I've been a HUGE music fan for years - since my early teens, after growing out of Gary Glitter (suspect he wished he'd been able to grow out of ME) and I got into 'proper' music, I've been passionate....love listening & - better still - going to concerts. Nothing seems to be able to 'touch' the soul, heart & spine like music, especially in a live environment where the atmosphere & visuals add another dimension...this is ART when all said & done!!
Great lyrics that may be poetry in written form move to another level when set to music...a great line or emotion, in time with a wonderful chord change - BANG - spine tingles...tears roll...wow...
Anyway, to get to the point, because I've been to so many concerts, most of the agencies / promoters etc send me weekly updates / 'advance booking offers' (a bit like "we are only offering this once-in-a-lifetime offer for our DOUBLE GLAZING to YOU!!!!" - yeah, yeah!!...and how many more thousands?!!!)- but I sometimes wonder about their profiling & database...
I've been given 'early warning' & 'pre-sale VIP' bollox about the bloody NOLANS, THE GRUMBLEWEEDS, DONNY OSMOND (how do they know I sing 'Puppy Love' in the shower & back home on my son's microphone?) and BARBRA STREISAND...I can understand the likes of ANDY WILLIAMS because I always took my mum (RiP) to see him...but do they think that because I saw Led Zeppelin back in the 70's that I'm now of an age where I'm one step away from Andre Rieu and bloody James Last? I'm not ready for a bus pass & SAGA holidays yet, or spending half my retirement stash on a sodding caravan...!! F*CK OFF TICKETMASTER!! Send you wife / daughter round and we'll see how old I am!! Hell, I've got a HUGE drumkit back home, and another (electric) one here in BJ!!! ROCK AND ROLL DADDY!!!
By contrast, though - and to FINALLY get to the point - today, I got advance notification of gigs by ZEDD (?)PAPA (??)MONUMENTS (???) and - best of all - ARAABMUZIK who is apparently "the M VP of the MPC" - what the f*ck's all that about?
Wasn't ZEDD a weird looking bloke with a 'tash and a giant spring shoved up his arse in 'The Magic Roundabout'? and as for "M VP of the MPC" - what's that in bloody English? Is it a cool, trendy, rapper equivalent of "Legendary guitarist and generally very talented chap Mr Eric Clapton"?
No, sorry - I bet even if I went in the hope of attracting some young chick by wearing my dark glasses indoors, I'd sit (stand?) with my arms folded thinking "This is shite!" and muttering "They aren't even playing their instruments!!"
Come back Jimmy Page...
"...and she's buyyyyyying...a stairway....to heavaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnn..."
("New York - Goodnight")
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