Van Halen in Calgary

[MarcO]

I gotta admit, this review struck me as pretty funny....... ::

[purple foot]

ha. my co-worker went to that. he's a closet metalhead but he really didn't enjoy the show. he said it was loud in a

"high pitched and bad way".

[Mr. Musicface]

"Yeah, they had energy, but it was unchanneled and unfocused — it was like watching a frat party hosted by drunken, feces-throwing monkeys."

Hey, I think I was at that party.

Anyway it looks like there won't be too many more VH shows in near future anyway:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/10/27/Arts/vanhalen041027.html

- M.

[purple foot]

they certainly charged "this is our last tour" prices.

[h]

The rumour on the radio yesterday was that Eddie can't stay sober. It sounds like that true judging by that review - which is one of the best reviews i've read in a while -

[Velvet]

This sounds interesting:

"the night’s opening act Rose Hill Drive wasn’t the nostalgia show norm of being an even more irrelevant act as the headliner.

The trio of stoner rock hairbags riffed up an enormous storm that was as guttural as it was out there. The weight the three of them threw out, a la Queens of the Stone Age-meets-Phish, was heavy, psychedelic bliss.

They provided the gonads to an evening that would have otherwise been sorely lacking that part of the package."