Rule #1 = go where the money is

His Journey tribute is considered best in the business… there’s money in that. While Valentine might be more creative, it certainly doesn’t pay any bills.

It was a miserable experience. QR was flopping in real-time, and DuBrow was being a coked-out control freak How could they be flopping in real time, at that point? I would have assumed that Condition Critical was when they went over the cliff. No? There’s different degrees of flopping. They were st...

SchenkerFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:58 am The Wild and the Young has to be one of their best songs. Twilight Hotel is pretty killer as well.

What's your take?

They picked the right singles. There wasn’t much else there to draw from.

Horrible band. All the guys who Tobias kicked out because they couldn’t keep up creatively and/or wanted to be Depeche Mode; then they turned around and sued him (and lost). This shitty material shows who the talent was in Ghost.

1.Yes. When Enuff Z'nuff books Madison Square Garden, I will say the same thing! I am happy for them but worried they may not sell it out. 2.I know and it's pissing me off!!!! I got suckered into that "official platinum" thing a few times paying inflated prices. I vowed it would never hap...

Are we going to do this every time a mid-level act books a venue that’s too big for them? This is the way it works now. The promoter wants the big venue, so they can sell what they can at full price during presales and first day/week, then paper with discounts and make money off of people who got i...

It looks like they are keeping this affordable. The presale today, for Montreal, had almost the entire upper bowl of the arena on sale for $37.50, tickets at the back of the lower bowl for $88, and great tickets for $125. These are low prices in this day and age, especially the upper bowl ones.

Good choices. I’ll add:

Lost Forever, from The Eternal Idol
I Witness, from Cross Purposes
Forbidden title track

1.Yes. When Enuff Z'nuff books Madison Square Garden, I will say the same thing! I am happy for them but worried they may not sell it out. 2.I know and it's pissing me off!!!! I got suckered into that "official platinum" thing a few times paying inflated prices. I vowed it would never hap...

You guys are nuts. The band are great and firing on all cylinders. Aldo Nova; vocals, guitar Jack Frost: guitar Dario Seixas: bass Michael T Ross: keys Ange Curcio: Drums Jack was in Savatage, Dario Firehouse, Michael Lita Ford and Raiding The Rock Vault, and Ange is a veteran of the Canadian music ...

Are we going to do this every time a mid-level act books a venue that’s too big for them? This is the way it works now. The promoter wants the big venue, so they can sell what they can at full price during presales and first day/week, then paper with discounts and make money off of people who got i...

Easy…

Kill - Minaj - she’s beyond annoying
F*ck - Brittany - hot as hell and crazy; nice combo (unless she stalks you after)
Marry - Caitlin - she’s going to be super rich and she doesn’t seem like that much of a pain in the ass

Are we going to do this every time a mid-level act books a venue that’s too big for them? This is the way it works now. The promoter wants the big venue, so they can sell what they can at full price during presales and first day/week, then paper with discounts and make money off of people who got in...

Janet isn’t rejoining. She posted on her social media to end the speculation.

Vixen also put out a weird press release today stating, in essence, “wanna find out who our new singer is… come to the shows starting…”.

Weird.

Any idea what the hell this means: TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with the Artist presale beginning May 29th at 10 AM local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week with all presales ending Thursday, May 30 at 10 PM local time It means exactly what it says. There’s a WASP...

Just heard from a somewhat reliable source (aka a “a friend of a friend who would know”) that Janet IS returning, and Share might be as well. Stay tuned… That will last about five seconds before the infighting starts. They had a good run and a good thing going with Lorraine. What a shame. Isn’t Sha...

Just heard from a somewhat reliable source (aka a “a friend of a friend who would know”) that Janet IS returning, and Share might be as well. Stay tuned…

MattleyCrue wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 4:10 pm Lorraine is an absolute smoke show for an older lady

Lorraine and Roxy both look great… period. Not just for women in their 60’s.

2nd best Y&T album after Ten. Unfortunately, that's not saying much. That might be the worst take I’ve ever read here. Y&T’s career was pretty much dead by the time Ten was released and there’s maybe 1-2 songs of note on it. Literally everything before it was better, particularly: Black Tig...

guess they hate money tooo morons How much money do you think there is in a Skid Row reunion? Or a Queensryche reunion? Or an original WASP reunion? It’s barely more than what they earn on the casino/fair/theatre circuit, which is why a reunion with Bach is a non-starter. I’m always amused when peo...

BTW that screenshot I took isn’t an hour before showtime, it’s twenty seconds before the lights went down. Place is half empty. Not sure what’s so shocking. Alice is generally a theater act now… so mostly 2000 seaters, unless he’s part of a package tour with the likes of Rob Zombie. So, when the pr...

Autograph Beyond is over. No one is paying for that. Stop. :roll: Just admit it's over and move on. Find the next tribute band with one member and roll it into that. You guys had a few good years pretending to be Autograph ... now it's done. People have the attention spans of goldfish. Nobody is go...

Nice to see an 80’s rocker with his head screwed on right, and humble as well. Great interview.

Interesting that Def Lep had him on retainer, learning Viv and Phil’s parts… just in case. Imagine the size and scope of an organization that can do that. Not to mention the work Steve had to put in.

You can be sure that while we conduct a straw poll here, Live Nation knows that every head buys .2 parking spaces, .4 t-shirts, 1 beer, etc, bringing them x$ per attendee. For every person who spends nothing, there’s another bringing a tray of 4 beers back to his seat twice during the night.

Do people not understand how this works yet? Live Nation books a tour into mostly venues they own/operate. They serve as promoter, ticket seller (as they own Ticketmaster), and venue. They make good money off the die hards who buy overpriced good seats early. Then, they play with pricing and paper (...

Excellent track… a little Pictures Of Home, a little Rapture Of The Deep. Real solid for near octogenarians!

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:52 pm https://youtu.be/ut1z_iW8QIM?si=1KQcWXoEfl_QXmfH

How long have they had a backup guitarist?

Rick kinda sucks now.

I saw them about two years ago, in May 2022, and they were a 5-piece, with Robin’s kid on 2nd guitar and helping out on vocals.

They need a current songwriter. Someone like Andrew Watt. He wrote the new songs for Ozzy, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Pearl Jam That’s the last thing they need. This actually sounds like that… manufactured “product” that came off an assembly line, not actual music. What I want is for a bunch of 60 y...

rubysdad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:57 pm Sounds like Ghost.

Sounds nothing like Ghost. Sounds like Rob Zombie, meets Sum 41, meets Sixx AM. A bunch of 60 year old men trying to sound current. It’s sad.

This one has $25 concert week tickets written all over it… for the Fall leg.