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Well... more Nickleback fun for me. As it turns out, we show up in Minneapolis last night... knowing that Nickleback was in town that night... but not realising until we got to our venue they we were right across the street from the Target Centre where they were playing. So our drummer put a call in to Mike Kroeger to let them know we were right across the way... Mike gets back to us and says we've all got super AAA vip passes to their show. Their security guy runs the passes over to our bus.. we eat shittty hard rock cafe fajitas for dinner, and head over to their show around 8:45... We walk in and immediately see the band walking to the side stage about to go on... Chad greets us and says, pretty genuinely that it was great that we could make it to the gig. "Get up front boys and put your fuckin' plugs in!!" he says. So now I'm essentially on stage... in a sunk down vip section just off stage left... about 15 feet from centre stage... let the hilarity begin. Watching this show was like watching a car crash, I just couldn't look away or fathom what was actually going on. It started out with a countdown and some huge explosions, with the band launching into "Something in your mouth". But then Chad starts talking between songs... and I swear he spent 1/3 of the show talking... just absolute bullshit too. Stuff like "Imagine if the city of Minneapolis banned getting laid... man... guys would be burning their asses off to get out of town!" "I feel like agameshow host up here... YOU WON A NEW CARRR!!!!!!!", "Man, that Sean from Seether is a real cock smoker... I'm gonna ten guys in sailor suits to huddle around him and rub their junk all over him, then his mom can check it out on youtube!" He invited an 8 year old kid on stage for "rockstar", after calling him a motherfucker a few times and telling him he'd put him on the payroll so he could get uncle Chad beers and twist him up a few. "That's why I've never had kids! They'd have taken them away lonnng ago. In fact, you've probably got and ounce tucked in your pants there little guy.... that's how you could afford that diamond earring you got there!!" he kid's mom was swooning too. They had the crew come out with these t-shirt shooting guns and, after talking about for 10 minutes, launched bundled up shirts to the top back row of place... insanely far.... while the band riffed on Metallica's "Sad But True" We only stayed for and hour and a half because we had to go play our own gig... but man... what a fuckin site. Chad has absolutely no class... and the people there loved it. LOVED IT! The music was definately these least important part of the show... I mean.. they did 4 ballads in row... all about family and caring and shit... and then in between he talked about getting laid in his bus and drinking beer jamming to country music... then a nother ballad, then more low class ranting. It was like watching a wrestling match. But... they entertained the shit of the sold out 16,000 or so people that were there. Including me... I was in complete disbelief. Chad even came over and did some crotch thrusts for us during a solo... laughing a big toothy goofy grin the whole time. I'm pretty sure it was the craziest, most over the top rock show I've ever seen... crazy lights, massive pyro, giant screens, multi level stages.... Just thought I'd share.

Well... I was sitting 20 feet from the stage during Nickleback's performance. My ears might actually still be ringing from their pyro to be honest. And... it wasn't that bad. I must admit I'm quite fascinated by Chad Kroeger... I think he's a genius. I ran into Chad a few times over the weekend... and all times were quite strange. One was watching a drummer friend of mine quite humourously dry hump him against our bus in front of Richards on Richards on Friday night. And the second... after the Junos on Sunday, and after sharing a round of Jager-bombs with him and a few others, he asked his bodyguard to get him a bucket to piss in... and then he proceeded to pull his cock and balls out in front of a few friends of mine in the bar, I guess to stress how bad he had to go. But he's Chad Kroeger... he seems to be able to do that kind of thing. I guess when you're worth $150 million dollars, you pretty much do what you want, wherever you want. But... he was actually a really nice guy. Eccentric and confident as hell... and it's hard not to stare at his perfect blonde locks... but, generally a nice dude.

Well... I guess I'm gonna have to get Darien Lake tickets and cross my fingers I'm free for it. I'm sure I could sell 'em if I couldn't make it. So obviously.... fingers crossed.

The econolodge/st dominique is REAL bad for break ins to your vehicle, if you choose that. Leave nothing of value in your car and pre order a new side window. I sadly speak from many experiences.

Anything by Ace Frehley should not be played by the new KISS. Do they still do Beth without Peter Criss? Oh wait... is this thread for real? I actually think I'm opening for KISS this summer.

Wow. I didn't think I felt that bad about missing these shows until I watched that video. Fuckin killer.

Nice! I didn't know this was getting announced so soon. Glad to play with the Hip and glad to be a part of the benfit for G.

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I don't know actually... I've had it for about 5 years. I tried recording it on our last CD, but it never made the cut. Now that I'm 'an accordion player' I should bust it out.

I didn't realize this was the new sunject of this thread. Pretty crazy...

They nailed "I Get Around" in that encore as well. Good to see you too Kevin.. thanks for enjoying the show!

Totally trashy. I just watched the first two episodes and I think I liked it. His haircut and look are almost too much... although the theme of once famous now washed up is always a little unsettling to view.

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I like Kings of Leon. Although I grew up listening to alot of the 80's stuff the killers seems to be influenced by... I don't really like them. I'd say KOL are much more of a rock band.

Woo hoo! This should be a fun night indeed. Can't wait!

Should be good... come early and get a nice buzz on! See you then Kevin.

All the best to you Jesse... take care and kick that shit! Here's the best vibes I could find for you... I'm sending them your way!!!

The Golden Dogs www.myspace.com/thegoldendogs Zeus www.myspace.com/themusicofzeus Peter Elkas Band - 10pm!! www.myspace.com/peterelkas at The Dakota! Wednesday Feb 18th These nights have been filling up quickly... if you wanna get in, you gotta come early. We're on at 10!

It's cartoon.... what's the difference of it being in HD?

Man... I played in Buffalo the next day. We woke up and saw it on the news, and then drove there from Detroit. The vibe of the city was definately pretty somber... but a hockey win in overtime and a good rock show seemed to brighten some spirits where we were.

Who's in Andrew's band these days besides yerself?? Again... I'm really wishing I could make this show tonight... and will be sure to listen to my "here Comes the Light' "deluxe edition" tonight on the drive to Motor City.

Located at 781 Main St, in Buffalo NY. From what I hear, this is a beautiful room. IF you're in the area, stop by! We've got two openers... We're on around 10ish.

Hehe... it doesn't bother me. Although, I might be biased seeming as I actually am an additonal stage musician. To be honest, I would have rather seen Coldplay play that song as the four of them, without any strings at all if that's how it had to be, than have those backing tracks there. That's supposed to be the difference between live and studio, right? It's ok to do that stuff on your album..... or is it? Maybe when they're in the studio, recording endless overdubs, it'd smart to think of what's gonna happen live to those parts. I'd bet that those backing tracks are the exact tracks from their CD. Which just doesn't seem right somehow. That's not what I like about live music... live is supposed to be the 3,4,5 or however many band members up there creating music. It'd be like seeing Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy page had backing tracks of the extra guitar tracks he'd done on the records. Yuck!

Do you mean that you think that they were lip synching or because they were wearing Sgt. Pepper-like jackets? Perhaps the amount of backing tracks they used... which seemed to make up about 66% of that version of Viva la Vida. No matter what, it still seems like cheating to me. Even the Boss' superbowl performance minus his vocals was prerecorded (earlier that day at least - and still 'off the floor', not a flawless orchestra backing track), to ensure a quality broadcast. It's the grammys... why couldn't they have had string section?

Fuck you!!!!