Loverboy

Night Ranger was incredible…..played for 2 hours making up for Loverboy not playing due to I think Mike Reno and Paul Dean being stuck in airport. Hopefully they reschedule but I’m telling you Night Ranger really made up for it. If you ever get a chance, go see them 100% live no tracks.

Amazing as always. I'm so glad I got to see them again. Thank you Town of Mooresville, NC for setting this up. I also saw them in Kannapolis, NC several years ago. I love the smaller venues because I was able to get right up to the stage for a few songs. Great music, great time. Thank you Loverboy!

Loverboy we’re awesome!! They played a solid hour long set with all their best songs from late 70’s thru the 80’s. Their sound was crisp and Mike Reno can still belt out the vocals! All enjoyed the show! 🎶🥳🎉🎊

You will not be disappointed. It takes a bit for them to set the "EQ" correctly.... 4/5 songs. Since soundcheck is for Foreigner... but when FOREIGNER TAKES THE STAGE.... Steven Tyler's gonna have to up his game. Cause " THAT ONE GUITAR IS GONNA BLOW YOU AWAY" Thank you, Kelly Hansen you and the Band were way above AWESOME. This is you Final Tour.... your (the entire band) poured your heart & and soul into this as if it WAS YOU LAST PERFORMANCE, your made it FEEL VERY PERSONALABLE! Sincerely Thank You, XoXo Rob & Lori

Loverboy sounded great. Though they are much older than when I used to listen to them nonstop, the instruments and the voices have stood the test of time. Dos Equis Pavilion is one of my favorite venues to attend a concert. I like the ability to purchase a seat under cover and then if the weather is not bad or when the sun goes down to go out to the lawn and enjoy the concert under the stars on the grass. I could not have asked for a better experience.

I have to say I've never seen Loverboy play this lazy this show lacked luster and visual energy the guitar solos were cut short and most of their hit songs were played so slow I could barely enjoy them. Let alone recognize them for what they were. the lack of energy from this band tonight appear as they though they just woken up out of bed.

Concert was amazing and fun! Scored some guitar pics. Matt, the drummer, was so sweet and accommodating and made sure to get my friends retro album signed by the band and my Hard Rock T-shirt! Great venue!!!

This was an awesome show Mike Reno and the whole band or just amazing it's the second time I've ever seen Loverboy and it was just so good I have only seen them once in my life because I'm in my 40s and I was too young to see them when they were in their heyday but I saw them eight years ago they were wonderful and then this year they were just amazing they played all my favorite songs and they sounded so damn good I was just really really excited to see them! They played the kid is hot tonight and told the story about how it was their first hit 43 years ago hot girls in love Take Me To The Top heaven in your eyes and explained how they got that song experience with Paramount for the movie Top Gun which was kind of a cool story. They started with notorious one of my favorites Every Mother's Nightmare every school boys dream I have the T-shirt that says that from the last concert they also played loving every minute of it. Queen of the broken hearts, only the lucky ones from Get Lucky they ended of course with everybody's working for the weekend. Very high energy very positive great vibes who knows if they're going to tour anymore so I'm so glad I got to see them even if it was the last time hopefully not but you just don't know like Reno is 68 so you just don't know but he can rock! I might be missing a song I knew every song but I'm just trying to think of hand it was a pretty long set they usually don't play a ballad but they wanted to play it at this particular show Mike said which was cool because I love that, that song was on Top Gun!

It was such a nice night seeing Loverboy! On tour with REO Speedwagon and STYX. This lineup was perfect. They sounded great and wished they had time for maybe 2-more songs. The whole night was a lot of fun and the Theatre was a nice place.

What a great show. It was such a nice night to be outside in this theatre to see Loverboy. They sounded great and loved to hear their music once again. Touring with REO Speedwagon and STYX, we had so much fun!

Styx, REO Speedwagon, Loverboy: 9/14/22 “I was back on the road again riding the storm out, sailing away to Greenville, SC for a midweek show, you could say I’ve been working for my Wednesday. LIVE NATION’s $25 ‘all in’ special was my friend granting me access to some good lower bowl side seats. Running into a personal friend in the concourse, it turned out to be my lucky day. Don asked me if I wanted to sit with him in Luxury Suite 120, ‘Ummm YES sir’! It was my 4th time seeing any combination of the bands within recent years so I mostly expected a recap performance, I WAS WRONG! Billed as the ‘Live And Unzoomed Tour’ aptly named for an official signing out of the pandemic and the reemergence of live in your face rock n roll to the masses. What made this show different was a combined 148 years of rock n rolling, 59 charted singles, a 35 song combined set list, all arena staples… i.e. a powerhouse triple-bill event in sound, production, and energy. With only four dates left on the tour it was a fine-tuned machine. Styx and REO sharing top billing have been alternating co-headliners. Tonight REO got the closing set, and there was no loss of momentum between lightning quick stage turn-arounds. You’d better be quick if you want to get that second or third beer between bands or a diet coke if you’re like me. Loverboy performing as ‘special guest’ opened at precisely 6:45 delivering an 8 song set. The Canadian bred band featured the entire original line-up save bassist Scott Smith who passed away in a 2000 boating accident.‘ Spider’ Sinnaeve (bass) known for his extended solos who’s been with the band since did a first-rate job, and the band as a whole did much better than when I saw them last. Their stage set was mobile featuring dual bass drums mid stage with the red on black logo with a backdrop of the trademark type face font logo, a stack of Marshalls on wheels stage R, a stack of ‘Mark Bass’ amps which looked like double 8 domino tiles stage L also on wheels. Paul Dean (guitar) came out from behind his Marshalls. Mike Reno 67 (vocals) took the stage in trademark bandana, sunglasses and sleeveless shirt. Mike carried himself as talkative and interacted with the audience nearly every song. ‘How you doin’ Greenville?’ ‘It’s good to be back with a live audience, we missed you guys.’ On ‘Lucky Ones’ intro Reno spotted a lady in what appeared to be a wedding dress close to the front, ‘You must be one of the lucky ones’. Later we would come to know her as ‘Kelly’, it was her 21st birthday and Mike had her stand up, turn around and face the audience as he dedicated ‘Hot Girls In Love’ to the young birthday girl. Finishing off the song, Spider showed out one of his famous pounding bass riffs. On ‘Queen Of The Broken Hearts’ Doug Johnson (keys) used the synthesized talk-box. Before ‘Lovin’ Every Minute’ Mike told us how during a tour bus fire nothing was saved except Paul Dean’s boots, ‘Let me see those babies, I thought I smelt something burning.’ The audience sang along on the whoa-oh, whoa-whoa part. At one point a roadie came out handing Reno a microphone while his appeared to have been working fine, ‘What’s that a karaoke mic? Does it play the next song?’ On ‘Turn Me Loose’ I waited for it… and Mike delivered perfection on the scream, ‘I’m gonna pack my bags and FLYYYYYY’, one of the highlights of my evening. It was 1-2-3 on the cowbell and the band brought it all together on ‘Working For The Weekend’. Notably missing from the set were ‘When It’s Over’ and ‘Take Me To The Top’. By this time the half filled arena had grown to about three quarters. Styx was next delivering an hour and fifteen minute/15 song set. The Chicago IL band’s set understandably did not including the DDY ballads as the two entities are long since removed parting separate ways. The band featured Tommy Shaw (who turned 69 Sunday) and his full head of hair that seemed to always fall back perfectly in place all evening long. J.Y. Young 72 an underrated master on the Strat and his signature green axe. Lawrence Gowan 65 (keys since ‘99) who has more than proven himself an effective, energetic, and sometimes humorous frontman. Todd Sucherman, a superhuman on the drum kit. Will Evankovich also on guitar (formerly Guess Who) who produced and cowrote the new album. Co-founder Chuck Panozzo 73 who had battled two life threatening illnesses made an appearance on stage for 4 songs looking happy, healthy, and vibrant. The stage featured 4 person-height light and video screens main stage with 7 step risers on each side leading up to a cat walk with 7 sets of rotating lights in its forefront. Drums were center, a ‘TS’ logo for Todd on each bass drum and Gowan’s custom platformed keyboard with the classic STYX logo on a rotating pole stage R. Tommy Shaw controlled the whole of stage L. Opening with the first of 4 songs interwoven from their ’21 release, they could get away with it ‘cause the new Styx IS the old Styx. On ‘Blue Collar Man’ Lawrence showed off some backward playing on keys. On ‘Grand Illusion’ Tommy ascended up to the catwalk for the solo, standing right on the edge you could see each foot movement up and down on the wah-wah, descending he gave a high kick all the way up to his head during the final instrumental piece. On ‘Lady’ a sea of phone screens could be seen capturing video of the moment in time. The new song ‘Crash’ came across sounding almost ‘Queen-like’. JY introduced the next song, ‘We wrote this next song to decriminalize this wonderful natural plant… LIGHT UP EVERYBODY’! During ‘Rockin The Paradise’ Gowen dressed in a white tie put on a multi color striped jacket and black top hat, dancing, waving, and running in place whenever he was not actually behind the keys. Chuck took the stage for ‘Fooling Yourself’ with JY and Lawrence both on keys, Tommy played acoustic and once again Lawrence played the solo facing backwards. On ’Too Much Time On My Hands’, Tommy switched out the words to: ‘and the fun never ends as long as James Young keeps on buying’. Khedive was next, an instrumental showing off some of Gowen’s classical styled piano playing skills. For ‘Come Sail Away’ once again it was Lawrence taking the lead standing a top his keyboard, walking the catwalk during the chorus, then descending into an Irish or rather a Scottish jig. ‘Mr Roboto’ and ‘Renegade’ were the encore with and a one leg split onto the keyboard by Gowen as if it were a parallel bar. The set ending with a full band final bow. It was possibly my first time ever seeing someone other than the final band perform an encore. Topping off the evening was REO (also from Illinois) with a 13 song set. The band still features original member Neal Doughty 76 (keys) who has played on every album and has never missed a concert, Kevin Cronin 70 (vocals since ‘72) who sounds amazing and got better each song in, plus Bruce Hall 69 (bass since ’77). The stage featured 6 upright light bars, 3 to the R, 3 to the L increasing in height outward with a beacon a top each. The drum platform was center and slightly stage R with the ‘Hi Infidelity’ logo, KORG Keys a top a Hammond B3 were stage R, a grand piano stage L. Behind was a backdrop of the classic REO logo with light bars projecting outward like sun rays sometimes pinwheeling, sometimes pulsating, sometimes radiating. Cronin and his gorgeous Ovation in hand led like a seasoned frontman should. ‘Greenville South Carolina check your selves out (spotlights on the audience)… thank y’all for coming out on a school night and partying with the big boys baby’. A beach ball had landed center stage, waiting for the right moment he kicked it back into the audience at the final note of ‘Don’t Let It Go’. Introducing ‘Live Every Moment’ Kevin informed us, ‘I just turned seventy years old right? I figured I would have some idea of what’s going on around me — I don’t know S**T!’ The song ended with CSN’s ‘Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo’ from Suite Judy Blue Eyes. ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ prompted am arena-wide singalong. Between ‘Time For Me To Fly’ and ‘Back On The Road Again’ Hall performed a rousing bass solo the likes of which resembled to me the Courageous Cat theme. For ‘Keep On Loving You’ Cronin took his place on the grand piano. Prior to the final song, ‘Roll With The Changes’, he introduced a good friend of his for years and years to the stage, it was ‘local boy’ Edwin McCain. Kevin left the Greenville stage by saying, ‘We love you, always have and always will’! Notably missing from the set were ‘In Your Letter’ and ‘Keep The Fire Burnin’ (one of their three ‘Keep’ songs). There were no video screens the entire evening lending to the old school feel and everyone appeared to be fine with it. Styx proved themselves the all around official headliner for numerous reasons (but it was close). Styx has described their live events as ‘a gospel caravan trying to send out positive messages wherever we go’, and the entire evening was exactly that. One could easily have knocked 20 years off each member of any of the bands actual age at any given point during the performance. The only thing that could have been better is if individual members of the three bands shared the stage together, now that would’ve be epic.” Review and photo by DAve. (Concert #703-705)

The show itself was fantastic. We enjoyed the cover band before Loverboy as well. The only complaint we have, which we heard over and over all night (and even the next day) is that there should have been more places to buy tickets and drinks. The fact that you had to get in one line to get tickets, then yet another long line to wait for drinks was really irritating. I suggest you revisit your plan if you have an outside venue in the future. Another irritant was the early shutdown (without notice) when the band still had a half hour left. All I can say is that you lost out on quite a bit of money by doing that. Pam Griesbach

Huge Loverboy fan here! Great show, but man those fans up front were lame! Had my friend and I only been up front, we could have shown the crowd how to enjoy a concert!!! So dear Mike Reno and awesome band… please know I was up there dancing and singing along every word to every song!!! Someday I’ll try to get up closer, so keep touring ,eh!!!!! The Amsoil Arena was a great venue, great sound, easy amenities. Thank you Loverboy for always bringing back the 80’s to me, and for not trying to throw new songs in the mix…. Us fans come to concerts for the stuff we knew back in the day and continue to love!!

This was a very sad night for true Styx fans they might as well just call the band Gowan from now. as the shovanistic Gowan was there to steal the show as usual.he sadly sang most of styx hit songs. I didn't come here to hear Gowan!!! Sadly that's all it was Gowan Gowan and more gowan. please Gowan stop the lead vocals on Styx songs just play the keyboards and shut the f%#$ up.

Amazing show!! I wish the tempo of the songs were closer to the originals. Maybe the heat contributed?? Other than that, phenomenal performance as always!! Matt was killing it on the drums!! Oh, I wish you guys had time to hit Lady of the 80's, but your time was limited. I thought your song selection was great for the amount of time you had on stage! Can't wait to see you guys again in Des Moines at the end of Summer!!

What a show!!! I drove 3 hours one way on a weekday to see my all-time fave band. They delivered! I’ve seen Loverboy in concert at least 30 times. This was my fave show in regards to their set. They played some oldies that weren’t normally a part of their set. Great night of music! I will always be Loverboy’s number one fan... ❤️

Loverboy always delivers! Even in pouring rain, the fans yelled for more. Mike and the boys had to cut the set short due to rain, but it was still an amazing show. Great sound! Talent at its finest! Reno will always be my number one crush. Always. I’m still swooning.

It was so surreal to finally get to see Loverboy ... they DID NOT DISAPPOINT! Nailed every single song! SO FUN! We got to meet and get pics with Ken and Paul after the show...they were so kind and courteous. 🤞🏼♥️🎶💃🏼. Bought a raglan tour t-shirt (really wanted the red Lucky one, but didn’t like the shorter sleeves style. ☺️. But that’s just me. Paul signed my tee! 🖤

The first I saw hem, I thought they were pretty good. They played with Night Ranger and Rock Springfield. Last night? I won’t rush out to see them a third time. Don’t get me wrong, they weren’t horrible, I was just underwhelmed by their performance. Night Ranger really should have been the headlining act, IMO.

This was an awesome concert. Loverboy played all the classics for 90 minutes & had bass & drum solo for 10 minutes. Mike Reno still has an awesome voice & Paul Dean was unbelievable on guitar & Doug Johnson was good on synthetizer & sax. Arcada Theater is a great venue for shows with great seats.