More Don Dokken

[romanianreaper]

Dude, you nailed it! It drives me crazy. And another thing is the handful of people who film the "WHOLE SHOW" from their phone. Don't get me wrong, cool to capture a shot or the start of a concert but these people are like Steven Spielberg.

Please tell me you are 50 years old like me....LOL!

Yes sir!

There you f'ing go..... When you said "Too old and grumpy to deal with it" I was like "yep, gotta be my age". LOL

 

[Monkey Man]

And another thing is the handful of people who film the "WHOLE SHOW" from their phone. Don't get me wrong, cool to capture a shot or the start of a concert but these people are like Steven Spielberg.

I don't know how they can watch what they film in its entirety without getting seasick from all the shaking.

Yeah, I'm an "old" (but always-young) codger like you, mate.

 

[JimAnsell]

as much as i miss having live shows around, i stopped going to them regularly in the late 2000's. Shit has changed for sure. concerts were way more fun back in the day. Now all the venues are corporate with hired goon security, and super over priced drinks, and ticket prices are double what they used to be because no one buys records anymore.
I'm 37 now, but between 18 and 28 i went to 150+ concerts. i'd go see bands i didn't even like just because it was something to do on a friday or saturday night, especially if you dug the venue. I saw so many shitty nu-metal bands back in the day just because my pals and i all loved going to Harpos in detroit. we lived only a few miles from there, so we'd just go and get drunk and have a blast no matter who was playing. Smokin inside, and drinking $3 giant cups of draft beer. General admission and lawlessness. Now, its like $8 16oz cans of domestic beer, and "sir you'll have to put that out".

 

[Monkey Man]

I hear ya bro'.

 

[Mailman1971]

My last 3 concerts nearly ended in fights.
From being told to sit down cause the 400 pound slob behind me couldn’t see. (Joan jett concert)
The Queen tribute show Mark Martel show
My wife and her friend were cheering when the singer prompted the audience to do so.
Guy sitting ahead of us whips around with the ‘shhh’ symbol (finger to the lips)
Told him to turn the fuck around !!
5 minutes later him and his wife got up and left.
Zoso (Led Zep tribute)
In the bathroom. Long line. Taking a piss some dude was elbowing me in the back telling me hurry up


I’m done. Went to several dozen concerts back in 80s -90s.
Never ever had this crap come up. Ever.
No more for me. I’m 49 as well.

 

[romanianreaper]

My last 3 concerts nearly ended in fights.
From being told to sit down cause the 400 pound slob behind me couldn’t see. (Joan jett concert)
The Queen tribute show Mark Martel show
My wife and her friend were cheering when the singer prompted the audience to do so.
Guy sitting ahead of us whips around with the ‘shhh’ symbol (finger to the lips)
Told him to turn the fuck around !!
5 minutes later him and his wife got up and left.
Zoso (Led Zep tribute)
In the bathroom. Long line. Taking a piss some dude was elbowing me in the back telling me hurry up


I’m done. Went to several dozen concerts back in 80s -90s.
Never ever had this crap come up. Ever.
No more for me. I’m 49 as well.

Good lord man!

I've had someone do that before where they are nudging you or yelling "hurry up". I'm like STFU man I'm like ancient.

I couldn't believe when I went to KISS with a friend of mine from high school She said "hey if you want to get the beer, I'll get the food" and I thought I was getting the deal of a lifetime. Apparently they were craft beers that King Arthur himself sipped on before a battle and the cans must have been gold plated. It rings up to like almost $40 for two cans of beer. I said "WTF, that can't be right?!" and the guy said something about tax. I said "how much are those?". They were $18 per can.

I couldn't believe it. But I HAD to drink. LOL. They were good sized cans but that is besides the point. I don't want to carry an artillery shell around at a show.

 

[Mailman1971]

Yeah same at the kiss rock the revolution tour.
Ordered a vodka orange juice. $12

Thinking to myself ‘fuck a whole 5th is 20 ?!?


Parking lot parties thing of the past. Can’t leave unless you wanna buy a new ticket in.

 

[Kordoba]

My last 3 concerts nearly ended in fights.
From being told to sit down cause the 400 pound slob behind me couldn’t see. (Joan jett concert)
The Queen tribute show Mark Martel show
My wife and her friend were cheering when the singer prompted the audience to do so.
Guy sitting ahead of us whips around with the ‘shhh’ symbol (finger to the lips)
Told him to turn the fuck around !!
5 minutes later him and his wife got up and left.
Zoso (Led Zep tribute)
In the bathroom. Long line. Taking a piss some dude was elbowing me in the back telling me hurry up


I’m done. Went to several dozen concerts back in 80s -90s.
Never ever had this crap come up. Ever.
No more for me. I’m 49 as well.

Good lord man!

I've had someone do that before where they are nudging you or yelling "hurry up". I'm like STFU man I'm like ancient.

I couldn't believe when I went to KISS with a friend of mine from high school She said "hey if you want to get the beer, I'll get the food" and I thought I was getting the deal of a lifetime. Apparently they were craft beers that King Arthur himself sipped on before a battle and the cans must have been gold plated. It rings up to like almost $40 for two cans of beer. I said "WTF, that can't be right?!" and the guy said something about tax. I said "how much are those?". They were $18 per can.

I couldn't believe it. But I HAD to drink. LOL. They were good sized cans but that is besides the point. I don't want to carry an artillery shell around at a show.

The only artillery I carry around at shows is between my legs.

 

[Monkey Man]

Well it is cock rock after all.

 

[romanianreaper]

Yeah same at the kiss rock the revolution tour.
Ordered a vodka orange juice. $12

Thinking to myself ‘fuck a whole 5th is 20 ?!?


Parking lot parties thing of the past. Can’t leave unless you wanna buy a new ticket in.

Yeah if KISS does go back on tour, they are going to have to take the song "Cold Gin" out of the setlist. Could end up causing a riot when people find out how much it could cost.

 

[Kordoba]

Well it is cock rock after all.

Or in my case, a Vienna sausage backed by an old wad of chewing gum.

 

[Mailman1971]

Yeah same at the kiss rock the revolution tour.
Ordered a vodka orange juice. $12

Thinking to myself ‘fuck a whole 5th is 20 ?!?


Parking lot parties thing of the past. Can’t leave unless you wanna buy a new ticket in.

Yeah if KISS does go back on tour, they are going to have to take the song "Cold Gin" out of the setlist. Could end up causing a riot when people find out how much it could cost.

Me and my buddy figured it out. Cheaper go back to the parking lot. Toss back a few.
Then just re-buy a general admission ticket back into the show.
Then buying 60 bucks on a few drinks inside.

 

[romanianreaper]

Yeah same at the kiss rock the revolution tour.
Ordered a vodka orange juice. $12

Thinking to myself ‘fuck a whole 5th is 20 ?!?


Parking lot parties thing of the past. Can’t leave unless you wanna buy a new ticket in.

Yeah if KISS does go back on tour, they are going to have to take the song "Cold Gin" out of the setlist. Could end up causing a riot when people find out how much it could cost.

Me and my buddy figured it out. Cheaper go back to the parking lot. Toss back a few.
Then just re-buy a general admission ticket back into the show.
Then buying 60 bucks on a few drinks inside.

Hell yes dude!

I hate sounding like an old man but a lot of the younger crowd doesn't even realize how screwed up things are from the shows we got to go to. Don't get me wrong, there are some great "updates" or options when you go to a show as far as food, drink, and merchandise, but it is at a crazy cost.

It is just a total fan rape. Tickets are not cheap to start with, if you have decent seats. To pay for parking, high food and high beer prices after you already shelled out a bunch of dough, sucks.

That is why last year when I went to MacSabbath at Alrosa Villa, it was so f'ing awesome for my best friend and I. We got to see three bands in a tiny, historical venue with cool fans and paid decent prices for beers. It was just such a refreshing experience after going to shows where the first few rows are lawyers and doctors who don't even know the band but can afford those seats to "show off". So irritating.

 

[Kordoba]

My last 3 concerts nearly ended in fights.
From being told to sit down cause the 400 pound slob behind me couldn’t see. (Joan jett concert)
The Queen tribute show Mark Martel show
My wife and her friend were cheering when the singer prompted the audience to do so.
Guy sitting ahead of us whips around with the ‘shhh’ symbol (finger to the lips)
Told him to turn the fuck around !!
5 minutes later him and his wife got up and left.
Zoso (Led Zep tribute)
In the bathroom. Long line. Taking a piss some dude was elbowing me in the back telling me hurry up


I’m done. Went to several dozen concerts back in 80s -90s.
Never ever had this crap come up. Ever.
No more for me. I’m 49 as well.

This is why I drop my pants as soon as I walk up to the urinal and fire off a round of warning sharts.

 

[panhead]

Hell there`s nobody left worth seeing anyways. Tech shit killed rocknroll

 

[Speeddemon]

Yeah same at the kiss rock the revolution tour.
Ordered a vodka orange juice. $12

Thinking to myself ‘fuck a whole 5th is 20 ?!?

Paul: How you all feel?!!

Crowd: Ripped off!

Paul: I wanna know, how many people like the taste of alcohol?!
Crowd: We all do, just not at these prices!

Awwwright.


I tell you sum'thin...
When you're down in the dumps and you need something to bring it up, there's only one thing that's gonna do it the way you want it.
What's that?

CHEAP BEER!

I can't hear you...

CHEAP - BEER!!!

 

[romanianreaper]

Yeah same at the kiss rock the revolution tour.
Ordered a vodka orange juice. $12

Thinking to myself ‘fuck a whole 5th is 20 ?!?

Paul: How you all feel?!!

Crowd: Ripped off!

Paul: I wanna know, how many people like the taste of alcohol?!
Crowd: We all do, just not at these prices!

Awwwright.


I tell you sum'thin...
When you're down in the dumps and you need something to bring it up, there's only one thing that's gonna do it the way you want it.
What's that?

CHEAP BEER!

I can't hear you...

CHEAP - BEER!!!

LOL!! Dude, I could hear his voice in my head.

"I'm getting old, my feet are ti-red"
"Need an overpriced drink, to set wallet on fi-re"
"At the beer booth, I can use my VI-SA"
"My money's gone, don't have enough for Pizza".....

 

[Riffraff]

Holy sh!t that's really something. At least you can't tell when he pisses his pants because they're leather.

 

[Goat]

Holy sh!t that's really something. At least you can't tell when he pisses his pants because they're leather.

 

[alan67]

I'm still waiting for a "Less Don Dokken" thread......