Bucket List!
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Going to Gunners in Feb. My mate just reminded me I owe him close to $400 for the tickets, thank fuck I've already bought pressies for the boys for xmas. I've heard good things about their latest efforts so fair to say I'm as happy as a clam at high tide. If they're good they might knock Prince off the top spot of best live acts I've seen and there's been some fucken good uns.....ACDC, Deep Purple, chillis, Billy Idol, Ben Harper, Dire Straits ( before I realised how boring they were )
A mate has the Pink Floyd experience band on DVD and it's probably at the point where they do it better than the originals ever did ( complete with the vocalist/bassist doing all the wank louspeaker shit that Roger Waters did back in the day )
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@mariner4life Pyromania is their best album but Hysteria is good too. I've seen Def Leppard twice and they put on a great show.
I thought about going to G'n'R but Axl's voice at his current age is fuckin' annoying to me. I'll just make do with seeing Slash with Myles Kennedy.
I go to a lot of concerts and have been slowly ticking some artists off my list. But there are a few bands I would have loved to see in their prime (Queen, Led Zep, Floyd). And Van Halen with DLR c1981.
I went to a bloody good gig last night - Steven Wilson at The Powerstation.
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@Bovidae said in Bucket List!:
I go to a lot of concerts and have been slowly ticking some artists off my list. But there are a few bands I would have loved to see in their prime (Queen, Led Zep, Floyd). And Van Halen with DLR c1981.
We still live in a golden age, Justin Beiber, Katy Perry & best of all, Babymetal, are all touring this year!
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@Crucial said in Bucket List!:
Shit this place seems entirely populated by bogans.
I know! It's fucking awesome! I've been listening to Metallica non-stop since!
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@JC said in Bucket List!:
@Crucial said in Bucket List!:
Shit this place seems entirely populated by bogans.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Well I'm not saying it is a good thing
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@Bovidae said in Bucket List!:
@gollum For people my age or older, the artists we grew up listening to are slowly dying. 2016 has been Annus horribilis for musicians.
You can't stand still, you have to embrace the new stuff, sometimes its better. And every year is a bad year for musicians. I can still remember trying to get my old man to listen to Cold Chisel. Fairs fair he made me listen to CCR & I fuckin loved CCR, but he refused to listen to anything "new", meant he missed out on the second coming of Aerosmith, Metallica, Pearl Jam etc. As he sat there listening to Buddy Holly. Think how bad 1959 was for that old fucker.
I was listening to Who Made Who the other day, which I listened to till my ears bled 30 years ago, and I got a huge nostalgia rush, but I could think of a stack of Linkin Park or Green Day songs I like more now (and those songs are a good 10 years old). I would have sworn 30 years ago no-one would top Who Made Who unless Chisel reformed.
A lot of the old bands haven't put out a decent song in 10 years at least. Maybe 20 in the case of U2. AC/DC just played the UK & to be honest the highlight was Axl. The ones that aren't dead, deaf or in prison have altzerimers. I got a massive rush of nostalgia, but I, in all honestly, thought the Babymetal concert was better (I really went to that, I'm not proud of it, but it was aces).
Its like remembering how much fun your family dog was as a puppy chasing a ball & playfighting and then going home to find it laying half dead on the couch in a pool of its own shit as a cat walks past unmolested.
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@gollum My comment was just about how many iconic musicians from the 1960s, 1970s and even the 1980s are now at an age where father time is against them. That is just a reflection of their age in most cases not due to the excesses of the rock'n'roll lifestyle. If Bieber or a member of One Direction died tomorrow I wouldn't give a fuck because I don't think that the majority of the auto-tuned manufactured artists of today will have the same enduring quality of a Bowie or Prince.
I have a CD collection of ~800 so my tastes are varied and includes a number of new bands. But some "classic" bands have also released strong records recently. For example, Cold Chisel's The Perfect Crime is a worthy addition to their catalogue. ACDC's best days are well behind them so I don't see the appeal of seeing them live now or buying their CDs. At least the two times I have been to an ACDC concert included the classic lineup sans Bon Scott.
The simplest way to look at it is that rather than say that there is good music and bad music, it's better to say there is music you like and music you don't like. I'm not wasting my money on the latter.
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okay, so he's not a former singer of a monster rock band from our formative years, and half the kiwis probably don't even know who he is, but i went and saw Bernard Fanning at a small venue in Cairns last night. Fuck that guy can sing. Obviously played mostly his solo stuff, which is a little too soft for my tastes, but a couple of Powderfinger tracks kept things moving along.
Good show though, he's a funny guy, and as i said, fuck he can sing live, a pleasure to watch him work. He liked the gig because unlike the rest of the tour, which is in theatres, this was in a bunch of people standing around and drinking. Much more fun to play.
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That's the weird thing about Fanning - I've seen him in front of Powderfinger live a couple of times (pubs or various festivals like Homebake) and a few more times on that TV show that JJJ were running on weekend mornings back in the day. Every time, Powderfinger stank the joint up, and his singing was mostly the issue.
Hell of a vocalist, and on the albums that comes through. I just wondered if he could sustain it on tour.
