July 17th 2012 Speak of Devil concert is released here is “Crazy Train” vid
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You are going to have to over look the overdub vocals of Ozzy… Pretty obvious… But I saw the show in Evansville that year and it was still awesome with Brad but Brad isn’t Randy. Ozzy should have retired after this and left on a high note. Now all his notes are awful. Just watched “God Bless Ozzy Osbourne”… Poor guy, he is about one foot from being in a rest home but still he is sent out to perform. During “No more tears” he is soo slow on vocals the band has slowed down beyond album speed and Ozzy has two teleprompters that look like floor monitors in front of his mic. What has the world come to? He still has killer hair though 🙂
chuck
Here is the movie “God Bless Ozzy Osbourne”. You can see the teleprompters around the 1:00Â mark…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS2st0utdQU
Feel free to re post in it’s entirety!
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KISS’s new song “Hell or Hallelujah”
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I think it sounds a little like “All American Man” but I can’t complain. They are still kicking the critics to the curb 30 years on.
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QUEEN live with Adam Lambert 06/30/2012
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I am still on the fence about Adam singing for them. While watching the video sometimes it seems like Adam is just phoning in the vocals or he is taking QUEEN as a classic rock band and not the power house band they are… I think George Micheal would be a great fit but he seems to unstable…. Maybe Adam just doesn’t need to act so much like a Diva?Opinions?
Here’s the entire 2 hour concert. Well worth the watch. Roger Taylor comes out from behind the drums and sings and does a great job!
chuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuihnDJiDOc
Gotta say Hell yea! To Bruce Dickinson!
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HE gets it! The inner child forever rocking and screw the world!
Dickinson said, “Mature our image? Why? Inside this 53-year-old exterior — 54 in August — is a 17-year-old. Actually, probably mental age, probably slightly younger. But that’s the core of why you do this thing. When you’re a kid and you experience something that makes you feel, ‘Wow, walking on air.’ The first song you write, the first experiences, you have to ringfence those and guard them against what I can describe as the cynicism of the world, because the world eats into people and destroys those hopes and those dreams and things like that. And it’s those things that people call childish, those are the things, actually, that motivate us and that keeps our creativity precious; that’s what’s inside people, and they lose it at their peril. I’ve seen people that have lost it, and it’s really sad.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=176084
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Ok fellow musicians, when is enough, enough?
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You have played your entire life but have grown weary of the never ending starting and stopping of bands and band attempts…The in between bands and everything thing else associated with this business…Maybe you are like me and was in a road band too for some time …we did it for almost five years..That was 8 years ago when that stopped…I haven’t been able to find anyone or enough people to try it again…Why? I guess the older we all get the harder it is to commit to something like that. My kids are grown so it’s easier for me to. I don’t know how you feel about it but I was never one to be satisfied just playing local bars and clubs. Have I done it? Oh yea, a bunch, I am not arrogant to think I am better than playing those types of places I just wanted more… I have played in dives and nice places and had good times but I always wanted more… It was never enough….an evil drug I always say…
I will play anywhere anytime but I always wanted more….huge stages, not fame and fortune or rock star status…That’s all fleeting…I just wanted to play and make a decent living out of it…
So here I am…46. Still have the “look” I guess?  I go to blabbermouth.com and see all the older bands on that site. They all have the tired hair and big gut look. Not my idea of a “rock star” but they are older and some probably way older than me… They too were probably “metal heads” in the 80’s. Hanging on, mid level bands at best but doing what they love to do so is it fulfilling? I dunno…I am at a loss here… Music, it’s all I have ever cared about other than my family…I was never content with what I have done or accomplished which in the music business is not much. But here I stand at the cliff edge. Do I jump or do I throw my guitars over the edge and say fuck it…not a bad run but not what I tried so hard to achieve…
I am not looking for sympathy here. Just honest questions. What do you do when all you know to do is what you want to do but not doing do it? I don’t want to be the tired looking old fat guy that stayed too long at the dance but damn I don’t want to quit either…
chuck
Quote of the day…lmao! It’s about AC/DC
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Taken from a post on blabbermouth about AC/DC….
time marches on, all things must end. I think most fans will be happy just to see old men drag themselves out on stage and just attempt it? For mellow bands, its one thing, but for these hard rock howitzers, its just not the same. How old is too old for Angus to do the strip tease? I noticed most people were making faces in 2007. It looked like Jacob Marley rattling around, taking his clothes off.
Eddie Van Halen has a serious smokers voice, when did he grow old?
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Interview with local “Blues Legend” Boscoe France!
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A couple of weeks ago I was doing what I normally do around lunch time. I was checking out WKTG’s “Out to Lunch” with the our local radio celebrity Pat Ballard… Pat is a great supporter of the music scene and showcases the local talent, plus he plays some kick ass old school metal that I cut my young guitar playing teeth on back in the day.. On this particular day he had Boscoe France on and they were discussing the “blues”. Though I am not really a fan of the “blues” unless the scales are played faster and through distortion pedals and Marshall amps, I found this interview Pat did with Boscoe very interesting and informative at the same time. So I called Pat up said hello to the guys and Pat threw on some Maiden for me and I enjoyed the rest of the show as I always do. A few days later I hit Boscoe up on Facebook and the rest “as they say” is history! Check out Boscoe’s interview below. Click on his name and it will take you to his Facebook page!
1. Welcome to Kick Acts Boscoe. Tell us a little about yourself and were you can be found at on the web.
My name is Boscoe France.I am from Kentucky and have been playing guitar for 32 years.I am 35.I have toured nationally with national acts and also played locally in bars from age 12.I have Facebook and reverbnation pages.
2. Who are your musical heroes, influences & why?
My musical heroes are a short list.Duke Madison was my uncle he played music at all our family functions.He was the first guitarist/singer I reckon I ever saw.He would always let me hang out and play.Once my folks saw I was totally hooked My folks got me a guitar.My Daddy bartered with a friend for a guitar and that was that.I listened to my moms kiss,Beatles,and skynyrd.I love Duane Allman, Freddie King, and Elmore James.When I was around four or five I saw the blues brothers movie and found soul music.
3. Do you have any advice for someone just getting started in playing music? Any pitfalls they should avoid?
Advice from me is practice your instrument.Be good at it.Then go out and play.I would also advice that you should take the music seriously and not be shitfaced.I had my bout with drugs and alcohol and I am happy to say I came out the other side fairly unharmed.I can say that club owners like dealing with professional people.I have been blessed to play a lot of shows and for that reason I think of every show as special.Maybe I met this friend at this gig Read more…
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