Thoughts on a pink shirt.. - Page 4

tuigirl · #46 12-14-2004, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

WOW...is there an opening?
Let me guess...you're the President?

If platinum is sold-out, I'd settle for pink

Me..President? Yes, well...it's a very difficult job, but...someones got to do it

I must admit getting thru the Bronze, Silver, Gold and finally Platinum packages were mighty tough, but the late night surprise at the end was def worth it ....

madformac · #47 12-14-2004, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tuigirl

but the late night surprise at the end was def worth it ....

yes the late night surprise... You pay for the lot...

amber · #48 12-14-2004, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by madformac

Ahh, but Amber..

I do the saver package too... Which is the one where I'll buy you a coffee and a danish if I'm ever passing through your town... It's the best package 'cos it's free...

I'll take that one, and i bet by the end i'll have gotten the platinum package out of it

madformac · #49 12-14-2004, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

I'll take that one, and i bet by the end i'll have gotten the platinum package out of it

Haven't got time to reply fully or I'll miss my flight to Oakland....

amber · #50 12-14-2004, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by madformac

Haven't got time to reply fully or I'll miss my flight to Oakland....

See you in a bit!!

wondergirl9847 · #51 12-22-2004, 02:59 PM

Here is a VERY manly man, playing his axe and wearing....a PINK shirt.

wondergirl9847 · #52 01-14-2005, 11:50 PM

See, even Lindsey wears pink....

SuzeQuze · #53 01-15-2005, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

See, even Lindsey wears pink....

Where is MFM? Busy recovering from retail hell?

wondergirl9847 · #54 01-15-2005, 12:15 AM

Probably.

Actually, he and a certain other Ledgie are going to see Velvet Revolver this weekend....he may be getting ready mentally for that. LOL

tuigirl · #55 01-15-2005, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Probably.

Actually, he and a certain other Ledgie are going to see Velvet Revolver this weekend....he may be getting ready mentally for that. LOL

Getting mentally ready for VR or a certain other Ledgie? hahaaa.....I just hope his neighbours are ready for them both..I suspect every guitar in his house will get a thorough workover this weekend

madformac · #56 01-15-2005, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Where is MFM? Busy recovering from retail hell?

I'm still around... Clinging to the ledge as it were... Just been busy dealing with the money spending public the last two weeks.. Nightmare...

Nice to see I'm still thought of anyway!! LOL!

madformac · #57 01-15-2005, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Probably.

Actually, he and a certain other Ledgie are going to see Velvet Revolver this weekend....he may be getting ready mentally for that. LOL

Yes tomorrow night in fact.. Should be cool... Tonight however is going to be a jamfest with several guitars and a bottle of JD...

madformac · #58 01-15-2005, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by tuigirl

Getting mentally ready for VR or a certain other Ledgie? hahaaa.....I just hope his neighbours are ready for them both..I suspect every guitar in his house will get a thorough workover this weekend

Yes you are entirely correct... About the guitars I mean....

The neighbours will be fine once they have heard I'm So Afraid at full volume for about 5 hours..

tuigirl · #59 01-17-2005, 01:41 AM

hopefully, we'll get a concert review at some point

They sounded as happy as a couple of cats set amongst the pigeons (or guitarists in a guitar shop) yesterday (gotta be a boy thing....you know, boys together....)

madformac · #60 01-17-2005, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by tuigirl

hopefully, we'll get a concert review at some point

They sounded as happy as a couple of cats set amongst the pigeons (or guitarists in a guitar shop) yesterday (gotta be a boy thing....you know, boys together....)

OK, OK.... A short review..

We arrived at the gig for about 5:30pm.. The doors opened at 6pm...

The first thing I noticed was that I felt very old. I'm 30, which is not considered exactly written off and assigned to the archives age, but of the 80% or so of the crowd (which I estimate, given the venues size at about 15,000) were between the ages of 10 and 17.

It's great for the band that they have a lot of younger fans but this was ridiculous, you had guys taking their daughters of 8 or 9 to see these guys. Maybe they were naive but VR ain't exactly a teeny bop group you know? Their website has an 18 rating for a start..

Anyway, the doors opened and in we went. We were standing and made our way to the front of the stage in front of Slash's microphone. I guess there must have been maybe three or four rows of people in front of us, mostly kids.. I found it quite amusing that here we were, two older fans from the GNR era, surrounded by pubescant teenage boys all trying to cultivate some form of facial hair... haha, it was really strange and funny but later all this teen angst around us would manifest itself in a more dangerous way.

So we were in place at 6pm.. The warm up act, I think somebody said they were "the Datsuns" came on quite late, about 7:40pm or so, so the crowd had been waiting 40 minutes over the start time already... The band were pretty good although they seemed to expend more energy in spastic movements onstage than in their playing... These guys finished their set at around 8:20pm.

Then we waited, and waited.... And waited... And waited... Some asshole was shouting "Slash!!" so loudly next to us it actually hurt our ears more than the show itself! But we waited... The background music was repeated over and over and the crowd were getting restless. All these impatient kids down the front were getting pissed off and started booing. You could feel the situation and it was getting quite tightly packed at the front..

Eventually the band came onstage at 9:45pm, 85 minutes after the warm up act finished.. They played "Sucker Train Blues" and all the impatience of the young crowd was released in a dangerous way. I've been in mosh pits before, I know what they are like but this was very different. The surge of these kids, some of them obviously on various substances started literally going mad.. The whole area became so tightly packed it was difficult to breath, the huge swell of the crowd was pusing left then right as one and we looked at each other and decided it was just too dangerous. If one of those kids fell they would have been trampled to death without question.

Both of us are physically very strong and we had to work very hard to push our way out of the situation. But we did.. It was a miracle nobody was seriously hurt. All these young fans being made to wait so long was the deciding factor in the situation, no question. Security were not good enough and lacking in numbers for such a huge crowd.

Anyway, we moved to a safer position towards the right of the stage and apart from some guy in front that stunk of **** we enjoyed the gig tremendously. The crowd at the front seemed to calm down after about 3 numbers and it was much better.

Scott Weiland seemed off his head. If he's off heroin then he's an extremely good actor in my opinion.. Slash was just Slash.. Brilliant as ever and delighted to be playing so close to his birthtown.. "Hi to all my distant cousins" he yelled at one point.

They played the majority of the Contraband album plus "It's So Easy", "I Used To Love Her" and an awesome "Mr.Brownstone" from the GNR days. All in all a good performance.

If the fan base around the world is like the one at this gig VR could become a very big band indeed.. It's a Big Machine...

I took a few pictures at the gig but due to the rather stressed conditions involved in taking them most were pretty bad... Here is one of Slash that came out OK though.... And one of Scott & Dave too...