dont forget…J Mascis and his old band are touring this summer/fall, for some REAL Dinosaur rock!
Talk about your Super Secret Shows
Is it just me who does not really like the the super secret band?
Maybe I can start a hipster backlash.
Maybe I can start a hipster backlash.
yup
I don't think anyone here is traveling to Britain "seeking out" Gang of Four. They are coming here.
So, if your favorite pre-war artists could still play their music live and came to the area you wouldn't go see them because……??
So, if your favorite pre-war artists could still play their music live and came to the area you wouldn't go see them because……??
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I stand by that statement.
I also won't be making a tour of nursing homes around the country to seek out the artists who made that music in hopes that they might deliver a live performance for me.
;)
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Because they would be like 90 years old and couldn't possibly recreate the live intensity of the shows they did 70 years ago.
Most, though not all, rock and roll artists just look plain silly trying to be rock stars into their 50's. Country, blues, and jazz can be a lot more forgiving of a performers age, but rock is usually a younger mans game. People on this board always babble on about such and such band had "such energy." Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
Most, though not all, rock and roll artists just look plain silly trying to be rock stars into their 50's. Country, blues, and jazz can be a lot more forgiving of a performers age, but rock is usually a younger mans game. People on this board always babble on about such and such band had "such energy." Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I don't think anyone here is traveling to Britain "seeking out" Gang of Four. They are coming here.
So, if your favorite pre-war artists could still play their music live and came to the area you wouldn't go see them because……??
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I stand by that statement.
I also won't be making a tour of nursing homes around the country to seek out the artists who made that music in hopes that they might deliver a live performance for me.
;)
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:I don't think Gang of Four were ever "rock stars."
Most, though not all, rock and roll artists just look plain silly trying to be rock stars into their 50's. Country, blues, and jazz can be a lot more forgiving of a performers age, but rock is usually a younger mans game. People on this board always babble on about such and such band had "such energy." Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
I've seen a few "elderly" shows that were excellent. Paul Weller and Mission of Burma spring to mind. Even the Sex Pistols show was quite entertaining in its campiness.
Perhaps you take this all too seriously?
Plus Bryan Ferry, David Bowie,that one in the band from Liverpool, John Mellencamp, Springsteen, Fogerty, Neil Young… I will give you that Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones are a bit to much to handle. And I could give a Rats ass about Clapton…
And some people still even go to shows by the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, and Motley Crue.
Perhaps you take me too seriously on this thread. My comments were meant to be light satire….though with an element of personal truth.
Perhaps you take me too seriously on this thread. My comments were meant to be light satire….though with an element of personal truth.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:I don't think Gang of Four were ever "rock stars."
Most, though not all, rock and roll artists just look plain silly trying to be rock stars into their 50's. Country, blues, and jazz can be a lot more forgiving of a performers age, but rock is usually a younger mans game. People on this board always babble on about such and such band had "such energy." Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
I've seen a few "elderly" shows that were excellent. Paul Weller and Mission of Burma spring to mind. Even the Sex Pistols show was quite entertaining in its campiness.
Perhaps you take this all too seriously?
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:Just to add, the original line-up of X was so good last year. The Buzzcocks also were a crowd favorite. So the old boys can still rock it up.
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:I don't think Gang of Four were ever "rock stars."
Most, though not all, rock and roll artists just look plain silly trying to be rock stars into their 50's. Country, blues, and jazz can be a lot more forgiving of a performers age, but rock is usually a younger mans game. People on this board always babble on about such and such band had "such energy." Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
I've seen a few "elderly" shows that were excellent. Paul Weller and Mission of Burma spring to mind. Even the Sex Pistols show was quite entertaining in its campiness.
Perhaps you take this all too seriously?
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:when in doubt, go with that story. energy does not equal good. some band stand there and rock out, some run around and suck, who knows!
My comments were meant to be light satire..
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:Gang of Four are in thier 50s?
Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:That would be me. Rag on the Stones all you want - but they can still put on a great show.
And some people still even go to shows by the Rolling Stones
They were university students in 1977. That certainly puts them close to 50.
Formed in 1977 by Leeds University students Jon King (vocals), Andy Gill (guitar), Dave Allen (bass), and Hugo Burnham (drums), Gang of Four (along with the Fall, Mekons, and Liliput) produced some of the most exhilarating and lasting music of the early English post-punk era of 1978-1983
Formed in 1977 by Leeds University students Jon King (vocals), Andy Gill (guitar), Dave Allen (bass), and Hugo Burnham (drums), Gang of Four (along with the Fall, Mekons, and Liliput) produced some of the most exhilarating and lasting music of the early English post-punk era of 1978-1983
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:Gang of Four are in thier 50s?
Typically people in their 50's and 60's don't have that kind of energy.
Okay, speaking of Volume, did anyone try today's presale? I can't find the band listed in tickets.com ANYWHERE…
Originally posted by Bags:did you look on the front page? (like kosmo said) ;)
Okay, speaking of Volume, did anyone try today's presale? I can't find the band listed in tickets.com ANYWHERE…
ratio, check your pms…[Kosmo's box is full]
Pollard is the bomb. Yeah, I'm secret show bound. ;) I'm completely dense, but with supervision can function in the world outside.
i am cursed with each every super secret sale and presale. either i get the passcode over email and then my computer freezes up, or, its the passcode that's in the mail only, which, despite signing up yet AGAIN for the volume mailing, never seems to arrive in mail box.
so please. someone take heart and send me on this information? pretty please?
so please. someone take heart and send me on this information? pretty please?
Gang Of Four Bolsters 'Entertainment'
Out of print since 1997, Gang Of Four's seminal 1979 debut album "Entertainment!" will be reissued on May 17 via Rhino. The original 12-song track list has been bolstered with the four-track "Yellow" EP and four additional previously unreleased recordings. "Entertainment!" has also been re-pressed on 180 gram vinyl for a May 10 release.
Among the new additions, perhaps of most interest are alternate versions of album tracks "Contract" and "Guns Before Butter" and live versions of the unrecorded "Blood Free" and a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane."
Originally released in 1980, the "Yellow" EP is highlighted by the angry, brittle "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" and "He'd Send in the Army." The release also features the songs "It's Her Factory" and "Armalite Rifle."
Although never a commercial success, "Entertainment!" has influenced scores of bands in the past 25 years, particularly the current crop of up-and-coming British rock acts like Franz Ferdinand and the Futureheads.
Since 1995, the album has sold 12,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, but since 2000, an import edition has shifted an additional 14,000 units.
As previously reported, Gang Of Four's original lineup reunited earlier this year for the first time in more than 20 years. The group will begin a three-week North American tour May 1 at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
Guitarist Andy Gill recently told the BBC that Gang Of Four was working on an album featuring a disc with new recordings of old songs plus a collection of remixes, but a spokesperson could not confirm details of the project at deadline.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000863099
Out of print since 1997, Gang Of Four's seminal 1979 debut album "Entertainment!" will be reissued on May 17 via Rhino. The original 12-song track list has been bolstered with the four-track "Yellow" EP and four additional previously unreleased recordings. "Entertainment!" has also been re-pressed on 180 gram vinyl for a May 10 release.
Among the new additions, perhaps of most interest are alternate versions of album tracks "Contract" and "Guns Before Butter" and live versions of the unrecorded "Blood Free" and a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane."
Originally released in 1980, the "Yellow" EP is highlighted by the angry, brittle "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" and "He'd Send in the Army." The release also features the songs "It's Her Factory" and "Armalite Rifle."
Although never a commercial success, "Entertainment!" has influenced scores of bands in the past 25 years, particularly the current crop of up-and-coming British rock acts like Franz Ferdinand and the Futureheads.
Since 1995, the album has sold 12,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, but since 2000, an import edition has shifted an additional 14,000 units.
As previously reported, Gang Of Four's original lineup reunited earlier this year for the first time in more than 20 years. The group will begin a three-week North American tour May 1 at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.
Guitarist Andy Gill recently told the BBC that Gang Of Four was working on an album featuring a disc with new recordings of old songs plus a collection of remixes, but a spokesperson could not confirm details of the project at deadline.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000863099