Van Halen to perform at California Mid-State Fair - July 24th

[Southpaw]

Im just happy they're standing upright after 35 summers... in this town that's called progress, thats how we do biz

[Angel]

Damn it man. My parents would let me see CVH or Ozzy.

I was allowed to see whoever I wanted from the age of 14 up. :D

[chuckjitsu]

Tim McGraw, John Mayer, Huey Lewis and the News, Rascal Flatts, Matchbox Twenty and Goo Goo Dolls are also scheduled to play. I know Huey would be a draw if it was 1984 and Matchbox Twenty and Goo Goo Dolls would be a draw if it was 1998. How popular today are the others? I know they've had some measure of success, but I don't follow them enough to know much about them relative to 2013.

[FORD]

Rascall Flatts is basically a country boy band. Can't stand them myself, for that reason, so I have no idea what their popularity is, but I imagine they do fairly well for a country act, since they're always on those damn Country Music Awards shows.

[DLR Bridge]

Rascall Flatts is basically a country boy band. Can't stand them myself...

Can't stand them either. They did some shitty version of that shitty song Life Is A Highway that ended up in the movie Cars and had a shitty bit part in that shitty Hannah Montana movie. If my kids didn't run the DVD player, I might know a little less about just how shitty they are.

[DLR Bridge]

I know Huey would be a draw if it was 1984...

...and if they promised to run a loop of this on VH's big screen before Hip To Be Square...

[DLR Bridge]

John Mayer.

Get ready!

...or not.

[chuckjitsu]

...and if they promised to run a loop of this on VH's big screen before Hip To Be Square...

Good movie! Cut from the same disturbing cloth as Fight Club.

[chuckjitsu]

Get ready!

...or not.

A man's got to know his limitations...

[DLR Bridge]

yepper.

[Nickdfresh]

Can't stand them either. They did some shitty version of that shitty song Life Is A Highway that ended up in the movie Cars and had a shitty bit part in that shitty Hannah Montana movie. If my kids didn't run the DVD player, I might know a little less about just how shitty they are.

Oh, those are the faggots.

Basically, Tom Petty summed it up when he said (paraphrasing) that "country music are just bad bands that can't play rock."

[jhale667]

A man's got to know his limitations...

Noooo shit. Dude, THIS is what cost him Jennifer Aniston. Or at least it should have been.

[FORD]

Can't stand them either. They did some shitty version of that shitty song Life Is A Highway that ended up in the movie Cars and had a shitty bit part in that shitty Hannah Montana movie. If my kids didn't run the DVD player, I might know a little less about just how shitty they are.

Well, there ya go.... involved in two Disney movies. Conclusive evidence that they're a boy band.

[FORD]

Oh, those are the faggots.

Basically, Tom Petty summed it up when he said (paraphrasing) that "country music are just bad bands that can't play rock."

Tom said that??

Guess I never heard or read that quote. Not that I disagree with him, but I'm a little shocked that he said it, considering there are elements of country in a lot of his music, and he did an entire album with Johnny Cash, for fucks sake!

[Nickdfresh]

Tom said that??

Guess I never heard or read that quote. Not that I disagree with him, but I'm a little shocked that he said it, considering there are elements of country in a lot of his music, and he did an entire album with Johnny Cash, for fucks sake!

I dunno. I can't find anything online and am basing this on something some DJ said years ago. But I think he would have been mocking the "new" country artists, not the classics...