QuoteWinning Ugly VXIIQuotemickijaggerooBuy a Playstation 3, best value for money. 1) The Playstation 3 consumes way too much electricity when playing Blu-Ray discs.It uses roughly five times the watts used by the average "stand-alone" Blu-Ray player. I don't mean to nitpick - but if you can afford to buy a BluRay player (of whatever kind) and afford to pay around fifty bucks for
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And i'll say it again. The artist is NEVER blameless in this. Tom Waits put his foot down and said to the promoters "I don't want scalpers fleecing my fans" and the promoters hopped to it. The rest of 'em, including our beloved Stones, couldn't give a flying continental feck. Ticketmaster is NOT the problem. They're providing a service, but if promoters/acts
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just as an aside - i'm anti scalper, but much as i'd like to have a go at Ticketmaster, the blame for a lack of anti-scalper measures can be laid fairly and squarely at the door of the band themselves. It's that simple. Period. have a read at what Gazza said up there about Tom Waits. The cost of the ticket surely contains a 'premium' to pay for the extra staff and over
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as it happens - dammit - i'm listening to it right now, off the 'steel wheels outtakes' tracks which, er, somebody not a million miles away brought to our attention (ta - gaz) and at 6:46, i doubt it could have fitted on a 45 single. And you know what - it might be a 'by numbers' 12 bar blues track, but if you can execute 12 bar blues with this kind of aplomb, style a
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i remember Q magazine stating around 1999-2000 when keef turned up at their awards ceremony something along the lines of he 'smelt like somebody who had better things to do than wash himself'. Which is the nicest way i've ever heard BO described
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QuoteCBIIPrince more than likely saturated the market with his 15+ shows at the O2 last year. By the way, just how big is the O2? 20,000? different country, mate. O2 was in London. I'm talking about Dublin. The gig was pulled under suspicious circumstances anyway which had nothing to do with ticket sales (go figure...if you're really interested in the why's and wherefores go to w
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QuoteHarmQuoteNo ExpectationsStones will tour again...barring health issues...and the tix WILL be expensive! Have you seen the Madonna ticket prices... even more expensive than the stones. I'm afraid next tout tickets will be even much more expensive. Yes, but are the venues/gigs selling out? I don't know. I'm genuinely asking you as opposed to trying to 'prove a point
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To answer the OP's question - i think that certainly if the Stones were playing THIS summer in Slane Castle in Ireland, they'd have been hard pushed to sell out the venue. I was at Bruce Springsteen in the RDS and he sold out 3x 40,000 shows, but the tickets went on sale before Christmas. Most of the other enormo-gigs haven't sold out; people are beginning to realise, around her
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QuoteAdrian-LQuotetextmonkeyI'm just waiting for that bloke maverick to show up and tell us that he's not only HEARD the new album, but played cowbell on the 3rd track, side 2 lol- yes, he claimed to have a torrent of the early demos, didn't he? summat like that. i remember the more senior parishioners getting a little irate with him. A consummate troll, in his own little way..
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I'm just waiting for that bloke maverick to show up and tell us that he's not only HEARD the new album, but played cowbell on the 3rd track, side 2
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Great. Will wotsisname, Ken be playing with them?
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QuoteHis MajestyQuotetextmonkey sure mate - and heck we can agree to differ. I take your point that the instrumentation might be 'programmed' to an extent... Cool... Yeah, programming/sequencing has been used for decades and sometimes it works for the benefit of the song, but in this case I think it distracts from the feel giving the single a rather sterile sound with no real d
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QuoteHis MajestyQuotetextmonkey with all due respect to the His Majesty poster up there, unless you've got some class of proof that it's all samples and cut'n'paste recording, i'm gonna call you on that. Obviously not ALL of it is samples, but for sure they have simply cut and pasted sections and looped em etc. Some parts are identical and are clearly just loops and wh
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I was there on sunday night and it was very special indeed. 'Because the night' being a particular highlight, but there were countless others. Also, i think, we got 2 extra songs that night after American Land, which was nice. He also took a girl out of the Audience to dance with during Dancing in the Dark, although admittedly she was ten. No doubt she'll be in a sitcom in 15 ye
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sorry to reply to something over a week later, but i think the duffy album is wonderful and for those interested in Bernard Butlers involvement - it's great. If you enjoyed the stuff he did with David McAlmont, which was effectively Motown for the 21st century, all lush strings and collossal drum sounds, then this is the natural progression. It's not as OTT, but it's a fine fine al
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Dustin my arse...we should have gone for this...
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QuoteGazzaIn this case its justified. If youre limited to picking only four Stones album as their most 'essential', then only someone with cloth ears would pick anything after 1978. hah - such delicate elegant phrasing. A career in the United Nations is surely your true calling, sir... Trust you'll be enjoying our hospitality 'down south' over the next few days; i he
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QuoteNickBDon't Stop Moving by SClub 7. Is that a guilty pleasure? absolutely not. Perfect pop masterpiece. AND it's got almost an identical bassline/groove to Billy Jean by Michael Jackson. that's not a bad thing, btw...
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I love motown music, but the one song that cannot fail to put a smile on my face is 'The Happening' by the Supremes. I'm not normally the kind to go for that unashamed sweet girl group thing, but that song? Dunno...there's the tempo, the key changes (normally a no-no) and the whole vibe.
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i remember meeting up with a pal of mine in London for a few drinks years ago, and rather ill-advisedly we decided that a trip to Tower Records at Piccadilly Circus was just what the doctor ordered. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCMENT: do not go record shopping when you're half cut! however, John picked up Exciteable Boy and said "buy this, and if you don't like it, tell me and i'
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Quotewith sssoul- passing along a helpful hint from his grandfather or some such.[/quote jesus - some grandfather! I thought the 'aside' was the funniest thing in the interview.
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i remember keith talking to Q Magazine in 1994 about him and mick and whether they'd ever gotten it on. Keiths comment was something like 'naw, the second hole from the back of the neck is the one you want....'
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QuoteSvartmerThis is shameful but... I really like Always on My Mind with Pet Shop Boys. naw - nothing wrong with that. In my book, it's only worth doing a cover version if you're going to make it completely different to the original - so much so that a person who didn't know it was a cover would enjoy the song on its own merits.
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have we done "wanking the dog"
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Darlene Love - christmas (baby please come home) sleighride - the ronettes - both from Phil Spector Album Fairy Tale of New York...to any of our friends of the parish NOT familiar with it, might i suggest you spend a few cent downloading it. You will thank me. Hell, your grandchildren will thank me! It is sublime... 2000 Miles by the pretenders...not really a christmas song, and yet you on
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Lukester Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > .....they do that here in NC too......although I'm > pretty sure it's not Mrs. Textmonkey. It'd f*cking well explain why i've not had a good dinner in over 3 months, mind!
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yup - as far as i know when you buy a ticket for a gig, there's a %age that is earmarked for your local Performing Rights society. Then the money is divvied up between the persons entitled depending on the publishers. then the publisher passes on money, i believe, to the writer. this, of course, gets ridiculous when you drill down to a micro level like a covers band in your local pub. In
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aye - it were bedlam around these here parts trying to get tickets. That's almost Slane and a half type proportions...heh - y'won't get bruce playing 'just the warhorses' methinks...and i suspect perhaps more than one song off the new album got pitch on sunday, gazza...did ye get sorted yerself or are you content with belfast?
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R Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thirty years ago you could open a hip record store > with 3,000 titles which would include a quality > jazz selection but mostly rock. You also had a > massive baby boomer market, by-and-large > likeminded, to purchase your wares and earn you a > 20-25% margin. > > Today you need in excess of 12-1
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CindyC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My favorite ever Gazza quote "Best drummer in the > world??? Ringo wasn't even the best drummer in > the Beatles" not really a gazza quote...some scouser oik called John lennon said it first...
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