Happy birthday Ally, and the same to you Chase. Have a great day, enjoy. Rock on!

Thanks for the tip, Strider. Hope they will play the Netherlands sooner or later.

Absolutely love The Space Ritual, my first ever hashish experience was while listening to that record.

I just started to read "It" by Stephen King last week. Had the book for years but actually never came to read it.

Ah damn, I just wanted to discuss the musical genius of The Partridge Family in a special (age restricted) thread. (sarcasm off)

Yuk, liking the Monkees comes close to musical peadophilia in my humble opinion. Sorry but I can't take you serious anymore.

Freezing.....again.

Wow, I wish I could limit my likings to only four bands, that would absolutely broaden my horizon! Now let's listen to yet another version of Purple Haze, since it's different than the 50 ones we heard before, lol. Let's have another brilliant Townshend guitar solo, uhmmm, I love loud white noise too. I am still looking for a version of Symptom Of the Universe by Black Sabbath that isn't sung off key by mister Osbourne, maybe you know a Sabbath bootleg where that is the case. Get some great Jimmy art prints at his website now, they're cheaper by the dozen (saves you a few hundred pounds).

This one is proof that Amstel and Ace Of Spades are indeed VERY RIGHT

Lol, you sound like my parents. Thank your gods you never had to listen to a Venom record.... aww, fuck it here we go:

Some Kiss members were great admirers of Zeppelin (who dressed up quite beyond denim in their prime....my neighbor never wore a dragon suit as far as I know), without the influence of Zep and also The Who there would have been no Kiss. Kiss outdid many "normal" looking bands of their generation, even headlining bands they used to open for, within a few years. Comparing Kiss to Britney or Madonna is comparing apples to factory peeled potatoes. First of all, Kiss were from a time way before auto-tuning made popstars like those ladies possible, they played and sang without a machine to make someone sound like a pitch perfect singer. I actually can't imagine Britney doing a concert without her additional voice correcting software, she would get lynched. Kiss were one of the first acts to use these gigantic stage set ups, that kind of set ups have now become standard for bands, but by then that was something completely different, they set the standards for how a stadion rock show ought to be. If I could choose any of these aforementioned show, I would certainly skip Dylan and Sabbath too (even though I love Sabbath a lot, I prefer Ozzy's first solo tours with Randy) I have seen hundreds of shows in my life, but Kiss concerts were for sure more than "being a member of their fan club", it was entertaining, yet it wasn't a fashion show where the band changes clothes every 2nd song. It was like seeing The Who from the 6th dimension on steroids. I just wonder, which were the most amazing bands/concerts you actually ever saw, musically-wise as well as action-wise?

They came with that after they started the band, they figured it would be cool to look different than the zillions of bands who wore denim but could be "normal" guys like your neighbor. Kiss also figured out that a live show people would come to see should become a happening, something more enigmatic than just 4 guys standing and playing, if you paid for a ticket you would get a ticket to get wild and nuts with the band who did things other bands didn't do. Like going to Houdini but then four Houdini's who played music. They didn't do this with selling action figures in mind, that entire bullshit came in the late seventies. If it was just for the money they wouldn't have signed up with a near-bankrupt record label to start with. The first three Kiss albums sold poorly, so the decision was made to capture their live show on a record, which more or less saved the label.

The whole marketing came later, when they first started there were no action figures etc etc. As far as the Monkeys, they were pre-fabbed and mostly didn't play their instruments...much like Milli Vanilli.

I guess there is more interesting music at the moment, they were a sign of their time, had their prime a long time ago and since then became repeat performances. That counts for many bands with a 30-year career, they should have quit at their zenith, just like Metallica, Van Halen, Deep Purple, RHCP, Whitesnake, The Stones, Motorhead, and many more should have done. Here's one that you might have never heard, hope it doesn't suck too much (i prefer being sucked by hot women, not music by guys in makeup)

They were the glammest band at that moment (and spawned many mediocre hairsprayed imitators like Poison, Motley Crue, even GnR). Most people at that concerts were ranging from 16 to 15 years old (Bieber and Perry fans lack pubic hair) Kiss was about getting laid and having a party. Kiss became sellouts in Europe after releasing Dynasty, the "I was made" record.

No, although Dynasty and especially Unmasked featured some very poppy songs. The single of I Was Made had the label "Disco Rock" on the cover. As far as my immense hatred towards disco music went then, both albums weren't smashworthy, as many real disco records were. Feel free to compare: this to this

To say that Kiss were miserable musicians is absolute bollocks. I must admit that most songs were heavy metal singalong songs, but many of them are very well crafted ones. The ones that were no singalong songs like "Beth" and "I still love you" are imo quite overlooked gems. The Dynasty/Unmasked period did produce some way too slick pieces of music, but The Elder and especially Creatures of the night were really good comeback albums (Eric Carr was one hell of a drummer). I did have problems with the softer touch of The Elder, but once it did grow on me I regard it as one of their better efforts, it's different but way ahead of it's time. After that they went too slick in the eighties sense of rock again, too bad. Kudos to Ace for being one great inspiration for a whole generation of young guys to pick up the guitar.

Seems you start earlier than Europe with this whole bullshit (we switch the clock at the end of the month). Personally i think the whole thing is a waste of time and bad for the inner clock, so it should indeed be abolished. Getting up early is a menace, getting up even earlier is a plain pain in the ass. To hell with it.

Since I had nothing better to do, and the colors looked great, blahblahblah.

This three piece comes close to Tool, yet are completely different: (feel free to fuck your mind)