i just dug up this corpse to say i saw them live last thursday in LA. they were epic. if you get a chance to catch them on this tour they are still in their prime. The setlist is epic, all the old favs, and helps the new album is pretty frikkin good, and they are playing smallish venues that they are waaayy to good to be playing. http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/the-darkness-kick-off-their-tour-at-the-fonda-theatre-9310510/45

im gonna hit up the LA show in april. it would be epic if glenn showed since he did for the new york area shows. even if he dosent, its still gonna be kickass....i mean cmon, they're playing saints in hell, didnt know rob still had it in him.

Ha. Back when I was getting hardcore into older music I asked my dad (who pretty much saw everyone who was great from '68-'78) about them and he said "they sucked". Years later when I finally got into them*, and I slipped some of their tunes in his mp3 player and he told me he liked the stuff...and he asked who are they? I told him it was maiden and priest, and I was like WTHell, you said you didn't like them years ago? He says "like them? I never heard them! i thought they were a religious band and a chick band! *thanks to metallica covering bits of their tunes (i was collecting their live bootlegs). hilariously, it was dad who converted me to metallica (took the dive cause he liked the 'Justice' album cover)!

I ignored 2 years of HS Spanish and then went with ENG1B Lit and Composition... ...just so I could stare blankly to comments such as these. Thus, I am truly a gaijin.

....Samurai Bun!

I'd be lying if I said no.........so, no. ..so whatthe hell are you saing no to...isometric mudpuddles or floating chicken mcnuggets?

Rent reduction for not adding any new nail holes to the premises! I'd feel sorry for the Jazz.....but not as long as their name is 'the jazz', while their logo is a freaking mountain.

Bad picture.... good Laker solidarity.

I know I'm threadshitting at this point, but another board had this...totally cosmic timing: straight dope bbs

Their keyboard tones sounded like ass, the lyrics were blargh, and the drummer was too fill-happy. Other than that, they were pretty rockin!!

Echo & The Bunnymen - Show of Strength stupid name, great band

Opeth is awesome band. Unfortunately the cookiemonster singer fucks up the music. There needs to be a formal term for this singing issue.....maybe 'The Corgan/Mustaine Syndrome'.

They invented the term 'best song with the worst solo ever'. ...or I invented it, and they inspired it. yea.

It was the media that broke the story and rode it. Thats their nature. Strange you'd absolve the media of furorcism when they created and sustained the furorosity. Every press conference on the 66 tour they elicited an obligatory 'john semi-apology'. Heh? The plan was to play the Get Back stuff live and record that one performance as the album; they would not have made it a tour setlist. Never mind that it would be ridiculous to tour live with a setlist identical to a new live album, or that bands virtually never tour with only new material, but that the Beatles wouldn't tour playing stuff from the best career discography of all time would never happen. The BBC asked them to represent Britain and they delivered. If it was a shit song, then you could say they were overrated. Of course they weren't because they delivered. As for hippiedom, I didnt say they invented flower power....it was you said "others shot past them as far as relevance by '67". Well...apparently not, since you seem to indicate they were hippie bandwagoners....in '67(!). I dont have any solo albums for either Zep or the Beatles...a smattering of mp3s does me fine. McCartneys album sold big because he basically broke up the band with/for it. The self-interview and such. I think Pepper is the weakest of the post Rubber Soul era...so...no argument here. Pink Floyd wasn't rolling in dough and 'Piper' is comparable. Beach Boys too. What most bands didn't have was George Martin. What credit did the media give to them that they didn't deserve? That Apple Corps was a well run business ? I were Lennon at that point, had done practically everything and everyone, conquered my chosen field, was rich for life, all before turning 30, and I'd probably chill out and go freaky from 70-75 too.

ok...I must now lay down the whoopass. The beatles werent overrated in '67. The magical mystery tour film bombed in Britain and the bigger than jesus comment didnt go over well in the US. As for the live element.....whatthefuckingfuck? Ed Sullivan and the rooftop gig are so obscenely seminal, you must have taken them for granted. I suppose you meant LA forum or boston garden bootleg like shit. ANyone who has beatle boots knows you can't hear a damn thing cause of the chicks. Marshall stacks were coming in just as they stopped touring. Thats not their fault. Relevance in '67? They were part of the 1st ever live satellite hookup, the 'all you need is love' event......and since that summer is called the 'summer of love'......yeah, yer right, no relevance there. Yea I'm not an expert on the stones, but I dont know that theres a consensus of what a "modern live rock show is". They were breaking up and playing on a freezing roof....still... the rooftop gig is great. If they had Marshalls and played their latter day material with more a more mature/non screaming audience they would have owned, no doubt about it. Yeah, lets base the validity of zeppelin with death wish 2 or the Firm ....I dont see the relevance here. More solo shittalkin. Successful solo careers after huge bands are rare, thats like a universal constant. The Beatles definitely win over zep in this category anyway. 'Imagine' alone is worth more than most artists' entire discography. indeed, good sir.

holy fock, where'd this come from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSnwi94ANQ

and you quoted me because....

- i like him, but his stuff could get a bit samey. the whole 'white-Jimi' thing kinda detracts me from his vibe too. - disc 161 in cd binder #3

Good music, great riffs, bad lyrics.

He could have saw the Evans-led 1980 'Deep Purple'. or just mk2 with strange dye jobs...

The guy painting Jimi on the wall. Yep, a seminal moment indeed.

Lennon had mommy issues, and Yoko was definitely motherly towards him. Plus you figure he probably nailed every hot chick there was, so he didnt need a trophy wife.