By BOB SHRALUKA
WZBD.com
A group of hard-rockin’ area musicians brought down the curtain on the Decatur Chamber’s 2024 Summer Concert Series Thursday night.
In its first appearance on the Madison Street Plaza, City Lights turned out the lights on this year’s series, the 13th consecutive Thursday night over three months bringing out a nice-sized crowd on a hot night.
White Noise, a group of young local guys, got the night of rock off to a great start.
It was 87 degrees with 67% humidity as Fort Wayne-based City Lights kicked off its presentation of nearly three full hours.
Classic rock was their thing, the band said, and there was plenty of it Thursday night: Mellencamp to the Stones, Journey to Foreigner, ZZ Top to the Doobies, even Loverboy and Metallica.
And how’s this for diversity: the Commodores and Alannah Myles.
Six of the seven band members performed vocals.
City Lights traces its roots to 1979 when two current members of the band – lead vocalist/guitarist Dick Swary of Payne, Ohio, and drummer Wally Hull of Latty, Ohio – played together in a band called Spice.
City Lights performs throughout the area, and earlier this year has been in Monroeville, Harlan, Warsaw and Celina, Ohio.
WHITE NOISE: The rockin’ started early, with White Noise hitting it hard.
The five guys (who brought their own cheering section) performed three songs, including “War Pigs” by Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath
The next day, City Lights posted this on its Facebook page: “Shout out to the teen band White Noise that played before us. It restores my faith in the next generation to here (sic) young people playing Black Sabbath!”
The band, which has only been together a couple of months, according to lead singer Nick Dague, is comprised of Izaak Bobay, 17; Mason Moser, 17; James Adkeen, 15; Jaxson Braun, 17; and Dague, 22.
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