Cyborg Caveman wrote:Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
I just saw Maiden at Madison Square Garden, this past Wednesday, with Motorhead, and the Midget Master of Metal, Ronnie James Dio (I'm an old school headbanger from the '80s - and damn proud of it). In the middle of the show, Bruce Dickenson went into a five minute tirade about how the music industry sucks, and how all these bands out now are all crappy clones. I can't say that I disagree with him. He then went on, saying that Maiden sold out the Hammerstien Ballroom (a block or two from the Garden) a couple of years ago, and then sold out the Jones Beach Amphitheater (out on Long Island) and the Garden this past week...yet you never see a an Iron Maiden video on the "telly".
After his speech, they did a tune from the new Maiden album. It's wasn't great, but it wasn't plodding, like some of their other, more recent stuff, such as The Clansman (the Scottish kind, not the K.K.K. kind). This was more akin to the Maiden I grew up on, then the bands previous two or three albums.
Dickenson also said he had no problem with people downloading their tunes off of the net. I guess he's the polar opposite of Lars Ulrich, of Metallica. But then again, I wouldn't bother downloading the new Metallica. I've already heard it and it's mediocre at best. No guitar solos. What ever happened to guitar solos? Am I the only one wonders what happend to guitar solos? I was a huge Metallica fan in the eighties and early ninties, but I haven't bought a Metallica album since the Black Album, back in '91 - which incidently was also the last contemporary vynil LP I ever bought.
Greg Stephens wrote:Cyborg Caveman wrote:A Night at the Opera - Queen
Queen just rocks. There's almost no better way to put it. While reinstalling Windows over and over again last week, I put on "The Miracle" and "Innuendo" over and over. It really helped.
To quote something a friend of mine once said, "That beaver-faced sissy could really sing!" Thank God Queen put out a good, rockin' album right before Freddie died, because pretty much everything between
The Game and
Inuendo was, for lack of a better word, crap.
Cyborg Caveman wrote:Yessongs - Yes
If there's one band I've never seen live, but would love too, it's Yes. They played here last summer, but it was the same weekend as The Who at M.S.G. (I make it a point to NEVER miss the Who - bought the tickets before Entwistle died, but they SILL rocked), and I just didn't have the cash or enrgy to see both.
Scott McCloud wrote:But I feel no yearning for the "good old days". These ARE the good old days.
Sadly, these ain't the good old days for good old rock 'n' roll. Guitar virtuosity is gone. Almost nobody in the genre sings anymore. They either rap or scream and grunt into the microphone. Ironicly, the only band that seems to have any balls nowadays, are the Donnas, a chick band. I don't think I've bought a CD by a contemporary band since Soundgarden broke up.
O.K., maybe I'm stuck in the past, but I like it there. The last concert I went to see before last week's Maiden show, was Neil Young, about a month or so ago. Can't remember the last one before that, it was so many, many months ago. And right now, as I type this, I'm listening to KISS
Rock and Roll Over (all this talk about Gene Simmons, the Somnvore, inspired me to put it on) and before that, I was spinning Black Sabbath
Vol. 4 (Wish I had me some "sweet leaf" right now). Hey, I'm turning 34 in a couple of weeks, so get me my walker and Polydent.
"Park the beers, and grab the smiles. It's flight time." - LtCdr. J. Robert "Bobby" Stone, USN (R.I.P.)