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Saw Aerosmith in Dublin - shockingly bad...
« on: June 27, 2007, 09:24:51 PM »
* 14 tracks, a total of 80 minutes
* 15 minutes of acoustic rambling in the middle
* Joe Perry singing/playing a random blues track
* The band having to ask the crowd to clap/cheer/wave etc
* Crowds leaving well before the end of the set
* Encore played without the crowd cheering/clapping for more before it

They just didn't grab the crowd at all, mainly through the choice of set.  Only 14 tracks, then throwing in a random blues cover and naff acoustic ramblings?

Worst moment - Joe Perry removing his shirt and whipping an Armstrong Plexiglass gee-tar with it.  Truly, truly embarrassing.

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Re: Saw Aerosmith in Dublin - shockingly bad...
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2007, 09:29:52 PM »
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Worst moment - Joe Perry removing his shirt and whipping an Armstrong Plexiglass gee-tar with it.  Truly, truly embarrassing.

Worse than Iggy pop gyrating at an unnerved member of the friday night with Jonathon Ross audience?
sounds bad.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2007, 09:39:10 PM »
Yea these old bands are getting old and knackered so their performances are tired too. Shame there aint any newer bands to take their places tho.

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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2007, 09:41:00 PM »
Really? That bad?

Then again, a band having to ask the crowd to clap and people who I would imagine paid a fair amount of cash for the tickets leaving before the end is not the sign of a band on top form.

Have they gone on past their time d'you think?
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« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2007, 10:03:00 PM »
I think they could have put a really good show on, if they'd actually thought about what the crowd wanted to hear...

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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2007, 10:17:31 PM »
i thought what they played was good, especially amazed at how Steven Tyler's voice has held up.  agree that the rambling acoustic bit with the start of Hangman Jury then just farting around was a waste of time, and amazed they didn't play Dude looks like a lady, not that it's a favourite.  the crowd didn't seem too bad to me, not the liveliest i've ever seen but not the deadest.  considering half of them were middle aged ex-rockers and their wives/husbands/kids, not too bad!  there were certainly plenty of loonies round me!

everyone i spoke to agreed though that they didn't play nearly long enough.  although the fact is there is a strict time limit on how late they can play there, the fact that the encore came about half a minute after the set ended suggests to me they ran out of time!  perhaps they started late and had to leave out some of the set?  having waited 18 years since missing my last chance to see them, i wasn't too dissapointed, but wish i'd seen them in thier prime.
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2007, 10:18:16 PM »
I have to say that for the most part I always thought that Aerosmith where like that. They had some good bits in their songs (thankyou my Perry), but very self indulgent

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Worse than Iggy pop gyrating at an unnerved member of the friday night with Jonathon Ross audience?
sounds bad.


I layghed myself sick at that audience member.

Mind you I had just returned from a local battle of the bands competition I had taken my kids to, that managed to have 4 death metal bands in a row (at 43 I really ought to know better)

Some bands mature and some just begin to look silly, and some where always pretty silly (byt we didn't know any better at the time) ;)
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Re: Saw Aerosmith in Dublin - shockingly bad...
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2007, 10:33:35 PM »
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Worse than Iggy pop gyrating at an unnerved member of the friday night with Jonathon Ross audience?
sounds bad.


that was priceless!

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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2007, 10:56:08 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IT0L-f_4Nk :lol: Wouldnt call it gyrating, but it was hilarious anyway :D

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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2007, 11:29:19 PM »
wow, that's a shame.

how's dublin, dave?

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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2007, 08:50:31 AM »
Dublin was great - very friendly!  Loads of Eastern Europeans about, much more than I thought there would be.

Music shops were OK, a couple of things looked good value:

New Epiphone Firebird with Maestro Vibrola - £349
New Gibson '59 Les Paul reissue - £3250

Not much else worth checking out, except for an overpriced Tokai Love Rock at £650.

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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2007, 10:50:27 AM »
Oh god, that Iggy Pop thing made me cringe.  I can't find the words to describe how much it made me die inside... I wonder how he felt when he was watching the footage back while sober. :D

And they sounded pretty shite as well- not the actual song, but the vocals.  Sounded horrible.  If Iggy Pop ever had some kind of singing talent, he's now lost it. :D
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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2007, 11:45:51 AM »
I saw them at hyde park - I thought they were pretty good; certainly got a great sound; unlike the foo fighters who truly sucked there last year.

They did quite a lot of their old stuff and Honkin on bobo blues songs - which I kind of dig.

They certainly got the crowd going and put on a great show, especially seeing as it pissed down all day and all the other bands sucked the big one - especially chris cornell.

Alhtough  they did insist on playing i dont wanna miss a thing; which i certainly would'nt have minded missing.
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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2007, 11:49:37 AM »
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Alhtough  they did insist on playing i dont wanna miss a thing; which i certainly would'nt have minded missing.


Especially when they could have swapped it for anything off the "Toys in the Attic" or "Rocks" albums

(If anyone who kinda likes Aerosmith hasn"t heard these two albums- they ought to check them out. It's what Aerosmith were truly all about)
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« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2007, 11:55:25 AM »
They did do sweet emotion - that was pretty cool.
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