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Tone,
Have you heard the Ringo Starr tribute to George Harrison on RingoRama? Brilliant. Certainly lifted the nose above the snare drum in my estimation.

I also have paid big money to see the Stones. I'd do it again, too. They may be getting on but there is nothing like seeing them live. The next best thing on CD is "Get Yer Ya Yas Out" or on DVD "Bridges to Babylon".

I've been extremely fortunate to see artists like the Stones, Beachboys, David Bowie, Bob Marley & the Wailers....whose music will continue to get airtime for decades.

Foofighters? Who?

Foo Fighters were OK until the fourth album came out. What I've heard of that has been uninspired at best in comparison with some of the older stuff.

I too saw the Stones and thought for a bunch of old farts, they rocked. I was under the impression that anyone leaving the tennis center unsatisfied was very hard to please indeed. My wife was one such person. I see she was not alone in her critisim.
A Paddy tip for you......Deep Purple later this year or early next.

I saw the R.S.s at Kooyong (a proper tennis court!) way back when the Colt was just a glint in old Ming's eye. As I recollect Madder Lake was there with their 12 Pound Toothbrush as the support act.

Dunno how much it cost but I remember having a few mirrors and beads left over for a bottle of Stone's (no relation) Green Ginger Wine, the preferred tipple of the 60s lefty. (Lady comrades, a plate and a bottle of Marsala.)

Revisiting one's youth is fraught with danger and disappointment. The last time I saw one of my heroes (Bobby Dylan) live (I think live, there was neither much colour nor movement) was at the Palais ... execrable! Hate it when your heroes end up with feet ... nay ... Zimmer frames of clay.

Fortunately I have my collection of bootleg wax cylinders to remind me of those bygone seasons of mist opportunities and mellow fruitlessness.

Would have been worth your money if they'd done something off Dirty Work

Ive paid megabucks for U2. And I will again. But I want to have Larry Mullen Jr's love children, so you know, a woman will do what she has to do.

Sadly the most recent FF album is the only one I have bought, duh, mistake, very dull. If you do like middle of the road rock, try the last Feeder album, it is pretty good.

I would pay $200 Aussie dollars (about 75p if I remember correctly, and such garish colours!) to see Marillion, but only with Fish, not the little camp singer.

Mike, I agree. Other than "Brave" Marillion have waddled off into mediocrity. Their last few albums have been, how shall I put it.....shitfull.
I would dearly love to see the big Fish front man again. His last album was not to hot either. "The little camp singer" as you call him, is for the most part annoying.

Seems like everyone is saving their pennies for the next geriatrics in spandex concert ... less than 150 wasted their hard earned on phoning the survey hotline. I assume those who phoned in to indicate that they were willing to part with an arm and a leg were branch stackers from Ticketek.

Whaddaya know? I spend a day or so hard at it and when I'm back on the blog it's full of all this worthwhile stuff.

Haven't heard it Slatts. But I will. He's under-rated is Ringo. Check out his album Ringo or his Beatles break-up song Back In 1970. Brilliant. Then the booze got him.

I won't be dashing out to see them again soon Scarlo, unless they play a club and get off the best-offs. Ya Ya's rocks though. Super album.

Don't think they even registered on my radar until about album three James. By then they showed me nothing special. They always struck me as a pretty one dimensional outfit.

I'll be going to Deep Purple Patrick. I saw them in '99. Enjoyed them more than the Stones. Which is one thing I never thought I'd hear myself say.

Six bucks was the ticket price for the Stones at Kooyong Sedge. I know that not because I was there, but because I read it in the papers when they were here in Feb. I was too young for them even to register in '73. I didn't get a hold of them until Some Girls in '78. A great band on record but I've no interest in seeing them other than for anthropological reasons. And yes, Madder Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na etc, did support them.

They played a couple of latter day songs Adam, I can't remember which though. They were lame. I went for beer at that point.

A stark admission Caz. To be honest, I don't even know what Laz looks like. Didn't know he was hot. Didn't know any of them were hot. I though people liked them because they'd saved the world on numerous occasions.

Mike. I am categorically NOT middle of the road! Although, and I include you here too Patrick, I've never heard of Marillion, Fish or the little camp singer. I'd pay $200 to see Arthur Lee & Love again. Best concert I've ever been to.

C'mon Sedge, you don't think promoters would stoop to dodgy tricks. Salting the audience, buying up tickets or records etc. Surely a thing of the past. Cough.

Tony, you could do a whole lot worse than to go out and buy Marillion's "Misplaced Choldhood", or "Clutching at Straws" cd's.
I too was at Purple in 99. They are a fantastic band. Not in the same "Get up an boogie" leage as the Stones. I always thought of them as a "sit back and be enthralled" type of band.

Oh god what an embarassing typo to make in the presence of a teacher. That is of course, "Childhood". I'm not sure what a "Choldhood" is, but I'm pretty sure I haven't misplaced one....

You've spent a day or so hard at what?

I realised what you meant Patrick. Don't worry, we don't mark spelling here. You shouldn't have said anything and I would have thought you were making some kind of oblique reference to the "leage" of people who pronounce it "Choowdren". The Stones didn't make me get up and boogie, they made me get down the stairs and drink. I might see if I can listen to Marillion. If I don't like them, there'll be trouble.

Caz, that indefinable "it" that shapes the minds of the future leaders of this nation. Or turns them into garbo's.

Oh pretending to teach the kiddies. I'm with you now.

Pretending? Intending? Not actually educating.

Just as long as I never see the little hell monsters in the street.

I like the foo fighters.

You THINK you do, Bailz.

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