An Evening With Donnie Iris & the Cruisers Based in Pittsburgh but hugely popular in Northeast Ohio, classic rockers Donnie Iris & the Cruisers will return to the Kent Stage tonight. Iris found his early success while performing with the Jaggerz and Wild Cherry, which had a massive hit with the single “Play that Funky Music.” Iris released his first album, Back on the Streets, in 1980 through Cleveland-based Midwest Records. Thanks to the track "Ah! Leah!" receiving airplay, MCA Records took notice and signed Iris to a five album deal before re-releasing the album. Since then Donnie Iris & the Cruisers have gone through lineup changes but have soldiered on, releasing 11 studio albums, one EP, two live albums and two compilation albums.The show starts at 8 p.m. Consult the Kent Stage website for ticket prices.
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The first rock show I ever saw at the old Bangor Auditorium was Queensryche. Grunge hadn t quite exploded yet, and hair metal was still kind of king. Although you could sense change was in the air in general. In fact, the morning I got my Queensryche tickets, was the first time I ever saw the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit.
When we were young. Even the bands.
It s funny to think of all these acts as classic rock at this point. When they all came to Bangor, it was when they were fresh and new. For instance, Ozzy came here on the Blizzard of Oz tour, with Randy Rhoads on guitar. Crazy right? Until you realize the opening act was a relatively unknown band at the time, called Def Leppard.