Tighten Up
She’s Long Gone
Ten Cent Pistol
Your Touch
I Got Mine
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Rialto Theater, Tucson, Ariz., May 5
Drag the Lake Charlie
Birthday Boy
Santa Fe
Carl Perkins Cadillac
Daddy Learned to Fly
Women Without Whiskey
Outfit
3 Dimes Down
Gravity’s Gone
Ronnie and Neil
The Company I Keep
After the Scene Dies
Home Field Advantage
Where the Devil Don’t Stay
Marry Me
The Fourth Night of My Drinking
Hell No, I Ain’t Happy
Sinkhole
ENCORE
You Got Another
Box of Spiders
Zip City
Let There Be Rock
THE BLACK CROWES Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Ashville, N.C., September 19
Jealous Again
Hotel Illness
Whoa Mule
Lost My Drivin’ Wheel (Tom Rush cover)
What is Home
Ballad In Urgency
Wiser Time
East Virginia Blues (The Carter Family cover)
Oh Josephine
Nonfiction
My Morning Song
Miracle to Me
INTERMISSION
Movin’ On Down the Line
Black Moon Creeping
Let It Be Gone (The Grease Band cover)
Greenhorn
Poor Elijah/Tribute To Johnson (Delaney and Bonnie cover)
Downtown Money Waster
Thorn In My Pride
Hard to Handle (Otis Redding cover)
Remedy
ENCORE
She Talks To Angels
Hot Burrito #2 (The Flying Burrito Brothers cover)
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion, Raleigh, N.C., September 18
Listen To Her Heart
You Don’t Know How It Feels
I Won’t Back Down
Free Falling
Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
King’s Highway
Breakdown
Jefferson Jericho Blues
Good Enough
Running Man’s Bible
I Should Have Known It
Learning To Fly
Don’t Come Around Here No More
Refugee
ENCORE
Runnin’ Down a Dream
American Girl
ZZ TOP Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion, Raleigh, N.C., September 18
Got Me Under Pressure
Cheap Sunglasses
I Need You Tonight
Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Gimmie All Your Lovin’
Sharp Dressed Man
Legs
La Grange
Tush
RUSH Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va., September 18
The Spirit of Radio
Time Stand Still
Presto
Stick It Out
Workin’ Them Angels
Leave That Thing Alone
Faithless
BU2B
Free Will
Marathon
Subdivisions
Tom Sawyer
Red Barchetta
YYZ
Limelight
The Camera Eye
Witch Hunt
Vital Signs
Caravan
Drum Solo
Closer To The Heart
2112 Part I: Overture
2112 Part II: The Temples Of Syrinx
Far Cry
ENCORE
La Villa Strangiato
Working Man
SLAYER WaMu Theater, Seattle, September 3
World Painted Blood
Hate Worldwide
War Ensemble
Blood Red
Spirit in Black
Expendable Youth
Dead Skin Mask
Hallowed Point
Skeletons of Society
Temptation
Born of Fire
Seasons in the Abyss
South of Heaven
Raining Blood
Aggressive Perfector
Angel of Death
MEGADETH WaMu Theater, Seattle, September 3
Holy Wars… The Punishment Due
Hangar 18
Take No Prisoners
Five Magics
Poison Was the Cure
Lucretia
Tornado of Souls
Dawn Patrol
Rust in Peace… Polaris
Head Crusher
Symphony of Destruction
Peace Sells
ANTHRAX Sonisphere Festival, Pori, Finland, August 8
Caught in a Mosh
Got the Time (Joe Jackson cover)
Madhouse
Antisocial (Trust cover)
Indians
Metal Thrashing Mad
Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)
I Am the Law
IN HOUSTON
Pixies: Tonight, Verizon Wireless Theater
Smashing Pumpkins: Tuesday, Warehouse Live
Kings of Leon/The Black Keys: Wednesday, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Drive-By Truckers: Thursday, House of Blues
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers/ZZ Top: Friday, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
The Black Crowes: Friday, Verizon Wireless Theater
Rush: Saturday, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax: Sunday, Verizon Wireless Theater
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2010.
