What Are You Listening To?

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3 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Yeah, my list of bands that I’d pay to see (or more accurately- leave my house to endure the public) is dwindling. 
 

Cheap Trick and Megadeth are really it. I am going to see Geoff Tate because he’s performing Mindcrime in its entirety for the last time (allegedly). I don’t want to give that douchebag my money but, I so love that album, I’ll plug my nose. 

I am a huge Queensryche fan and Operation Mindcrime is probably my No. 2 most listened to album in terms of my vinyl albums, but I've never seen Tate or Queensryche before. He is doing Mindcrime for certain. Like you said, I don't know if he's doing it ever again. But I also hear he's adding some from 2 and 3 into it as well. 

Cheap Trick is the 30-min or 50-min act opener I've seen the most over the last 20 years. I would never go just to see Cheap Trick as the main act, but it's always great to see them in concert - at least the 50-min session. I always feel a little burned when they get the early opening act and you hear about five songs and it's pretty much over. They are way too good for that. If I saw them do a 90-min show, I'd enjoy it. I know they do tour occasionally by themselves (I think they did last summer or two summers ago), but I'd probably not pay the prices needed to see them as a closer by themselves. Now if they had Cooper opening for them, or if let's say Megadeth were opening for Cheap Trick (one of my wife's favs as well), we'd probably see their full show and I'd be super happy to see it. 

I hope that makes sense.

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On 4/3/2026 at 3:52 PM, Biff Mayhem said:

Holy……moley. 

When COVID hit, we actually had tickets to three Alice Cooper shows. All of them were cancelled, obviously. The first show we saw after COVID was in Toledo with Cooper and we were still under mask mandate for that concert. I think the second was Weird Al, but that was cancelled (think it Saginaw) due to him having COVID. 

I may be blurring this up with Weird Al. Maybe that was a year later. I think that it was like three months after AC though.

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I have a friend who is in a tribute band, I won't say which, but because of that I've been doing that more and more.  It's just as good.  A fraction of the price.  Very little stress.  Small venues.  It satisfies.   I go to the Token Lounge, District 142, and a place in Flint.

 

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2 hours ago, DTroppens said:

Cheap Trick is the 30-min or 50-min act opener I've seen the most over the last 20 years. I would never go just to see Cheap Trick as the main act, but it's always great to see them in concert - at least the 50-min session. 

I did some math and found that the band I have listened to the most in my life is Cheap Trick. Rick is my favorite guitarist, Bun E is my favorite drummer, Robin my favorite vocalist and Tom is tied with Gary from Rush as my favorite bassist. Once I figured all that out, I realized that they are my favorite band. I’ll see them at every opportunity. I know all the songs. I even play the air drums to “Ain’t That A Shame”. I do that part so well that a security guard at a recent show took notice and picked up a guitar pick from the ground and specifically handed it to me. 😆

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Cool story, Biff!

Isn't it cool when your favorite artists are still playing 40/50 years later? You figure as long as health issues don't hit any of the band members, they'll probably still be doing it 10 years from now as well. Really, it's super cool. Cooper will be playing until something health wise keeps him from doing it. He'll probably die on stage.

We saw Motorhead's last show in Detroit. I'm guessing Lemmy about four months later. We had never seen Motorhead before until that night. Again, that was one of those groups that I probably would never go to see by themselves, but as part of a night's acts, why not. You know you are going to like them. And more often, when you see someone live, you like them about 40% more than before you saw them live.

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1 hour ago, oblong said:

I have a friend who is in a tribute band, I won't say which, but because of that I've been doing that more and more.  It's just as good.  A fraction of the price.  Very little stress.  Small venues.  It satisfies.   I go to the Token Lounge, District 142, and a place in Flint.

 

I'm in Fenton, not far. I'll have to do some research and find out who you are talking about. 🙂

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3 minutes ago, DTroppens said:

I'm in Fenton, not far. I'll have to do some research and find out who you are talking about. 🙂

The Machine Shop

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5 minutes ago, oblong said:

The Machine Shop

I kind of guessed that was the place. Believe it or not, I've been here 20 years and never been to the Machine Shop. I was thinking about the tribute band - seeing who that was.

Jackyl comes there occasionally. It hasn't worked out where I could go any time they were there. They were the closest I came to going there. Weird that I haven't yet.

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Ace Frehley was supposed to be at the Token Lounge like a week after he died.