{"id":259034,"date":"2026-08-04T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259034\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:04:17","slug":"skynyrd-strong-heading-into-upcoming-philly-area-show-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259034\/","title":{"rendered":"Skynyrd Strong Heading Into Upcoming Philly Area Show: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gimme Back My Bullet&#8217;s packed a wallop as always. The iconic &#8220;Tuesday&#8217;s Gone&#8221; \u2014 dedicated to the late guitarist Gary Rossington \u2014 and &#8220;Simple Man&#8221; showcased Van Zant&#8217;s vocal prowess. <\/p>\n<p>And then &#8220;Gimme Three Steps&#8221; and &#8220;Call Me the Breeze&#8221; brought the show to a strong ending. <\/p>\n<p>Hearing &#8220;Freebird&#8221; is like going to church. You just close your eyes and let the song take you to the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>Foreigner opened the concert with its classic greatest hits played live: &#8220;Double Vision,&#8221; &#8220;Head Games,&#8221; &#8220;Urgent,&#8221; &#8220;Hot Blooded,&#8221; &#8220;Waiting for a Girl Like You,&#8221; &#8220;Dirty White Boy,&#8221; &#8220;Cold As Ice,&#8221; &#8220;Feels Like the First Time,&#8221; Juke Box Hero,&#8221; and I Want to Know What Love Is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The band had renewed energy with new vocalist and former guitarist Luis Maldonado keeping the group in fine form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gimme Back My Bullet&#8217;s packed a wallop as always. The iconic &#8220;Tuesday&#8217;s Gone&#8221; \u2014 dedicated to the late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-259034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}