But on the bright side, Taylor Swift was excellent.
Her performance underwhelmed, IMO. Her voice, frankly, isn't all that good. But I'm glad she doesn't hide it's un-goodness by sticking synthesizers and other manipulative Britney Spears crap on top of it.
The performance I enjoyed was Jamie Foxx, T-Pain, that black oompa loompa and Slash. Mr. Slash is a serious rock legend.
But on the bright side, Taylor Swift was excellent.You don't have to sing on key to be the entertainer of the year, poor Stevie Nicks was blown off stage by Taylor's earth shaking vocals.
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Looks like DMB was the #1 Grossing Touring Act in the 2000-2009 decade. Didn't see Kiss on that list.
We have had this discussion.
This is what you need to judge DMB on. If you don't like it...fine. Different strokes and stuff...
I would have never figured you for a Boozoo fan. I had a beautiful clerk at a NOLA record shop talk me into buying one of his CDs several years ago, and have been a huge fan since...of Boozoo too.
Love Cajun music. Piss my family off every Christmas by playing cajun Christmas music. They've relegated me to playing it in their presence only one day during the season.
Also like Buckwheat Zydeco, Clifton Cheneir, Beau Jocque and John Delafose among others. I like it better when the lyrics are in french and I don't understand.
There is one song I've been searching for that my daughter used to like years ago. It's about a dog that's gonna bite. I've looked all over. I think Delafose is the artist.
Geno Delafose? The guy that sings Chickens on the Run? Don't know why exactly, but I love that song.
BTW, I like KISS partially because I know they sort of suck.
The devil just got very cold!!
That's how it's done.
In 20 years...the shit sounds the exact same. Down to the distortion of the guitars, hand movements and the way they play to the crowd, its all the same. What's the point of listening to the same shit over and over again? If you go to one concert, you have been to them all...
Tell you what. The day that Dave has a band of midget impersonaters? We can talk. Until then, Dave is back burner.
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As much as I like Dave and just think that KISS is OK...you make a very strong point here.
Tell you what. The day that Dave has a band of midget impersonaters? We can talk. Until then, Dave is back burner.
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It's just not my thing. People sitting around riffing and skippledy-bee-boo never impressed me at all.
When I hear a band I like I want to hear the music they perform in the way that I enjoy it.
I know how the guitar solos sound in Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child of Mine and November Rain. As much as I respect Slash's ability, I don't want to hear him boodely-boo-beeping up and down the frets and changing that up.
Same with Van Halen. Same with Pink Floyd. Same with Boston. Same with Styx, Journey, Prince, etc. When I go see Snoop, I know the words and the beat. That's what I want to hear, not a bunch of self-indulgent riffing.
Same with The Eagles. When they do Hotel California, I have every piece of the end memorized. Why phuk with it?
What Dave Matthews does is, to me, the absolute height of arrogance. It's HIM having fun doodling around. phuk him.
It just doesn't reach me.
It's just not my thing. People sitting around riffing and skippledy-bee-boo never impressed me at all.
When I hear a band I like I want to hear the music they perform in the way that I enjoy it.
I know how the guitar solos sound in Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child of Mine and November Rain. As much as I respect Slash's ability, I don't want to hear him boodely-boo-beeping up and down the frets and changing that up.
Same with Van Halen. Same with Pink Floyd. Same with Boston. Same with Styx, Journey, Prince, etc. When I go see Snoop, I know the words and the beat. That's what I want to hear, not a bunch of self-indulgent riffing.
Same with The Eagles. When they do Hotel California, I have every piece of the end memorized. Why fuck with it?
What Dave Matthews does is, to me, the absolute height of arrogance. It's HIM having fun doodling around. Fuck him.
It just doesn't reach me.
I agree to some degree. Bands like Phish and Widespread Panic annoy the shit out of me with their endless jamming. They play for so long that it completely changes the song. I'm not a huge fan of instrumentals either, so when you just fucking jam for that long, the song loses its original identity and becomes some impromptu instrumental that is played in the same key as the original song.
That doesn't mean that I don't like jamming or riffing at all. Most guitar solos developed from the guitarist "boodely-boo-beeping" on the guitar, and it just became the version they used on the album when they recorded. And, by their very nature, guitar solos deviate from the chorus and verses of the song so as to provide a different sound, often during a bridge. However, it doesn't do so to such a degree that the song loses its identity and is unrecognizable or unenjoyable.
I'm not a huge fan of Dave Matthews, but I also don't view him like I do Phish and Widespread Panic. As jadennis stated, I'm never left wondering what the fuck song Dave Matthews is playing. The "boodely-boo-beeping" is similar enough (and short enough) that I know it's the same song and can still appreciate the sound of that song.
I view it this way: You like the solo in Welcome to the Jungle and know what to expect from it. You like it because you've heard it before, and thus know it and know that you like it. If you go to a live concert and they decide to change it up, you won't know whether you like it or not until you've heard it. Their live solo could be completely different and twice as long, but you can't state that you don't like it until you've heard it.
That's how I view live music at concerts. The band gets bored with playing the same thing over and over for years, and they want to change it up. Sure, I came to the show because I liked the band and what I know about them. But just as with every new band or new song that comes out, I won't know whether I like it until I've heard it. Hearing something new due to a band changing things up doesn't bother me; it's when they completely fucking lose me in non-stop instrumental shit for 10 minutes that I get bored.
I'm good with all of this. I'd prefer not to hear a different version of Welcome to the Jungle, because I liked WttJ enough to come see the band. Them indulging in their own desires by changing it up is unlikely to be met with gratitude. I won't boo them off the stage for it, though.
I will say that KISS fans are likely to riot if Tommy Thayer misses a single warped chord of an Ace solo. Not only that, but he has to pretty much nail the movements, too. It has to be an exact duplicate or he's getting poop from the hardcore fans. Bruce Kulick didn't get that kind of scrutiny and brought a different sound to some of the songs, but he wasn't painted like Ace. That changes the dynamic.
Good points VV....Kaos, to me, if a band is going to play exactly the same thing, note for note, every song they play....why even go? Just listen to the CD. Now I know, that's like saying why bother to go to a game when you can watch it on TV. So I don't mean that literally. But that's kind of why I like that some bands mix it up a least some on some songs. Lenny Kravitz was good at this. Some songs...by the book. Some songs, mixed it up some. Pearl Jam was this way too (except in the early 90s when they were so drugged up that every song was an adventure, whether they meant for it to be that way or not).
Also...they are the one's that wrote the song and the music...they aren't exactly being disrespectful to it or arrogant if they like to play if differently. I wouldn't expect a cover band to get creative, it wasn't their creativity that produced the song to begin with. But if someone wants to expand on their own music, who are we to call them out on it?
For the record, I saw Dave Matthews 11 times, but all from 1993 to 1996 or 97. Somewhere shortly after that they did lose something.
Does shit blow up when you listen to the CD? Can you see somebody fly to the rafters and vomit blood on you from a CD? Can you listen to the CD and feel the heat of the flames as they roar along to the music? Can you scream as loud as you want while rockets shoot out of a burning guitar? Can a CD throw you guitar picks? Rain confetti on your head? Will a CD pour smoke out of it? Shoot lasers?
You do realize that no matter how much you talk him up or show youtube clips, that Kaos will never like DMB? Just not his style.