06-17-2010 Brooks And Dunn
Brooks And Dunn played the Giant Center arena in Hershey Park, PA on 06-17-2010 as part of their last tour together as a band. The name of the tour is appropriately named “The Last Rodeo Tour” and promises to please fans of old and new. The venue was packed…. I am not sure if it was a sold out show, but it had to be close if it was not. Newer country star Gary Allen opened the show and warmed up the crowd with his current hits.
I was happy I decided to do something a little different than my norm by going to a country music concert. While country music is not my first, second, or even third choice for music genre… I recognize that some music I like (bluegrass for example) has been derived from country music and I always appreciate great musicianship regardless of the genre.
Brooks and Dunn had a huge stage set up with a big catwalk jutting into the floor seats, a large cattle steer atop their lighting rig, a large screen projecting the show in the dead center of the stage, and amazing lights…. In short, it was a great setup and production that accents their music well and made for a great show that they should be happy going into retirement with.
While they started off with a newer hit, “Play Something Country”, Brooks And Dunn were happy to oblige the older fan base by playing them some older material, “We said we’ve played Hershey so many times, let’s pull out some old stuff. Even if we don’t even know it, they’ll know it better than we do.”
After a solo Brooks song, Brooks brought out the Calder Cup and the members of the Hershey Bears hockey team. “He started off saying that he had no idea what it (the trophy) was and that they don’t have ice to play hockey down in Tennessee, but he heard it was a “big deal”. The crowd was electric at the appearance at the sight of the cup and even louder when they wanted to show appreciation for the team.
Dunn had a sore throat that night, it did not impede him much but he did have to follow a bunch of the next scheduled shows in order to get better.
The setlist for the night was as follows:
Play Something Country
Can’t Take The Honkey Tonk
Mama Don’t Get Dressed Up for Nothing
Cowgirls Don’t Cry
She’s Not the Cheatin’ Kind
Put A Girl In It
I’ll Never Forgive My Heart
You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
Ain’t Nothing Bout You
Last Rodeo – Sitting Down
Lost And Found – Sitting Down
That’s What She Gets For Loving Me – Sitting Down
Getting Better
Next Broken Heart
How Long Gone
That Ain’t No Way to Go
Red Dirt Road
Believe – Sitting Down
Hard Working Man
Neon Moon
Rock My World
Only In America
My Maria
Brand New Man
Boot Scootin’ Boogie
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