Gibsonite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:14 pm Hot take - You can feel bad for a bunch of kids that died at a music festival and still think Netanyahu & the IDF are genocidal pieces of shit. They aren't mutually exclusive opinions..

Logic? On My Sludge? IMPOSSIBLE.

RATT were pretty meh about each other as well. I think there were groups within the band that liked each other, but in general, they didn't seem to enjoy each other's company. IIRC, at least Pearcy and Blotzer had their own backstage rooms. Based on social media, Pearcy seems to miss Robbin a lot. ...

RHCP. Chad doesn’t know Flea. Yeah, Anthony and Flea totally have loathed each other for last 45 years... Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but Chad had an interview a few years ago where he mentioned that he didn't hang out with Flea, and that he'd only been to his house like twice or something...

Who's the third guitarist they brought out mid set? Wiki says Russ Irwin, but that doesn't look like him.

Chris Adler. Lamb of God have had quite a run. Still no idea what actually happened. He didn't quit, he was playing with Megadeth when there was downtime, and then when Dave made him choose, he went back to Lamb of God full time, only to get into a motorcycle accident, and then LoG decided to move ...

Mike Portnoy. Sure he made it back in, but it was a long 13 years for him. I dunno, I mean, yeah, I'm sure he regretted it after the Avenged Sevenfold guys decided they didn't want their dad hanging around anymore, but he was absolutely EVERYWHERE during that time period. I don't think that happens...

GreatWhiteSnake wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:40 pm I posted a thread with a similar premise on EE but they didn't get it. The album is even titled Ghost Stories. AI assisted apparently. I wonder how?

AI assisted? Ick. I'm out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mihD0TWsPk I don't buy it. Sure, maybe he had vocal cord surgery, and maybe he was in therapy for the last year or so, but I still think it was physical therapy to recover from a stroke. He looks the most lifelike in this clip than he has in YEARS, and just fixing yo...

Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I meant Blue Oyster Cult. Same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbf6i23DeLs

Re-recording songs with a new vocalist doesn't usually work so well. Exodus re-recorded Bonded by Blood to shite reviews, Anthrax re-recorded Belladonna songs with Bush, I'm pretty sure that bombed too... I wouldn't say bombed, because I don't think it had high expectations to begin with. It sold t...

Are they not calling this Slayer just so they don't have to pay Tom a cut? Because this is Slayer. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty close. Kerry said in the interview he hasn't talked to Tom in 5 years, so I can imagine the last thing he wanted to do was deal with all the business BS. This way he can go o...

ParaDime77 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:01 pm
It’s the ultimate cut and paste album. Has small sections of songs that can be good, but is truly a disjointed effort.

Counterpoint: Even a shitty Van Halen album with Roth is MILES better than anything in a lot bands entire discographies.

Sam almost seems shocked to actually be on stage with someone that can play guitar.

Semi-related, looks like for the 2024 Pantera shows, they've scrapped the Cemetary Gates taped tribute, and replaced it actually playing Floods. I might have to go see this show now, that's one of my favorite songs by them. https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-pantera-performs-floods-for-first-time-s...

I get Roth not liking Tokyo Dome, even though it still gets played on the Boneyard pretty regularly, but I don't understand not liking A Different Kind of Truth. Clearly, he did all the artwork, he did all the backstage videos that are on the deluxe edition, and those are HIS songs. Just seems like ...

Not that I was ever in the area, but there's no way I'd ever go in there after what happened. Just feels like a place that shouldn't exist.

I would definitely stick to just the studio albums. James LaBrie sounds like Don Dokken these days.

I completely misread that, so the confusion is on me. The point I was trying to make was that it made a big difference who Roth chose to play that role, and that him choosing Holmes as a replacement for Becker (someone that actually had talent and could play the Van Halen/Vai parts well) was a bad i...

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:20 am The only people that give a shit about Jason Becker are guitar players. Terrible choice for Roth’s band.

I'm not remotely a guitar player, and I give a shit. I don't think you understand just how bad Holmes was on the Ozzmosis tour.

good song, he sounded great live He's always sounded great. But man, he's got to do something about the weight. I thought he looked a little better in the Amoeba records video he did, but that video makes him out to look bigger than ever. Also, thought it was interesting that one of the guitarists ...

Blabbermouth did God's work and has a transcript of the video about Wolfgang. https://blabbermouth.net/news/david-lee-roth-takes-shot-at-wolfgang-van-halen-this-fing-kid David Lee Roth has blasted Wolfgang Van Halen for allegedly "throwing out" some of the singer's invited guests at a cou...

In the course of a week, DLR has talked shit about Valerie, the entire Bertinelli family, Alex, and now Wolfgang. I think the more interesting story is not what Dave has said about them, but why Dave is saying all this now. Perhaps he just got tired of being painted as the difficult one and wanted ...

Love_Industry wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:47 am
Iron Maiden- Live + One. Greek album including tracks from Maiden Japan, Women in Uniform 12" and a Japanese release also called Live + One.

Those tracks aren't B Sides on one of the remastered CDs? Maiden Japan was definitely on the Killers reissue, amongst other places.

JinglesTheChristmasMouse wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:22 am ? ? ?

I can't think of anything at the moment, usually my problem is the other way around.

I know some of Bob Seger's early 70s material isn't out there, like Back in '72, which is notable for having the studio version of Turn the Page and Rosalie.

I just looked at the lineup, this thing is going to tank HARD. I love Dee, and wouldn't mind seeing him, but if Twisted Sister couldn't draw, you think he's going to draw by himself? Don Felder? I know he's opened for like Foreigner and such, but there's absolutely nothing about the Eagles that scr...

I just looked at the lineup, this thing is going to tank HARD. I love Dee, and wouldn't mind seeing him, but if Twisted Sister couldn't draw, you think he's going to draw by himself? Don Felder? I know he's opened for like Foreigner and such, but there's absolutely nothing about the Eagles that scre...

That's a pretty fun lineup. Go to the show, have some fun. You guys really wanna hear the powerhouse rhythm section of Rikki and Bobby that bad? No, but Poison is 4 guys, not just one. I feel bad for the other three having to sit home and not do anything, while Bret is off posting pictures of himse...

This one is radio friendly. Too bad it'll never get played.

This is why Dave is Dave. He may be a goofball, but he has never lied.

I wish I could have seen them anytime during the 90s. I've heard Phil had some horrible performances in the late 90s though. It still would have been entertaining. I had seriously thought about going to see them down in Orlando with Anthrax opening in 97. Didn't end up going, and then of course nev...