Bucket List!
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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.
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@NTA that honestly surprises me, because i have seen Powderfinger a couple of times, and now Fanning in a small venue, and every time he's been excellent. His guitar player last night was a bit off though.
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@mariner4life said in Bucket List!:
@NTA that honestly surprises me, because i have seen Powderfinger a couple of times, and now Fanning in a small venue, and every time he's been excellent. His guitar player last night was a bit off though.
Yeah I've had other people say the same thing.
But I'm talking back in
Vulture StreetInternationalist (fixed) days, so maybe he was too hungover or had a cold or something.Occasionally I've given exceptional bad luck to certain bands. Every time I saw Custard play, their PA gear would just fail. Maybe they were cheap and didn't buy great gear, but every fucking time.
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@NTA Yeah, I mentioned on the other thread I saw them in London quite a few years ago. They played 4 nights in a row I think, and there were fairly mixed reviews on their concerts - I think it depended on how hammered they were before they went on stage.
The once I went to was good though. They did have to restart one song though if I remember correctly due to the bassist fucking it up.
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Phase 1 report ... I may have seen these bands in the wrong order.
Metallica on Friday night. Without a doubt, one of, if not the best live concerts I've been to. Every single thing about the concert was incredible. The band themselves are second only to Shihad at the energy they produce on stage, the sound was brilliant (fuck it was loud though), lighting show fantastic, and the back drop to the band was 5 screens about 15 metres high, so no matter where you were, you got a hell of a show.
The band were tight, but still loose enough to you felt like you were at a gig and not just listening to the radio. Hetfield is still the master of the frontman, Hammett smashes out solos with energy and enthusiams, Ulrich - he's the old man with his full grey beard and beanie but does a great job and then there is the beast that is Trujillo - tough gig making bass playing look cool as fuck, but he does it.
Setlist was awesome - can see it here http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/metallica/2017/asiaworld-arena-hong-kong-hong-kong-3bf880f4.html
As a fellow metalhead punter said ... even the new songs you didn't know were fucking amazing .. and they are usually the shit part of any concerts. If you guys get the chance, go and seem them on this tour. Epic.
I can't see for the life of me how GnR are going to even come close.
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@MajorRage yea I've been keeping an eye on the set lists from this tour, they look alright. Might have to go when they get to Aus
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You won't regret it. They nailed they setlist for me. Didn't play Fuel for a start, and the only additional song I would have like to see was Hit The Lights. But did get Seek & Destroy & Battery, so I can't complain ...
I wasn't aware they were heavily restricted on what they could play in China. Hetfield gave a great interview on that. Media were trying to really stir shit up about due to the censoring etc etc and I think were expecting fuck you style response, but he just said ..
“Why shouldn’t you respect their culture when you’re there as a guest and you’ve been invited to play? We want to be respectful, and just because we do things differently, it doesn’t mean it should be forced upon [others]. But hopefully we’ll keep coming back and they’ll realise we’re not a threat politically and we have no agenda except to cross boundaries with music and let people enjoy the songs. We’re not trying to bring a secret message to anybody.”
