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="Edgy DC":2mtpn9bk]Because Giants Stadium just won't rock enough without a performance of "Against All Odds"?[/quote:2mtpn9bk]
Or "The Living Years"
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Kong76
Mar 09 2007 11:03 AM
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Yes, H & H is Dio-only stuff from the three albums and three new songs so
as to keep it legit. Supposedly, the Radio City show at the end of this month
has no support act and the set is be a little longer. I'm hoping that's the one
they shoot a DVD of. I saw a picture of the stage design yesterday, but now
I can't find it. I think it was on some fan page and may have been there with-
out permission or something.
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 11:20 AM
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Spoiler below: Police's rehearsal setlist.
<ol><li>"When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around"</li>
<li>"Message in a Bottle"</li>
<li>"Driven to Tears"</li>
<li>"Walking on the Moon"</li>
<li>"Synchronicity II"</li>
<li>"Don't Stand So Close to Sting"</li>
<li>"Every Little Thiing She Does Is Magic"</li>
<li>"Walking in Your Footsteps"</li>
<li>"Tea in the Sahara"</li>
<li>"Deathwish"</li>
<li>"Demolition Man"</li>
<li>"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"</li>
<li>"Murder by Numbers"</li>
<li>"Spirits in the Material World"</li>
<li>"Wrapped Around Your Finger"</li>
<li>"Invisible Sun"</li>
<li>"Bed's Too Big Without You"</li>
<li>"One World (Not Three)"</li>
<li>"Bring On the Night"</li>
<li>"King of Pain"</li>
<li>"Shadows in the Rain"</li>
<li>"Roxanne"</li>
<li>"So Lonely"</li>
<li>"Every Breath You Take"</li>
<li>"Next to You"</li>
<li>"Can't Stand Losing You"</li></ol>
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Johnny Dickshot
Mar 09 2007 11:34 AM
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Aka: the 2-record Best-of that'll Shirley be in stores soon.
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TransMonk
Mar 09 2007 11:37 AM
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That's a pretty decent Police set.
I don't think I'd pay the huge ticket rices to see any of these bands. Stadium shows are kinda weird anyway.
The only band that I would pay more than $20 to see reunite (where all of the members are still living) would be Pink Floyd.
I would have said The Clash too about 5 years ago.
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Johnny Dickshot
Mar 09 2007 11:58 AM
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I could do without the VH1ish "King of Pain"
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Gwreck
Mar 09 2007 12:03 PM
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I wasn't all that surprised by the Police ticket prices and demand. Excepting the aforementioned theoretical Zeppelin and Floyd (with Waters and Gilmour) reunions, I don't think they get much bigger. I still can't decide on this one. I want to go but wasn't dropping $200 in the on-sale. Gametime decision.
The Crowded House reunion looks like it could be a lot of fun. I saw Neil and Tim Finn when they toured a few years ago -- a very solid show.
The Genesis reunion was a much bigger draw in Europe. The pick of Giants Stadium was surprising but the very-limited, we're-sticking-to-the core-markets-only approach says they're waiting to see how ticket sales go in, say, Columbus, before expanding the tour. Their ticket prices (essentially the same as the Police - $225, $125, $80, $50 - was very surprising. Didn't think they could get that. I blame Michael Cohl, the devil of concert promoters.
Theoretically, I'd just go to all 3 -- but I'm not sure if I can do it without breaking my cardinal rule -- I've never paid more than $100 for a concert ticket.
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metirish
Mar 09 2007 12:06 PM
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Ticket prices are an outrage,I paid $130 for two Pogues tickets,the convienence charges are a joke.
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 12:32 PM
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<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="1" bordercolor="black"><tr><td valign="top" width="100"><b>Band</td><td valign="top" width="200"><b>Who's Back</td><td valign="top" width="200"><b>Last heard from</td><td valign="top" width="300"><b>Status</td><td valign="top" width="400"><b>Still to Be Seen</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100">Iggy & the Stooges</td><td valign="top" width="200">Iggy, Scott and Ron Asheton (Dave Alexander is long dead and Mike Watt [Minutemen, fIREHOSE] is on bass.)</td><td valign="top" width="200">A tour in 2003, their first since 1974.</td><td valign="top" width="300">Currently hitting the clubs. Festivals also.</td><td valign="top" width="400">They were young, wicked, loud, and playing punk before it was punk, but were they really that good? 'Cause they ain't young no more. Elijah Wood is playing Iggy in a biopic? Are you serious?</td></tr></table>
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TransMonk
Mar 09 2007 12:48 PM
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The Stooges w/ Watt I'll go see.
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 12:54 PM
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The Stooges w/ Elijah Wood, not so much.
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OlerudOwned
Mar 09 2007 02:49 PM
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I'd definitely try to see the Stooges with Watt, but I'd probably pay to see Mike Watt playing spoons on a streetcorner.
Also looking at a new album and reunion tour:
-My Bloody Valentine. It's a shame that their name, today, sounds like that of one of those god awful scremo bands.
-[url=http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/2007/2/21/Jesus_and_Mary_Chain_Add_Reunion_Gigs_Consider_Albu#41299:13cccp2b]Jesus & Mary Chain[/url:13cccp2b]
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 02:54 PM
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Know who I like playing bass with Igg? Bill Laswell, who produced the neglected <i>Instinct</i>.
Buy it. Play it. Turn it up.
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Kong76
Mar 09 2007 03:17 PM
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I'm pretty Iggilliterate. When I was becoming a white dope on punk in the
late 70's, my friend's older brother (the guy with the state of the art stereo
and guitars and amps and knew dj's on the really low FM freqs and bought
us beer and had good weed and liked hanging out with us more than going
and working or finding a girl) used to play that stuff all the time but for some
reason it never took with us. We liked it, but it didn't stick after not hanging
out in the basement.
What two or three albums should one download to educate oneself?
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TransMonk
Mar 09 2007 03:57 PM
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Every Stooges album is pretty good. There's really only 3 I know of (The Stooges, Fun House, Raw Power), and my personal favorite is Fun House.
I've never really gotten into any of Iggy's solo stuff though. I like his work with other artists. He did great work recently with some European band called Teddybears. They did a dance pop song called "I'm a Punk Rocker" which I thought was an awesome song...until it showed up in a Cadillac commercial.
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 06:30 PM
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The thing is the playing on the Stooges albums is spotty, but the energy and fire is beyond belief.
His solo career is strange. Bowie keeps showing up every five or ten years and simultaneously saving him (by helping him complete his songs or covering them, and producing a slick commercial album for him) and ruining him (by producing a slick commercial album for him).
He was absolutely down and out by the middle eighties when he started getting a windfall of royalty checks after Bowie covered "Chna Girl" and "Tonight."
Bowie than produced <i>Blah Blah Blah</i>, an embarrassingly glossy album that nonetheless relaunched his career. Strangley, he sings the whole thing in this post-Elvis baritone instead of his usual nasal squeal. His followup album, <i>Instinct</i>, was just awesome. Bill Laswell (Ramones' <i>Brain Drain</i>, Eno, Golden Palminos, John Zorn) produces and the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones is on guitar.
Iggy's limitation is that his songwriting is spotty, and on a typical record his guitarist or producer gets co-writer credit on most tracks. His strength is his energetic live performances and his terrifying appearance.
Good solo records include <i>Instinct</i>, <i>Lust for Life</i>, <i>New Values</i>.
If you likey, try <i>The Idiot</i>, <i>Zombie Birdhouse</i>, <i>Brick by Brick</i>.
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 06:48 PM
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I'll just opt not to click.
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Kong76
Mar 09 2007 07:03 PM
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I'm not enough of a critic to spot spottiness, Edge.
I downloaded The Stooges & Fun House, and listened to parts of all the songs
just to hear it. The albums are familiar and a couple of songs I remember outright.
I'll give the albums a good whirl this weekend, KB is gonna hate youse even more.
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Edgy DC
Mar 09 2007 07:40 PM
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Raw Power is very controversial. To some, it was their best album. To others, it's an abomination, because Bowie did the final mix. It's pretty cool how it opens with "Search & Destroy," which is like inside-out heavy metal. It opens with the bass-and-drums thundering for 12 bars or so, you set the volume appropriately, but then guitar and vocals come in <i>much</i> higher, shoot the needle into the red, and, if you're not ready, can damage your speakers (or your ears if you're on the headphones).
It's still pretty raw to me, and if Bowie's name wasn't there, I doubt peeps would've been bothered complaining.
Fun House is a fun Halloween record.
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cooby
Mar 09 2007 08:44 PM
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="Edgy DC":36agpydf]I'll just opt not to click.[/quote:36agpydf]
Can't be any worse than JosephSS's link
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Edgy DC
Mar 14 2007 10:02 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 15 2007 07:49 AM
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<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="1" bordercolor="black"><tr><td valign="top" width="100"><b>Band</td><td valign="top" width="200"><b>Who's Back</td><td valign="top" width="200"><b>Last heard from</td><td valign="top" width="300"><b>Status</td><td valign="top" width="400"><b>Still to Be Seen</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100">The Replacements</td><td valign="top" width="200">The three surviving original members (maybe), but replacement guitarist Slim Dunlap hasn't been heard from</td><td valign="top" width="200">Bizzarre final concert in 1991, but they reunited in the studio (minus Slim) a year or two back to add two new songs to a compilation.</td><td valign="top" width="300">Reunion buzz was much stronger this time last year, but it hasn't completely faded.</td><td valign="top" width="400">Will Tommy walk out on Guns 'n' Roses? Is there a special prize if you're the 100th person to walk out on Guns 'n' Roses? Is Paul OK? Looked pretty messed up when I saw him in San Diego. Would Chris Mars and Tommy Stinson's solo careers make them more or less tolerant of Paul's dominance of the band?</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100">The Boomtown Rats</td><td valign="top" width="200">Original members Johnny Fingers (keyboards), Garry Roberts (guitar), Gerry Cott (guitar, he had quit before the release of <i>V Deep</i> in 1982), and Simon Crowe (drums). Currently considered on the outs are singer Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette, who continue to play together. Somebody named Chris Graham is slated to sing.</td><td valign="top" width="200">Last performed (I think) at Self Aid, a Live Aid followup with mostly Irish bands performing to raise money and spirits during an unemployment crisis in Ireland.</td><td valign="top" width="300">Reunion buzz first hit when their albums were re-mastered and re-released in 2005, along with a Greatest HIts compliation. Then a bunch of the band sued Bob Geldof, claiming he owed them dough from the sale of the old records.</td><td valign="top" width="400">Will anybody care if Geldof isn't on board? Chris Graham is the fan who maintains www.BoomtownRats.com. Is he launching these rumors? Can he be trusted? Is somebody kidding me?</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100">The Pixies</td><td valign="top" width="200">Only one lineup I know of, damn it.</td><td valign="top" width="200">Last album was 1991. They followed with a half-hearted support slot for U2's Zoo TV Tour in 1992. A start-and-stop 2004 reunion tour was captured in the film <i>loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies</i>.</td><td valign="top" width="300">They've been threatening to record again since 2005, but it appears they returned to the studio in earnest in January.</td><td valign="top" width="400">Will a tour follow an album? Will this fly? Will Frank stop pushing back against Kim's contributions now that she's shown she can front her own band, thanks?</td></tr></table>
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soupcan
Mar 15 2007 07:16 AM
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Todays NYTimes:
The One-Song Concert
The Who’s lead singer, Roger Daltrey, walked off the stage during the band’s first song at a concert in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday night, and the guitarist Pete Townshend then announced that the show would be canceled and rescheduled for March 25. A note on the band’s Web site (thewhotour.com) said that Mr. Daltrey “experienced vocal challenges as a result of a medical condition.â€
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sharpie
Mar 15 2007 08:39 AM
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Recently Pete called Roger "the least important member of the Who" -- and that is hard to disagree with. Pete, John Entwhistle and Keith Moon can be considered among the greatest songwriters, bass players and drummers but no one considers Roger among the great singers.
Friends of mine were at the Who concert near San Francisco during the Quadrophenia tour when Keith Moon collapsed and a replacement drummer was needed (actually a great drummer I knew in high school was frantically trying to be the one picked instead they picked some apparently pretty lame guy from the crowd).
Therefore, couldn't they just get some guy up on stage to sing the Roger parts or have Pete do them all. Since calling Pete and Roger plus Pete Pallodino, Zach Starkey and Pete's brother the Who is already an insult to the real Who, I don't see why replacing Roger could make it any less Who-like.
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Edgy DC
Mar 15 2007 09:01 AM
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It's pretty hard to dispute that he was the least important member, but, since he's the the last surviving member, it's probably dickie to remind him of that.
I think replacing Roger would make it 50% less Who-like.
OK, 35.
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OlerudOwned
Mar 16 2007 08:10 PM
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I'd like to see the Mats, not that it would make up for never seeing them when they were at their peak.
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Edgy DC
Mar 16 2007 09:47 PM
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I'm not sure the Mats had a peak.
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Giant Squidlike Creature
Apr 18 2007 02:24 PM
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Useful information except that Squid knows that TicketBastard will charge way-too-freakin' much. Squid once ate his computer in anger after having to enter the verification code three times.
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Gwreck
Apr 18 2007 09:25 PM
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I think I read once that the biggest impediment to the Replacements reunion is not Stinson or even Westerberg but Mars (who I note played some percussion/sang backing vocals but did not play drums on those two new songs they did).
I saw Westerberg on his tour a couple of years ago and it was amazing if only to hear him sing Little Mascara and Can't Hardly Wait.
Survey says this one isn't happening until somebody needs to put their kids through college.
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Willets Point
May 25 2007 09:47 AM
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<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/05/25/bruce_cream_to_play_together_this_year/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News">Cream</a>
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Edgy DC
May 25 2007 10:04 AM
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Bam.
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Gwreck
May 25 2007 12:49 PM
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Got my Crowded House tickets for the Beacon Theater this August. Pete Yorn opening. Reasonable price on the tickets too.
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Gwreck
Jun 02 2007 11:48 PM
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Police announced another MSG gig for October.
It's the same night as World Series game 6. I know I'd be able to dump the tickets if I needed to, but it is bad luck to buy them in the first place?
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Willets Point
Jun 03 2007 07:34 AM
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Don't worry, the Yankees will win in 5.
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Edgy DC
Jun 28 2007 07:50 AM
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Well, gotta start saving for the reunited Spice Girls.
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Willets Point
Jun 28 2007 08:13 AM
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<a href="http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2113936,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront">The reunion no one's been waiting for</a>. Aren't they old enough now to be the Spice Women?
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Edgy DC
Aug 07 2007 07:08 AM
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Van Halen is back on the road. Lineup:
Vocals: David Lee Roth (first time on tour with them since 1984)
Guitar: Eddie Van Halen
Bass: Wolfgang Van Halen (he's 16 now)
Drums: Alex Van Halen
Michael Anthony remains, to this day, the only bassist from any of the band's shows and recordings. His leaving the group was somewhat linked to his loyalty to Sammy Hagar, but negotiations with Roth were reportedly tenuous because of Roth's loyalty to Anthony. Messed up.
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Willets Point
Sep 12 2007 01:53 PM
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<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/4982/news/music/led_zeppelin_to_reunite_for_one_show_only">Led Zeppelin</a>.
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Edgy DC
Sep 12 2007 01:58 PM
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Yup. Thanks, I couldn't find the thread.
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Willets Point
Sep 19 2007 08:46 AM
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<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5059/news/music/sex_pistols_announce_bollocks_reunion">Bollocks!</a>
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sharpie
Sep 19 2007 08:51 AM
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That Pistols link also links to an article about a My Bloody Valentine reunion, but that would be next year and I really don't know who My Bloody Valentine are.
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Edgy DC
Sep 19 2007 08:57 AM
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I had understood Steve Jones to be a tax outlaw who would be arrested if he ever went back to Britain.
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Willets Point
Apr 22 2008 01:16 PM
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I saw that yesterday in Paste and thought about digging up this thread.
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Willets Point
Jun 05 2008 01:08 PM
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<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/06/the-zombies-release-retrospective-album-new-tour-d.html">Zombie jamboree</a>.
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AG/DC
Jun 05 2008 01:17 PM
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I actually got the whole Zombie story from my visit to the high schoolers, two of whom were doing their presentation on <i>Odyssey & Oracle</i>.
Funny that the article calls the album their breakout when it was also their swan song.
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Vic Sage
Jun 05 2008 02:37 PM
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the ZOMBIES ranked 9th out of 25, on the 3rd Tier of British Invaders
http://cranepoolforum.qwknetllc.com/php ... n&start=20
Tiers of the British Invaders
To qualify, the band (including lead artist) must have:
1 - come from England, Scotland, Wales, or even Ireland;
2 - been known primarily as rock or pop group; and
3 - Then came to the U.S. in mid-60s and had at least 1 top 40 hit
#1 -- the Big 3
1) The Beatles
2) Rolling Stones
3) The Who
#2 -- just short of paradise
4) The Kinks
5) Eric Clapton - The Yardbirds / John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers / Cream / Blind Faith / Derek & the Dominoes
6) Van Morrison /Them
7) Steve Winwood- The Spencer Davis Group / Traffic / Blind Faith
#3 -- short-lived, but critically acclaimed, with enduring legacies
8) The Animals / Eric Burdon
9) The Zombies / Rod Argent
10) The Hollies / Graham Nash
#4a -- off the beaten track
11) Donovan
12) Dusty Springfield
13) Moody Blues
#4b -- pure hitmeisters of the Mersey beat:
14) Herman's Hermits
15) The Dave Clark Five
16) The Searchers
17) Peter and Gordon
18) Chad & Jeremy
#5 -- 1 hit (or few-hit) wonders
19) Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
20) Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders
21) Freddie and the Dreamers
22) Manfred Mann
23) The Troggs
24) The Tornadoes
25) Tremeloes
Regarding some of other bands:
* Pink Floyd - during their Syd Barrett era of the 60s, they had little impact in the U.S. They took off as a 1970-s post-invasion band.
* The Move / ELO - ditto
* Small Faces - They were big in the UK, but had little impact in the US, ever.
* The Pretty Things - ditto
* The Bonzo Dog Band - ditto ditto
* Hendrix - Band may have been Brits, but he most definitely was not. You don't get to invade your own country.
* Petula Clark - more MOR than pop; not quite Dusty Springfield.
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AG/DC
Sep 29 2008 01:16 PM
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This could have saved the economy.
<blockquote>LONDON (Reuters) - Former Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant has put paid to persistent rumors that the British rock giants were planning to reunite for a tour. The famous foursome got back together for a one-off charity gig in London last December, and the media has speculated ever since that they could stage a comeback tour that would be expected to sell out arenas around the world.
Band insiders have said that Plant, who is touring the United States with Alison Krauss, has been the most reluctant to get back together, and a statement on his website on Monday made clear his intentions.
"Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are currently touring the USA on the last leg of their 'Raising Sand' tour," he said, adding that the tour finished on October 5.
"After those dates, Robert has no intention whatsoever of touring with anyone for at least the next two years.
"Contrary to a spate of recent reports, Robert Plant will not be touring or recording with Led Zeppelin."
He called the reports "both frustrating and ridiculous," before adding: "I wish (guitarist) Jimmy Page, (bassist/instrumentalist) John Paul Jones and (drummer) Jason Bonham nothing but success with any future projects."
Bonham's father John died in 1980 after a drinking binge, prompting the demise of a group that created hits like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love," and has sold more than 300 million albums and influenced countless bands.</blockquote>
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Edgy DC
Dec 08 2008 04:54 PM
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Buzz is out there about the faces, with all suviving parties on board. Bassist Ronnie Lane died of MS many years back, and Flea (of all peoples) is rumored to be interested in stepping in for him.
Meanwhile, of all places to read about the 'Mats:
<img src="http://joshreads.com/images/08/12/i081207shoe.jpg">
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TransMonk
Dec 08 2008 07:12 PM
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| ="Edgy DC"]Buzz is out there about the faces, with all suviving parties on board. |
I've been listening to A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse lately and for my money that record is as good as ANY Stones album.
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Edgy DC
Dec 08 2008 07:30 PM
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I'm sure somebody can quickly prove me wrong, but, in my experience, Glyn Johns don't produce no junk.
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TransMonk
Dec 08 2008 07:57 PM
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Agreed.
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Edgy DC
Mar 25 2009 12:51 PM
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Spandau Fuckin' Ballet!
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