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Freedom? Did Dave have her locked up somewhere?

It might not be the fans business but he probably thought it was best to come clean right away before someone else said something.

What do you mean by Disturbed and their openers being too dysfunctional?

1. First Concert? The Monkees 20th anniversary tour in 1986 or 87? Went with my parents. Weird Al opened. 2. Last Concert? Jinjer in August of last year. 3. Worst Concert? I can't say I've ever experienced a truly bad performance from any headliners I've seen. There's been a number of bad openers and there have been other issues like crappy venues or overall bad environment that put a damper on some shows but the bands I've gone to see always seem to deliver. 4. Loudest Concert? Slipknot with Gojira and Behemoth in 2019. All three were the loudest and heaviest I've ever heard. 5. Best Concert? Rush in Syracuse on the Time Machine tour. I had front row on Alex's side. 6. Seen the Most? Rush 12 times. 7. Most Surprising? I'm not sure about that one. I think every band I went to see met my expectations. 8. Happy I got to see? Ronnie James Dio 9. Wish I could have seen? Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin 10. Next Concert? The Warning on September 18th

I know their popularity was more sustained in the UK and probably the rest of Europe over the years. But they got pretty big with their first few albums over here then they faded a little bit. Still, they had enough big hits in the US that people remember them pretty well.

They were big here as well. Couldn't escape them in the mid 90s.

Oh, I hope they're not as annoying this time around. They won't be forced down my throat by radio and MTV like they were before so probably not.

Possibly it was just from years of wear and tear. Still trying to hit some of those high pitched screams at his age probably didn't help.

Create a separate playlist for Hardwired like I did. All of disc 1, Confusion and Spit Out The Bone. Now you have an 8 song classic album like Lightning and Puppets. Most of Hardwired disc 2 is filler.

I thought you considered most things with electric guitar in it to be metal.

How can you have a funeral for something that never existed? Rogan has never been a funny stand up comedian. Just because he has good comedians on his podcast doesn't actually make him one. The only reason people pay attention to his stand up is because he is a commentator for UFC and hosting Fear Factor. Two very high profile gigs which have allowed people to know who he is. When it comes to comedy he's not even good enough to work a dead comedy club on a Tuesday night.

I definitely liked this song more than Perfume but both songs have the same issue for me. Why is the chorus in both of them buried in the mix and you can't make out the words? The chorus is supposed to be the hook in the song that gets stuck in people's heads that makes them want to sing along. That's not possible when every time I hear the chorus I can't make out a damn word. Perfume might be the guiltiest song of all time when it comes to that. This is clean, melodic metal there's no reason I should have this hard of a time understanding the lyrics in a chorus.

Pau has the nicest "open the pit" request I've ever heard 😄

I honestly never knew that there was a debate over which of these albums was better. I've always gotten the impression that Mindcrime was the preferred album by the majority of fans over the years.

That's exactly how I feel about their three newest singles. Nightwish is taking a hiatus after this new album. Floor Jansen and Simone Simons are doing solo stuff now. Maybe Lacuna Coil needs to think about taking a break, try some new things musically in different projects and come back together in a couple years with some refreshed creativity. These three new songs just sound like bonus tracks that weren't good enough to make an album.

Mindcrime and it's not even close. Empire never did much for me. Best I Can, the title track, Silent Lucidity and Anybody Listening are great. Everything else on the album has always been meh to me. I get after the success of Mindcrime a more accessible sounding album was in order but I just don't think accessible really catered to their songwriting strengths. Some bands are great at it but I don't think Queensryche was.

Skynyrd is the only band on the list that I'm a fan of. They're one of my dad's favorites. I've seen them live a handful of times with him during the mid 90s and early 2000s. I think they had a few original guys in the band at the time. That is also the only version of the band I have ever known since I'm not old enough to have seen the original lineup. I wouldn't bother going to see them anymore. I'm more interested in seeing younger bands live these days. With the exception of Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper and maybe one or two others, I don't have much interest in seeing older acts, zombie or otherwise these days.

Makes sense with Tyler's vocal injury. At his age that's probably not something he can come back from in a short period of time.

Maybe it's time for some newer female fronted metal for you? Have you heard Jinjer before? Here's their new single.

Just like their last two singles this song gets a meh from me. This is the second collab in a row where the special guest didn't do anything that Cristina and Andrea couldn't have done vocally. Randy Blythe is the goat heavy metal growler but Andrea could have pretty much done the same thing here. I don't know, it seems like the band is out of ideas right now. Maybe they should do like Nightwish and go on hiatus for a while and branch out, try some new things musically then come back together in a few years refreshed and ready to go again. Floor and Simone are doing solo stuff maybe Cristina should think about the same thing? Seems like the band is in a rut and needs to do something to get their inspiration back.

Um, why wouldn't you all just talk here instead like you used to?

I think this is the first time I've ever seen someone who wasn't a teenage girl back in 1988, willingly listen to and say that they like Richard Marx 😂

I'm guessing that this is a bootleg? Where did you find it?

My issue isn't with it leaning commercial. It's that it produced a bad song and the only thing Spiritbox has done so far which I would consider to be shit.