Just in from our pal Woody at Live Nation, a couple of rock shows at the Ford Amphitheatre. Both go on sale Sat., March 21.:

• Rock ‘n’ Rebels Tours w/Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sat., June 27. $126, $76, $56 and $46 for reserved seats and $26 for the festival lawn.

• Crue Fest 2 w/Motley Crue, Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, Charm City Devils

Fri., Aug. 28. $95 general admission dance floor; $95, $65, $39.50 reserved seats; $29.50 festival lawn

$10 festival lawn special, first day of sale only, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2009.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...