RIP 2018
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@jegga I went to a Ryan Adams concert a while ago. I’m a fan but there’s no doubt he is a bit lacking in the sense of humour department. Some wit up the front took the opportunity at every break to yell “play Summer of 69”.
Eventually Ryan lost patience and made them put the house lights up and he wouldn’t start playing again until security removed the bloke. I reckon Ryan should learn the song and rip into it whenever asked. Life will be much less stressful for him, cause I fully intend to ask him to play it if I ever see him again and I suspect I’m not the only one.
So how long did it take for security to remove you?
That is a great idea though, he really should learn it - he can mix it up completely.
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BTW, the Ryan Adams concert was in Nashville. Everybody should try and get to a concert in Nashville if they can. I went there for work for a couple of weeks back in the early 00s. Being a C&W town I had preconceptions about the audiences and acts but in the end I went to several shows including Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith and Adams, and the venues and fans were amazing. I even went to the Grand Ole Opry and saw some old country legend who I can't remember now. He was OK, but the crowd was a hoot. Cowboy hats and boots everywhere, even on the women, and for every hippo in Walmart chic there was a goddess in tight denim. Loved it.
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I disagree, and there can be a happy compromise between playing the hits and some deeper cuts. Personally I think it is great when bands add a song(s) to the set list that they haven’t played in 10 or 20 years. The casual fan probably doesn’t care but the real fans will appreciate it, especially if the song wasn”t a regular radio hit.
Take Bruce Springsteen as an example who usually plays completely different set lists in cities with multiple concerts. Artists with a small catalogue and minimal “hits” don’t have that choice. 😊
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BTW, the Ryan Adams concert was in Nashville. Everybody should try and get to a concert in Nashville if they can. I went there for work for a couple of weeks back in the early 00s. Being a C&W town I had preconceptions about the audiences and acts but in the end I went to several shows including Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith and Adams, and the venues and fans were amazing. I even went to the Grand Ole Opry and saw some old country legend who I can't remember now. He was OK, but the crowd was a hoot. Cowboy hats and boots everywhere, even on the women, and for every hippo in Walmart chic there was a goddess in tight denim. Loved it.
Are you Peter Pan?? A couple of weeks ago in the 00's??
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@jegga I went to a Ryan Adams concert a while ago. I’m a fan but there’s no doubt he is a bit lacking in the sense of humour department. Some wit up the front took the opportunity at every break to yell “play Summer of 69”.
Eventually Ryan lost patience and made them put the house lights up and he wouldn’t start playing again until security removed the bloke. I reckon Ryan should learn the song and rip into it whenever asked. Life will be much less stressful for him, cause I fully intend to ask him to play it if I ever see him again and I suspect I’m not the only one.
You’re right, he should own it and bust out his own take every now and then .
A mate went to see Bryan Adams and he played summer of 69 twice that night.He seems like an interesting guy apart from the vegan thing.
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I disagree, and there can be a happy compromise between playing the hits and some deeper cuts. Personally I think it is great when bands add a song(s) to the set list that they haven’t played in 10 or 20 years. The casual fan probably doesn’t care but the real fans will appreciate it, especially if the song wasn”t a regular radio hit.
Take Bruce Springsteen as an example who usually plays completely different set lists in cities with multiple concerts. Artists with a small catalogue and minimal “hits” don’t have that choice. 😊
Bruce was great, but as a fair weather fan I would have been happier seeing him play the entire Born in the USA album (the people the night before got it, first time he's played it in ages apparently) than Born to Run
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I disagree, and there can be a happy compromise between playing the hits and some deeper cuts. Personally I think it is great when bands add a song(s) to the set list that they haven’t played in 10 or 20 years. The casual fan probably doesn’t care but the real fans will appreciate it, especially if the song wasn”t a regular radio hit.
Steady on. As an example of what I'm talking about: Metallica toured just after the Black Album. As you'd expect there were kids and new adult fans who came along to listen to Metallica - the band they knew based on that album. The rest of us wanted to hear their back catalogue.
So as soon as they start an acoustic intro into Four Horsemen, rows of new fans all looked blankly at each other and sat down.
They got the balance right.
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I feel very bad for Dolores, she was much too young, and she was probably a lovely person. But I’ve given a day out of courtesy, and now have to say artistically the Cranberries music sucked.
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Did you get to the RCA Museum? I’ve been to Motown museum in Detroit where the main studio floor is roped-off and you can’t even walk on it, let alone touch anything; I’ve been to the Sun Studios in Memphis and Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama where they will let you walk mostly everywhere, but it’s “Look - Don’t Touch” unless you book studio recording time. But in Nashville (at least a few decades ago was the case) they will invite you to touch and play pianos and guitars in RCA Studio B (if you’ve seen Roberty Altman’s epic “Nashville” you’ll know what I’m talkin’ about) that were actually used in recordings by Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. They’ll even let you twiddle on the knobs inn the studio where Chet Atkins basically invented “The Nashville Sound” and record it, which me and my mates did. If you’re a musician or a fan it’s an incredible experience.
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@salacious-crumb Yeah, but TBH it was more of a pilgrimage thing than anything else. I'm not a musician so the instruments and recording stuff didn't mean that much to me. I wasn't with anyone who could explain the significance of what I was looking at, beyond the "Elvis used this microphone" stuff. For anyone who's into music history though, yeah it'd be a shame to go to Nashville and not visit. I understand you have to book now?
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No idea about the booking, it was a couple decades ago. The piano was the real beauty. I was with my buddies, all long hairs (at the time, we had hair then!) and a guide simply assumed we were a band and asked if we wanted to play. (On same trip in Memphis a black guy stopped us on the street and asked us if we were Bon Jovi. We told him no, and despite our strong accents he then started insisting we were bullshitting him, and that we really were Bon Jovi. All we could ask ourselves afterward was, Jesus, do we really look that awful??)
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@salacious-crumb ... so one of you had an enormous nose then?
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Deep Purple in 06 was a classic concert of two halves. They opened with 'Pictures of Home' which is a lesser known 70s track then played all the 90s 00s shit before an hour of ' Space Trucking' 'Highway Star' 'Woman from Tokyo' 'Black Night' etc.
Gunners last year got the balance way better.
I'm already tired of wanky self indulgent FB posts about what the Cranberries meant growing up in the 90s and how devastated people are that she's dead.
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