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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Brow on August 17, 2013, 12:54:20 AM
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Hey guys.
This is probably old news to alot of you but a friend made me aware of this earlier so thought I'd share incase anyone else was interested
http://www.kingsofchaosband.com/ (http://www.kingsofchaosband.com/)
There's several videos floating around on youtube for anyone that's interested.
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I see potential there. Will deffo watch out for tour dates and see if they are as good as they can be.
Reminds me to check out stuff from Sebastian Bach, love the first Skid Row.
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Glenn Hughes sings quite good, so does Joe Elliot. I think they have a lot of fun together. Fantastic line from the pressconference: 'The people we don't like are not here!'.
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I hadn't heard of it, but it sounds like a potential trainwreck to me.
Actually that's overstating it, I think the likelihood is it'll be a lot less interesting than a trainwreck, it'll just be painfully average, like a rock version of one of those awful '80s nostalgia tours.
I like the type of music they're going to be playing, broadly speaking, but I'm not a big fan of any of the individuals involved, although all of them (except maybe Gilby Clarke) have contributed to some great albums.
And why is Duff playing bass rather than Glenn Hughes? :?
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Sorry, I sound like a troll. But I do genuinely think the whole idea is pretty naff.
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Another Camp Freddy?
http://campfreddy.net/ (http://campfreddy.net/)
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I hadn't heard of it, but it sounds like a potential trainwreck to me.
Actually that's overstating it, I think the likelihood is it'll be a lot less interesting than a trainwreck, it'll just be painfully average, like a rock version of one of those awful '80s nostalgia tours.
I like the type of music they're going to be playing, broadly speaking, but I'm not a big fan of any of the individuals involved, although all of them (except maybe Gilby Clarke) have contributed to some great albums.
And why is Duff playing bass rather than Glenn Hughes? :?
I could not agree more. Perhaps the only thing more cringeworthy than this in my opinion are the skads of bands now reduced to being cover bands playing songs from when they were more popular/relevant (Iron Maiden being the main offender right now).
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...Perhaps the only thing more cringeworthy than this in my opinion are the skads of bands now reduced to being cover bands playing songs from when they were more popular/relevant (Iron Maiden being the main offender right now).
I couldn't disagree more.
Having just seen Maiden perform better and tighter than the last three times I can assure you they are on fire.
Would you rather have a band with such a supreme back catalouge choosing not to perform those songs in favour of a self indulgent prescriptive set list defined by whatever songs they have written most recently.
Or would you agree that only new albums are followed by tours that showcase the best of the new alongside the benchmarks of old.
The Final Frontier tour was just that and the Maiden England/Seventh Son tour is something else. A chance for some fans who may never have even been born in 88 to see the concept played live.
Even Prince who could still write Number 1 hits while taking a sh1t realised that paying punters sometimes want to hear "Little Red Corvette" & "Purple Rain" played live (sometimes for the first time in their life) instead of a 3 hour jazz funk improv...
The idea that the same musicians playing their own body of work reduces an artist to a cover band is a joke.
If you were talking LA Guns or Great White where all the personnel have changed you would have a point.
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I'm not really a Maiden fan. I was for the first couple of albums and lost interested when Dickinson came along. The weird irony of this being that I love the last three Dickinson solo albums... Anyhow, I went to see Maiden on the Matter of Life and Death tour and they played the album end to end, with an encore of a few fan favourites and it was, quite frankly, bloody brilliant. I don't think anyone there was disappointed that it wasn't just a hit fest.
Does remind me that I must get that album bought at some point.
As for Kings of Chaos. Can anyone remember the last time one of these supergroups actually turned out anything good?
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As for Kings of Chaos. Can anyone remember the last time one of these supergroups actually turned out anything good?
No. I had high hopes for Black Country Communion, but they were pretty underwhelming.
Going back a bit, they're not exactly "supergroups" but..... Down were excellent to begin with. And there was the MD.45 album Dave Mustaine did with Lee Ving, I think that's actually better than quite a few of the Megadeth albums (it's a shame Mustaine "lost" Ving's vocal tracks when he remastered it :roll: ).
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Was gutted with the BCC album. One good track (song of yesterday), the rest was just bland :(