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58 minutes ago, Pete said:

I dunno... I saw them at Giants Stadium back in 2006, and it was something else. "Local bands done good" is absolutely something you need to experience live and up close, especially in a jam packed stadium surrounded by fans in full on "come to Jesus" mode.

I saw Kid Rock in Detroit in 1999. It was fucking incredible.

But he's still Kid Rock.

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I graduated high school in 1992, so I grew up on this stuff. But back then, I was never allowed to see my favorite bands in their prime. 

I did get to see many of them in those Poison-headlined cards from 1999-2001, incl Warrant, Slaughter, Cinderella, RATT, Dokken. Also saw Crue three times in those years, as well as Sebastian Bach ("I Remember You" is my all time favorite song). I even saw Firehouse.

Also saw KISS in '96 and 2000, though they weren't doing many of their hairband era tunes. 

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Poison played one of the local casinos a few years back and before the show Bret Michaels was out in the parking lot throwing a football around with me and a couple of dozen other people. Good times.

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1 minute ago, OSJ said:

Poison played one of the local casinos a few years back and before the show Bret Michaels was out in the parking lot throwing a football around with me and a couple of dozen other people. Good times.

Nice! 

Whatever they may have been like in the 80's, by the late 90's they seemed to just be happy to still be playing rock and roll and having a great time. They put on terrific concerts all three times I saw them.  No more pretense to "Art". (cough cough *Native Tongue* cough cough) Just throwing a party. 

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Yup. That's why the 1970's Stones are probably my favorite band - at least for live recordings. (followed closely by Bruce 1978-80) The 1970s Stones're dangerous, always about to run right off a cliff. Listening to them from that era can be like leaning back in a chair and almost falling but not quite. 

And why I have always enjoyed KISS. Aside from one detour, they never got up their own butts about the "importance" of what they do. Now, Gene and Paul seem to get up their own butts about business and stuff. But artistically, they understand it's just rock and roll. 

And why Van Roth is so much better than Van Hagar, to me (an opinion I did not used to hold back in the days of F.U.C.K., incidentally, but we all grow up eventually). 

 

And so on. 

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Spot on! Spending my teen years in the early 70's (I was born in July '57), it was like this... The rich kids dug the Beach Boys, the middle-class average types were into the Beatles, the gutter scum like me were all about the Stones until punk happened. Actually got to see the Mick Taylor incarnation of the Stones live, as much as I love Woody, he's no Mick Taylor. Fucking great show, Stevie Wonder was the opening act and the dude played every instrument on the stage, just fantastic. Anyone but the Stones would have been blown off the stage by Wonder's performance, as it is, it takes some balls to follow Stevie fucking Wonder at a live show.

Oh yeah, Mick's deconstruction of NYC in this is a classic:

 

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I am sure you have seen the 1964 TAMI show, but you could already see their power and menace back then. Aside from James Brown (and maybe Chuck Berry) - both obviously idols for the band - nobody could touch them on that show.  (yes, not even the Beach Boys hehe)

Back to 1978 - the Some Girls Live in Texas movie is the boys showing the punksters how it's done. Or at least proving they could still go in the new musical world when so many of their contemporaries were seen as dinosaurs. The playing on 1972's Ladies and Gentlemen is better, but 1978 was LIT. 

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There's a great story about Mick waking Charlie up during a hotel room party and introducing him as "my drummer". Watts floored him with one punch and said "You're my fucking singer!" and went back up to his room. 

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3 hours ago, Captain Kronos said:

Back to 1978 - the Some Girls Live in Texas movie is the boys showing the punksters how it's done.

Yeah, this is a great film. While I’m more of a Jones-era Stones fan, I do quite like 70s Stones, this time point especially.

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Damn,  I was only 12 when Jones was kicked out of the band and died a month later. You guys weren't even born then, were you? Glad to hear the love for the Jones-era Stones, they did some great stuff, "The Spider and the Fly" remains a favorite after all these years.

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Nah. I’m only 32, but I love Jones-era Stones. That was some good shit.

”Got Live If You Want It!” gets played at least once a week. I know it’s part live/part faux-live, it’s still great. One of my favorites. 

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6 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:

We're way off topic, but I believe I have every officially released Jones era studio track on vinyl

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There are no words for how much I hate you right now. Damn I am jealous.

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Don't Go Away Mad rules. That whole album is awesome.

Kiss put out SO MUCH garbage during the 80s. It was all downhill after Lick It Up. Plus, Gene's look was fucking atrocious for ten years straight. He had some outfits that even Enuff Z'Nuff wouldn't touch. Kiss didn't figure it all out, period, until Revenge came out.

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Yeah, Eric Carr was cool. He was a far better fit than Peter Criss ever was. 

That Faster Pussycat song came out when my parents were going through their divorce, so that was my fucking JAM for a while when I was a kid. 

Love the fact Michael Bolton co-wrote Forever. 

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11 minutes ago, southofheavy said:

Love the fact Michael Bolton co-wrote Forever. 

Dude knows his ballads, for sure. 

Listen to this chorus. It's all shouty and busy and overproduced. This is basically the model for all mainstream country music today. 

But fuck, the drumming is good. 

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19 minutes ago, Captain Kronos said:

Listen to this chorus. It's all shouty and busy and overproduced. This is basically the model for all mainstream country music today. 

Ha! Totally. There are soooo many parallels between hair metal and mainstream country.  

And yeah, Carr played that song perfectly. Without him, that song ends up as the B-side to How Can We Be Lovers?

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