On Thursday night, a long list of artists took to the stage of the TD Garden in Boston in support of the charity Boston Strong and their effort to support the victims of the recent Boston Marathon bombing.
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith, Stone Music Festival, Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Coming a night after the Oklahoma tornado benefit and with a stronger lineup, it was amazing that this powerhouse lineup was not televised somewhere. Instead, people were relegated to viewing the show on-line with numerous sites still offering a streamed version of the show.
Be ready, though, to invest 5-1/2 hours watching artists ranging from rockers Aerosmith and Boston to the R&B of the J. Geils Band and the boy-band sounds of New Kids on the Block. It was the New Kids who provided some of the biggest surprises of the night as they performed with the very un-boy band like Dropkick Murphys and, during their own set, brought out both Bell Biv DeVoe and Boyz II Men.
The end of the concert was also one big singalong on the Beatles’ anthemic (and appropriate) Come Together and the Standels’ Dirty Water.
The set list:
Boston
Star Spangled Banner
Rock & Roll Band
Smokin’
More Than a Feeling
Foreplay / Long Time
Extreme
More Than Words
Hole Hearted
J. Geils Band
Looking For A Love
Love Stinks
Hard Drivin’ Man
Freeze Frame
Whammer Jammer
(Ain’t Nothin’ But A) Houseparty
Jason Aldean
Take a Little Ride
Tattoos On This Town
Dirt Road Anthem
My Kinda Party
She’s Country
Dropkick Murphys
Don’t Tear Us Apart
Jimmy Collins’ Wake
Rose Tattoo
Dropkick Murphys & New Kids on the Block
I’m Shipping Up to Boston
New Kids on the Block
Hangin’ Tough
You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Please Don’t Go Girl
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)
Step by Step
New Kids on the Block & Bell Biv DeVoe
Poison
New Kids on the Block & Boyz II Men
One Sweet Day
Carole King and James Taylor
Sweet Baby James
So Far Away
Shower The People (with Mac McAnally)
How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved By You) (with Mac McAnally)
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
Sweet Seasons
Up on the Roof
You’ve Got a Friend (with Mac McAnally)
Jimmy Buffett and James Taylor
Mexico
Jimmy Buffett
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Margaritaville
Aerosmith
Train Kept A-Rollin’
Sweet Emotion
Dream On
Livin’ on the Edge
Mother Popcorn
Walk This Way
All
Come Together
Dirty Water
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