The crowd had filled the venue by the time Rancid hit the stage. It was a clash of styles that Bouncing Souls carved their niche into, and kept them around for nearly three decades.

Lead vocalist Greg Attonito gently glided around the stage as easily as his voice, while Pete Steinkopf on guitar, Bryan Kienlen on bass and George Rebelo on drums provided the noisy punk rock tunes to accompany the easy-going vocals. Their style of punk rock is a bit different in that it’s not the in-your-face style, but instead, they’re easy going songs played with a punk rock edge. Up next was Bouncing Souls, a group out of New Jersey that’s been around since 1989. I didn’t get to hear much of his set, but the crowd applauded and cheered as he finished. I got into the photo pit with maybe thirty seconds to spare, none of which really came out well. Burns, because traffic was something else, and it seemed everybody and their ex-lover was on the road that day and to add in several construction zones. It was a night of punk rocking good times.Īlong for support were guest Jake Burns who did a solo acoustic set. On July 31 st, 2017 Dropkick Murphys out of Boston, Massachusetts and Rancid out of Berkeley, California brought their From Boston to Berkley tour to the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

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