Tag: concert history

A rock band performing an energetic live show on a lit stage

Boston’s Bang Camaro Bring Their Wall-of-Sound Metal Show to the Port City

James Bullard, May 8, 2008

A different kind of army is making its way into Mobile: the roughly 30-member rock collective known as Bang Camaro, a Boston-born band that has built a reputation for burying audiences under a wall of old-school, arena-style metal sound. Bang Camaro’s rise is notable in part because of where it…

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A vintage radio studio microphone with concert lighting in the background

When Springsteen Played Twice in Mobile: A Radio Man Remembers the City’s Loudest Decade

James Bullard, March 18, 2005

A former WABB-FM program director recalled 1973 to 1978 as the golden age of Mobile radio and live music, when Skynyrd played Fort Whiting and Springsteen sold out two nights running.