She opens her set with the Soundgarden cover of “Loud Love”, followed by “Since You’re Gone” and “Only Love Can Save Me Now”. Taylor comes on stage with the dark visuals of the arrow pointing down, and Momsen wearing stunning black leather, high boots, and a silky black dress. I want to mention that it was really good to see two female-fronted rock bands opening on this tour, something you don’t see all the time on big arena bills. Not to be taken by Taylor’s obvious on-stage persona and antics from time to time, or the fact that she carried over some fanbase from her acting days “Gossip Girl” etc, I will pay my respect to the band to manage to keep sticking with their sound and governing their music respectfully. Hard to imagine that TPR has been around since 2010 now when they released their first album “Light Me Up”. Next, we have The Pretty Reckless, featuring the ever enigmatic Taylor Momsen. Look forward to hearing more from her in the future. Not a bad opening set, and good to see Diamante paving her way with her second album having been released last year. The cover of “Iris” sounds great live and she does the original one well-deserved justice. Playing true to her name, Diamante uncovers her diamond-crafted attire all in white and shiny and glossy as the bright lights of the main stage. Opening this steamy night with “Ghost Myself” and “Haunted”, we hear an edgier rock/metal groove to Diamante’s sound. She comes onstage wearing a Nashville Predator hockey jersey, nicely done playing well to the locals in attendance. We set the tone early at Bridgestone with Diamante hitting the stage promptly at 7 pm. While being somewhat familiar with her material while guesting her vocals on the Bad Wolves hit “Hear Me Now”, I was not too in tune with her solo stuff other than the Goo Goo Dolls’ cover of “Iris”. It’s a great time to get a chance to hit an arena tour and watch the guys bring their fiery pyro set and visuals to the main stage.īut this night we have two openers led by Massachusetts native Diamante. Needless to say, it’s been a long two years without much live music due to the pandemic, most tours are finally picking up now in this post covid world we seem to be living in.
The band toured relentlessly after their 2015 and highly successful album in “Threat To Survival” and again followed more recently by their 2018 “Attention Attention”. The last time we had the guys live, they opened for Godsmack, and while I mean no disrespect whatsoever to the aforementioned, Shinedown was hands down the best band on the bill. One of the more consistent outfits you will ever hear live and one that has in recent years released back-to-back great albums, manage to successfully build on a busy touring life and reach new heights and success around the world. In today’s Rock world, you would be hard-pressed to find better live acts than Floridians Shinedown.
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