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Big names from all music genres hit the touring trails
BY CARLY CARIOLI
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The concert trails are littered this week with the smoking hulks of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. There are no actual Wilson siblings in this summer’s touring version of the Beach Boys — just eternal choirboy Mike Love and drummer-since-’64 Bruce Johnston. Yet every venue is guaranteed a Full House, since superfan John Stamos is sitting in on "percussion." They’re at Meadowbrook Farm (603-293-4700) in Gilford, New Hampshire, on Friday; the South Shore Music Circus (781-383-9850) in Cohasset on Saturday; the Cape Cod Melody Tent (508-775-9100) in Hyannis on Sunday; and the North Shore Music Theatre (978-232-7200) in Beverly on Monday. All those people who blinked when tickets went on sale for the Fenway Park dates by Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are hereby advised that tickets remain to the second night of the Boss’s engagement on Friday and Saturday at Gillette Stadium (800-543-1776) in Foxboro. And the only Comm Ave inductees in the Hall — Aerosmith, natch — hit Meadows Music (203-265-1501) in Hartford on Saturday with the out-of-retirement but yet-to-be-enshrined Kiss. Still hot-headed, and hot-handed, after all these years, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis team up for what, at this stage in the game, has to be considered a plausibly-last-time-ever appearance at the North Shore Music Theatre on Tuesday. The only other living keyboardist in their league, soul, R&B, jazz, and country legend Ray Charles, plays Levitt Pavilion (203-226-7600) in Westport, Connecticut, tonight (July 31) and Merrill Auditorium (207-842-0800) in Portland on Sunday. Meanwhile, Charles’s most popular imitator, non-inductee Joe Cocker, plays tonight at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (603-929-4100), on Friday at the Music Circus, and on Saturday at the Melody Tent. When the inevitable Pop Hall of Fame comes to fruition, we presume we’ll be treated to relics of the "Justified and Stripped" tour, which reteams booty-crazed ex-Musketeers Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera for a jaunt that includes two sold-out dates at the FleetCenter (617-931-2000) in Boston on Tuesday and Wednesday. Both shows come with a helping of Black Eyed Peas; the West Coast hippie-hop crew, who can boast a Justin cameo on their new Elephunk (A&M), also headline their own gig at the Paradise (617-423-NEXT) in Boston next Thursday, August 7. Sunday night traditionally belongs to teen dance fiends at the Hippodrome (413-787-0600) in Springfield, but that’s off this weekend while home-town hard-rock kingpins Staind play a pair of rare small-club gigs on Sunday and Monday. And last but not least: two of the slipperiest outfits in alternative rock slither through the area. Mark Oliver Everett, the man best known as the E in Eels, does double duty (or does he?) as MC Honky at the Somerville Theatre (617-625-4088) on Friday. And chameleonic ironists Ween play the State Theater (207-780-8265) in Portland on Monday and the Hampton Beach on Tuesday.
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