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Rock On: Kenny G's plane concert, naked people at SMF and Yes' Alan White lead CL top music stories of 2017

Boomers still hit the Internet hard, y'all.

By Ray Roa and LJ Hilberath on Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 1:18 pm

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Metallica plays Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida on July 5, 2017

As we mosey our way into the second half of 2017, CLtook the time to review the most popular posts from this year's Music section. After looking them over, one thing's for sure: our baby boomers still love their rock and roll.

As we ready our annual Music Issue, we pulled the 10 most-read articles of this year's music section.

Check them out below:

Kenny G plays sax on flight from Tampa to Los Angeles — watch

Here are the 10 most naked people at Sunset Music Festival 2017 (probably NSFW)

Jumping in the Deep End with Yes Drummer Alan White

Metallica is forever young, stages a metal spectacle at Orlando's Camping World Stadium

Remembering Ray Villadonga, a linchpin of the Tampa Bay music scene

Yes conjure up their own 'Drama' at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg (w/ photos + setlist)

Van Morrison stretches out, settles in brilliantly for the first of three sold out shows at Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall

Neil Diamond's 50th anniversary tour revisits the golden days for a nostalgic Amalie Arena (with photos + setlist)

In Tampa, the Red Hot Chili Peppers dad-rock with fervor for a sold out Amalie Arena (w/ photos + setlist)

Jimmy Buffet in Tampa: five reasons it could've sucked, and five ways we were totally wrong (w/ setlist + photos)

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Franz “LJ” Hilberath is a Clearwater-native who contributes to Creative Loafing's Music section. He previously served as an intern and is now a freelance contributor for all things music.LJ can be found in the field reviewing concerts and music festivals around the country, and also works interviews for both local...

Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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