The Jonas Brothers have lined up one of the biggest tours of the year, which kicks off later this month with not one but two massive shows at Yankee Stadium in New York.
The sibling trio — consisting of Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas — prepped for the big road show by performing a one-off concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View on Friday (Aug. 4).
“I will say as an audience, to get us ready to go back on tour, you are perfect,” Kevin Jonas told the approximately 10,000 fans in attendance.
The group was in town to headline Wild 94.9’s Wazzmatazz, which, yes, does indeed sound more like a brand of intensely sugary candy that it does a pop music radio show. (“I want a pack of Sour Patch Kids, some gummy worms and a Wazzmatazz NOW!)
Yet, the Jonas Bros were an incredibly good booking for Wild 94.9, especially giving that the band’s upcoming trek — descriptively, and somewhat annoyingly, titled The Tour — doesn’t include a Bay Area date. Well, at least not yet. The band made a few comments on Friday from the stage that a local show will likely be added soon. (It makes sense that they would hold back on announcing a The Tour gig in the Bay Area until later so as not to hurt ticket sales for Wazzmatazz.)
The brothers — who do have a Sept. 11 The Tour date set for Golden 1 Center in Sacramento — kicked off its likeable headlining set on Friday with “Only Human,” one of three tracks performed from their fifth studio album, 2019’s “Happiness Begins.”
They’d quickly continue through “What a Man Gotta Do” and “Cool,” a near-irresistible pop gem — also from “Happiness Begins” — which ranks as the single best song in the Jonas Bros catalog.
Joe and Nick traded off on lead vocals, while brother Kevin backed them up on the microphone and strummed guitar, as the group continued through such sweetly sugary and straight-forward pop tunes as “S.O.S.” and “Waffle House,” the latter of which hails from the group’s recently released “The Album.” (Get it? If you have “The Album” then it should be supported by The Tour, right?)
Backed by a solid seven-piece band — featuring stellar work from lead guitarist JinJoo Lee — the Jonas Brothers would touch on five of of its six studio albums during the course of the night, only leaving “Lines, Vines and Trying Times” out of the mix. That was a surely a disappointing omission for some fans, who would’ve loved to have heard the single “Paranoid” (which, sadly, is not a cover of the Black Sabbath classic).
Joe and Nick also took time to highlight their work outside of the band. The former played a couple of songs from his dance-rock outfit DNCE (also featuring guitarist Lee) — the uncomplicated and charming “Toothbrush” and the memorable smash “Cake by the Ocean.” Nick countered with nice versions of the solo numbers “Jealous” and “Levels.”
The group took plenty of time to connect with the crowd from the stage, tossing T-shirts from the state and, in general, showing lots of gratitude for the support these fans have shown them over the years.
“We are just three kids from New Jersey who somehow figured out how to tour around,” Nick Jonas said.
The Jonas Brothers’ set ran some 80 minutes, a tally that the group will surely blow by — and then some — when it takes on the mighty challenge of performing five albums during each stop of The Tour. (Am I the only one who finds that math on that a little strange? Given that the band has six albums in its discography. Is one album just clearly inferior to the other five?)
Fans can catch the show in Sacramento or wait until a Bay Area date is likely announced — which seemingly could happen rather soon.
Other acts on the Wazzmatazz bill included Kim Petras and Conan Gray.
German dance-pop singer Petras, whose set included a version of the Grammy-winning song “Unholy,” is set to return to the Bay Area for an Oct. 29 concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Visit apeconcerts.com for information.
Setlist:
1. “Only Human”
2. “What a Man Gotta Do”
3. “Cool”
4. “S.O.S.”
5. “Waffle House”
6. “Play My Music”
7. “That’s Just the Way We Roll”
8. “Year 3000”
9. “Sail Away”
10. “Levels”
11. “Toothbrush”
12. “Jealous”
13. “Cake by the Ocean”
14. “Summer Baby”
15. “When You Look Me in the Eyes”
16. “Lovebug”
17. “Burnin’ Up”
18. “Leave Before You Love Me”
19. “Sucker”
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