Plan B Forum

So I got tickets to see X, because what the hell it's been a while and they're playing a small venue (also, my birthday, pretty much).

And I'm noodling around on the ticket site and here's who's coming to town in the next month: Buzzcocks, English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers and The Damned.

I'm living in a goddam time warp.

Didn't they all work for Doug and Dinsdale Piranha at one time?

Sue U wrote: Buzzcocks, English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers and The Damned.

.

Is that all one gig? A "Brit Invasion 1978" style tour?

Nah, each is headlining their own show. I half expect to see Mekons, Wire and The Fall coming around next.

But oh to be 22 again!

I'd see The Damned and SLF again if I had the chance.

If we're going back to 1980, does that mean we can bring back Ronald Reagan?

Lord Jim wrote:If we're going back to 1980, does that mean we can bring back Ronald Reagan?

No.

Why would you want to dig up Ronald Reagan?

So he can lean the real Reagan up against the wall next to his velvet Reagan painting.

Lord Jim wrote:If we're going back to 1980, does that mean we can bring back Ronald Reagan?

Hell with Ronald Reagan...that's about when my uncle paid $1000 for a white 1969 Mustang. Oh, yeah: it was a legit Boss 429 Mustang! (One of 859 build...his was Kar Kraft chassis #1299, IIRC.) I think he also kind of misses his 1978 Yamaha Speed Triple 750.

For those who are in -- or can get to -- SoCal:



Early-bird Specials for everyone!

I ahve about 500 LP's in my basement. Some ever the wrap isn't opened. Doors, Who, Stones.....

Well, I went to the X show last week and despite some trepidation that it was going to turn out to be some kind of *barfff* oldies show (because no new material in the last 140 years) it turned out to be surprisingly fresh and super high energy. The first time they slowed things down was actually during the encore set (playing Blue Spark -- still not what you'd call a slow song in most anyone else's repertoire). It was a somewhat less personal performance than back in the day, but then again they're now pros working a road gig rather than kids tearing up the world. Still, it really was nice to hear them again, and they were killing it -- even (especially?) their version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Breathless.


My phonecam sux.

Noteworthy was that the audience seemed to include a lot of 50-something dads with their teen-age/twenty-something daughters. What is up with that?

Old headbangers never die, they take their daughters along so as to have a genetic hair component on show.

Sue U wrote:Well, I went to the X show last week and despite some trepidation that it was going to turn out to be some kind of *barfff* oldies show (because no new material in the last 140 years) it turned out to be surprisingly fresh and super high energy. The first time they slowed things down was actually during the encore set (playing Blue Spark -- still not what you'd call a slow song in most anyone else's repertoire). It was a somewhat less personal performance than back in the day, but then again they're now pros working a road gig rather than kids tearing up the world. Still, it really was nice to hear them again, and they were killing it -- even (especially?) their version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Breathless.


My phonecam sux.

Noteworthy was that the audience seemed to include a lot of 50-something dads with their teen-age/twenty-something daughters. What is up with that?

hahahahaha, you're such a naïf if you think the women were the daughters of the men accompanying them . . .

hahahahaha, you're such a naïf if you think the women were the daughters of the men accompanying them . . .

Beat me to it...

Seems like an overly optimistic assumption...

Well, I actually did ask several of them.

That's even funnier. I'm sure some were, but the majority were not (having once been a 20-something that dated men twice my age....and seen how large that world is).

Wait, oh never mind.

Sue U wrote:Well, I actually did ask several of them.

Me too - got me face slapped. How'd you do?

Guinevere wrote:That's even funnier. I'm sure some were, but the majority were not (having once been a 20-something that dated men twice my age....and seen how large that world is).

Wait, oh never mind.

Oh my! We're not talking about cockatoos again are we?