If a band plays a festival they have very tight restrictions re: time. Curfews are strict. Add that into the fact that in most cases significant proportions of the audience won't be hardcore fans and you have to play the 'hits'.Originally Posted by ELVIS
Moreover, if you don't like Dave's higher register right now, why on earth would you to hear him attempt Atomic Punk?
The Power Of The Riff Compels Me
Shaddup with that dude...
Van Halen were not a "hits" machine and this is not 1984...
"festival gig, hits..."
Is that the kind of corporate thinking you do, by committee ??
Not JUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO !!
NO!
FUCK NO !!!
Jump is no fucking way to leave fans wanting more at the end of a Van Halen concert...
Remember that old feeling ??
Well, this aint it...
Thanks Van Halen, how much did that set me back ??
Looks like Baby needs his ba-ba!
How do you spell pretentious? S-A-M-M-Y H-A-G-A-R
A band that has 2 diamond records were not a 'hits' band? Van Halen didn't have MTV hits? Come on, dude.
As for 'corporate thinking', it's a sad fact of life that bands become businesses and as far as live music is concerned, big festivals are where the $$$ are right now (outside of the US where I sense festivals aren't quite as big). Hearing the same setlists maybe tiring for us, but the average person in that crowd is probably not stood there thinking 'I really wish they'd bust out Sunday Afternoon In the Park'. If you play a festival, you play the songs you're best known for, for better or for worse.
Complete bullshit ! They always played their biggest songs and promoted their new album buy playing stuff off it. ALWAYS ! Dave was off on a few things like last year and again that sucks but Hot For Teacher was ripping and so was Panama. They got a little out of sink on Doctor & the Roy song. Big deal ! At least it's live ! I enjoyed it. Would have loved to have been there. Come back soon ! Even with the hit's set ! Lol. GOD HOW I HATE HITS ! Just think if they didn't have any. They could be.... well opening for Sam Hagar !
I am pissed they dropped Mean Streets last year though ! Elvis can I borrow a tissue ?
They did everything they could to get "hits," dumbass!
You realize they were pressured by WB to record Diver Down after song they released to be a bumper between the end of the Fair Warning Tour and their next project, "(Oh) Pretty Woman", unexpectedly charted thereby ruining the boys' vacation plans (and possibly their ability to stand each other). You have this wanker belief in some form of sanctity/purity/legitimacy that the actual band NEVER gave a shit about...
Rebuttal
You don't need a rebuttal. You can't have a battle of the wits with an unarmed person ! Lol.
Not saying their wasnt a sour note or 2 on Daves part..but damn thats fuckin good shite!!
And as far as set times go, if you want the big $$$ paycheck, you abide by the festival organizer's rules, which could include a significant deduction if you go over even by a minute (to offset union overtime pay, etc.). I don't think Ed was cutting the breaks and mentioning "time" so he could make an early flight back to L.A.
Wow y'all made the monkey dance for about half the show...
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
Dave's voice sounds great. Maybe he should chew gum on stage more often!
Great ? No. Better sure. They were good. Love that freight train sound ! It was a good album cover idea.
Extended video on YouTube of Aerosmith and VH. (not the full sets from either, but probably the longest piece of footage out there....
VH starts at 43:45 in.....
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
Great compared to '12. I think the little bit of reverb works in his favor for sure. The vocals were bone dry on the last tour.
He did that "hello!" in Ice Cream Man that he did all during the Jay Mohr show. Funny.
You must identify nicely with certain people in the movie "Office Space", eh?
Dude...that is all that matters. Congrats on getting to see them.
I live inside of that movie.You must identify nicely with certain people in the movie "Office Space", eh?
Hmmmmm.....I just realized...Bill Lumbergh has not been around here for quite sometime. He used to post quite a bit back in the day.....
I'm a little closer to Ron Livingston's character. Perpetually fed up and scheming to improve my situation.
KICKING ASS and TAKING NAMES!!
Thanks Silexxx, congratulations to the people who made this vid.
I gotta say that "She's the Woman" sounded pretty darn good.
Dave keeps his voice in check and keeps up with the rest of the band. That's all I'm askin' for....
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
Excellent. Amazing job someone has done putting that together.
THINK LIKE THE WAVES
Well, I'd check the chart stats on that. OK, I haven't but Aerosmith are just more well-known. I think when I say 'hits' I am thinking chart hits, whereas for you folks in the US / Canada, radio hits are HITS. In Van Halen's heyday a hit in this part of the world could only have one meaning - Top 40. That's all I am saying - you can count their Australian 'hits' on the fingers of one hand.
And that has zero to do with Australia being a 'backward country'.
upside down
Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
Indeed! I used to dig holes in my back garden when I was a kid because I thought if I did it for long enough I'd reach Australia - as did many other kids, I'm sure ...upside down
we finally got the hole done and a burnt up kangaroo carcass came up on it's head
what the ?
It's caused by the center of the Earth being full of molten lava. Some folks claim it to be hell, but many of us believe that hell is merely other people.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
it makes a good roo roaster
Tattoo.
Doctor and China Town.
Just an FYI to Aerosmith fans - don't know if this has been posted elsewhere - if so, apologies...
Aerosmith Bassist Tom Hamilton Forced to Leave Australian Tour
By Jon Wiederhorn
Aerosmith will play the last two shows of their Australian tour without bassist Tom Hamilton, who has gone back home to recover from a chest infection. In his place, the band flew in Dirty Angels founder David Hull to Melbourne for last night’s show at the Melbourne Myer Music Bowl.
Hull is expected to remain with Aerosmith for at least the final two dates of their Australian tour, May 1 in Brisbane and May 4 in Melbourne. It is unclear whether Hamilton will be ready to rejoin the band in time for their May 8 show in Manila, Philippines or their May 11 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia. After that, the band will take a two month breaking after the Jakarta show, leaving Hamilton plenty of time to recover. Aerosmith is currently touring for its latest album Music From Another Dimension, which came out November 6, 2012 and debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart.
Hull is no stranger to the Aerosmith camp. He is a member of guitarist Joe Perry’s side band The Joe Perry Project and filled in for Hamilton during Aerosmith’s entire Root of All Evil Tour in 2006 while the bassist was recovering from throat cancer. Hull stood in for Hamilton again for several shows three years later during the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Presents tour while Hamilton recuperated from minor surgery. Hull is also a solo artist who released the album Soul in Motion in 2010 and has written music for films and TV shows, including NCIS.
My karma just ran over your dogma.
"Tattoo"'s still one of my fave ADKOT songs - they really rendered it, though the screamed vocal parts were tough for Dave
who sounded a bit "asthmatic"...
That's how it goes on stage when you've sung your lungs and guts out in the studio, it's hard to get close to it.
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