May 14, 200322 yr LMAO...I wonder if Ministry will open for them!? that'd be cool......and by cool, I mean TOTALLY SWEET!
May 15, 200322 yr Author I saw Dio in concert - great show - it was also 18 years ago - was a hell of a show - I'm a bit surprised he is still touring. I did a funeral sermon once using Last in Line and We Rock as part of the text - wonder if Ronnie James ever figured he'd get quoted that way - I still get choked up when I hear those songs remembering my friend
May 15, 200322 yr Motorhead is still great to me, but I won't be seeing this show. By the way, summer is nothing if not Geezer Concert Season! You have the high-priced AARP concerts like Jimmy Buffett, the Eagles, Billy Joel, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac, who rape the wallets of their 50-year-old + followers. Then you have your LoopFests and things like that, where such dinosaurs as REO Speedwagon, Styx, Sammy Hagar and that ilk drag their rotting carcasses out on stage to grab a few dollars for their kids to spend after they're dead. Next you have the third tier of has-beens, such as .38 Special, Peter Frampton and that type of fossil, who grace the neighborhood festival circuit every summer, "headlining" over the '80s hairband tributes and Beatles cover bands. The only high-profile "new music" concerts are the OzzFests and Summer Sanitarium shows, and invariably there is only one band I give half-a-s*** about on any of these shows. The summer concert season is f***ing depressing. Every year. Without fail.
May 15, 200322 yr Author Motorhead is still great to me, but I won't be seeing this show. By the way, summer is nothing if not Geezer Concert Season! You have the high-priced AARP concerts like Jimmy Buffett, the Eagles, Billy Joel, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac, who rape the wallets of their 50-year-old + followers. Then you have your LoopFests and things like that, where such dinosaurs as REO Speedwagon, Styx, Sammy Hagar and that ilk drag their rotting carcasses out on stage to grab a few dollars for their kids to spend after they're dead. Next you have the third tier of has-beens, such as .38 Special, Peter Frampton and that type of fossil, who grace the neighborhood festival circuit every summer, "headlining" over the '80s hairband tributes and Beatles cover bands. The only high-profile "new music" concerts are the OzzFests and Summer Sanitarium shows, and invariably there is only one band I give half-a-s*** about on any of these shows. The summer concert season is f***ing depressing. Every year. Without fail. very true - very true - I got a free ticket to a Doobies concert a few years ago and I was the youngest person in the place and it certainly was the AARP crowd! And it was like a museum show - every note recreated just as it was years, nothing new at all musically - the only concert I know I am seeing this summer is 50¢ and Missy Elliott and young Marshall Mathers -- but that is just me, the rap head. Iam pretty much the oldest dude at these shows (last year Ludicris, Papa Roach, Xzibit, and of course, Marshall Mathers) but the feeling is much more alive than the oldies things. And now I have opened the door to those who want to bash rap - f*** them. My musical tastes are very wide, and I embrace it all. Narrow minded people exist in every generation.
May 15, 200322 yr Author Right in your backyard. Go for it! I'd love to see Dio again but hell, I am spending the following weekend taking in the 1st place WS sweep of the 1st place Mariners and that is enough $ spent in one week - and that Detroit to Chicago trip is rather long, doing it already in July going from seeing Em to the all star game - I had to f***ing take a pass on my opera season tickets today because the cost of the All Star Game and the Overnight kind of maxed out my entertainment budget for the year - well, I can get the opera season tics back for the 2004-05 season -
May 15, 200322 yr "Dio has rocked...for a long, long time.... but now it is time for him to pass the torch." -The D
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