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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 30, 2018 3:30:33 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 30, 2018 3:39:19 GMT
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Post by Vodkie on Apr 30, 2018 4:22:58 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 30, 2018 12:40:24 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 30, 2018 12:46:32 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 30, 2018 12:53:37 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Apr 30, 2018 13:00:54 GMT
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Post by schizkebab on May 1, 2018 14:09:32 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on May 1, 2018 17:06:49 GMT
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on May 1, 2018 21:43:57 GMT
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Post by Jayman on May 1, 2018 21:45:24 GMT
No problem at all Deb. There's no pressure here.  I think you're right about the boards though. Moderation is important. But I guess once a board gets so big, bad things sometimes happen and you get bad people. I post on like 3 different boards and so far it has been pretty good and no problems. But I see how this DC vs. Marvel thing is really out of control now. I don't really pay attention to that stuff because I like what I like and the company doesn't matter to me. But what you say about the albums is true Deb. I am also glad a lot of bands do keep putting stuff out. It used to be that bands would put out albums and go on tour to sell the album. Now that is irrelevant. IT's all about the tours and not the album so much these days. I am also a big Scorpions fan. I made a point in hitting up a few tours when they said they were going to retire. And they still sounded so great. though I have not picked up the latest album yet. But one thing I have noticed which is so different from the past is when I see parents taking kids to shows. To be honest, I don't particularly like seeing too many kids at shows, but I think that's cool as hell how the music has crossed over generations like that and the kids can appreciate the music their parents do. When I think back when I first started really getting into music when I was like 10 or 11, in the early 80's, hard rock was really like less than 20 years old so my parents and my friend's parents were into oldies or duop music. Or the beatles and the stones, but anything heavier was just too much for people of that generation to accept. I am glad you got to see John Waite live! Maybe I'll check him out one of these days too. I have so many shows coming up that I need to try not to overspend 
You are right with how it used to be with artists and bands and releasing albums and singles were more important than touring 'cause they made most of their money on them but illegal downloading took a toll on album sales and there are a lot of people that use I Tunes to just download one or two songs they like on an album instead of buying the full albums now. I think the internet has made it harder for a lot of artists and bands in some ways but it has also made it easier in other ways especially for independent artists and bands to promote themselves and get discovered. Some artists and bands who have started out on Myspace and You Tube have gone on to become very successful and I remember talking to quite a few Country Music artists on Myspace before they were signed to major labels like Luke Bryan and they have gone on to have a lot of hits on the charts. Thanks to the internet bands like the Dollyrotscan make careers releasing fun funded albums on sites like Pledge Music and Kickstarter too without having to be signed to a major record label and can record the type of albums their fans want to hear instead of being controlled by record labels.
There are also a lot of new AOR/Melodic Rock, Glam Metal and New Wave artists and bands in European countries that have used the internet to establish fanbases and they are releasing albums and touring all the time and if they had signed under major record labels they would have been forced to play Pop music or what is classed as Modern Rock. A lot of those bands are heavily influenced by bands like Journey, Toto, Foreigner, Heart, Styx, Night Ranger, Scorpions, Deep Purple, Bon Jovi, Magnum, Def Leppard etc and their fans have gone on to buy albums of the older bands they were influenced by which keeps the genre alive. We often see a lot of young people here when we go to see Classic Rock bands in concerts and it is one of the main reasons those bands keep going 'cause their fanbases continue to grow. One album I am looking forward to this year by an older artist is Sunstorm's 'The Road to Hell' and I own all of the other Sunstorm albums and think they are some of the best albums Joe Lynn Turner has recorded to date and if you have never heard of Sunstorm but like Joe Lynn Turner you should check them out. 
I"m kind of out of the loop with some of the newer bands. But if they tour here that's how I hear about them. Especially if they open up for somebody I like. That's how I get turned on to a lot of bands also. Sunstorm does sound familiar. I have seen Joe Lynn Turner many times live in the last several years. I hope he's doing ok  |
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Post by 🔥🦊 on May 1, 2018 23:38:28 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 1, 2018 23:44:18 GMT
The Soundtrack to the movie "Rampage" (about the big white gorilla.) Pretty generic stuff.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 0:04:30 GMT
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