It’s been a busy summer concert season on Long Island and New York City, particularly Queens. On the heels of Lady Antebellum at Jones Beach and a phenomenal show by My Morning Jacket with guitar slinger Gary Clark Jr. at Forest Hills Stadium, tonight the legendary Rod Stewart plays at Jones Beach with Cyndi Lauper opening. The weather is perfect (and the crowd is old) for this almost sold out (and expensive) ticket.

The show of the summer so far was the My Morning Jacket show in Queens on Saturday. If Led Zeppelin, The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd at a laboratory conceived child it would be My Morning Jacket. Everything about this show blew away the ctowd on this night and the Gull, who is a huge MMJ fan, loved the set list. Gary Clark Jr. hit the stage and played an hour long set in the sunlight and Jim James and company started at 7:30 and roared for two and a half exhilarating hours. 

I’m sure that Rod and Cyndi will rock the house tonight but I think I need a Bowery Ballroom show soon after this one.

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Rock on!

GQ