The holidays are over, and it’s time to get back to the grind, which means you deserve to go out at night and rock out. Friday night, January 23, 2026, All Music Magazine traveled to Ferg’s Sports Bar and Grill located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Ferg’s is located across the street from The Big Sombrero, Tropicana Field. Tropicana Field used to house the Tampa Bay Devil Rays before Hurricane Milton tore the roof off in 2024. Ferg’s Sports Bar and Grill covers almost two entire blocks, with multiple bars, over 90 televisions, and a large outdoor stage that hosts live entertainment.
The headliner for this night was the seventies rock band Great White, hitting the stage just after 9:30 pm Great White formed in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. Currently, only guitarist Mark Kendall is an original member of the band. Great White released two platinum-selling records in the 1980s, Once Bitten (1987) and …Twice Shy (1989).
To warm up the crowd, the 1990s Rock band Slaughter, fronted by singer/ guitarist Mark Slaughter and original bassist Dana Strum, and they went on around 8:10 pm. The band actually formed in Las Vegas in 1988. Slaughter released five albums in the 1990′, with Stick It to Ya (1990) going double platinum and The Wild Life (1992) going gold…