Rolling Stone:A Mostly Reunited Van Halen Hit Madison Square Garden

[scottydabodi]

On a personal note, from ME to all the Know-it-Alls at Rolling Stone, your reviews of ANYTHING have been remarkably underwhelming for a longer period of time than we've waited for Dave and Ed to play live together again.

Earth to Rolling Stone: You have SUCKED for DECADES. Go suck a dick.

PS -Hey, do ya think ya could cram a few more ADS in your mag, cuz those are more interesting than your articles...

[samplehead]

So Billboard review says the backing vocals are being piped in...

Are they or aren't they?

[ELVIS]

Both...

[binnie]

The reviews are positive, that's always a plus.

On a side note, Hyman is correct to say that the standard of journalism is slipping - not much individuality in either writer's style.

[naturochem]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Both...

Only piped on the EASTERN half of the cuntry...

[Ellyllions]

Reading all these reviews makes me wonder if the shitty sound we endured was because of our seats at all.

I'm reading the same sound complaints...too loud and muffled.

[binnie]

Originally posted by Ellyllions
too loud and muffled.

If your seats were high up then that quite often happens: the sound rolls around in the top of the arena and gets muffled. That's happened to me at a few gigs.

Ps: music CANNOT be too loud

[DLR'sCock]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
Perhaps it was just me being really into it, but it came across to me that Dave was intentionally forgetting the lyrics to Pretty Woman...?

I honestly have thought that the forgetting the words bit has been schtick for a long long long time.

[DLR'sCock]

Originally posted by Ellyllions
Reading all these reviews makes me wonder if the shitty sound we endured was because of our seats at all.

I'm reading the same sound complaints...too loud and muffled.

Where one is located in an arena show or any show will indeed affect the sound that one hear's coming to their ears.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
I honestly have thought that the forgetting the words bit has been schtick for a long long long time.

Yup.

Its all schtick.

Dave used to do it during Romeo Delight back in the old days. Because even back then when he actually DID forget the words, there would be no "I forgot the fucking words", just a whole chours or verse missing.

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by scottydabodi
On a personal note, from ME to all the Know-it-Alls at Rolling Stone, your reviews of ANYTHING have been remarkably underwhelming for a longer period of time than we've waited for Dave and Ed to play live together again.

Earth to Rolling Stone: You have SUCKED for DECADES. Go suck a dick.

PS -Hey, do ya think ya could cram a few more ADS in your mag, cuz those are more interesting than your articles...

i don't know if they can put in more ads but they probably plan on having about 5 or 6 more Bob Dylan cover pics before the year is up

[naturochem]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
I honestly have thought that the forgetting the words bit has been schtick for a long long long time.

For the most part, I think you're correct, Cock.

The US Festival was one of several exceptions to this I personally witnessed, as the fuck-ups were obviously not contrived like they were most of the time -- 'fucker was gagged out of his mind there!!

[naturochem]

Originally posted by binnie
If your seats were high up then that quite often happens: the sound rolls around in the top of the arena and gets muffled. That's happened to me at a few gigs.

Ps: music CANNOT be too loud

Hey, I used to feel the same way, but after suffering a fair amount of hearing loss in one ear, and more than a cunt hair in the other, I now sometimes use moderate protection during gigs.

Any sound above 90db can cause hearing loss, but I normally don't worry till about 140, which I've far exceeded with the Boogie & Marshall, let alone getting directly in front of a pegged FOH PA speak!!!

My bike pushes the 140db level at the pipes too...

[janarak]

Originally posted by naturochem
Hey, I used to feel the same way, but after suffering a fair amount of hearing loss in one ear, and more than a cunt hair in the other, I now sometimes use moderate protection during gigs.

Any sound above 90db can cause hearing loss, but I normally don't worry till about 140, which I've far exceeded with the Boogie & Marshall, let alone getting directly in front of a pegged FOH PA speak!!!

My bike pushes the 140db level at the pipes too...

Protection when you gig or at gigs ??
Tried to play live with plugs in one and both and it aint the same,
Your Hearing ends up shot in a band, end of.
Could be my age tho lol

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
...yet no mention of Back Bends.....


wtf?

Dear Lounge;

Try to stay on topic. This thread is about the Rolling Stone review. There's another thread entirely dedicated to Dave's back bends. Please discuss back bends in the back bend thread.

Thank you.

DG