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AEROSMITH – LIVE IN CONCERT

RUPP ARENA - LEXINGTON

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006

On Sale This Friday, January 27 at 10:00am

Live Nation presents Aerosmith at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. along with very special guest Cheap Trick.

AEROSMITH, America's Greatest Rock N' Roll Band, will turn up the temperature when they bring their "inhibition-free, sweat-slicked rock 'n' roll" (Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock UK Magazine) to Rupp Arena.

For this show, AEROSMITH--STEVEN TYLER, JOE PERRY, BRAD WHITFORD, TOM HAMILTON and JOEY KRAMER--have come up with special staging whereby fans on the floor will have the chance to get up close and sweaty with the band who will perform on the ramps leading from the stage to the middle of the auditorium. This staging also ensures that everyone in the venue will have a better view of the performance.

The bad boys from Boston have become rock royalty by consistently releasing top selling albums and top singles, such as “Walk This Way,” “Sweet Emotion,” “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” and “Dream On.”  Led by the flamboyant Steven Tyler on vocals and Joe Perry handling lead guitar, Aerosmith is truly a force that must be witnessed live.   

Combining a love for British guitar pop songcraft with crunching power chords and a flair for the absurd, CHEAP TRICK provided the necessary links between '60s pop, heavy metal, and punk. Led by guitarist Rick Nielsen, the band's early albums were filled with highly melodic, well-written songs that drew equally from the crafted pop of the Beatles, the sonic assault of the Who, and the tongue-in-cheek musical eclecticism and humor of the Move. Their sound provided a blueprint for both power pop and arena rock; it also had a surprisingly long-lived effect on both alternative and heavy metal bands of the '80s and '90s, who also relied on the combination of loud riffs and catchy melodies. 

Reserved tickets for Aerosmith and Cheap Trick [$82.50 and $57.50] go On Sale this Friday, January 27 at 10:00am. Tickets will be available at the Rupp Arena Box Office and all Ticketmaster outlets, Order on-line at Ticketmaster.com , CHARGE BY PHONE in Lexington at (859) 281-6644 or in Louisville at (502) 361-3100.   All tickets subject to applicable services charges and facility fees. Dates, times and artists subject to change without notice.