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Post by anaix3l on Sept 30, 2020 6:09:13 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 1, 2020 10:02:49 GMT -5
Defining successful advertising:
Kid in a church pulls dad's sleeve and yells pointing to a painting of some saint or whatever the fuck wearing a purple robe: "look, Milka cow!"
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Post by redvers76 on Oct 1, 2020 14:07:07 GMT -5
Yesterday I saw an Iron Maiden video where Bruce checks in and goes on about the book Adrian has written & how they’re missing touring. He dropped a hint that he had been in the studio with Steve Harris but couldn’t say any more than that. I sent the link to a mate, more to comment on the fact that Bruce has very long hair again (not flying anywhere I guess!) & said about the studio thing “probably another fucking live album”
Today they announced a live album. 🤷🏼♂️
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 1, 2020 14:20:04 GMT -5
^Saw it yesterday some 20 minutes after it was uploaded.
I actually think it's pretty damn cool they're documenting their touring. I'm really missing that kind of stuff with a lot of bands I'm getting into. By the way, I'm probably one of the few people who first got into Bruce's '90s solo stuff and only then into Iron Maiden. And that was through their reunion live DVD from Rock in Rio. I watched that one SO many times that I know the timing of every jump and everything that Bruce says in between songs by heart.
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Post by redvers76 on Oct 3, 2020 2:44:26 GMT -5
My Rock in Rio dvd is knackered. Bought the special edition which had a foam insert spindle, but over time the glue melted and went all over the disc My first gig was Maiden on their last tour before Bruce left. They’re my second favourite band, and it’s only out of worry about getting a really *bad* looking one that I don’t have an Eddie tattoo yet (and over the years I have seen many, many bad Eddie tattoos) Don’t get me wrong, I love the live albums. I’ve got a leaked soundboard dvd a few years ago, plus god knows how many audio bootlegs. And yet for every studio album there’s a live or compilation album. (I think) seems a bit... much! (Met Bruce at a signing when he was doing his solo stuff, I was at university, he was visiting the local record store. Must have been Accident of Birth as he had Roy Z and Adrian Smith with him! Then met all of Maiden at a fan club signing session around the time of their Brave New World tour. Have the original double gatefold vinyl version of the album signed by all the band. Think it’s worth around £400 at the minute... not bad considering we spent the day on the lash and I don’t know how I got back to the hotel let alone with an album intact!)
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 5, 2020 16:36:08 GMT -5
It's past midnight here and I'm feeling sick thinking about... things that aren't happening anymore.
At some point, I had plans for this week in October. But now it's all gone. And I think I'm going mad, mad, mad...
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Post by redvers76 on Oct 6, 2020 1:07:59 GMT -5
I know how you feel. My last gig was December, I haven’t been out the house hardly in over six months, nowhere to go to let off steam...
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 6, 2020 5:11:21 GMT -5
I go out to the supermarket at least once a week. And there's also going to the cemetery. Depends on the weather. Now it's really crappy and it's going to rain until Saturday, so fuck getting milk, I can live without. This is pretty much the same as before. Nothing has really changed save for concerts and work. Which gets me angry... and desperate.
Back in 2012? 2013? Back when Lemmy was still alive, I remember seeing a comment on a Motörhead video on YouTube. Some kid from Germany mentioned he was 13 and had seen them 5 times. I first saw them when I was 25. The next year would be my third and my final time seeing them. It was also my first concert after turning 30. I saw my first concert when I was 24. Back when I was 13, I hadn't even heard about this kind of music. A year later, when I was 14, we would get rounded up during a mandatory religion class, taken to the Physics lab and shown a "documentary" about satanism and evil in rock music.
More than two years later, I'd hear Aerosmith on the radio and it would open the door to a whole new world of music. It would still take me eight years until my first concert and an entire decade until my first Aerosmith concert.
I got into Insomnium in 2008. It took me until 2018 to finally see them live. At first, they were a small band who couldn't really make a living out of music, so they couldn't tour much as touring meant taking time off work. And when touring did happen, it obviously didn't include Romania. I last saw them in December and I was really happy for them. It was really cool to see them headlining the bigger and nicer venues. I'll still always regret not getting to see them during the early days. Shadows of the Dying Sun made them big, so they don't play much of the early stuff anymore. I can understand why, I still remember how the floor shakes when they start While We Sleep or Ephemeral. And that just makes me feel like I missed out because 10+ years ago, they couldn't afford to come here and I couldn't afford to travel...
In general, I feel like I missed out a lot because of the environment I grew up in and then because of the financial aspect. And then for a little while, I thought I could make up for it somehow. If I worked hard enough, if I was tough and crammed more shows in one trip and saved on hotels by taking night buses...
I got to hear Seasons when I saw Aerosmith in 2017. Some days it still comes back to me, it was that haunting. Joe sang Combination on the 2018 Vampires tour and I still remember the flashes of light. I don't even know how much of it was sweat and how much was tears, but I was wearing the blinged-up top with the old batwings logo and there were these shiny trails as I was headbanging... The Alice setlist last year was such a treat, as was getting to hear Pain in 2017. I got to see Metal Church and hear Gods of Second Chance. Mike Howe sounded so amazing I could have cried on his shoes. I got to see Helloween with Kai. I got to hear Orgasmatron at my first PCATBS show. And for all my complaining that Insomnium setlists focus on the new stuff now, they still played In the Groves of Death last winter. And while Azrael didn't make the set when I saw U.D.O. in December, I still got to hear The Wrong Side of Midnight, In the Darkness, They Want War and other goodies...
In a way, it felt like I was living a second adolescence. And then it was gone just like that. And I'm angry to know I lost it in spite of doing everything right. And I'm afraid I'm never getting it back.
Back in July, YouTube decided to shove Das ist der Moment (a song about the joy of concerts... and a perfect example of inadvertent algorithmic cruelty) into my auto playlist. Die Toten Hosen are a band I didn't get to see again during these past few years, though I have considered it both in 2018 and in 2019. Except... well, planning. Didn't quite know how to make it work with what I had already planned and then shows were sold out, so the decision was out of my hands anyway. But I started going through their stuff, especially live stuff. And I guess what catches your attention says a lot about where your mind is at the moment. They've always been so wild, especially the singer... and now you can see it takes a toll on the body as the years pass.
This is one fear I have as well. And ironically, it's one of the reasons why I maybe overdid it at times in the past few years. Cram it all in now because maybe my body won't be able to take it later. When Phil signed my stuff after the show in Frankfurt, he asked how can I jump for two hours straight. That's a good question, to be fair. Not even I know. It was my 4th show in 4 nights. Sometimes you just want to prove yourself you can. And you'd be disappointed in yourself if you stopped. And I like feeling something at a show. There's a certain euphoria that comes from being completely exhausted and bruised after a show.
I've always had this awareness that, one day, my body won't be able to take it. Which is why the "concerts can wait" drives me nuts. My body can't. My body is decaying in the meanwhile. This time is lost and we're never getting it back. Not to mention that financially things are getting worse. I'm working more than ever and making way less and this is maddening.
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Post by AeroCooper on Oct 8, 2020 11:23:00 GMT -5
♫ "Well nothing I do don't seem to work
It only seems to make matters worse, oh pleeeease" ♪
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 12, 2020 17:07:23 GMT -5
I never wanted to know Never wanted to see I wasted my time till time wasted me Never wanted to go Always wanted to stay Cause the person I am are the parts that I play So I play and I plan And hope and I scheme To the lure of a night Filled with unfinished dreams And I'm holding on tight To a world gone astray As they charge me for years I can no longer pay
Savatage - When the Crowds Are Gone
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 14, 2020 8:44:32 GMT -5
Just imagine... being at a concert and the opening band gets on stage...
"Hello, [probably wrong city name]! We are Suppressed Masturbation and we're opening for False Confinement this evening!"
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Post by bartman2001 on Oct 14, 2020 10:09:06 GMT -5
Immoral Life ~ looks like I should have been committed long ago.
Excessive Sexual abuse ~ So I'm allowed to abuse my neighbors hot young wife but just not excessively? Or that poor alter boy was abused by a priest but not excessively no admittance for him. Parents were cousins - Immoral life indeed I got a chuckle out of that.
Religious Enthusiasm - sane grounds to commit someone today as it was in the 1800's. Begets the question why are we not doing more of it these days?
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 15, 2020 12:36:36 GMT -5
Religious Enthusiasm - sane grounds to commit someone today as it was in the 1800's. Begets the question why are we not doing more of it these days? Good question. Yesterday was bone licking day in Romania. Excuse me, pilgrimage to kiss the holy relics of some saint. And I am livid. I cannot see a real concert anymore (and I don't have a habit of kissing all the people at concerts anyway, okay?), but they can just come from all corners of the country, no IDs, no distancing, no masks and they all share saliva in the end, great! Leaving aside the fact that this tradition grossed me out even before the whole c-word mess, I'm furious rules aren't the same for everyone.
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Post by redvers76 on Oct 16, 2020 1:40:50 GMT -5
Religious Enthusiasm - sane grounds to commit someone today as it was in the 1800's. Begets the question why are we not doing more of it these days? Good question. Yesterday was bone licking day in Romania. Excuse me, pilgrimage to kiss the holy relics of some saint. And I am livid. I cannot see a real concert anymore (and I don't have a habit of kissing all the people at concerts anyway, okay?), but they can just come from all corners of the country, no IDs, no distancing, no masks and they all share saliva in the end, great! Leaving aside the fact that this tradition grossed me out even before the whole c-word mess, I'm furious rules aren't the same for everyone. Natural selection will take it’s course and there will be far fewer bone lickers next year!
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Post by anaix3l on Oct 17, 2020 4:03:34 GMT -5
May get a bit lost in translation, but I'll give it a try...
Politicians are like pigeons: when they need you, they eat out of the palm of your hand, then when they get satisfied and fat, they fly away and shit on you.
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