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Also, I really enjoyed The Girl With Golden Eyes again.

Always liked the song, but I appreciated what he did there.

I've even grown to not hate the speaking bit in the middle...

First Signal >>>>>> Harem Scarem these days

So I went out with my son  who is a big Sixx AM fan (via me) so I put my mix on in the car.

Turns out he was skipping some of the later songs, and I realised that there were a couple of albums where I had picked the best songs for my mix, but never really took the time to let them get into my system properly.

So a couple of things.
Modern Vintage has some really killer songs
Hyperventilate, Gotta Get It Right, Let It Haunt You, Before It's Over
Love the diversity of the songs on this album.

Likewise Prayers For The Blessed/Damned are also a lot better than I remember
Riot In My Head and Helicopteres are killer tracks particularly right at the end of the 2nd album.

Sad I never  got a chance to see them live.

10 hours ago, Whatever Happened To Fun? said:

New single “Only A Call Away” is amazing. Just as good as the stuff on their last album!!

Yep. Always worry when my expectations are so high, but that song is really good on first listen.

Maiden - Live After Death
Scorps _ World Wide Live
Tesla - 5 Man
Kiss - Alive I, II & III
Kiss - MTV
Twisted Sister - Hammersmith
The Angels - Liveline
VH - Without A Net (not sure if this was a CD, only have the VHS)

all that comes to mind

Nice,
Know nothing about this band, or much about the bands they are from, but quailty stuff. Imma get it.

To be fair, the dude has to earn a living.
WL are up there with Skid Row and the like as far as fans who want a reunion, so maybe he will make a few $$$
So good on him, gotta do what he needs to do to put bread on the table.

But not for me. Love WL as it was, and now it pales.
Sounds a lot lkike Mike's solo stuff vibe, and I love a lot of his solo stuff as well.
If I went to see him, I'd wanna hear pretty much all solo stuff that suits his voice better now, with a couple of WL tracks thrown in for fun.
Live no problems, but a live album... nope.
That said, it's pretty rare for me to be interested in live albums.

They peaked with Live After Death and World Wide Live. Been all downhill since then.

Just came here to post the same thing. Very excited for this.

Meh, I'll give this a go is others here are raving about it.
A few good songs and one great one off the debut, nothing much to speak of since.

3 hours ago, Doggy said:

I was meaning the promoters who had the fiasco should had a look how run a festival.

As for two supports end up playing, and as early week when I talk to drummer of another band not Taste, they still had not been paid.

Yes, it was the Deadthings was the backing band for Steve Rachelle.

Yeah, it's kind of a red flag now.
I appreciated you mentioning that it was the same crowd. Allowed me to hold off, in case this type of thing happened, which is did.
More inclined to wait for the night of the show if one ever goes ahead and buy a ticket at the door. Happy to risk missing out by not getting in early.

Thank god Skid Row was rescheduled, as some tickets for the sold out Melbourne show became available, which is snagged  

18 hours ago, Geoff said:

Sounds as expected. Like I said above, all I wanted to see was Eclipse and completely unsurprised they slayed. I kept googling hoping they'd do a "side show" or something. Pretty cut to have missed them. 

When you say Todd in Tuff, is that DeSaint? Surely not. 

Turns out if I put the effort in, I could actually have caught the Sydney show (had no idea doors didn't open until 4pm). I was finished my prior engagement by 2pm. I tossed around the idea of going, but spending $130+ just to see Eclipse didn't seem like a wise investment. I'd have liked to see the others again, I guess, but I think I made the right call. Hopefully Eclipse come out again. I'd love to see a bill of something like Eclipse, HEAT, Crashdiet, Crazy Lixx and Reckless Love, or something come out to Australia. 

It was Todd Chaisson.
George DeSaint left the band with Todd in 1991 after an incident where Jorge was teasing one of the crew about being 'clean' and with a line of coke.
Todd came back, Jorge didn't.

My ideal Euro line up at the moment would be (following Glamfest with 6 internationals)

Kissin' Dynamite
The New Roses
Bai Bang
Dynazty
Wig Wam
The Poodles
Dangerous Curves - as the local act

5 hours ago, Doggy said:

The promoters of this fest should be applauded, when you see fiasco that went down a couple years ago.

The promoters should not be applauded for delivering what they said, that should be expected.
This was Silverback who weren't part of the fiasco regardless.

What the promoters should hear is how the sound was very average and that they need to get it right next time.
Stevie posted about the shows and asked fro good and bad feedback, so I gave him that.
Once I sooked online on a Silverback post that their shows always have too many local acts which reduce the sets of the main acts (which generally are +/- hour - Pop Evil, Corabi does MC94, etc) and they just deleted it rather than hearing an opinion.

Also looking forward to the new Ablaze.

They are finishing it off at the moment.
My daughter is on the left 

American Blitzkreig also overlooked. Even though it's half a cover, it's a great mix.

been waiting on this for a while now...

For me, Take The Dog Off The Chain is an absolute killer track.
Would probably be in my top 20 all time songs
Wonder if it will make the live album?

6 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

I'm so tired of this "well that was then, this is now," "they were at their prime, and now they're old" bullshit. Growing old doesn't mean it's okay to suck.

Look a Treat: there was young, 80's Treat; and old, modern Treat. Whether you prefer one version over the other, both versions still rock. Both versions put out quality music. 

There is no excuse. 

Really?

The High N Dry era stuff was a bunch of 5 punks making slap bang dirty music as they partied and had a good time.
People were saying "where's the same Pyromania vive" when Hysteria was released.
It was labeled overproduced and too slick.
Now it's reveered by all those haters at the time.

So what do they do? Dumb down their music to appease those who are living in the '80's and are desperate for more from 30 years ago?

If you ask me, Take What You Want is a pretty big tribute to the past style. Probably others there as well.
I got 5 or 6 keepers off this album, which makes it ok in my book.

Ronnie taking temp V

I used to see band sall the times. Pubs, clubs, concerts etc
I don't go out drinking and partying like I used to.
these days finding time just to catch up with friends is hard.

I could have seen the whole Glamfest roster, but I knew The Prince Bandroom where it was on, and there are really no seats or anywhere to take a break.
Fuck standing for over 10 hours.
Seeing the 6 internationals was bad enough from 5:30 pm to 12:30am
That's 7 hours of standing and watching, luckily W13 were on so we could sit and have dinner.

These days if I'm gonna go see an up and coming band, I'll go see my daughters band play.
I also really want to see Dangerous Curves.

So a review of Glamfest Melbourne...

We arrived just before the first international went on.
My wife hates Sisters Doll and I wasn't overly interested in the earlier bands anyway so we skipped all them.

Tuff were great. Didn't play So Many Seasons, Better Off Dead, I Like What I See, Forever Yours, but that's just my personal taste. Dare say they would have played some of those if they had longer than 40 mins.
Stevie was great. Billy Morris was actually really impressive.
We were up the front and enjoyed it, except for the audio, which kinda sucked. Stevie’s vocals were low. Music distorted through the speakers. Set finished and Stevie handed out some stage played 'vocal picks'. I grabbed one, which was nice.

Next up were Pretty Boy Floyd. Man Steve Summers trying to sound like the weird voice he did 30 years ago was hard to hear. I mean he did OK, considering, but it was strained. For them we moved back, hoping that the sound would be better. It wasn't. It sucked. I started to wonder what was going on for the show. The main role the organiser has is the sound.
Anyway, they were fun,. but mid.

Then we had Enuff Z Nuff, or whatever you want to call them. Pretty sure Chip may be a sexual predator. All he talked about was 'trim' and how he could 'close deals' etc. They played 50% Beatles and were very average. Sound still sucked. We tried a new position, right near the mixing table and there was some serious bass reverb pounding through our chests lol
The music was clearly way too loud. It was a small 500 person venue, so didn't need to be deafening, and the quality suffered.

Eclipse came on, and they were great. Sound was 50% better and you could tell what the song was without taking 60 seconds to figure it out. Played all their good songs, and were energetic and a lot of fun.
Would see them again in a heartbeat.

After Eclipse, was Wednesday13. Now many people were there for them, but not us. The benefit we got was the skimpy gothic clothes many women dressed up in. So we went to an Italian restaurant a few doors up for dinner at around 9pm or so.

Were seated next to Todd, Billy and the Drummer from Tuff, and soon after one of the guitarists from PBF joined them. Bass player I think? Anyway, I don't fanboy so we just sat and ordered.
I ordered a parma and my wife a pizza and my parma came first. Todd saw it and kinda freaked out and asked what it was. I told him and he was more shocked when I showed him there were chips underneath. So we had a quick chat about that and then finished up.

Got back for the last 4 or 5 songs for W13 and they were OK, better than the clips I saw before we went, but after a couple of songs we went and sat outside and waited for Faster Pussycat.

FP came on. Taime said his voice was fucked from travel, and apologised a few times, but I thought he sounded pretty good compared to what I expected. I was never a big fan of FP. I only really liked a handful of songs. They played House Of Pain and Slip Of The Tongue but the rest of the set was a let down. Pretty sure it was them who did a cool cover of INXS Don't Change as well.
I was pretty shocked they didn't play Nonstop To Nowhere, which I consider easily their best song. It should have at least made the 1 1/2 hour set. Also missing was Friends, Big Dictionary which would have been fun, You're So Vain.
Overall about as average as I expected them to be.

The venue was half empty for FP. Not sure if W13 were actually the headliner and FP the 'encore' band as they knew people would leave early as the following day was a work day, or just the people weren't interested enough to hang around for FP.
My wife called the standouts as Eclipse followed by Tuff, which I'd agree with.

Would say don't ever bother with Chips EZN

Niiiiiice....

2 hours ago, Doggy said:

Most people I know were put off, that one of promoters was same guy who done that mess up of MR Fest a couple years ago.

Part of the reason I waited till the last minute to buy tickets.

And it proved a wise decision.

Looking at Crashdiet in Feb

Seems this show has been postponed twice?

Hard to tell who's on the bill.

Melbourne looked good with dangerous curves, who I've not seen before, but I'll be driving to Sydney for the Gift Fair so can't do that show.

Considering the Sydney show, but pretty confusing.

Flyer says Crashdiet with sisters doll but when you click for tickets, pretty boy Floyd blurb appears as if they are also playing.

So Wig Wam is 'podtponed'

I didn't get tix because something didn't seem right.

Looked like minimal interest and I chose to risk missing out and get tickets just before the show 

Sure enough yesterday it was announced that a band member 'had covid' and show would happen later.

Read: poor ticket sales, I'd say.

Also coupled with the tour double headline with "Australia's most iconic band Taste" who I've actually never heard of lol

Anyway,hope it happens at some point maybe with Treat, Eclipse, HEAT, etc or even pick some other european bands. I'd pay more to see full sets of 3 bands than half sets of 6.

So I listened to leather boys.

2 songs were pretty goodi think they were 

I wanna be with you 

Only the young 

Will listen again tonight

16 hours ago, tobi is an animal said:

This is how I've always felt as well.  I'm gonna take another listen to those songs that the Captain mentioned, see if something clicks. 

Yeah I will as well.

Yep it was 16 tons that was the cover and I do like it.

Other stand out was better off dead and god bless this mess was mid.

But maybe back then my expectations weren't met, expecting WCAGA II 

So I'll listen again with fresh ears.

Steevi hasn't done much since as far as I know. 

Some shameless guest slots and I'm metal sludge I guess.

Bit of a shame.