Posted By: BillyBollocksHammersmith 2003
Had ticket, was ill
Posted By: Jet1984Was planning on seeing a couple of gigs of the BI Tour in Australia back in 2010, flights booked from Euorpe and all. Fell ill a few weeks before and had to cancel everything just a few days before my flight. Looking at the videos of the boys doing High Voltage with Bon on the big screen still makes me want to punch a hole into a wall.
Got into Oasis quite a bit recently and in hindsight regret not having gone to a gig back when they still were touring. Fucking brilliant music.
Posted By: Jet1984
Got into Oasis quite a bit recently and in hindsight regret not having gone to a gig back when they still were touring. Fucking brilliant music.
Posted By: Alex LebanonOasis always reminded me of a British Guns n Roses. Very arrogant, very gobby singer, very popular very fast, very derivative but both produced songs of such undeniable quality that it sort of didn't matter for their first couple of albums. Who cares if someone's a magpie if they're writing songs as good as Live Forever, Slide Away, Acquiesce, Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child. The difference is that at his very best - Live Forever, say, almost a perfect song - Noel could move me whereas G n R couldn't get serious without getting soppy. And G n R wore cowboy boots which is obviously a hanging offence in any language or era.
Posted By: Jet1984Posted By: Alex LebanonOasis always reminded me of a British Guns n Roses. Very arrogant, very gobby singer, very popular very fast, very derivative but both produced songs of such undeniable quality that it sort of didn't matter for their first couple of albums. Who cares if someone's a magpie if they're writing songs as good as Live Forever, Slide Away, Acquiesce, Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child. The difference is that at his very best - Live Forever, say, almost a perfect song - Noel could move me whereas G n R couldn't get serious without getting soppy. And G n R wore cowboy boots which is obviously a hanging offence in any language or era.
It's a bit how I see it. I mean the way they behaved and still do just makes any grown man cry, but then again songs like Cigarettes and Alcohol, Live Forever, Acquiesce etc. make me look past that quite easily. Love lots of the music, think it would still sound cracking in the arena today.
Posted By: nimetaProbably I will be banned for this for a while, but there was a G'n'R tour kinda around the Appetite period that I couldn't go to cos of exams....sometimes I am such a stupid fuck.
Anyway in my moment of remorse I just now checked setlist.fm and realised that I only actually missed 11 songs !!!! 2 of these they didn't even write lol
https://www.setlist....
Still I stand behind me assertion that I was a stupid fuck ;) I should have gone !!!
Posted By: BillyBollocksAnd I manned the spotlight on Axl for about half a song when my mate Steve who was doing it that night went for a pissIf you'd done that during an Axl/DC gig you'd probably used a laser beam i suppose?
Posted By: ThankassPosted By: BillyBollocksAnd I manned the spotlight on Axl for about half a song when my mate Steve who was doing it that night went for a pissIf you'd done that during an Axl/DC gig you'd probably used a laser beam i suppose?
Posted By: BillyBollocksPosted By: ThankassPosted By: BillyBollocksAnd I manned the spotlight on Axl for about half a song when my mate Steve who was doing it that night went for a pissIf you'd done that during an Axl/DC gig you'd probably used a laser beam i suppose?
No I’d have been the one taking a two hour piss break
Posted By: azelJust thought of another.....went to see the Scorpions at the Hammy Odeon, supported by one of my boyhood heroes, Michael Schenker.
Mr. Schenker was so pissed that he only lasted a few songs, and half finished a number on his knees before being assisted offstage by roadies.
Was gutted at the time.
Posted By: MeanstreakPosted By: azelJust thought of another.....went to see the Scorpions at the Hammy Odeon, supported by one of my boyhood heroes, Michael Schenker.
Mr. Schenker was so pissed that he only lasted a few songs, and half finished a number on his knees before being assisted offstage by roadies.
Was gutted at the time.
What year was that?
Posted By: BillyBollocksI remember coming out of an Iggy Pop gig in about 87/88 before he’d even come on stage as me and my mate were absolutely twatted
By the time we’d got back home we were both sobered up and regretting our complete idiocy of course
Posted By: BallToucherI think I saw Alice Cooper and Motorhead playing in Denver back in 1996. Or maybe it was 1995
Posted By: mutt_langes_permPosted By: BallToucherI think I saw Alice Cooper and Motorhead playing in Denver back in 1996. Or maybe it was 1995
It was in 1988. :P
Seriously though, they also toured together in 1991 (Operation Rock N Roll). Hey, at least, you got the decade right. :)
Posted By: BillyBollocksI remember coming out of an Iggy Pop gig in about 87/88 before he’d even come on stage as me and my mate were absolutely twatted
By the time we’d got back home we were both sobered up and regretting our complete idiocy of course
Posted By: Alex LebanonPosted By: BillyBollocksI remember coming out of an Iggy Pop gig in about 87/88 before he’d even come on stage as me and my mate were absolutely twatted
By the time we’d got back home we were both sobered up and regretting our complete idiocy of course
Too pissed to rock, I love it. We've all been there. I climbed in the urinal at Brixton Academy on the Rollercoater tour in 1992 aka the Jesus & Mary Chain & My Blood Valentine with a pre-fame Blur supporting. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Despite being out of my tiny mind , I will never forget how loud MBV were - nothing's ever come close - Slayer, Swans, nothing. It felt like someone was attacking your internal organs.