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Unfortunately I did not. I had tickets to the Great American Beer Festival that same evening and couldn't make it.Giles Habibula wrote:Dammit, where's your report, young man? I've been waiting for it. Please turn it in at my desk. Thank you. I'm assuming Xmann did not see them, as he's been happily reporting on everything but.Skinypupy wrote:Just got my tickets to see Ghost on Oct 8.
Sorry, spaced it. They were absolutely brilliant, even better than I was expecting. Papa started the show in the whole anti-Pope outfit, then stripped down to the tuxedo about midway through. The set was a good mix of new and old tunes, ran about 2 hours. They leaned a bit more toward infestissumam than I would have liked (would have much preferred more Meloria tunes), but that's a minor gripe. The Nameless Ghouls, whoever they are, are some seriously talented musicians. The entire set was incredibly tight, and Papa had the crowd absolutely eating out of his hand. My buddy, who came in without knowing anything about them, said he was fascinated watching Papa's mannerisms on stage. Every single move he makes is remarkably deliberate, graceful, and poised, and he never once breaks character, even for a moment. He did a couple of rather long monologues, which were hilarious. All in all, it was an amazing show...probably replacing Bad Religion in of my personal "Top 5 Concerts" list.Giles Habibula wrote:Dammit, where's your report, young man? I've been waiting for it. Please turn it in at my desk. Thank you. I'm assuming Xmann did not see them, as he's been happily reporting on everything but.Skinypupy wrote:Just got my tickets to see Ghost on Oct 8.
Was at their show (back when they were The Refreshments) at the Fox Theater in Boulder, CO in the summer of '96. If they don't have the road manager play lead guitar on 867-5309/Jenny (yeah, Tommy Tutone) as the closing encore number, they're doing it wrong.Smoove_B wrote:This Thursday night is the biennial visit from Roger Clyne to the greater NJ area and apparently it's part of the Fizzy Fuzzy Finale tour - celebrating 20 years of the first album.
I'm not sure if I'm going to survive hearing this entire album played top to bottom, but I'm going to give it a go. If something happens, I hope both Trent and RM9 will speak of me fondly and relate my final moments.
Isn't it suspected that the bassist is the former Rob Zombie bassist?Skinypupy wrote:Sorry, spaced it. They were absolutely brilliant, even better than I was expecting. Papa started the show in the whole anti-Pope outfit, then stripped down to the tuxedo about midway through. The set was a good mix of new and old tunes, ran about 2 hours. They leaned a bit more toward infestissumam than I would have liked (would have much preferred more Meloria tunes), but that's a minor gripe. The Nameless Ghouls, whoever they are, are some seriously talented musicians. The entire set was incredibly tight, and Papa had the crowd absolutely eating out of his hand. My buddy, who came in without knowing anything about them, said he was fascinated watching Papa's mannerisms on stage. Every single move he makes is remarkably deliberate, graceful, and poised, and he never once breaks character, even for a moment. He did a couple of rather long monologues, which were hilarious. All in all, it was an amazing show...probably replacing Bad Religion in of my personal "Top 5 Concerts" list.Giles Habibula wrote:Dammit, where's your report, young man? I've been waiting for it. Please turn it in at my desk. Thank you. I'm assuming Xmann did not see them, as he's been happily reporting on everything but.Skinypupy wrote:Just got my tickets to see Ghost on Oct 8.
A couple interesting notes about the Ghouls:
1. The bass player was very obviously female.
2. Papa mentioned one of the band members was originally from Orem, Utah, a small town south of Salt Lake. He could have been making that up, but it was followed up by a couple comments/jokes that were really specific to Utah culture, things that outsiders probably wouldn't readily know. Could be that he just did his homework, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the Ghouls was actually from around here.
And that is why I refuse to buy from Ticketmasterrshetts2 wrote:Roger Waters is starting a new tour next year. Its a career spanning tour that will cover both his Pink Floyd days as well as his solo career. Tickets went on sale today for the citicard presale. After seeing the amazing Wall tour I just had to see this one as well, so I was on ticketmaster the second they went on sale. The site was crushed with traffic so it took me a few minutes to get into the ticket sales. Once I did, I immediately got a message saying there were no tickets available! I was not to happy but what can you do? Well, apparently the answer to that question is bitch. Later in the afternoon, I decided to contact ticketmaster and let them know my displeasure. They apologized for my difficulties and admitted that their site was overwhelmed and almost non functional ( Its seriously stupid to put the entire tour on sale all at the same time!) Anyway, after a bit of talk, they offered to set me up with tickets, in spite of the fact that the presale tickets were gone. I ended up with center stage seats in the 23rd row! Now I just have to wait until August 2nd for the show.
Awesome! Thank you, Skinypupy. Excellent write-up.Skinypupy wrote:Sorry, spaced it. They were absolutely brilliant, even better than I was expecting. Papa started the show in the whole anti-Pope outfit, then stripped down to the tuxedo about midway through. The set was a good mix of new and old tunes, ran about 2 hours. They leaned a bit more toward infestissumam than I would have liked (would have much preferred more Meloria tunes), but that's a minor gripe. The Nameless Ghouls, whoever they are, are some seriously talented musicians. The entire set was incredibly tight, and Papa had the crowd absolutely eating out of his hand. My buddy, who came in without knowing anything about them, said he was fascinated watching Papa's mannerisms on stage. Every single move he makes is remarkably deliberate, graceful, and poised, and he never once breaks character, even for a moment. He did a couple of rather long monologues, which were hilarious. All in all, it was an amazing show...probably replacing Bad Religion in of my personal "Top 5 Concerts" list.Giles Habibula wrote:Dammit, where's your report, young man? I've been waiting for it. Please turn it in at my desk. Thank you. I'm assuming Xmann did not see them, as he's been happily reporting on everything but.Skinypupy wrote:Just got my tickets to see Ghost on Oct 8.
A couple interesting notes about the Ghouls:
1. The bass player was very obviously female.
2. Papa mentioned one of the band members was originally from Orem, Utah, a small town south of Salt Lake. He could have been making that up, but it was followed up by a couple comments/jokes that were really specific to Utah culture, things that outsiders probably wouldn't readily know. Could be that he just did his homework, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the Ghouls was actually from around here.
Usually any shows in Denver that I want to see are held at venues that don't use Ticketmaster anymore, they've all switched Altitude Tickets (formerly Tickethorse). Not that their fees are much better than Ticketmaster, but at least because they deal with a much lower volume, their site is unlikely to get overloaded as a popular event goes on sale.Xmann wrote: And that is why I refuse to buy from Ticketmaster
Sure, I'll miss some shows I'd like to see. But I refuse to pay their charges and deal with crap like that.
That's exactly what I do.gilraen wrote:Usually any shows in Denver that I want to see are held at venues that don't use Ticketmaster anymore, they've all switched Altitude Tickets (formerly Tickethorse). Not that their fees are much better than Ticketmaster, but at least because they deal with a much lower volume, their site is unlikely to get overloaded as a popular event goes on sale.Xmann wrote: And that is why I refuse to buy from Ticketmaster
Sure, I'll miss some shows I'd like to see. But I refuse to pay their charges and deal with crap like that.
That's awesome. I had a chance to attend Coachella when I was much younger and I regret not going - now I'm far too old and cranky to spend 3 days sleeping in tents.Jag wrote:A pic of the music festival I went to at the Coachella site. My first and last multi-day music fest. It was fun, but exhausting. I was in the grandstand to the left.
Gojira is on my must see list, for sure.nasai wrote:Saw Gojira last Tuesday, with support from Tesseract, and then had a chance to see the amazing Leprous on Thursday, with support from Earthside (Talk about EPIC!).
If anyone has a chance to see any of these incredible bands, go now. Unbelievable shows from all.
Was my 3rd show with them and they just get better and better. An amazingly heavy band. Talk about skill.... and they just bring it. Such killer energy.Xmann wrote:Gojira is on my must see list, for sure.nasai wrote:Saw Gojira last Tuesday, with support from Tesseract, and then had a chance to see the amazing Leprous on Thursday, with support from Earthside (Talk about EPIC!).
If anyone has a chance to see any of these incredible bands, go now. Unbelievable shows from all.
I skipped Gojira last week because I'll be seeing them on 70K. Everything I've heard about them live is positive though.nasai wrote:Saw Gojira last Tuesday, with support from Tesseract, and then had a chance to see the amazing Leprous on Thursday, with support from Earthside (Talk about EPIC!).
If anyone has a chance to see any of these incredible bands, go now. Unbelievable shows from all.
While it's pretty well established that Papa is Tobias Forge, I'm pretty sure the Ghouls are just a random and changing collection of musicians. Looks like the female bassist is Megan Thomas from Lez Zeppelin, at least for this tour.I'm too new of a fan to know more than what's been available from casual searching, but I was under the impression that all the members were from Sweden. But there is so much conflicting information regarding this, and I'm hopelessly confused by now. And supposedly, Dave Grohl donned a Nameless Ghoul outfit and played live with them once, so I guess anything goes. And I must admit that all of this mystery is part of my attraction to the band.
I think I've seen them play three times now (always as the Peacemakers, never as the Refreshments) but they've never played a cover song during a show. From what I understand, they are mixing a few in now with this tour. All I know is that every time we go it's epic and I'm really getting too old for this nonsense....but they put on an awesome show every damn time. It makes me want to move local to the band and be closer to all their hometown events.The Meal wrote:Was at their show (back when they were The Refreshments) at the Fox Theater in Boulder, CO in the summer of '96. If they don't have the road manager play lead guitar on 867-5309/Jenny (yeah, Tommy Tutone) as the closing encore number, they're doing it wrong.
Is that good?pr0ner wrote:Holy crap, that a show that was.
I would love to go see them (as long as they were playing within a 2 hours drive)
We are going to see them here in Novembersgoldj wrote:I went to see Post Modern Jukebox this weekend in Birmingham. Great show if they are going to be in your town.
Yes. Very good. Outstanding, even.Carpet_pissr wrote:Is that good?pr0ner wrote:Holy crap, that a show that was.
Is the Faint any good anymore? I really liked their earlier stuff (esp. Dance Macabre) but not the stuff after until I stopped trying after Fasciinataion.hitbyambulance wrote:The Faint and Gang of Four tomorrow night
The Orb the night after that
yup. show was as good as i remember (i last saw them in 2002) and there is a new album to be released. so far, there's only been one new album since _Fasciinatiion_ - _Doom Abuse_, try that one out.Dramatist wrote:Is the Faint any good anymore? I really liked their earlier stuff (esp. Dance Macabre) but not the stuff after until I stopped trying after Fasciinataion.hitbyambulance wrote:The Faint and Gang of Four tomorrow night
The Orb the night after that
Me as well. This will be my first.Skinypupy wrote:LOL, I was just coming here to post that. I might have to make the trip for that one.
Even though I lived half my life in Colorado, I've never seen a show at Red Rocks.
I told her if she wants to go with her Deadhead friends I'd pay for her ticket, but I have no interest in seeing them for that kind of money.
Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama that could make it easier to get tickets to popular shows, sports events and concerts.
Legislation passed by voice vote in the House on Wednesday would crack down on computer software used by some ticket brokers to snap up tickets. The so-called "bots" rapidly purchase as many tickets as possible for resale at significant markups, and are one of the reasons why tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert or "Hamilton" performance can sell out in just a few minutes.
