QUEEN live with Adam Lambert 06/30/2012
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I am still on the fence about Adam singing for them. While watching the video sometimes it seems like Adam is just phoning in the vocals or he is taking QUEEN as a classic rock band and not the power house band they are… I think George Micheal would be a great fit but he seems to unstable…. Maybe Adam just doesn’t need to act so much like a Diva?Opinions?
Here’s the entire 2 hour concert. Well worth the watch. Roger Taylor comes out from behind the drums and sings and does a great job!
chuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuihnDJiDOc
Gotta say Hell yea! To Bruce Dickinson!
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HE gets it! The inner child forever rocking and screw the world!
Dickinson said, “Mature our image? Why? Inside this 53-year-old exterior — 54 in August — is a 17-year-old. Actually, probably mental age, probably slightly younger. But that’s the core of why you do this thing. When you’re a kid and you experience something that makes you feel, ‘Wow, walking on air.’ The first song you write, the first experiences, you have to ringfence those and guard them against what I can describe as the cynicism of the world, because the world eats into people and destroys those hopes and those dreams and things like that. And it’s those things that people call childish, those are the things, actually, that motivate us and that keeps our creativity precious; that’s what’s inside people, and they lose it at their peril. I’ve seen people that have lost it, and it’s really sad.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=176084
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Ok fellow musicians, when is enough, enough?
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You have played your entire life but have grown weary of the never ending starting and stopping of bands and band attempts…The in between bands and everything thing else associated with this business…Maybe you are like me and was in a road band too for some time …we did it for almost five years..That was 8 years ago when that stopped…I haven’t been able to find anyone or enough people to try it again…Why? I guess the older we all get the harder it is to commit to something like that. My kids are grown so it’s easier for me to. I don’t know how you feel about it but I was never one to be satisfied just playing local bars and clubs. Have I done it? Oh yea, a bunch, I am not arrogant to think I am better than playing those types of places I just wanted more… I have played in dives and nice places and had good times but I always wanted more… It was never enough….an evil drug I always say…
I will play anywhere anytime but I always wanted more….huge stages, not fame and fortune or rock star status…That’s all fleeting…I just wanted to play and make a decent living out of it…
So here I am…46. Still have the “look” I guess? I go to blabbermouth.com and see all the older bands on that site. They all have the tired hair and big gut look. Not my idea of a “rock star” but they are older and some probably way older than me… They too were probably “metal heads” in the 80’s. Hanging on, mid level bands at best but doing what they love to do so is it fulfilling? I dunno…I am at a loss here… Music, it’s all I have ever cared about other than my family…I was never content with what I have done or accomplished which in the music business is not much. But here I stand at the cliff edge. Do I jump or do I throw my guitars over the edge and say fuck it…not a bad run but not what I tried so hard to achieve…
I am not looking for sympathy here. Just honest questions. What do you do when all you know to do is what you want to do but not doing do it? I don’t want to be the tired looking old fat guy that stayed too long at the dance but damn I don’t want to quit either…
chuck
Glen Campbell review Evansville Indiana 06/09/2012
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Glen Campbell…What can you say about him? He is An American Legend. A musician. An Icon. An Actor. And, a man that is dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
With the public announcement a few months ago that he is suffering from this he decided to embark on his Goodbye tour. You got to hand to it to him. He could stay home and let this debilitating disease slowly rob him and his family like so many others but instead he is taking it out on the road. Therapeutic? Of course it has to be. Plus if I had to guess, it has to be comforting to do what you know what to do in times of duress. His is to play music.
So on June 8th he rolled into Evansville Indiana at the Aiken Center. I have, like a lot of people my age and older grew up on Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Reed just to name a few and all the variety shows that have long gone away and really should be brought back. Back when the whole family could sit around the television and watch the same programs and the parents didn’t have to worry about what was seen or heard.
Back to the Concert, first off. I only found out about it one day out of the blue by looking up his tour dates and saw where he was making a stop in Evansville. I usually am a radio scanner, meaning if I don’t like the song on the radio I hit the scan button and Read more…
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Quote of the day…lmao! It’s about AC/DC
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Taken from a post on blabbermouth about AC/DC….
time marches on, all things must end. I think most fans will be happy just to see old men drag themselves out on stage and just attempt it? For mellow bands, its one thing, but for these hard rock howitzers, its just not the same. How old is too old for Angus to do the strip tease? I noticed most people were making faces in 2007. It looked like Jacob Marley rattling around, taking his clothes off.
Eddie Van Halen has a serious smokers voice, when did he grow old?
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Song dedication for the guys in Queensryche…how fitting?
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Apparently Geoff Tate has locked the other guys in the band out of the Official Queensryche website and Facebook page…He has taken control. Self fulfilling prophesy?
http://www.eddietrunk.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/436091/pid/400512
Or is this one better?
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A hamster that plays dead
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This is soo cute!
Glen Campbell… An American Legend on Ellen
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I may be “metal” but my roots are in music like this. Glen Campbell is an American legend in his own right and is currently suffering from Alzheimer disease. To date there is not a cure and we all know what slowly happens to people that suffer from this horrible disease.
For me being a Glen Campbell fan all my life it is hard to watch him on this YouTube video but it’s also touching too. Me being a guitar player too I an see when Glen is struggling but I see the small victories when he “lines it up” so to speak. God Bless him and keep him and all the people and families struggling with this horrible disease.
For our friends in Evansville, Glen will paying you guys a visit on June 9th! I am so there already!!
chuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgq43Kapnk
