With a concert capacity of 28,000 - 7,000 less than for football games and other sporting events - Snapdragon is, by comparison, an intimate, streamlined venue.
The new venue is at the same Mission Valley site that once housed San Diego Stadium, San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium and SDCCU Stadium - to cite the four successive names of the larger stadium that used to stand there.
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The concert’s promoters declined to disclose the attendance, but it looked like close to a full house for the 28,000-capacity show at Snapdragon. “The great thing about a Jimmy Buffett concert,” Lauren Mackin said, “is that it’s like you’re at a karaoke bar with 50,000 of your best friends that you didn’t know you had.” (Mraz in turn gave a shout out to Java Joe’s, the Ocean Beach coffee house where he got his start.)īuffett’s enduring appeal was perhaps best summarized Saturday by Lauren Mackin, who flew in from Arizona with her husband, Brian, a 27-time Buffett-concertgoer, their 19-year-old son, Darren, and his girlfriend, Emily. In between came 16 other songs, including such favorites as “Fins,” “A Pirate Looks at 40,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and the inevitable “Margaritaville.”īuffett fondly recalled his first gigs here, 40 years ago, “at a coffee shop at SDSU” - the now-defunct Back Door - and sprinkled in a number of local references during his set. So, take a bow, Snapdragon Stadium, which opened last September as the home of San Diego State University’s Aztecs football team - and this weekend made its largely promising debut as a concert venue. But Saturday night was the first instance in memory at which either played second fiddle here to a large, new, outdoor concrete edifice. Jimmy Buffett and Jason Mraz have each performed numerous times in San Diego over the years - Buffett since the early 1970s and native Virginian-turned-Oceanside resident Mraz since the late 1990s. Jimmy Buffett and Jason Mraz turn Snapdragon Stadium into a giant beach party, 8 miles inland Here is the review in its entirety, along with the complete set list of Buffett’s performance.
'Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed' He just grinned and shook my hand, and 'No', was all he said. Our coverage of that concert was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on May 7. I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head. Indeed, Buffett was in good spirits throughout his 19-song set, which opened with “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” and concluded with a buoyant version of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Southern Cross.” If the veteran singer-songwriter-turned-billionaire- entrepreneur was feeling under the weather at his final San Diego concert, he gave no indication of anything being amiss. “Getting old is not for sissies, I can assure you,” he said in a statement later that same month. Their self-titled EP which was released on October 2nd, 2016, has gripped the wheel of modern rock music and steered it towards a new direction.Buffett was hospitalized again this May, again for undisclosed reasons, not long after his San Diego concert. They have also headlined their own shows as well. Half Past Dead has also opened for popular bands such as Vampires Everywhere!, The Relapse Symphony, Wednesday 13, One-Eyed Doll, The Dead Rabbitts, American Grim, Hail Sagan, and Doyle of the Misfits. Nobody leaves a Half Past Dead concert without their minds blown! HPD brings it to the people real, upfront, and unafraid. Being both melodic and psychopathic, their shows are packed with energy. Their songs, while on the heavy side, range from topics of love, death, and the reality of life.
Their message is to live life to the fullest and not let anybody or anything get in the way. Founded on August 6th, 2014, Half Past Dead's music is a combination of rock, metal, and punk that echoes with a 70's and 80's influence. The bands parent company absolutely owns. A quick look into the California Business Search tells me that Grateful Dead Productions is the corporate entity of the bands Grateful Dead and Dead & Company. Being arrested for t shirts is ridiculous.
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Half Past Dead is a six-piece American Rock and Roll band originating from Richmond, Virginia. Free Bout Half Past Dead Mike is a gem of the scene.
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