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The Eagles Tickets – Unleashing Summer Tour 2010

Veteran rockers the Eagles are set to tour with country stars Keith Urban and the Dixie Chicks this summer, hitting the road in June with North American dates running from the 8th through the 24th. The Eagles are set to perform some of the classic hits that they have been playing for over three decades, like “Hotel California” and “Desperado,” as they aren’t working on anything new at the moment.

The summer 2010 tour will also see country trio the Dixie Chicks – Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and Natalie Maines – who were plagued with breakup rumors earlier in the year when Maguire and Robison formed a side project without Maines. The brief tour dates, which will see all three acts touring together, will start in the month of June. Act now to pick up these <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/eagles-tickets/”>Eagles tickets</a> from http://www.stubhub.com today.

Hitting up Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and St. Louis, among a few others, the Eagles are gearing up for another full commercial blowout with this summer tour. Though they will be performing their hits spanning such a vast career, the group is currently on stage promoting the 2007 Long Road out of Eden, their first studio set in 13 years. Sporadically setting dates throughout April and May, the group marked the return of rock ‘n’ roll with the Polydor Record and Eagles reunion. Often plagued by internal drama, the Eagles reunited in 1994 after their 1980 breakup and settled with members Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit.

Long Road Out of Eden was a number one Billboard album when it premiered in October 2007, breaking the Eagles’ previous record tallies and revamping the group’s sound. Without the added pressure of producing an album for the label’s sake, Long Road found the musical strength that the group had been missing in their formative years just before the split. The set was all about creating a true country rock album dedicated to their passion, as they continue to see royalties from classics like “Take It to the Limit” and “Life in the Fast Lane.”

The Eagles are undoubtedly one of the most successful country rock outfits of the ’70s, or rather one of the most successful bands to emerge from the ’70s. Hailing from California, its five original members – Randy Meisner, Bernie Leadon, Henley and Frey – started the group following several other expeditions within the industry. The group signed with David Geffen and released the eponymous debut album in 1972 after recording for just two weeks. The album peaked in the Top 20 before touring and releasing the EP Desperado. Though the title track wasn’t even released as a single, it became a well-known hit and was featured on the group’s first hits collection.

From there, the group returned to the studio with producers Glyn Johns and Bill Szymczyk for the third set On the Border, which saw promotion with new guitarist Don Felder. The gold album featured the hits “The Best of My Love” and “Already Gone,” and gave the group their best selling album at the time. It was just the beginning for the Eagles, as they have continued to demonstrate the singles from the ’70s are still just as popular today, three-plus decades later.

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Iggy and the Stooges Tickets—the Godfather of Punk is on Tour Again!

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No one has had more of an influence on modern garage rock than Iggy Pop. But ask most kids starting their bands who he is and you’ll get blank stares.

If anything, it’s really a testament to the influence Pop had on punk. He was the genres lynchpin, providing outrageous, wild and often scary behavior on stage that would be replicated in New York and London clubs during the 1970s and ‘80s. But so many bands were influenced by him, so many sprung up in his wake, that it’s hard to see through that thicket back to the stream it sprung to life from.

Pop was always a character who was fiercely alive, even when he played near the edge of death. He would whoop, holler, scream, bark—he was the Neanderthal poet, twisting and gnashing his teeth while cutting culture with his lyrics. He was the bored latchkey kid who huffed paint and played with fire. He was the frightening effigy of himself, cutting himself on stage with broken shards of glass.

No one threw a show like Iggy Pop, and you can bet few have seen a performance like his since his heyday in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Jim Morrison, the dark-eyed, strutting sex-machine that fronted The Doors, was an obvious inspiration, and Iggy would have made him proud.

With the Stooges in tow—who certainly matched Pop’s behavior with their own—the band was a force of nature that ignited the rocket fuel of rock ‘n’ roll at venues. When punk ushered droves of young kids who didn’t know how to play their own instruments, but had the enthusiasm to, they looked to Iggy Pop for inspiration. And the bored apathy on display in songs like “1969” would later be replicated in the music of the future, like The Ramones. The angry and self-destructive urges that would be vented by Iggy first were seen later in Henry Rollins in Black Flag.

These days, getting Iggy and the Stooges tickets doesn’t mean you’re going to witness something as frightening—but you’re guaranteed a good show.

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