Bands that toured too much this year

[sonickteam2]

wait, are we backlashing U2 or the Arctic Monkeys?  or perhaps the most backlashed band on the planet...Radiohead. (perhaps of all time)

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  Where else in the fuckin' world are you gonna see a 28-year old black man running around high-fiving 40 & 50-something year old white men & their MILF wives, like old buddies but who are in actuality perfect strangers,  while singing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" off-key as hell??  At a Stones show.  That's where.

and that, kind sir, is the precise reason why you will NOT see me at a stones concert.
 
 and personally, i would be more impressed by someone who can fuck for two hours than by someone who runs around non-stop (the latter is commonly referred to as a "marathoner").

[vansmack]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  really? i havent seen it anywhere, but then again i dont read all the threads

I seem to remember Arctic Monkey's being mentioned a few times in the Albums you wanted to hate but ended up liking thread sometime ago, mostly because folks were opposed to the hype.  But I'm getting old so I could have remembered it wrongly.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
    while singing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" off-key as hell??  

who, Mick Jagger?

[jbcapati]

We Are Scientists seem to have played the area a bunch, 3-4 times including DC and Baltimore, and they are back next month at the Black Cat.  Not that touring too much is really a big deal...if you're tired of seeing a band live, just stay home or do something else.  The bigger problem is bands that don't tour enough or get to the area.  Placebo usually plays this area and skipped DC this tour.

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by sweetcell:
    while singing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" off-key as hell??  

who, Mick Jagger? [/b]

LOL.

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
   

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  Where else in the fuckin' world are you gonna see a 28-year old black man running around high-fiving 40 & 50-something year old white men & their MILF wives, like old buddies but who are in actuality perfect strangers,  while singing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" off-key as hell??  At a Stones show.  That's where.

and that, kind sir, is the precise reason why you will NOT see me at a stones concert.
 
 and personally, i would be more impressed by someone who can fuck for two hours than by someone who runs around non-stop (the latter is commonly referred to as a "marathoner"). [/b]

I mean . . . . once the Grey Goose takes over I turn into the second cuming of John Holmes.  LOL.
 
 Nah, on a serious note though.  I just tried to conjure up the most off the wall scenario I could come up with for you.  There's a fairly more diverse "demographic make-up" at a Stones show than you would think.  I guess I've always been in love with the utopian ideal aspect of concerts.  It's kinda ill how you can make time stop for an hour or two, you know?
 
 Plus I don't really tend to kick it with the baby boomers too much. I can diversify my cultural palette and what not.    :p

[kookiemnstr8]

double post.

[kookiemnstr8]

Originally posted by dcwizard:
  We Are Scientists seem to have played the area a bunch, 3-4 times including DC and Baltimore, and they are back next month at the Black Cat.  Not that touring too much is really a big deal...if you're tired of seeing a band live, just stay home or do something else.  The bigger problem is bands that don't tour enough or get to the area.  Placebo usually plays this area and skipped DC this tour.

That's a band that hasn't stopped touring for essentially a year. I saw them the first time they came through here at the Black Cat in October of last year, open for Hot Hot Heat in November, and saw them twice this summer.  Yeah, they weren't AMAZING any time, but the first two times at least, I had a really good time, they're fun live.  The last two times?  Surrounded by screaming fan girls, pushing each other to get a chance to Keith's hand and who, once they touched it, spent the rest of the show talking about how they would never wash it again.  You couldn't escape them.  I was surrounded by them five deep on either side.  If I wanted that I would go see the Backstreet Boys.  Overexposure killed any interest I had in seeing that band.

[nkotb]

That's exactly how Econo acted the first time we saw them...in a basement in Mt. Pleasant back in 2001.
 
 Yeah, that's right.  I'm cooler than all of you.
 
 

Originally posted by Graace:
 Surrounded by screaming fan girls, pushing each other to get a chance to Keith's hand and who, once they touched it, spent the rest of the show talking about how they would never wash it again.  You couldn't escape them.  

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Graace:
  Surrounded by screaming fan girls, pushing each other to get a chance to Keith's hand...You couldn't escape them.  I was surrounded by them five deep on either side.

They were hotter than you, weren't they?

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Graace:
    Overexposure killed any interest I had in seeing that band.

Is that overexposure or just success?

[vansmack]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
 yet the backlash from this board and others like it has been amazing.

really? i havent seen it anywhere, but then again i dont read all the threads, I dont think any backlash has been any greater than the normal amount for a band that is that hyped [/b]

arctic monkeys: fucking overhyped

[kookiemnstr8]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Graace:
  Surrounded by screaming fan girls, pushing each other to get a chance to Keith's hand...You couldn't escape them.  I was surrounded by them five deep on either side.

They were hotter than you, weren't they? [/b]

If fourteen year old pre-pubescent girls and college chicks with beer bellies do it for you, then yes.

[taperkat]

Interesting point. I've never been able to get into the Stones music as much as many others. My parents saw them in Wichita (yes, i'm from Kansas) and they said it was pretty awful. This coming from my parents who, in 1973, saw Pink Floyd's DSOTM tour and brought in brownies to share with their group, including the security guards. (yeah, my parents are fucking awesome)
 
 I'm not saying that people don't pay the pricetag, but the only time I'd pay over $200 for any kind of ticket would be if Pink Floyd resurrected itself from the earth with all the members (though their Live 8 was pretty damn close to me getting a passport), or a few other bands. But it's really difficult to justify paying anything over $100 to many of these performers when given their income over mine, lol. $100 to me is pocket change for them, but buys my groceries for a month x3
 
 With that said - no U2 wasn't spiritual to me, but it was a good show. Springsteen back on the Rising tour was probably similar to your experience - having actually moved to North Carolina by that point, and I flew back to Kansas just to see that show. (well goddamn fucking worth it, too.... and getting busted taping by the security guard just to see him go "meh, screw it, you got away with it and I didn't catch ya."
 
 And there are plenty of parties to be had, but most of those shows are either local bands, or bands I've listened to in the backs of clubs at 12 am pouring their fucking hearts out.. akin to the stones. One of the best bands I ever have had the pleasure to see (28? times) was The Urge... that was a fucking party every time they took the stage.  
 
 sorry for all the cursing, I'm just too damn tired.
 
 But I do see your points, and it's refreshing to see music still touching people as such.