Join me, regular poster Kari and a few other friends tonight in the Bring Back Glam! chat room to discuss upcoming tours, festivals...and anything else Glam related. The chat will take place at 9:30 p.m. eastern. Just click to join the chat. We'll see how it goes: I'd like to make the chat a weekly, scheduled event and it was Kari's idea to designate a topic to get started. I hope to see you in the room!
Warrant, LA Guns, Nelson, Kix, Dizzy Reed, Jetboy, Z02.
I was tweeted the band list Sunday but I couldn't get the Myspace page to load, so I wanted to wait to post this until I saw it for my own eyes. I'm careful like that.
Warrant's Myspace lists M3 as happening June 19 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. That's near Baltimore. I'm sure there will be plenty more bands added. By the way, Warrant is listing themselves as the second stage headliner.
Editor's note: I was just told Danger Danger isn't playing M3. See, the rumor mill is spinning! That's why we love festival season.
Taking Dawn is a new band out of Las Vegas on the RoadRunner Records label. I just interviewed lead singer/guitarist Chris Babbitt for Noisecreep and he is a very funny guy. I wasn't expecting Taking Dawn to sound like some of our favorites - but they do. Babbitt is okay with all that as long as you don't call his band "Glam." I argued with him just a little and Babbitt did admit to loving Bon Jovi, Guns n' Roses and Motley Crue. In short, he likes the bands with the awesome guitars and big choruses -- and that's exactly what you get with Taking Dawn. Some of the songs on the band's debut Time to Burn sound 80s and others sound truly modern. It's an interesting mix of music that works and yes, all the songs flow on the debut.
The video for "Time to Burn."
"Like a Revolution:"
I think my favorite song on the debut is "Endlessly." Taking Dawn is about to hit the road with Theory of a Deadman, Halestorm and Adelita's Way.
Winter comes every year to Ohio. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but I'm not. Truth is, I'm not engineered for cold weather. The snow sucks, I hate driving in it and the cold makes my joints ache. Basically, I despise winter and every time it snows I shake my fist at the sky - seriously. The colder and nastier it gets, the more I long for the summer or a warm getaway. Taking a vacation right now isn't an option, so this has left me lots (read: tons) of time to daydream about summer. Naturally, my summer revolves around concert season. So, I'm a daydream believer, pondering all the possible lineups and making myself a little giddy. I sort of love to pick the lineups before they are announced. I make bets with my husband: "I bet XX will play!" I'm usually pretty accurate, but that might not be fair, all things considered. My football season is over since I follow the Cincinnati Bengals and they sort of choked on Saturday. So my [extreme longshot!] Super Bowl dream is dead. American Idol starts tomorrow night, so that's some cheap, free entertainment but the show will probably suck post-Adam Lambert and without Paula Abdul. There are not many tours happening right now. A couple bands are headed to Ohio over the next few weeks including The Last Vegas, Bang Tango and Rhino Bucket (no, these bands are not playing together - I wish!). Also, there's word that Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati will make its first tour announcement tomorrow. I'm sure it's Jimmy Buffett or something - but I'll retain hope it's a big, Glam act.
Really, the weather just plain gets me down this time of year. I was planning on a sunny, special getaway in March but that isn't happening now - so I don't have much to look forward to until May. There's a lot of time between now and May so I've got to find some sort of musical diversion to keep me going. I think if Motley Crue recorded a Calypso record right now, I'd be down for it - yeah, I'm that desperate!
How do you pass the bleary winter months before concert season?
Speaking of Motley...might as well play an old favorite. "Helter Skelter" (with "God Rest the Children of the Beast") - check out the cool pictures!
One of my awesome readers tipped me off to a site that is capturing M3 Festival rumors. I am nearly certain the site is maintained by the M3 camp, so it seems like a hype-ploy to me, but that's smart marketing, right? Anyway, the site says bands like the Scorpions, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Tesla and Sebastian Bach are rumored to play. I think we can all safely assume Kix will be there as it is their hometown and they always bring a big Maryland-area crowd. Other people have said Warrant and Danger Danger, too. I will say this: a long time ago, I heard the festival was May 22. I read online last night that someone else heard June 19. Now, the interesting thing about it all is that Warrant has June 19 @ Merriweather Post Pavilion on their tour schedule. Remember, M3 is a one-day event held at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
For purely selfish reasons, I hope M3 is in June this year instead of May. Rock on the Range is May 22nd and 23rd right here in Ohio and I can't pass up such a great event. I'm pretty skeptical about The Scorpions, but the band is touring America this summer so I guess it isn't that far-fetched. I don't get where Emerson Lake and Palmer comes into it all, but hey - that's why we call them rumors, right?
When I wrote about wanting some rare Poison tunes, I received some comments - and a lot of private emails about bootlegs. This sort of got me thinking about the whole bootleg process. Way back in the day - and especially in the 80s - it seemed like music fans loved to make bootlegs of concerts, create tapes and mail them around to other liked-minded fans. I don't think anyone makes bootlegs much anymore.
Now, I know tapes aren't needed for boots - an MP3 recorder and an Internet connection and anyone can spread anything all over the world. But really, it seems like people just aren't that into concerts period these days. Maybe it's the fear of being caught, so I can't be sure. In all honesty, I've never tried to make a boot of a concert and I doubt I'd be good at it anyway. I just remember looking at websites and seeing bootlegs for like every Aerosmith concert and this just blows my mind. What if today's generation of kids isn't making bootlegs of their favorite bands? It's sort of like losing a piece of history.
Everyone already knows my opinion on the whole illegal downloading thing - I don't do it. But I sort of feel like if I want to take my MP3 recorder into a concert venue and capture a song or three, that should be okay. Notice I didn't even say anything about passing the recording around - I just think that someone out there should be keeping the bootleg hobby alive.
Maybe I'm crazy (ok, I know I'm crazy!) and people are bootlegging all around me. Heck, maybe you do it at every show. It just seems to me like the practice has gone by the wayside...and that is sort of sad. Thoughts?
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 12:01AM 
