What Are U Listening To Right This Moment?

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jerseydevil said:
Eric Carmen is the ****!!!!!! Right Orpheus????
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I don't know why Dark Shadows didn't use the original version of Go All the Way instead of the silly cover by the Killers. I was not amused. I wasn't amused by most of that movie, actually. :facepalm:
 


Oh HED(pe). WouldaShouldaCoulda been huge. But the nu-metal bubble POPPED. But I still love ya. This is totally wtf. Old HED mixed with Zep, rasta(hell Dread Zep even). Really high end production. You may kinda dig this. Try It I like it, and I don't like much.
 
In honor of Savatage playing their first concert in over a decade and change, a mere 51.5 weeks from now, I may have started slapping together a list of my 50 favorite songs of theirs. Here is a song from the 'maybe' list that didn't make the final cut, from the Handful Of Rain album, which is a much better album than the lazy artwork indicates. I don't know how only 4 songs from that disc made my list, but if the list went to 75, it would have had 9 of the 10 Handful Of Rain songs.

 
Just imagine a guy hitting puberty at age 60 and you might be closer to what he actually sounds like...

BTW...I'm going through all four of his albums to get rid of some unwanted guests...
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I'll throw that in to my next Amazon order. I finally saw Kix last year at the Key Club. I was expecting a decent show, but they were really, really good.

Another late 80's hard rock band that I had been wanting to see forever, I saw just last night. My biggest concern when I see a band that's been around for a long time is how well the singer's voice has held up, but here age has just made a raspy voice raspier.



This was actually the first time I had seen a show at the Whisky. Love how tiny it is. The only problem was that I could not see the keyboards very well, and the piano is the best part of the band. They were fabulous and a ton of fun. If the Riverside date had not been cancelled, I would be there right now.

I guess the lesson is that hard rock with some blues in the mix is good live.
 
jerseydevil said:
Aw hell the Quireboys were in town. Saw them at the CAthouse a bazillion years ago.
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Well I guess you just really missed out. I'm tempted to see them in Vegas tonight, but that's a bit of a drive for me just getting off work now. It is a shame for both of us, because who knows when they'll pass through these parts again?

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Oh. Sweeeeet.

(Whisky, 7:45)
 
Here's another Savatage song that just missed my cut, this one with Jon Oliva singing. It took me a while to get used to his voice, so I went with a song that starts nice and slow before he starts going to town.

 


Just a great ROCK band. Cd came with a handwritten note, a buncha swag and a friend request from singer/bassist Michael Hannon. Nice touch. I woulda had to like this regardless of the music just for that extra. Good thing the cd is spectacular dive bar kickass rawk, with a spanking cover of Nugent's Dog eat Dog.
 
Not a bad way to start your day, considering it is your birthday. The iPod shuffle produced The Cars, "Moving In Stereo" as the first tune of the day. Nice!

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My list of 50 top Savatage songs is now a list of 52, because I discovered a major oversight and I didn't want to bump the song at the bottom of the list. And 52 makes more sense than 51, since it was a year until Wacken 2015 when the show was announced. Since I bump songs up and down every time I look at the list, I'm going to refer to it as 'top' and not 'the top', and use '52' and not '#52', although the two top songs are carved in stone.



52 - The Message (Sirens bonus track)

It seems fitting to start with a song from the first album, even if it wasn't actually on Sirens when it was first released. For all I know, the song was recorded years later, although it can't be too long after, since Jon Oliva is singing and Criss Oliva is on guitar. The sound fits with the first three albums, so I think it is close enough to being one of their first songs. The Message is just a quick rocker with lyrics that are not particularly deep, but the Olivas are in fine early form together, power vocals blasting through the sweet, sweet guitar lines.
 
I had a chance to see Primus during the Tales from the Punchbowl era the Universal Amphitheater, but family drama came up, and I didn't go. :facepalm:
 
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