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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Brow on September 02, 2011, 09:22:55 AM
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I've just booked my ticket for the 8th of December at Nottingham/Capital FM Arena 8)
Anyone else going to any of the gigs?
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Was on the site at 9am about to book tickets but now I'm still "Thinking about it" - Love Motley Crue but I dunno... I just don't like Def Lep live... :?
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Was on the site at 9am about to book tickets but now I'm still "Thinking about it" - Love Motley Crue but I dunno... I just don't like Def Lep live... :?
I'm not even that up on Def Lepard myself :lol:
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If it was just Motley Crue and Steel Panther, for cheaper tickets, I'd be there.
I'm not paying £45 + fees to see them both and Def Leppard...
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If it was just Motley Crue and Steel Panther, for cheaper tickets, I'd be there.
I'm not paying £45 + fees to see them both and Def Leppard...
It came out at £51.45ish after fees :?
I've paid £18 + £10ish travel costs just to see Steel Panther before so I don't mind so much. Especially as I don't go that often.
Was meant to be going to New York next year to see Ben etc but with my girlfriend losing her job it's not going to happen now. So as a last treat to myself to spend some of the holiday money I'd saved up I'm going to this gig and having some new golf clubs :lol:
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Thought about it, but to costly for my tastes.
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So as a last treat to myself to spend some of the holiday money I'd saved up I'm going to this gig and having some new golf clubs :lol:
Do they give out golf clubs at Def Leppard gigs then?
Thought about it, but to costly for my tastes.
Yeah, but if you get some new golf clubs as well...
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So as a last treat to myself to spend some of the holiday money I'd saved up I'm going to this gig and having some new golf clubs :lol:
Do they give out golf clubs at Def Leppard gigs then?
Thought about it, but to costly for my tastes.
Yeah, but if you get some new golf clubs as well...
I'm with Mark Twain on golf.
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Do they give out golf clubs at Def Leppard gigs then?
Maybe they do, or I can just look elsewhere :lol:
I'm with Mark Twain on golf.
Golf is a good walk ruined? Words to that effect anyway :D
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I'm with Mark Twain on golf.
"I'd rather play golf than see Def Leppard, and I f**king hate golf" (Mark Twain)
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I'm with Mark Twain on golf.
"I'd rather play golf than see Def Leppard, and I f**king hate golf" (Mark Twain)
:lol: :lol:
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Was on the site at 9am about to book tickets but now I'm still "Thinking about it" - Love Motley Crue but I dunno... I just don't like Def Lep live... :?
If they played everything from High n Dry and Pyromania (like it was 1983 again) I'd be over the moon and there at the front
But......
Pour Some Sugar On me
Make Love Like a Man
Let's get Rocked
I think I'd rather listen to a Doug Aldrich/Reb Beech guitar solo
However when Steel Panther play Death to All But Metal......"when they sing the line: "Where are Def Leppard /Where are Motley Crue?" it would be a wasted opportunity if Joe Elliot and Vince Neil didn't wander onstage at that exact moment
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what's with all the def leppard hate? :?
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I've seen them before (but sadly after Steve Clark) and to say I felt bored is an understatement.... BUT following Panther and MOTLEY CRUE!....
I'd feel like I'd been having a threesome with Carol Vorderman & her daughter and ending up coming with her mum.... :o :? :(
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2JGSXJydg3o/TRP9SGofggI/AAAAAAAAEt4/GhC6t7KIxiw/s1600/Looking%2Bfabulous%2Bat%2B50%2BCarol%2BVorderman%2Bshows%2Bwhy%2Bshe%2Brefuses%2Bto%2Bfret%2Babout%2Bher%2Bbody%2B%2B2.jpg)
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You just had to post a picture of Vorderman
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"Make love... like a nan!" :lol: :lol:
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I think I'd rather listen to a Doug Aldrich/Reb Beech guitar solo
Is that an indication of dissatisfaction with the last couple of Whitesnake albums?
what's with all the def leppard hate? :?
It does seem like about 25 years since they did anything worthwhile, to be fair....
And they do lack "something" live. I saw them on the first Hysteria tour and it was all rather dull (fortunately the mighty Tesla were supporting)
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I think I'd rather listen to a Doug Aldrich/Reb Beech guitar solo
Is that an indication of dissatisfaction with the last couple of Whitesnake albums?
No the albums are fine - just live Coverdale leaves the stage and we get 25 minutes of awful and I do mean awful solos
here is the review of the gig I did from the next day after their last gig:
Mondays Whitesnake gig at Hammersmith was a bit so-so - the first half hour was pretty good and you could feel the pace flag a little after that
The worst bit was the fricking guitar solos and then a drum solo
25 wasted minutes of utter rubbish - it's like they had been taking solo lessons from Kiss' Vinnie Vincent
25 minutes lost from a show that is only an hour and a half with so few songs played from anything pre 1987 is criminal
I would have been happier if the two guitarists (both of whom are very able and talented musicians) actually played something musical rather than the old see how fast I can play , my willy is bigger than your willy, type stuff that you see idiots playing at any guitar show.
Whitesnake are supposed to have a blues background - maybe they could have played some blues
Maybe they could have woven a few riffs and melodies from songs not on the setlist into what they played so that the audience could go - "Ah I know that one!"
I know it was to give Coverdales voice a break, but he should be ashamed that he didn't get them to do something tasteful.
After all the solos the show resumed but something was lost in terms of momentum
There were a few good tunes but others were massacred
Fool for your loving was out of tune and the timing was all over the place.
It was indeed nice to see Bernie Marsden, but sadly I didn't feel you could really hear him very well
And for fu*ks sake - Reb Beech needs to learn some new facial expressions - looked like he had cr@pped his pants from the way he was gurning all the time.
what's with all the def leppard hate? :?
I don't hate them - I hate more the fact that they released really daft "gumby" songs as singles that kind of sold well so now they feel obliged to play them every night.
There are some great songs on each of their albums which get overlooked and they end up playing
Lets get rocked, Make Love Like a man and such rubbish
They overlook great songs like Billys Got aGun, Stagefright , Mirror Mirror to play stupid dumb songs(that the record company probably made them put out)
I saw them on the Pyromania tour and they were ace, and the first Hysteria tour was good too - especially with Tesla supporting.
I also hate that big stupid screen that they have a constant cartoon and images thing running - like we are all so ADD that we can't just enjoy what the band are doing - they dont even show the band - just loads of flashing images that somehowconnect with the songs lyrics.
It really does detract from the gig in my opinion.
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Ah, I see! :D
Even back in the '80s I always hated the obligatory unaccompanied guitar solo spots in live shows! They're just not musical, IMO. If the singer needs a rest, just play an instrumental, or have a blues jam - with the full band, FFS! Listening to a solo guitarist go weeeeweeeeweeeeweeeeKERRANNNGGGGGG for 10 minutes has never been remotely interesting.
I didn't think anyone did them anymore, to be honest.
(Going back to the last two Whitesnake albums, I think they're awful - just a load of ludicrous bombastic caterwauling nonsense. I can't believe anyone's heart is really in it - it sounds like they're playing what they think people want to hear)
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Two Brilliant musical solo spots from what most would criticise as Whitesnake's most commercial period... It CAN be done..
Vandenberg
http://youtu.be/ike7GW-yhQY
Vai
http://youtu.be/UdRZFHAlwbs
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Two Brilliant musical solo spots from what most would criticise as Whitesnake's most commercial period... It CAN be done..
Vandenberg begins and ends doing exactly the kind of wanky nonsense I was on about, but thank God he keeps it brief, and in-between he plays some actual tunes with the rhythm section so it makes some kind of musical sense.
Vai's spot is a bit more wanky, but again he has the bass and drums backing him up for most of it.
At least there's not too much of this, I suppose:
WiddleWiddle
(Cups ear for audience response)
WiddleWiddleWiddle
(Cups ear for audience response)
WiddleWiddleWiddleSQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(Cups ear for audience response)
etc.... :P
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:?
I like them :lol:
EDIT: thanks for that, afghan dave o_O
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They're playing in Glasgow on my birthday. I'd rather eat glass.
I'm a little amused that they've booked a parody of the genre as an opener.
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I'd rather eat glass.
Pics or it didn't happen
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No one's meant to call folk on statements like that.
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I'd go if it was anyone but Leppard on the bill. They just completely suck live because Joe Elliot couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
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Def Lepppard are the band on the bill I'm least fussed about. I actually only know their hits, so best do some listening before hand :lol:
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Seriously - check out High and Dry and Pyromania - great albums
Hysteria is great too if a little too processed
High and Dry was the album Mutt Lange did right after AC/DC's Back in Black and it sounds like it too - you'd swear that he didn't bother changing the faders on he desk
I'd rather eat glass.
Pics or it didn't happen
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No one's meant to call folk on statements like that.
:P
Some folks like Def Leppard - in spite of some of their failings
I only have issues which tunes they choose to play
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Seriously - check out High and Dry and Pyromania - great albums
Hysteria is great too if a little too processed
High and Dry was the album Mutt Lange did right after AC/DC's Back in Black and it sounds like it too - you'd swear that he didn't bother changing the faders on he desk
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High 'n' Dry is one of the all-time great hard rock albums, IMO. I just wish they'd done more in that vein.
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Seriously - check out High and Dry and Pyromania - great albums
Hysteria is great too if a little too processed
High and Dry was the album Mutt Lange did right after AC/DC's Back in Black and it sounds like it too - you'd swear that he didn't bother changing the faders on he desk
+1
High 'n' Dry is one of the all-time great hard rock albums, IMO. I just wish they'd done more in that vein.
Thanks for the recommendations :)
I got alot of their stuff last night, so I'll check out those 3 1st and see where I end up.