Favorite Concerts/Recent Shows...

Saw Springteen last Thursday - great show (as usual from the Boss)

Amazing thing was that Max Weinberg wasn't on the drums...his 18 year-old son, Jay, played the skins. He was amazing. I guess growing up in a house where Springsteen songs are a main staple helped him learn how to play like his dad.

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"David Gilmour can do more with one note than most guitarists can do with the whole fretboard."

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)

Without doubt, TV on the Radio earlier this year. What a fantastic band with an even better live show. They're truly amazing.

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Cartons of the milky way with pictures of a missing planet
Last seen in pursuit of an American dream

Went to see 60's local band Nazz last night at a small place in Jersey. No Todd Rundgrend but the original singer "Stewkey" was there. My Pal Mike K. was on Drums . Great show in a small place. "Open your Eyes" and "Hello its me " were high points along with "Under the Ice" this was the first show w/ new band.

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come on you painter,you piper,you prisoner,and shine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing show last night from Peaches and her opening act, Amanda Blank. Hometown crowd = always special. Great job by backup band Sweet Machine, too. Their bass player even donned an Iggy Pop wig to sing "Kick It", which was ballsy. I bought Amanda's CD (which was partly produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio) and a Peaches t-shirt.

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And drink and bathe and share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows from that distant age
And we will never taste the final drop
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Rammstein at the M.E.N in Manchester, crap seats, fantastic gig. Go and see them!

"Rammstein
MEN Arena
February 2, 2010

ARRIVING by 20 trucks and taking 10 hours to construct, the latest arena spectacular by German superstars Rammstein is probably the greatest rock show on the road.

Fronted by a man who sings like Boris Karloff and looks like a barbarian in fetish gear, Rammstein make techno-flavoured industrial metal known as Neue Deutsche Hrte. They also like to blow things up.

In the debut UK performance of their latest tour, everything was planned to perfection, executed with precision (even the mic stands were motorised, surely the BMW of band kit), and powered by pyrotechnics. Wars have been fought for less oil than was burned during this show.

Climax

In one set piece, a pretend stage invader in a black hoody was set alight. In another, singer Till Lindeman and the band's two guitarists wore flamethrowers on their faces, while Wiener Blut saw the stage strewn with eerie, laser-eyed dolls which then exploded.

The highlight of the show wasn't petrol-powered. During the tongue-in-cheek Pussy, the climax of the main part of the show, Lindeman mounted a giant cannon and soaked the first third of the packed crowd. Some staff looked less than amused. A tough move to follow? Not for Rammstein, who closed the encore with Lindemann dressed as a metallic, flaming demon for the stirring Engel.

If it seems as if the music seems incidental, it wasn't the bands dark, doom-laden dance-metal was utterly compelling throughout, a ceaseless assault of razor-sharp guitars, unrelenting beats and blood-curdling vocals.

Popular opinion has it that a foreign-language band needs to sing in English to appeal to UK audiences, but these Teutonic rockers have proved that's just not the case. Great showmanship and great explosions are an international language."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk3w3u_BMgM

I used to be really into them, but nowadays all that over-the-top production stuff just pisses me off. That said, I did enjoy a Guns N' Roses arena concert last week.

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I do not have to seek you out, I read you day and night
And drink and bathe and share my coat
And droplets spray in rainbows from that distant age
And we will never taste the final drop
Nor turn the final page

It was undoubtedly one of the best shows I've ever seen.

So, did Rammstein sing mostly in German? Sounds like the pyrotechnic show was unmissable. You actually ventured into the hated environs of Manchester?

How are you doing these days, Cheesus?

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Rammstein sing almost exclusively in German but that's part of the appeal I reckon, don't ask me why though. The show they put on was incredible - fire, smoke, explosions, fire, rockets, fire, weird exploding dolls with green lasers for eyes, explosions, fire, a pink "cannon" ridden by Till Lindeman firing white foam over the audience during Pussy (I'm sure you can work out the symbolism), fire, the keyboard player crowd surfing in a rubber dinghy, oh, and fire.
It was ****ing awesome! The music was top notch too.

A Panzerzug ripping through a Belarusian hamlet sounds more entertaining.

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Carter. Available in original vanilla and now, chocolate swirl! Mmmm...Mmmm...Mmmm!

Multiculturalism is national suicide and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. Wake up, America.

You're very old and wrinkly Strattypants therefore I'll excuse your ignorance but there's no need to be afraid really.

I saw a jazz band at a coffee shop that really blew me away.
They played a lot of fiddle, Django sounding stuff.

Another good gig was Bill Callahan at St. David's Episcopal Church.

The bass player in my developing band plays in one of the best live acts in town. That's half my claim to the path of fame.

Best show I have seen period: Radiohead, or Sonic Youth.

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