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He got the crowd excited for Evanescence. He mentioned that he was sad the tour was ending and that the band was grateful to Muse for having them on their tour. Frontman, Johnny Stevens high energy got the crowd into the set. I’m sure it’s something they had seen throughout the tour. Highly Suspect seemed unphased by the half-full arena and floor.

To get the fans blood going and get them ready for the headliner. People are still trickling in and warming up for a show. I’ve mentioned this before but it’s worth restating that it is not easy to open an arena show. Rock band, Highly Suspect got things off on the right foot. Photo Credit: Kevin Rolfe Highly Suspect Photo Credit: Kevin Rolfe

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The show was epic! (For sake of full disclosure, I as “Townsperson #1” had no intention of doing any pranks back in the day.). There didn’t appear to be any road weriness, phoning it in, or autopilot. I’m not sure if Muse got a pre show speech from my old director, but it was clear that they wanted to give us as good a show, as the rest of the States received. We were told that they deserved our best performance and one without pranks and inside jokes. He mentioned that even though we had done the show many times, there would be people in the audience who would be watching for the first time. I recall the director giving a pre show speech about this on our closing night. We had done the show a million times (There are zero exagerations in this paragraph), and they thought it would be fun to mix things up for the tour closer. There were a lot of actors that were going to to closing night pranks. I remember many a hundred years ago, when I was in a play. You would think they were all in mid tour mode with how well this tour flowed. This was not the case with Muse, Evanescence, or Highly Suspect. I haven’t seen a lot of tour closers but when I have the band seems a little road weary, or mentally already on vacation. I’m sure behind the scenes they’re seeing a lot more going on than we do in the crowd. Often, they’ll have some sound issues, or other technical kinks to work out, but they usually go over pretty well. leg of their Will Of The People Tour to a close right here in Salt Lake City on Thursday April 20. For the first time ever, listeners can now enjoy these legendary live performances and rare collaborations unedited, exactly as they occurred decades ago.Reviewed and Photographed by Kevin Rolfe Photo Credit: Kevin Rolfe Until now, the album and film were the only means of experiencing the MUSE concerts. Thanks in large part to the album including the very first official release of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band live on stage (in the form of 'Detroit Medley,' which received considerable FM radio play), the No Nukes album would be certified gold within the year.

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The core collective of Browne, Raitt, Nash and Hall would be joined on stage by many of their like-minded friends, including James Taylor, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Chaka Khan, The Doobie Brothers, Jesse Colin Young, Peter Tosh, Gil Scott-Heron, Peter Allen, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Ry Cooder and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, in addition to unscheduled appearances by Carly Simon, Phoebe Snow, Stephen Bishop and Paul Simon.Ī triple live album and theatrical film, titled No Nukes: The MUSE Concerts For a Non-Nuclear Future, would document this series of events.

These September 1979 events, staged as MUSE Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future - commonly referred to as the No Nukes Concerts, would present a stellar roster of diverse performers, many collaborating for the first time. Raising awareness of safe energy alternatives and advocating against the use of nuclear energy, MUSE would stage a monumental week-long series of concerts at New York City's Madison Square Garden, in addition to a massive public rally held in Battery Park, attended by nearly 200,000. Jesse Colin Young: guitar, vocals Suzi Young - vocals Rosemary Butler - vocals Doug Hayward - vocals Will McFarlane- guitar Jeff Labes - piano Craig Doerge -piano, keyboards Bob Glaub - bass Russ Kunkel- drumsįollowing the March 1979 meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear reactor (the worst accident in United States nuclear power plant history), Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Harvey Wasserman and John Hall joined forces to found the activist group Musicians United for Safe Energy.