Comments on: Last Week–A Review

By: mark

mark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:52:28 +0000

Just for the record, Vai does a similar thing with a fan

By: rob

rob — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:52:43 +0000

Dave, there’s finally something we agree on – I too hate the New York Yankees.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52:36 +0000

zach, i understand your point–hell, i had every kiss LP up until they unmasked. but alot of these kids looked very young. at least some parents had the foresight to put them in the earmuffs you’d see at a rifle range. it was probably the loudest concert i’ve ever been to, with the amps cranked and the pyrotechnics blasting. without the filter of TV, i could see how gene simmons convulsing and spitting up blood might be disturbing for kids. and while not kiss-specific, i have to wonder how the conversation turns when some prepubescent kid asks his dad to explain the meaning of the lyrics to buckcherry’s ‘crazy bitch.’ the show was adult content only.

mark, a friend of mine had tickets and asked me if i wanted to go. simple as that. and i think shred is a strong word. they sounded like they always sound. they all had extended solo bits, with thayer and singer focusing on the music, gene simmons focusing on the spectacle, and paul stanley working the crowd. if you weren’t already aware, it was made clear their talent certainly lies in the marketing, not the music. when i think of shred i think of anthrax or rammstein or something. kiss and buckcherry were definitely not that. glam? yeah. heavy metal-lite, if that makes sense.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:02:28 +0000

I forgot to ask what the occasion was for the kiss concert? you just felt like it?

By: mark

mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:44:31 +0000

Sounds like a good week. That’s cool, it’s been relatively quiet at the site recently.

I don’t know if you knew this but I’m getting into glam metal and shred so it’s kind of weird all of those bands you mention. I remember buckcherry being pretty crappy. I’ll have to listen to some of their latest stuff to see if its really metal.

did kiss shred at all?

By: zach

zach — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:42:50 +0000

I remember Rob telling me once that during the 20th anniversary woodstock concert, the crowds chanting “Buck Cherry!” (hard to imagine crowds doing that now…) confused a most likely severely inebriated Wavy Gravy, who thought they were shouting “Fuck Jerry!”

Yankees experience most definitely indicative of Yankee privilege (“Ho Hum, another pennant”). Not like its headline news, but I read that the difference between the Yankees and Phillies salaries is more than the salaries of most other ball clubs. I guess success breeds success or something like that.

I don’t know that I’d write off parents taking their kids to see a KISS concert, though, Dave. I mean in their day of course KISS was exhibit A in teenage rebellion, but when Gene Simmons is doing Dr. Pepper commercials and produces a cartoon “My Dad the Rock Star,” you have to admit he’s lost a little of that evil luster.