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  6. What CDs did you buy this week?

    in Dumpster Diving

    Posted

    Charity shop finds in Middleton today....someone must have been selling their rock off.

     

     

    Mostly Autumn - Glass Shadows (CD & DVD...still sealed)

    Mostly Autumn - Go Well Diamond Heart (2CD)

    Ten - s/t & Name of the Rose (2CD)

    Ten - Twilight Chronicles

    Neil Young - Harvest

    Monkees - Best of...(yay)

    Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (CD/DVD)

    T. Rex - Best of...(yay again)

    Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon

     

     

    All in £15 top.

     

    Thru the post

     

    Zon - Live

    Man - Live at the Padget Rooms...just checked and have been sent the wrong version so back that goes!

  11. What Bands HAVE you Seen?

    in Concerts and Tours

    Posted

    I've done this list so many times in the past ...bored at work, or just trying to take account, but I never get a definitive list...All my tickets are scattered around the house too in CD cases and in the loft. Load of bands from various multi band events like Gods of AOR and the like I can't remember. Like Jez I'll try and add more when I think of them.

     

    Aerosmith (x8)

    Guns n Roses (x3)

    Kix

    Icon

    White Sister

    FM (U.K.)

    Thunder (x3)

    Accept (x2)

    Black Sabbath

    Queensryche (x4)

    Dio

    Porcupine Tree

    Cheap Trick (x2)

    Van der Graaf Generator

    Faster Pussycat

    Judas Priest (x5)

    Girl (x3)

    U.F.O. (X4)

    Foreigner

    Journey (x2)

    Ratt

    Motley Crue (x2)

    Saga

    Kiss (x4)

    Dave Lee Roth (x2)

    Magnum (x2)

    Santers

    Kings X

    Enuff Z Nuff (x2)

    Ten (x4)

    Adam Bomb (x3)

    Engine

    Drivin n Cryin

    Almighty

    John Waite

    Jon Parr

    Jon Amor

    Yes

    A.O.K. (Angels or Kings)

    Sam Thunder

    Shy

    Chrome Molly

    Slayer

    Balaam and the Angel

    W.A.S.P.

    Tesla

    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Angelwitch

    Def Leppard (x2)

    Sammy Hagar (x3)

    Budgie

    Jackdaw 4

    Ginger

    Ozric Tentacles

    Counting Crows

    Kings of Leon

    Crown of Thorns

    Kings of the Sun

    D.A.D.

    Dare

    Slade

    Rush

    Riot

    Diamond Head (x2)

    Dogs D’Amour (x2)

    The Queer Boys/The Quireboys (X2)

    Dream Theater

    Extreme

    Electric Boys

    Robin George

    Here & Now

    Grand Prix

    Hanoi Rocks (x4)

    Johnny Thunders

    The Darkness

    Gary Hughes

    Hugo

    INXS

    Jethro Tull

    Kingdom Come

    LA Guns

    Love / Hate

    Slade

    Straight Eight

    Marillion

    Marseille (x2)

    Metallica

    Mr. Big

    Pearl Jam

    Dan Reed Network

    REO Speedwagon

    Stryper

    Tangerine Dream

    Terrorvision

    Tobruk

    Tygers of Pan Tang (x2)

    White Lion

    Y&T

    Bernie Torme

    ZZ Top

    Marah

    Dan Baird & Homemade Sin

    The Babysitters

    Whitesnake

    Twister Sister (x2)

    Bon Jovi (x2)

    Iron Maiden

    Poison

    Black Crowes

    Sterophonics

    Lenny Kravitz

    Honeycrack

    The Grip

    Saxon

    Blacklace (not the agadoo lot…the NY band)

    White Trash

    Sacred Alien

    House of Shakira

    Von Groove

    Warrant

    Skid Row

    Wendy and the Rockets

    Bryan Adams

    Manowar (x3)

    Roadstar

    Toby Jepsom

    Little Angels

    Amplifier

    Quiet Riot

    Baby Tuckoo

    A II Z

    McCoy

    Quartz

    Tredegar

    Wrathchild

    Trojan Horse

    Bob Catley

    Kip Winger (acoustic)

    Eddi Reader (x2 ...don't ask!)

    Robert Fripp

    68 - 75

    Jayhawks

    Vain

    Romeo's Daughter

  13. World Trade - Unify

    in Prog Rock and Metal

    Posted

    I'll be looking forward to this - one of the few CDs I'll buy this year on it's release date probably or as close as dammit. I like a lot of the stuff Billy Sherwood is involved with Circa, Lodgic, The Key, his solo stuff and especially World Trade....some of his "work" can be a little hit or miss though sometimes trying to be clever for the sake of it or even a little samey in parts.

  17. Last movie you watched?

    in Exquisite Entropy

    Posted

    I say yes too...he doesn't need super powers to fall back on, or X-Men style freakoid mutated powers. Just muscle, brains and a shit load of money to buy all the high tech gear he could ever need....and Albert, can't forget the butler....now where's mine with my eleven o'clock aperitif?

  18. When A Band/Singer Won't Play The Fan Favourites

    in General Music Discussion

    Posted

    That's a hard one...I can see it from both sides. To refuse to do a famous song in your repertoire because it now conflicts with your beliefs - is a fair point, but as you say it is like telling a story but maybe it's a story they don't want to spread.

    Outside belief systems bands get bored with playing certain songs night after night as we all know and I suppose the more hard core fans who may have seen the band many times would like to hear a few more obscure ones rather than the same old "hits" as it were. But in the end unless you're a real cult band then people are there to see you play the hits. It's what they pay to see and it pays your wages. Bands do mix it up and play obscure stuff amongst their more recognised songs but Id say if you are so against playing fan favourites then do smaller gigs for the more selective fans...you'll probably inadvertently end up doing that anyway through no choice of your own if you alienate the more general and probably more numerous fans who are paying the big money to be entertained by what they know, people will vote with their feet.

  21. Name dropping

    in General Music Discussion

    Posted

    A famous one is Steely Dan - In the song Everything You Did "Turn up the Eagles the neighbours are Listening" - to which Eagles responded on Hotel Calif. "They stab it with their Steely Knives" which was originally supposed to be "stab it with their Steely Dan" but it was changed

     

    Bulletboys - Owed to Joe - although it doesn't name Joe Perry (or Aerosmith) directly it's obvious through the lyrics who they are referring to

    "Bought his little Joe a Gibson guitar" (not true it was a cheapo bought from Sears hahaha!)

    "Stevie had the lips and Joey had the licks"

    "The Train Kept Rollin' right out of control - but they're Back in the Saddle today"

     

    Cheap Trick - Surrender "Got my Kiss records out"

     

    John Waite - Downtown "Got Johnny Thunders on the Radio"

  22. Not CDs - Music-Related Books

    in Dumpster Diving

    Posted

    Nice - I enjoy reading biogs of bands/Musos/Music genres - even bands I might not be interested in.

     

    The last directly musical book I read was Seasons They Change : The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk.

    I've loads of faves though like Aerosmith - Walk This Way and the Dan Hedges Yes biog from years ago, Ian Hunter's Diary of a Rock and Roll Star, Trash - The New York Dolls, Jaco about Jaco Pastorious amongst a few.

     

    But one that I've read loads of times is Life in the Bus Lane by Tony Bell - It mainly deals with his time in A.O.K. back in the mid 80's to early 90's (now reformed as Angels or Kings) but I recognise so many of the characters in the book and his details about them are bang on. It completely nails the "rock scene" in Manchester at the time. Really funny and a real nostalgia trip for me that one - one I can really relate to.

     

    At the moment I'm reading - The Man Who Hated Walking by Overend Watts (ex Mott the Hoople...R.I.P.) and although it's not about music it's a bloody good laugh.

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