Entries from April 2009 ↓

It is a shame you have a McLaren as the manager of England.  We had one of them once, he was a cunt too.

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You know, blokes or girls, you all like to suck on my nipples.

- Johnny Rotten, from the live Sex Pistols DVD There’ll Always Be an England

In less than two weeks Rockfest sold all of its 50,000 tickets, and according to the site it’s the biggest one day music festival in the United States.

There’s a lesson here to radio stations and promoters but somehow I doubt it will take.  I’m not the biggest fan of KQRC, but they’ve done an outstanding job building up an audience and promoting their shows.  If I recall correctly when I moved to the area ten years ago it was being held in Sandstone which holds around 18,000.  

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out with a crowd this size.  I”m curious when the busiest time will be and how many people are going to stay all day.  It starts at noon but there’s no way I’m going to make it all day.  I’ll probably end up showing up around five and leaving toward the end of Korn’s set, depending on the size of the crowd.

A wife in Vegas
take my advice
is like going to China
with a sack of rice

- Dean Martin, from The Rat Pack Live at the Sands

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes/I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine/I Love Vegas, a great lead-off track from a great performance:

Maurice Jarre passed away several days ago.  He was famous for being a composer for several film scores including Lawrence of Arabia and A Passage to India.  However, he was probably most famous for writing “Lara’s Theme” from Dr. Zhivago.

Admittedly, I didn’t think much about the story when I initially read it.  However, last week I picked up the CD of Roy Clark’s Live at Billy Bob’s where Roy and his band do a fantastic version of “Lara’s Theme”.  At that point it hit me what a fantastic song it is.  Growing up I heard it a lot, being used in television shows and it seems to be a staple of music boxes.  When you hear something like that so much it’s easy to become number to its quality, maybe even leaning towards dislike if you hear it too much.  

When I heard Roy Clark’s version it hit me that it’s one of those songs that transcends its style.  It’s a fantastic piece of music regardless of who is performing it.

Anyway, here’s the version I heard:

Apparently this came out on Tuesday, but the lineup for the annual rockfest show was announced:

Korn
Buckcherry
Shinedown
Drowning Pool
Dope
Corey Taylor
Loaded with Duff McKagan
Saving Abel
Rev Theory

..and some other bands I don’t know anything about. Despite my dislike of huge crowds (I think last year they had around 50,000 people) I may end up going, and I’m not sure why. For some reason this sounds like a good time. It’s being held at the end of May before the summer heat becomes unbearable for outside shows. I’m interested in seeing a decent number of the bands (Korn, Shinedown, Buckcherry, Corey Taylor, and Loaded) where most years there’s only 1-2 that I care about seeing.

By the way, I had no idea Korn was down to three members now. They’re starting to remind me of the Monkees when they put out those two albums without Peter Tork’s face on them and then their next album only had Mickey Dolenz and Davey Jones on the cover and they looked really lonely.

The big question mark for the show is the craziness factor.  Will it be good crazy (where I don’t get hassled) or bad crazy (some redneck tries to pick a fight with me) ?  Based on the radio station that’s sponsoring this thing it has to be one of the two.