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I have 1 shirt I got for 10 bucks from a hustler outside Boston last June. No f***in way was I paying $40 at the merch desk. I also got 1 shirt from Alex in 2010 and 1 from Neil's cannon in 2013, both of which I gave away.

Oh yeah?

It's awesomely bad. When he first released this, so many people bought it as a joke gift for friends that it actually charted, and gave him his biggest release in over 20 years.

Wow. If that's true then they're really bad with money. I know Slash said the major tour they did after the Use Your Illusion records didn't make any money because of all the excess musicians, production and union overtime costs because of the late starts. But he should've been set just from his Velvet Revolver days.

About how old was he? I'm guessing late 40's or early 50's. It was hard to tell. He looked pretty road-worn from excess.

I wouldn't recognize a single song of theirs. In an unrelated note, I just found out that the leader of Weezer (Rivers Cuomo) was in my Music Theory class freshman year at UConn in '87. He was the hair metal kid from the local high school. He went by a different name then. I remember talking to him about Stryper, of all things!

The only true Rush fan was the guy that I saw in Saratoga in 2013. He had a tattoo on his body from every single Rush release. That included the live albums and Greatest Hit packages and repackages. Every. freaking. one.

Met Life is pretty far down the list...who knows if they can make it that far. Good point. When will Mr. Rose crack... Today, people with not put up with his nonsense of delaying shows 2+hours. Is that what he does? No, Axl doesn't do that anymore. Promoters got smart to it several years ago and just made the shows start later. This prevents Axl from keeping the crowd waiting a few hours for him to come out. Today, the opening band comes on at 9 and GnR will be out at 10 or 1030. Yes, they start later than all other arena rock bands but moving the start time back pretty much put a stop to Axl keeping the crowd waiting. Why did he make the crowd wait? Just a power trip or he couldn't get his act together? Axl had some big-time demons that he was always dealing with. He apparently had a really f-ed up childhood in Indiana. He was molested by his father as a child. When he got a bug up his ass about something there was no reaching him. He'd wait at the hotel for hours while the rest of the band was waiting to go on. The most legendary case was when they had a 4-night slot opening for the Rolling Stones. Axl refused to play the 2nd show unless Slash apologized onstage for doing drugs. Eventually Slash started working with Michael Jackson, who was dealing with his own child molestation charges, and to Axl that was unforgivable. Eventually Slash just got tired of the crap and left. I'm sure there are all sorts of contractual provisions in place to keep Axl in line for this tour. I've got zero interest in it.

Ok....for a minute my mind wandered off to climbing the rope in gym class....

A true fan is is anyone who stuck with the band after listening to Test For Echo.

I was briefly on dime. I was new to that whole process I downloaded a show or or two, and somehow accidently screwed up my ratio. I asked a mod how to fix it and they were really douchey about it. So I eventually found another site that worked out better. Eventually you run out of spare time to actually listen to the shows you have, and I lost interest. To this day I've never watched R30, Clockwork Angels or R40 all the way through in one sitting.

But here's a hint: bootlegging was around LOOOONNNNNG before the internet made free trading easy, practical, and inexpensive. It made it free AND inexpensive??

Lord Of The Rings by Johann de Meij

You know you want more...

Smoke On the Water, with Blackmore

Holy Diver, with Dio on it.

Well, I was hurt by listening to the dreadful Test For Echo album, so we're even.

I'm more of a manipulator than a scalper. And with Rush, their milk jobs come more from constantly re-releasing their "remastered" catalogue. And fans here debate them like there is a significant difference. My cd's all came from joining BMG in '92, and then buying new releases as they came. I was given one remaster as a gift, and side by side, there is no discernible difference. Ray Danniels once said in an interview that the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour revolutionized the touring industry, because that was the first tour to charge ridiculously high prices, and everyone realized the market price for concerts could go way up. So again, I have no issue at all with anyone taking a Rush product and making money off it. I'll sell the Rush book by Brian Harrigan for $200...

Hey, you'll get no complaints from me buddy. I've gone to more than my fair share of free rush shows, simply because I was able to buy an extra pair of tickets early and double my money on eBay or stubhub. And the jazz bass comment was a joke, which apparently went over your head.

Sure they do. Plenty of people sell bootlegs still today but it was much more prevalent before they were as easily available on the Internet. It says right on each and every bootleg I have that they are for free trade and not for monetary gain. Which doesn't prevent them from being sold. That's not our problem if people can't read and follow simple instructions. I bought a few before I had permanent internet access and learned of the trading community. Once I started trading/downloading I became an eBay Nazi for a while, getting boot listings shut down. I haven't downloaded a show in years, ever since I got into it with some prick who had taped a New Hampshire show I was at.

Years ago there was a pro clip of a PW show from Buffalo. It was only a few moments long. I'm guessing it was a B-roll from a local news station.

Rob Halford has been fired. His replacement: