This week rollcall

Sadly like many shows I totally missed out on it… It's a drag being really olde…

kosmo wrote:
I will be DJing for the Justin Jones show on Saturday

Kim, Doug, my dad, and I will be up at the bar behind VIP.  Drop by and say hello.  I don't think we have met yet.  Would be nice to put a face to the tunes I've been hearing for the last god knows how long! :)

Yada wrote:

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wml7 wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Does Shut Up and Play the Hits count?  It's a movie about a show I attended…

How was the movie??  Spike Jonez was behind me during the show filming
;D

Oops…am going tonight!  We were right next to a camera, so I'm sure I'll be in it looking very dorky!  Were right behind the GA section.

Move was excellent.  Audience was lame.  No one danced.  I danced in my seat.

Are you supposed to dance when watching a movie?

That movie.  Yes.

i'm going to see motley crue (all tshirt proceeds go to get the lead singer out of jail) and kiss tonight.  it will be a fun show . . . besides the flash flooding and eighty percent chance of very severe tstorms all day and all night.  besides that, i'm sure the crowd will be interesting to watch.

I would genuinely love to go to that show. Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil tour touched very young me deeply.

relaxer, did you like the Chromatics?

thought they were so awesome…

I had to skip it. Really grappled with it but I have a knee injury and was in some agony standing at the El-P/Killer Mike show. Also didn't feel like dealing with a mellow show at a sold-out club. My neighbor got shut out of buying tix so I decided at the last minute to skip it and give my ticket to him.

Glad it was good. I know I'm going to be kicking myself for not going.

Relaxer wrote:
I would genuinely love to go to that show. Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil tour touched very young me deeply.

i do not believe you.  but god i love me some shout at the devil.  its funny that you can relate yourself to knowing that 'hey, i like this kind of music and this is what i listen to' . . . but then you remember that you really liked motley crue 'a lot' at one point in your life.

I've been very open about the fact that I love loud guitars, catchy songs and a great RAWK show. I realize the collective age of the Crue is now about 250 but I'll bet it'll be fun as hell. And I love Shout at the Devil, and Too Fast for Love and Dr. Feelgood. If Vince still has his voice, this will kick ass.

Relaxer wrote:
If Vince still has his voice, this will kick ass.

Last I checked, he did not. He sounded like a screechy alley cat at the show I went to.

Unsanity wrote:

Relaxer wrote:
If Vince still has his voice, this will kick ass.

Last I checked, he did not. He sounded like a screechy alley cat at the show I went to.

So he pretty much sounded like Axl Rose!  :)

Vince sounded good last night… even Paul Stanley sounded good.

Weird but Motley Crue played a noticeably longer set than KISS.. i thought they were better too….


at one point Tommy Lee's and his drum kit went on a roller coaster circle and he was playing it upside down at the top ..crazy

I was surprised at KISS not playing Deuce or Strutter but maybe it was due to the shortened set list…

totally agree.  the crue destroyed the kiss.  played a hell of a set.  they came out walking through section 100 and 200 dressed in robes and beating drums with smoke and then went onto to the stage.  nice.

kiss was good and it was awesome to actually see them live and see the mixture of fans.  rednecks everywhere, i felt right at home, and some very good looking guys, oh my.  too much fireworks sounding like sonic booms and sometimes vince's voice was screechy and yes paul does come off as a little flamey of the four members and yes the roller coaster tommy lee drum thing was cool and fuck these venues that try to get away having only coors light / budweiser and charging eleven dollars for a big can.  no other options?  what, if you had starr hill or something, would you charge fifteen a beer?  i saw this one guy near me, that after counting his beer cans, he must have spent almost ninety bucks on beer.  but getting out was super easy if you left right when you knew kiss would play what they always close the show with.  all in all . . . an awesome show from start to finish, even the opening band that sounded just like hair band nineteen eighties all over again.  and being first show of the tour, they totally screwed up the timing of bands and setups.  kiss had to rush through their set and paul said from the start they would cram in as much as possible.

walkonby wrote:
totally agree.  the crue destroyed the kiss.  played a hell of a set.  they came out walking through section 100 and 200 dressed in robes and beating drums with smoke and then went onto to the stage.  nice.

kiss was good and it was awesome to actually see them live and see the mixture of fans.  rednecks everywhere, i felt right at home, and some very good looking guys, oh my.  too much fireworks sounding like sonic booms and sometimes vince's voice was screechy and yes paul does come off as a little flamey of the four members and yes the roller coaster tommy lee drum thing was cool and fuck these venues that try to get away having only coors light / budweiser and charging eleven dollars for a big can.  no other options?  what, if you had starr hill or something, would you charge fifteen a beer?  i saw this one guy near me, that after counting his beer cans, he must have spent almost ninety bucks on beer.  but getting out was super easy if you left right when you knew kiss would play what they always close the show with.  all in all . . . an awesome show from start to finish, even the opening band that sounded just like hair band nineteen eighties all over again.  and being first show of the tour, they totally screwed up the timing of bands and setups.  kiss had to rush through their set and paul said from the start they would cram in as much as possible.

in the boxes they had $11 yuenglings big cans and $13 heinekens.. can't remember what else..corona..
i couldn't spend $11 on bud light if you paid me.

never have had it so easy getting there.. took me about 40 minutes from arlington.. zipped in to parking lot no problem.. a very rare case of me driving to a show.

I loved seeing the show just cause I'd always wanted to see KISS… I love Paul Stanley's accent.. I just think of it as a Queens/forest hills thing I guess?

I went to see KISS but I was really glad I caught almost all of Motley Crue because they put on a good show.. when you put Motley Crue/KISS together I thought that was a good value..

I don't understand how setting up the first night of the tour is any excuse.. but I guess it happens.. I just think they are professionals and they have to know how long things will take.. if anyone should have shortened their set it shoudl have been the Crue but they kept going on and on.. I was surprised.. they played probably til 9:30 and you knew that was going to be a problem.. I'm surprised they didn't tell THEM to wrap it up as they had to know it would take a while to turnaroudn the stage for KISS.

my guess is KISS was only too happy to play a shorter set!

I was pleased with show… but something about big venues really turns me off.. I probably won't be back for a few years… I think this was my first show there since Pearl Jam…


at 9:44 we were heading to the bathrooms  and asked a staff member when KISS would go on.. she said "945". .obviously that was the plan…if KISS had gone on at 945 they could have played 3 more songs but that didn't happen… even 945 seems late to me.. I was thinking they'd go on at 915.. .for them to start at 10 was just weird..

Never mind, I found someone to take my extra JM/HC/SB ticket.

Gold Motel Monday at Jammin' Java

Thursday - A Place To Bury Strangers
Friday - Rod Stewart/Stevie Nicks

Tuesday - Balaclava, Aurobors, Borracho (instrumental), and Above the Silence @ Red Palace (Ben Bones b-day bash)
Thursday - I'm singing at the Video Games Live / music of Zelda show with the NSO @ Wolf Trap
Friday - Kishi Bashi @ U St Music Hall

Thurs - A Place to Bury Strangers/Black Clouds

Evil Kosmo will be DJing the Dan Band show on Sat.  But be warned he was last seen in the "band camp" rec room with a pile of Jock Jams CDs in hand….