OK, not to harp too much on this same topic, but this Poison show is in honor of their 20th Anniversary Tour. Um. How old is Brett Michaels anyway? (And how old does that make me? I know, Brett... every rose has it's thorn. Oh, I know.)
More importantly, are these guys going to be touring into their sixties? Will they be the Rolling Stones of our generation (minus the talent and groundbreaking music)? And will Bobby Dall throw out his back again onstage?
I checked out their website, and the pictures there are suspiciously small and can't be viewed larger. Hmm.
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Wow. Though, I'm going to second a trip to the drive in instead. In my "elder' years I'm not paying more than $20 to see a show. I don't care who is playing*
*Unless it's someone I really love and HAVE to see
"In my "elder' years I'm not paying more than $20 to see a show. I don't care who is playing*
*Unless it's someone I really love and HAVE to see"
No kidding. The first concert I ever went to was a Kiss show at the Utica Memorial Auditorium in 1975. I was just a little scuffer back then. The ticket was something like six or seven bucks, and I remember my grandmother pitching a fit over the high price. Now the cheap seats at a Kiss show are around $80, though at least at that distance you can't see Paul Stanley's love handles.
I did pay 35 bucks to see Def Leppard in Portland in '03, and I thought that was actually worth the money. $20 or more for Poison & Cinderella? Fuggedaboutit.
Here's a lot of bang for the buck: the "Monsters of Rock" show at Oxford Plains Speedway in 1988...Kingdom Come (remember those Zeppelin rip-offs?), Dokken, Metallica, Scorpions and Van Hagar. So what it if it rained? The tickets were like 28 bucks.
"are these guys going to be touring into their sixties?"
I doubt it. Who would go? They have a very narrow fan base (us?), which is really an "ex-fan" base. We'll be in our forties by then, in the thralls of our mid-life crises, and will be ripping all the new music off our teenagers' iPods. That, or we'll be too consumed with IRAs and childrens' college tuition to waste time and money on any second-rate hair band. Now if it were a band that actually contributed, like Van Halen, or even Guns and Roses, it might be a different story.
Just my opinion.
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