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Friday Top 10: Best live albums
What’s better than listening to your favorite album by your favorite band? Seeing your favorite band live. And what’s better than spending your day watching midget porn? Nothing… uh… I wanted to go somewhere with this… oh yeah! What happens when you combine the first question with the first answer? Not listening to your iPod while you’re at a concert, you dumbass, listening to your favorite band’s live album!
You know why metal bands are the best live performers? Because others aren’t metal. So now I’m listing the best fucking live albums… like… EVER!
Make the jump, you fool!
Big Vier in Deutschland danke schon Rammstein
I have no idea what I just said in the title since I don’t know German but if you do, congratulations. You’ll be able to catch them live, you lucky bastards. Here’s a post from Metallica.com:
“If you’ve been following along, you know that the Big 4 of Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and ‘Tallica already have two shows scheduled in Europe in July… well, the party is expanding! We’re here today to tell you about and addition to the European vacation with a show in Gelsenkirchen, Germany at the Veltins Arena on July 2, 2011.
Tickets go on sale on Saturday, February 19 at 9:00 AM local time at www.eventim.de.“
Full post here.
Beer, wursts and Big Four. Doesn’t get any better than this, unless you also get to bang Megan Fox.
Joey Belladonna is a solo artist first
…A man who has yet to learn what a comb is second, and the singer for Anthrax third.
We would usually go straight to making jokes and predictions of Anthrax losing their singer for the 5th time (in the past year), but we know that since the Big Four is (still) happening, Joey is most likely to stick around for the foreseeable future. He is using the opportunity of the band being busy with side projects to schedule a few solo dates.
It is still unclear if “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” will make the set list, as requested by Scott Ian.
The Big Four love each other. Cue laugh track.
If you’re in the mood for a quick laugh, check out this excerpt I stole from Blabbermouth got from a recent Scott Ian interview. He’s explaining The Big Four tour.
“This isn’t a manufactured thing put together by management or record companies or anything like that. This is put together because these four bands have all been around for so long. We’re still at the top of our game and we all really get along well, and really do love each other, as lame as that sounds for a bunch of metal dudes.“
Read full interview here.
I’ll suspend my disbelief about the ‘manufactured’ part, I’ll pretend I didn’t read the ‘top of our game’ part, but I can’t take the ‘love’ part seriously.
All you have to do is do a quick search on Blabbermouth, and you’ll see how much these four bands love each other. Granted it was never Scott or anyone else from Anthrax doing the ‘loving’ in the press, but still, these bands tolerate each other at best, in my opinion.
I don’t want to make assumptions about people I haven’t met and things I don’t know about. I think it’s great that this Big Four thing is finally happening and I applaud them for ending their feuds, but this whole “ah, we’re all BFFs and are doing this cause we love each other” thing is pretty hard to take seriously. Especially after reading stuff like this.
But, what do I know? Last night I forgot to wipe after a messy shit and woke up with my underwear looking like one of those Rorschach inkblot tests.
What’s John Bush been up to?
Whilst Anthrax try to make up their minds who their singer is, former vocalist John Bush has been busy recording vocals for a track on the new Long Distance Calling album.
The almost 100% (but obviously not quite) instrumental rock band have had Peter Dolving (The Haunted) and Jonas Renkse (Katatonia) feature on songs before, and have decided for their third album, they’d like Bush to feature on the track Middleville.
Long Distance Calling commented:
“From the beginning of the band we thought it’s cool to do the unexpected, especially from an instrumental band. [..] For the new one we made a list and John was on that list. We asked him and he wanted to do it, which is great because it’s a very strong song. We don’t like to go the easy way and ask the most obvious singers. Nobody is expecting John to appear on our album, but he’s such a great singer that the result speaks for.”
Dose of Metal commented:
“Of course people are expecting it. You just told us sillys.
