Staind with Seether / Hoobastank / Hinder at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena, Ridgedale MO (2026-10-01)

Open Your Eyes
Warm Safe Place
Fade
Raining Again
Everything Changes
Take It
Right Here
Something to Remind You 
Suffer
Pressure
So Far Away
Outside
For You

Encore:
It’s Been Awhile
Mudshovel

Gasoline
Needles
Truth
Wasteland
Rise Above This
Nobody Praying for Me
Fine Again
Country Song
Lost All Control
Fake It
Remedy

Same Direction
Remember Me
Running Away
Inside of You
This Is Gonna Hurt
Out of Control
How Do You Sleep
The Reason
Crawling in the Dark

All American Nightmare
Homecoming Queen
Without You
Live Without It
Lips of an Angel
Bring Me Back to Life
Get Stoned

OCT 03 Lucas Oil Live Thackerville, OK
OCT 07 Utah First Credit Union Amph West Valley City, UT
OCT 09 Toyota Amphitheatre Wheatland, CA
OCT 10 Toyota Arena Ontario, CA
OCT 13 Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Phoenix, AZ
OCT 14 First Financial Credit Union Amph Albuquerque, NM
OCT 16 BOK Center Tulsa, OK
OCT 17 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Houston, TX
OCT 19 Moody Center Austin, TX

Still ‘breaking the cycle’ a quarter-century later,

Staind’s 2026 Tour is a summer into fall run that celebrates the 25^th Anniversary of their breakthrough album, Break the Cycle, the 2001 album that catapulted the Springfield, MA band from a regional post-grunge act, into one of the country’s biggest bands.

With support from Seether, Hoobastank, and Hinder, this was one anniversary worth celebrating.

Since it was new to us, a bit about the venue-

Thunder Ridge Nature Arena, a decade in planning, development, and construction, is located in the Ozarks just a few miles from Branson, in Ridgedale, MO, and very near the Arkansas state line.

Bass Pro Shops Founder, Johnny Morris owns the 18-20,000 capacity venue which sits on 1,200 acres near Table Rock Lake and Boston Mountain and also contains his Big Cedar Lodge golf resort.

A luxury box called “The Veteran’s Tower” rises twelve stories high from the Ozark limestone and dolomite earth and four of its floors contains VIP suites with bedrooms for unobstructed views of the stage and nature sight lines.

That said on a rainy day as the concert was, in a venue that has no canopy, it could be a little tricky in places.

Some of the natural stairs were uneven and slippery with minimal handrails and the reserved seats seemed less sloped than in similar venues, perhaps because of the natural angle of the hill it was built on.

Seether, the South African band whose latest full-length was 2024’s The Surface Seems So Far, always puts on a great live show, and the night was no exception. The band realizes the primary reason they and their fans are there, is to play and hear the music, so they don’t spend time talking to the audience or wasting time.

Able to work in eleven songs in their limited time, their set felt like a good ‘bang for the buck’ and is a great example of ‘less talk, more rock.’

Hoobastank is the Agora Hills CA band hasn’t put out a full-length since 2018’s Push Pull but still continues regular touring and still plays with a lot of energy. Three of four members are original co-founders, and vocalist Doug Robb’s banter with the crowd, seemed friendly and sincere.​

Hinder is the Oklahoma City band that opened the show, in support of their 2025 album, Back to Life (first full-length in seven years) …which the band kind of is. The group has had some upheaval and stop-starts, but lead guitarist Joe “Blower” Garvey returned in 2021 and the band’s singer, Marshal Dutton has been with them over a decade, so the lineup changes have settled down.

Maybe due to the weather elements or not enough time to set the sound mix, Dutton’s vocals for their short opening set, seemed a bit buried by the instruments, with the bass guitar in particular, overwhelming all else. The crowd was especially excited during their 2006 hit, “Lips of an Angel” which went Top 3 on the US Rock Charts (and #1 in New Zealand and Australia!).​​