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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: gingataff on January 11, 2007, 09:31:52 AM
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I haven't seen this for a very long time :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0
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I can't get in to YouTube in work, but I'm guessing it's the Hear 'n Aid Stars video! :D :wink:
Saw it on there a couple of months ago. Still love the George Lynch and Buck Dharma bits (and Paul Shortino and Dave Meniketti's vocals).
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Thats a great song
And the guitar solo is brill
We should get to listen to that rather than Band Aid every Xmas
For the benefit of anyone too young to know - this was the Heavy Metal equivalent of Band Aid's "Do they know its Christmas" or the USA version "We are the world". And to be fair it has much better guitar solos!!
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I guess Dio was the Midge Ure or Lionel Richie of the project, and it was good to see David St Hubbins, Nigel Tuffnel and Derek Smalls in the group shots :P
The Y&T bloke has a great voice, I watched one of their videos on youtube today as well (it's been a hair metal frenzy at Chez-Taff today, I can tell you!)
Rob Halford looks like a template for a Little Britain character but talking of dress sense, who's the guy in the pink jacket?
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talking of dress sense, who's the guy in the pink jacket?
That is a pre-syrup (or pre-irish, if you prefer) Kevin Dubrow out of Quiet Riot.
The Y&T bloke has a great voice
Bloody excellent guitarist too, don't know why he didn't get to play on this!
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I've always been on the fence about the song, the docu, and, well, everything about this song!
First, it just reeks of rock-star excess. The album and docu cost more to make than any money ever made from the project. Dio would've been better off just sending the $$ to some charity.
Second, the lyrics basically state Boo hoo, it's hard to be a rock star. What does this have to do with helping starving children?! Even as a rock fan, I detest songs that whine about how "difficult" it is to be a rock star.
Third, the appearace of Spinal Tap as actual living people immediate destroys any heavy metal credability the project would have. To have the actors as themselves ... maybe woulda squeaked by. Maybe. But to have fictional characters involved? That smacks of a kind of cynical ironicism or outright stupidity that I don't like.
The solos are OKAY, certainly not the better than hearing each guitarist in the context of their own band.
In the end, the whole thing comes across as being disingenuous and silly.
People watch that docu just to make fun of it. Those people need to be paddy whacked!
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I've always loved this song and video. When I saw Yngwie in the video I just thought, THAT IS NOT HUMAN. Then seeing Vivian Campbell and George Lynch do their stuff equally cool. Amazing stuff.
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Awesome! I've never heard this song before but I love it allready. The multiple guitar solo is the best thing ever!
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The Y&T bloke has a great voice, I watched one of their videos on youtube today as well (it's been a hair metal frenzy at Chez-Taff today, I can tell you!)
Dave Meniketti sounds great on this and Y&T are so worth checking out. Seeing all the great singers there is a blast , Dio , Meniketti, Geoff Tate, Rob Halford, Shortino and Don Dokken
Also for those who dont know the guy with the curly blonde hair and the red strat is Brad Gillis from Night Ranger who also replaced Randy Rhoads in Ozzy's band after Randy died in the plane crash.......
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Seeing all the great singers there is a blast , Dio , Meniketti, Geoff Tate, Rob Halford, Shortino and Don Dokken
Seeing Dokken used in the same sentence as Tate and Halford made me smile! :)
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WOW that was so cool.... who gives two sh!ts about anything else.
Lyrics... never actually listen to them.
Dress sense... who cares half of them look like women
Its the overall feeling and the hint of pure cheese that makes me just wanna suddenly become a guitar god in 5 sec's and rip up the house with a blazing solo that cuts through steel and causes forest fires... and maybe the end of the world.... that i might have to work on. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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thanks for that, I had a really rough day at work - I've never laughed so hard in ages, I mean literally in tears.
how come all the singers sound the same and all the guitar players have interchangeable 'styles' (I use that word in the widest possible sense of the word) :roll:
:twisted:
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bah, why didn't Blackie Lawless get any solo singing
it was nice to see Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma there and Dave Murray and Adrian Smith
the solo could have been better tho with such amazing musicians
Rob Halford was awesome too but where's K.K. and Glenn :(
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I've always been on the fence about the song, the docu, and, well, everything about this song!
First, it just reeks of rock-star excess. The album and docu cost more to make than any money ever made from the project. Dio would've been better off just sending the $$ to some charity.
Second, the lyrics basically state Boo hoo, it's hard to be a rock star. What does this have to do with helping starving children?! Even as a rock fan, I detest songs that whine about how "difficult" it is to be a rock star.
Third, the appearace of Spinal Tap as actual living people immediate destroys any heavy metal credability the project would have. To have the actors as themselves ... maybe woulda squeaked by. Maybe. But to have fictional characters involved? That smacks of a kind of cynical ironicism or outright stupidity that I don't like.
The solos are OKAY, certainly not the better than hearing each guitarist in the context of their own band.
In the end, the whole thing comes across as being disingenuous and silly.
People watch that docu just to make fun of it. Those people need to be paddy whacked!
I'm not on the fence - this is everything that I would like to steer the general public AWAY from!
I love this music and most of these artists but this represents everything that is open to ridicule (and rightly so).
I never want to see this again!!!
:shock: :shock: :shock:
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Oh man, that video is pure 80s throwback gold, even if you ignore the clothing and the hairstyles and look at some of the guitars they were playing!
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Second, the lyrics basically state Boo hoo, it's hard to be a rock star. What does this have to do with helping starving children?! Even as a rock fan, I detest songs that whine about how "difficult" it is to be a rock star.
I think the lyrics are saying "when you look at the sky on a cold clear night, just think that every one of those millions of stars could be a person*. We may be thousands of miles apart and living in very different circumstances, but we're all basically the same and we should look out for each other."
Or something. :? And of course there's a bit about rainbows.
The "we" of the lyrics is referring to "we" the human race, except when it goes:
But singers and songs can never change it alone
So we are calling you, calling you
Even then, I don't think the "singers and songs" bit is moaning or ego-tripping, it's saying "we're here performing this song, but the responsibility is everyone's".
I don't want to sound like I'm taking this too seriously :roll:, or like I think the song's incredibly profound and important, but to be fair to little Ron I really don't think he was whining about how hard it is to be a rock star.
(* scientifically, this is probably untrue... )
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As they never mentioned dragons (not even once) it's not worth listening to :(
Rob...
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that was insanely funny... but great to see such a collection of widdlers together.
brad gillis's sound is unmistakeable.. but in a bad way lol.. and lynch tbh sounds the best out of the lot..