• Next concerts....

    From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to All on Wed Apr 26 13:54:53 2023
    Coming up... The Cure in Dallas. My wife is going to They Might be Giants then it's off to see Mike and the Mechanics.

    Later in the year, Lost 80's Live. It's an annual show of 12-15 bands or artists from the 80's that play 3 or 4 of their popular songs. In the past we've seen Book of Love, Naked Eyes, When in Rome UK, Dramarama, Annabell from Bow Wow Wow, The Tubes, The Vapors, the guy from Information Society, Trans-X, Missing Persons, Wang Chung, Flock of Seagulls...plus a ton more I've probably forgotten. Tickets are cheap for good seats too. You get 4-5 hours of entertainment and you get to see a lot of bands that would probably never tour otherwise because they only had 3-4 hits most people know, or remember.

    I'm hopeful that Steve Hackett will add more US dates for Foxtrot at 50 for the end of the year or 2024.

    Who are you looking forward to seeing?
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 12:48:15 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nigel Reed to All on Wed Apr 26 2023 01:54 pm

    Coming up... The Cure in Dallas. My wife is going to They Might be Giants then it's off to see Mike and the Mechanics.

    They'd be cool to see, though I'm not familiar with a whole lot of their music.

    Later in the year, Lost 80's Live. It's an annual show of 12-15 bands or artists from the 80's that play 3 or 4 of their popular songs. In the past

    That sounds like fun.
    I like concerts, though I don't see concerts very often. And many of the bands I like are older and probably aren't touring anymore or have members who have passed away.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 15:27:26 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 12:48:15

    Coming up... The Cure in Dallas. My wife is going to They Might be Giants then it's off to see Mike and the Mechanics.

    They'd be cool to see, though I'm not familiar with a whole lot of their music.

    Which one? I mentioned 3 bands :)

    That sounds like fun.
    I like concerts, though I don't see concerts very often. And many of the bands I like are older and probably aren't touring anymore or have members who have passed away.

    I was never much of a concert person. I saw 3 concerts in the UK before moving to the US. We were at a Metal Shop (hair band/arena rock cover band) show and they did a Poison song. My wife they might be cool to see. 10 minutes later I had Poison tickets, supported by Cheap Trick. It sort of went from there. Since then I've traveled to Portland, OR, Northampton, MA and St Louis, MO to see Steve Hackett, Charlotte, NC to seee Genesis, Mark Knopfler in both Dallas and Phoenix, Pet Shop Boys and New Order in Seattle, WA, Jean Michel Jarre in New York, Houston, Dallas, and San Jose, A-ha in Los Angeles. Also in Dallas have seen OMD, Joe Jackson, Colin Hay, The Monkees, Erasure, Howard Jones supported by Men Without Hats and opened by All Hail the Silence - great synth group.

    I'm sure there's some more that I've forgotten about. And before people think I'm rich, being able to fly off all over the country to see these bands, I have a Southwest Airlines credit card - everything I buy goes on the card that gets paid off at the end of the month. Usually costs about $20 for the 2 of us, round trip.
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 15:29:22 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 12:48:15

    I like concerts, though I don't see concerts very often. And many of the bands I like are older and probably aren't touring anymore or have members who have passed away.

    So you ever go to see tribute or cover bands? Dallas has a huge list of cover bands and tributes. A good thing and a bad thing, makes it difficult for original bands to get their foot in the door. Not that there's much good music these days anyway, kiddie bands, manufacturerd and computer generated pop and autotune trap has destroyed music.
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 15:48:29 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nigel Reed to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 2023 03:27 pm

    Coming up... The Cure in Dallas. My wife is going to They Might be
    Giants then it's off to see Mike and the Mechanics.

    They'd be cool to see, though I'm not familiar with a whole lot of
    their music.

    Which one? I mentioned 3 bands :)

    All 3 of them. :) (I thought that would be implied since I didn't mention a specific one.)

    I was never much of a concert person. I saw 3 concerts in the UK before moving to the US. We were at a Metal Shop (hair band/arena rock cover band) show and they did a Poison song. My wife they might be cool to see. 10 minutes later I had Poison tickets, supported by Cheap Trick. It sort of went from there. Since then I've traveled to Portland, OR, Northampton, MA and St Louis, MO to see Steve Hackett, Charlotte, NC to seee Genesis, Mark Knopfler in both Dallas and Phoenix, Pet Shop Boys and New Order in Seattle, WA, Jean Michel Jarre in New York, Houston, Dallas, and San Jose, A-ha in Los Angeles. Also in Dallas have seen OMD, Joe Jackson, Colin Hay, The Monkees, Erasure, Howard Jones supported by Men Without Hats and opened by All Hail the Silence - great synth group.

    For not being much of a concert person, I think you've seen more concerts than I have. :) I've seen Rush a few times, Paul McCartney twice, Blue Man Group a couple times, Paul Simon once, Mark Knopfler once, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra once.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 15:50:01 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nigel Reed to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 2023 03:29 pm

    I like concerts, though I don't see concerts very often. And many of
    the bands I like are older and probably aren't touring anymore or have
    members who have passed away.

    So you ever go to see tribute or cover bands? Dallas has a huge list of cover bands and tributes. A good thing and a bad thing, makes it difficult for original bands to get their foot in the door. Not that there's much good music these days anyway, kiddie bands, manufacturerd and computer generated pop and autotune trap has destroyed music.

    I don't see tribute/cover bands as much as original bands. My dad was in a local cover band for quite a while though, and I always enjoyed seeing them. His friend is still in the band, and every once in a while I'll go watch them.

    Nightfox
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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 16:56:01 2023
    Who are you looking forward to seeing?

    I'm jealous that you got tickets to see The Cure. Sadly, their Denver show is at probably the worst venue in the area, which has *really* wide wings, and
    if you don't get tickets *early* then it's just a miserable show. By the time
    I got in, all of the good seats were gone. We saw them at RiotFest a few
    years ago and they were absolutely brilliant! A really good show.

    We've got tickets next month for Placebo down in Denver and They Might Be Giants up here in Fort Collins.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 18:30:46 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 15:48:29

    Which one? I mentioned 3 bands :)

    All 3 of them. :) (I thought that would be implied since I didn't mention a specific one.)

    Haha, fair enough, you got me there. I'm not a big Cure fan, more my wife's thing but I don't dislike their stuff. TMBG were never on my radar. I think it's an American thing so she's off to see them with a friend. I'm a big Genesis fan so Mike and the Mechanics is a natural. You probably know more stuff of theirs than you realize.

    For not being much of a concert person, I think you've seen more concerts than I have. :) I've seen Rush a few times, Paul McCartney twice, Blue Man Group a couple times, Paul Simon once, Mark Knopfler once, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra once.

    Ah yes, I saw Rush. A friend took me for my birthday when they came into Dallas even tho I had to pay for the tickets lol. Talking of birthdays, I saw Phil Collins a few years ago on my birthday. He didn't bring me a cake tho :)

    How was the Paul Simon show? I wasn't a big McCartney fan. Never into the Beatles. I found Wings music to be somewhat basic and uninteresting. The late 70's and early 80's saw syncpop and new wave and he was playing Mull of Kintyre.

    Back in England, my first concert was A-ha. Genesis twice in 1992 and Dire Straits the same year. Lisa Stansfield opened for Genesis at the first concert. Lyle Lovett and his Big Band and Was Not Was opened for Dire Straits... segway...

    Leeland Sklar is touring with Lovett, he was Phil Collins bassist for years. He wrote a book "Everybody Loves Me". I started to read the intro and thought, I'm going to look forward to reading this book. Lovett had 3 nights in Dallas so I went down and waited around for about 4 hours, meanwhile I decided to start reading the book...and as I flipped through the pages...it was pictures. Just pictures of people flipping off! There's a story behind it, but anyway...

    Lee came out and I shouted, can I have an autograph please, he smiled when he saw me waving his book around. I was the only person waiting, and I didn't even have a ticket for the show! Anyway, I said, you have to flip me off first, which he did with a "f..k you". I gave him a "f..k you back" with a flip and we had a nice conversation. We laughed about the lack of anything to read in the book. He signed it "To Nigel. Few words, but best wishes". He was really cool and wish I had more time to chat.

    I've got a few other things signed too. Joe Jackson was in the tour bus before be was off the stage! We waited around and after everyone else had gone I asked someone if he'd sign a couple of albums for us. They took them on the tour bus and came back signed! Paul from OMD signed The Pacific Age. Andy wouldn't come out the bus, he was too tired...not surprising.

    Colin Hay signed my concert tickets because I already picked up a signed album from the merch table. I have a couple of Jean Michel Jarre signed items, and several Steve Hackett items too.

    I'm not one of those star struck people or celeb followers, I just think it's nice to have something unique that I can hand down.

    I also met a bunch of the bands I listed in Lost 80's Live. They had a meet & greet with the money going to charity so I got a Tubes album signed, and a couple of Wang Chung albums. Since Fee Waybill was there, I had him sign one of the Wang Chung albums before he said "but I'm with The Tubes" at which point I provided the album :)

    Probably the cream of the crop was meeting Thomas Dolby, such a pioneer. I have Golden age of Wireless signed but it got a little smudged.
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 18:35:01 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 15:50:01

    I don't see tribute/cover bands as much as original bands. My dad was in a local cover band for quite a while though, and I always enjoyed seeing them. His friend is still in the band, and every once in a while I'll go watch them.

    I'm friends with members of a few cover bands here in Dallas. They're all very talented and wonder why they don't do it for a living, then I realize, they like to eat!

    I'd love to be in a cover band but I just don't have the time to put into the practice that's needed. While I can play by ear, sort of, I have a hard time picking out the nuances especially for multi layers synth songs. I thought a Pet Shop Boys tribute would be fun. They have a ton of songs that everyone knows and I could probably recreate the majority of the songs on my Korg Kronos, but it's time.

    I can't even sing so that doesn't help either.
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Abbub on Wed Apr 26 18:44:36 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Abbub to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 16:56:01

    I'm jealous that you got tickets to see The Cure. Sadly, their Denver show is at probably the worst venue in the area, which has *really* wide wings, and
    if you don't get tickets *early* then it's just a miserable show. By the time
    I got in, all of the good seats were gone. We saw them at RiotFest a few years ago and they were absolutely brilliant! A really good show.

    I'm surprised I got tickets really. They're at Dos Equis Pavillion which has a huge general admission open air grass area, but the seats are covered. Looks like we're on the left of the stage, row L. I guess we'll see.
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 18:43:47 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nigel Reed to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 2023 06:30 pm

    Haha, fair enough, you got me there. I'm not a big Cure fan, more my wife's thing but I don't dislike their stuff. TMBG were never on my radar. I think it's an American thing so she's off to see them with a friend. I'm a big Genesis fan so Mike and the Mechanics is a natural. You probably know more stuff of theirs than you realize.

    I know I've heard their songs that were played on the radio, though with They Might Be Giants, I remember hearing their "Particle Man" and "Constantinople" because the TV show 'Tiny Toons' made cartoon music videos for those, and I used to watch that show when I was a kid (early 90s)..

    Dallas even tho I had to pay for the tickets lol. Talking of birthdays, I saw Phil Collins a few years ago on my birthday. He didn't bring me a cake tho :)

    Phil Collins would be good to see.

    How was the Paul Simon show?

    I thought it was pretty good. It was around 2005, I think, and I remember him playing some of his older Simon & Garfunkel songs and some from his Graceland album etc..

    I wasn't a big McCartney fan. Never into the
    Beatles. I found Wings music to be somewhat basic and uninteresting. The late 70's and early 80's saw syncpop and new wave and he was playing Mull of Kintyre.

    I think that's the thing about it - It's music that's easy to listen to and fun when you feel like that kind of thing. I liked the Beatles too. I suppose I have a range of music I like..

    Back in England, my first concert was A-ha. Genesis twice in 1992 and Dire Straits the same year. Lisa Stansfield opened for Genesis at the first concert. Lyle Lovett and his Big Band and Was Not Was opened for Dire Straits... segway...

    It would have been fun to see some of those bands back then. I was a bit young to be going to concerts at that time though.

    Lee came out and I shouted, can I have an autograph please, he smiled when he saw me waving his book around. I was the only person waiting, and I didn't even have a ticket for the show! Anyway, I said, you have to flip me off first, which he did with a "f..k you". I gave him a "f..k you back" with a flip and we had a nice conversation. We laughed about the lack of anything to read in the book. He signed it "To Nigel. Few words, but best wishes". He was really cool and wish I had more time to chat.

    That sounds fun. :)

    Colin Hay signed my concert tickets because I already picked up a signed album from the merch table. I have a couple of Jean Michel Jarre signed items, and several Steve Hackett items too.

    That's cool. :) I actually don't have any signed concert tickets..

    Probably the cream of the crop was meeting Thomas Dolby, such a pioneer. I have Golden age of Wireless signed but it got a little smudged.

    Yeah, I know he did some good stuff (one song of his I can think of is 'He Blinded Me With Science'; I don't remember offhand what else he did).

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 18:45:17 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nigel Reed to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 2023 06:35 pm

    I'd love to be in a cover band but I just don't have the time to put into the practice that's needed. While I can play by ear, sort of, I have a hard time picking out the nuances especially for multi layers synth songs. I thought a Pet Shop Boys tribute would be fun. They have a ton of songs that everyone knows and I could probably recreate the majority of the songs on my Korg Kronos, but it's time.

    Yeah, I've often thought it would be fun to be in a cover band. I've just never tried to actually do it.. I'd also need to practice more, which is also something I just haven't done as much as I probably should.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 23:05:16 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 18:43:47

    Phil Collins would be good to see.

    Back in the day maybe. He's passed it now. During the Genesis show he had 2 backing singers. He just can't carry it like he used to. It got old real quick. That's what ploughing through 3 marriages including a gold-digging bitch will do you. I think he got drunk and fell off a ladder or something.

    How was the Paul Simon show?

    I thought it was pretty good. It was around 2005, I think, and I remember him playing some of his older Simon & Garfunkel songs and some from his Graceland album etc..

    Graceland was a fantastic album. He said himself that the song Graceland was probably the best song he's ever written. I'm not so sure but it has some great lines in it. Another good story teller with his songs and music.

    I think that's the thing about it - It's music that's easy to listen to and fun when you feel like that kind of thing. I liked the Beatles too. I suppose I have a range of music I like..

    I'm the same. I have expanded somewhat. I did an oldies show on KXEZ 92.1 here in Dallas with another Brit, called The British Invasion, we did 2 hours of British oldies so I got more of an appreciation doing that than anything else. the Beatles were in the right place at the right time I think. It's not as if they were amazing musicians, maybe with the exception of Ringo, but they could put songs together.

    It would have been fun to see some of those bands back then. I was a bit young to be going to concerts at that time though.

    Well...I'm not giving my age away on here...but I'm sure I've mentioned it before somewhere.

    That's cool. :) I actually don't have any signed concert tickets..

    I'll try and get you one next time :)

    Yeah, I know he did some good stuff (one song of his I can think of is 'He Blinded Me With Science'; I don't remember offhand what else he did).

    Hyperactive I think was his other big one and Windpower.
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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 26 23:16:49 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Wed Apr 26 2023 18:45:17

    Yeah, I've often thought it would be fun to be in a cover band. I've just never tried to actually do it.. I'd also need to practice more, which is also something I just haven't done as much as I probably should.

    I play guitar...some. I know the major chords and a few minor ones, as me to play a B7msus4 and I have no chance :)

    I also play the keyboards but lack the accuracy and a lot of the dexterity. I can sort of the the intro to Firth of Fifth by Genesis but is sounds very choppy.

    Back in England I took some drum lessons maybe 4-5 before I ended up moving and never picked it up again. I do have a kit and bash away from time to time but I don't really enjoy it as much as the other instruments.
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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Nigel Reed on Thu Apr 27 08:15:48 2023
    Back in the day maybe. He's passed it now. During the Genesis show he
    had 2 backing singers. He just can't carry it like he used to. It got
    old real quick. That's what ploughing through 3 marriages including a gold-digging bitch will do you. I think he got drunk and fell off a
    ladder or something.

    Yeah, he's had really bad back issues for years, I believe. I'm pretty sure that he gave a 'farewell' show a few months back that looked like it was
    almost certainly legitimately going to be his 'farewell show'. (Unlike a lot
    of artists who run a new 'farewell tour' every two years...no names mentioned (Elton John...I'm talking about Elton John...))

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Abbub on Thu Apr 27 10:32:17 2023
    Re: Next concerts....
    By: Abbub to Nigel Reed on Thu Apr 27 2023 08:15:48

    Yeah, he's had really bad back issues for years, I believe. I'm pretty sure that he gave a 'farewell' show a few months back that looked like it was almost certainly legitimately going to be his 'farewell show'. (Unlike a lot of artists who run a new 'farewell tour' every two years...no names mentioned (Elton John...I'm talking about Elton John...))

    From everything I have read, this is the end of the road for Phil. His health isn't getting better plus he also has diabetes to contend with. His last outing with Genesis is surely it.
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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Nightfox on Thu Apr 27 19:51:36 2023
    BY: Nightfox (21:1/137)

    I will be seeing TMBG at the Hollywood Bowl with Sparks in July. Also will see Sparks in London in May as well.


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  • From Phigan@21:3/171 to Utopian Galt on Fri Apr 28 01:23:38 2023
    I will be seeing TMBG at the Hollywood Bowl with Sparks in July. Also w

    I hope they play 'Turn Around'!

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nigel Reed on Sat Apr 29 20:19:50 2023
    On 26 Apr 2023 at 01:54p, Nigel Reed pondered and said...

    Coming up... The Cure in Dallas. My wife is going to They Might be
    Giants then it's off to see Mike and the Mechanics.

    Later in the year, Lost 80's Live. It's an annual show of 12-15 bands or artists from the 80's that play 3 or 4 of their popular songs. In the
    past we've seen Book of Love, Naked Eyes, When in Rome UK, Dramarama, Annabell from Bow Wow Wow, The Tubes, The Vapors, the guy from
    Information Society, Trans-X, Missing Persons, Wang Chung, Flock of

    seriously envious now :)

    Over here the big acts come in our summer time but because it's such a trek we don't see that many and those who do come may only travel as far as either Auckland (our biggest city), Wellington (our capital city) or Christchurch (the largest city in the South Island, about 4 hours drive north of where I am in Dunedin). :(

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Avon on Sat Apr 29 04:44:29 2023
    Re: Re: Next concerts....
    By: Avon to Nigel Reed on Sat Apr 29 2023 20:19:50

    seriously envious now :)

    Queen, how the hell did I miss Queen!

    Over here the big acts come in our summer time but because it's such a trek we don't see that many and those who do come may only travel as far as either Auckland (our biggest city), Wellington (our capital city) or Christchurch (the largest city in the South Island, about 4 hours drive north of where I am in Dunedin). :(

    It always surprises me how big New Zealand is. It's just a speck nudged up against the side of Australia :)

    You have the same problem as we do here. A lot of bands miss Texas for some reason. Genesis were huge here in the 80's and they've not been here since, I guess, 1992ish. I've had to travel to see some of the bands I really wanted to see. A-ha only did 3 shows in Los Angeles, then I found out they added a couple in New York and another at the Hollywood Bowl. I would see them again if they came around.

    And yup, I've got surprise tickets to see The (English) Beat during our upcoming European vacation.

    Maybe you should save your airmiles :) Lost 80's Live is in August and there's plenty of seats left.
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nigel Reed on Sat Apr 29 21:49:52 2023
    On 29 Apr 2023 at 04:44a, Nigel Reed pondered and said...

    Queen, how the hell did I miss Queen!

    I really enjoyed that concert, Adam Lambert stuck the right tone with the audience from the get go, he was there not to replace Freddy but to honor his work... and from the start of the concert everyone was on board.

    It always surprises me how big New Zealand is. It's just a speck nudged
    up against the side of Australia :)

    Not so much nudged up rather 'across the ditch' from them is the local vernacular :)

    You have the same problem as we do here. A lot of bands miss Texas for some reason. Genesis were huge here in the 80's and they've not been
    here since, I guess, 1992ish. I've had to travel to see some of the
    bands I really wanted to see. A-ha only did 3 shows in Los Angeles, then
    I found out they added a couple in New York and another at the Hollywood Bowl. I would see them again if they came around.

    Seems no matter where we may choose to live, there (the bands) they are not - le sigh..

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Avon on Sat Apr 29 04:57:58 2023
    Re: Re: Next concerts....
    By: Avon to Nigel Reed on Sat Apr 29 2023 21:49:52

    Queen, how the hell did I miss Queen!

    I really enjoyed that concert, Adam Lambert stuck the right tone with the audience from the get go, he was there not to replace Freddy but to honor his work... and from the start of the concert everyone was on board.

    Oh man, Lambert absolutely nailed it. Like he said, he's not there to replace Freddy, nobody could ever replace Freddy, but to bring his songs alive in such an authentic manner, it was a much better show that I could have imagined. I don't think there was one person walking out who wasn't satisfied.

    Not so much nudged up rather 'across the ditch' from them is the local vernacular :)

    Well, that's a new one for me. I guess the US and UK have their pond, you can have your ditch.

    Seems no matter where we may choose to live, there (the bands) they are not

    True. I guess you're in the right place for Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovon and the Rogue Traders :) Wasn't Naked and Famous from that end of the planet?
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nigel Reed on Sun Apr 30 20:52:07 2023
    On 29 Apr 2023 at 04:57a, Nigel Reed pondered and said...

    Oh man, Lambert absolutely nailed it. Like he said, he's not there to replace Freddy, nobody could ever replace Freddy, but to bring his songs alive in such an authentic manner, it was a much better show that I
    could have imagined. I don't think there was one person walking out who wasn't satisfied.

    Agreed and I loved the nice touch when Brian May was out front with his guitar and then Freddy came up on the big screen and there was a short duet.

    Well, that's a new one for me. I guess the US and UK have their pond,
    you can have your ditch.

    Yep, it's been that way for many years now.

    Seems no matter where we may choose to live, there (the bands) they are

    True. I guess you're in the right place for Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovon and the Rogue Traders :) Wasn't Naked and Famous from that end of the

    Not that many come over sadly, it seems we're more likely to get bigs acts from the USA and Europe.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to Avon on Sun Apr 30 04:18:50 2023
    Re: Re: Next concerts....
    By: Avon to Nigel Reed on Sun Apr 30 2023 20:52:07

    Agreed and I loved the nice touch when Brian May was out front with his guitar and then Freddy came up on the big screen and there was a short duet.

    I was about 4 rows from the front and 2 from the catwalk. Me and Brian had a bit of eye contact while I was taking some picutres. They put them up on Brian's webpage for a while. Not sure if they're still there. I got some pretty good ones.

    Not that many come over sadly, it seems we're more likely to get bigs acts from the USA and Europe.

    Didn't Steve Hackett come to New Zealand a couple of years ago? That was a great show if you're a Genesis and/or prog rock fan. I've seen him 3 times now and hopefully will get to see Foxtrot at 50.
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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Nigel Reed on Tue May 2 19:38:27 2023
    You have the same problem as we do here. A lot of bands miss Texas for some reason.

    Same happens here in Arizona (Phoenix)... Large city and metro area, but gets passed over a lot. I wouldn't do June, July or August but most of the rest of the year is nice to really nice.

    Fortunately, Vegas is relatively close in terms of near travel. Although the last couple times I was there I absolutely hated it it.


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  • From Phigan@21:3/171 to Tracker1 on Thu May 4 01:03:06 2023
    Same happens here in Arizona (Phoenix)... Large city and metro area, bu passed over a lot. I wouldn't do June, July or August but most of the

    Aside from the heat, a lot of people think we're all racist. One brewery refuses to sell us their beer, even.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Phigan on Thu May 4 15:05:48 2023
    Phigan wrote to Tracker1 <=-

    Same happens here in Arizona (Phoenix)... Large city and metro area, bu passed over a lot. I wouldn't do June, July or August but most of the

    Aside from the heat, a lot of people think we're all racist. One
    brewery refuses to sell us their beer, even.

    Miller Lite?


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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Phigan on Sat May 6 20:57:16 2023
    Same happens here in Arizona (Phoenix)... Large city and metro area,
    bu passed over a lot. I wouldn't do June, July or August but most
    of the

    Aside from the heat, a lot of people think we're all racist. One brewery refuses to sell us their beer, even.

    That's just really wierd. I mean, there are definitely racists in the country, but not nearly as many as people seem to think. It's kind of weird how hyper fixated people have become about race/sexuality and how okay it has become to be blatently racist if the target is white men.


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  • From phigan@21:4/137 to Blue White on Sat May 6 21:54:24 2023
    brewery refuses to sell us their beer, even.

    Miller Lite?

    Russian River brewing.

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  • From phigan@21:4/137 to Tracker1 on Sat May 6 21:59:56 2023
    That's just really wierd. I mean, there are definitely racists in the country, but not nearly as many as people seem to think. It's kind of weird how hyper fixated people have become about race/sexuality and how okay it has become to be blatently racist if the target is white men.

    Totally agreed.. But I dunno if you remember there was a governor here that pulled MLK day as a state holiday a while back.. We couldn't get the
    Superbowl until that came back. It's not quite like what you're referring to, but it was probably part of the beginning.

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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to phigan on Mon May 8 00:49:38 2023
    Totally agreed.. But I dunno if you remember there was a governor here that pulled MLK day as a state holiday a while back.. We couldn't get the Superbowl until that came back. It's not quite like what you're referring to, but it was probably part of the beginning.

    Here it was the voters voted about 51% against making MLK a new holiday... IIRC they replaced a different holiday with MLK day a couple years later.


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  • From Phigan@21:3/171 to Tracker1 on Thu May 11 23:37:06 2023
    Here it was the voters voted about 51% against making MLK a new holiday IIRC they replaced a different holiday with MLK day a couple years late

    I don't remember anything about voting, but that may have been to bring
    it back. Mecham just did away with it without any kind of vote or
    anything. Initially, that is. I'd have to searchy what year that was, but
    I'm not on a computer that can do that at the moment :D.

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