What to Do in St Louis?

As I click Publish, there are 77 days until my trip to St. Louis with Matthew to see Metallica. We are leaving on Thursday, 11-02, and will return home on Monday, 11-6. I recently found out that there's a great local band playing at Pop's in Sauget, IL, on Saturday, 11-4. I've never been to Pop's in Sauget, IL, but I know there are a lot of bands that I would like to see in concert that play there. For example, if I lived in the Saint Louis area, I would likely attend all three of these concerts:

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However, I won't be going to any of them because I can't justify the 10+ hours in the car (roundtrip) to see any of those bands. Of the 5 bands listed, I've seen "The Devil Wears Prada" in concert. I also can say that Devildriver played at Chicago Open Air 2017. I could have seen them playing from a distance, but I have no specific memory of that. I remember Alex and I went to Mass on Sunday morning, but I don't recall what time we arrived at the concert. Here is the lineup from that day:

Sunday (July 16) LIneup:

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Monster Energy Main Stage

• 8:25PM Ozzy Osbourne
• 6:25PM Stone Sour
• 5:05PM Lamb of God
• 3:40PM Amon Amarth
• 2:30PM Hellyeah
• 1:30PM Demon Hunter
• 12:30PM DED

Blackcraft Stage

• 7:20PM Slayer
• 4:35PM Behemoth
• 3:10PM Kyng
• 2:00PM DevilDriver
• 1:00PM Norma Jean
• 12:05PM Whores
• 11:15AM Aversed

Source: 2017 Chicago Open Air Set Times Revealed

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All of that is nice to reflect upon as I think about going to see New Lingo at Pop's in Sauget, IL. This is a map from our hotel to the venus - a short 8 minute drive:

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And this is what the band sounds like.

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And here's some more tunes by the band.

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Lazerfest Update

Stage 1:
1 p.m.: TBD,
2:05 p.m.: Hail the Villain.
3:15 p.m.: Halestorm.
4:25 p.m.: Drowning Pool.
5:35 p.m.: Five Finger Death Punch.
7 p.m. Hell Yea.
8:25 p.m. Rob Zombie.
10:25 p.m. Godsmack.

Stage 2:
12:30 p.m.: TBD.
2:40 p.m. Red.
3:50 p.m. Skillet.
5 p.m. Papa Roach.
6:10 p.m.: Seether.
7:35 p.m. Alice Cooper.
9:25 p.m.: Three Days Grace

Buck Cherry

When I went to see BuckCherry previously, it was because they were opening for Avenge Sevenfold and I had secured passes through their label. Av7 ended up cancelling their appearance and that moved BuckCherry to the headlining spot, which was nice because it moved Shinedown to a longer set. The third band was Saving Abel and they had a short set. Now, on their current tour, Saving Abel is direct support for BuckCherry @ the iWireless Center in September. Red is the band in their former spot.