woodstock was 40 years ago

I have recently seen rumors that there might be a 40th anniversary of Woodstock 1969 this year but it looks like it will not happen in any form recognizable to the original event. when I tried to think of who they'd get to play it now-a-days I had a really hard time thinking of appropriate acts that would have the same relevance as it did back then... maybe I give those old classic bands too much credit but they sure seemed more epic than anybody we have around today. (did you know that Sha-Na-Na played Woodstock!?!? click above to read who played and what songs they payed)

so, I thought we should make our own Woodstock 09 dream lineup. who are some bands that would be good to have in a 3 day/night outdoor concert in 2009? no wrong answers are possible, just lots of good suggestions of bands that are active today.

Which band or artist jumped the shark?

The other day I was scanning radio stations in the car trying to find a decent song (actually any song at that point because there were commercials on all the stations) and I paused at 98.9 for a moment. I paused in much the same way that a person would pause as they pass a horrific car accident. It's terrible but you can't look away. Similarly, this song was terrible and yet I couldn't change the station. The name of the song was...actually I don't know and don't want to know. The band was Metallica. I'm assuming the song was off of a new cd? Are people still buying their cds? I don't know. Anyway, the song sounded like all the band members were dead and the studio assembled some outtakes and made a song out it. (which is ironic because they have been dead to me since the black album...I think the black album should retrospectivelly be called "Metallica is dead, because we're going to sell out and suck really bad after this black album and that's why we made it black and with no album title because we died ") Kind of like after Elvis was dead and they kept "finding" lost songs or when they did a song with dead Elvis and his daughter Lisa Marie. Hetfield's singing...well I can only relate it to Velvetta. Velvetta is so processed that they can't even call it cheese...it's cheese product. Yes, James Hetfield Highly Processed Singing Product or JHHPSP for short. The guitar, bass and drums sounded terrible in every way imaginable...like a bad Guitar Hero version. Which brings me to the icing on the cake of disappointment. A kind of jumping the shark of the music business. Metallica endorsed Guitar Hero?!?! Somewhere on the west coast there is a very very happy and at peace Dave Mustaine who is no longer angry that he got kicked out of Metallica. He's so very very happy as he watches the Metallica Guitar Hero commercial, that he is not a part of that band!


Is there a band or artist that you feel jumped the shark? Did they lip sync at the superbowl? Did they guest judge on American Idol? Did they try to replace a frontman through a tv show called Rockstar? Did they make 5 albums past their prime? Did they play Pierre's recently? :-D What are your thoughts?

missed live performance you'll never see

I was recently listening to a CD of 'rare' live tracks of a now defunct band (Jellyfish) and thinking how sad it will be to never see them play a live show... then that made me think of other bands I'll never get to see play live, like: Alice in Chains with Staley would be one. Morphine is another dead singer band that i'll never get to see either which is a shame cause the ultra-low sax playing might have sounded amazing live cranked so loud. (youtube audio stinks!)

so, are there any performers that you wish you could have seen play live, but most likely will not ever be able to now (for whatever reason?) I'm not really looking for bands that were fairly impossible for you to see like the Beatles (since they quit playing live before some of us were born) but more the bands that you should have seen but never did and now it's too late.

American Idol - do ya watch it? who do ya like?

So my wife makes me watch American Idol and yes, sometimes I even like it :-D At times there are some very fresh takes on old songs. It's funny because each year they audition 100,000 people and then have an elimination starting with 36 then down to 12. Even at the point of the final 36, it's fairly easy to pick out who the final 2 or 3 are going to be. This year kind of threw me though. We thought for sure Alexis Grace was going to the final 3 but she got voted off early. She had some bad song choices but the link above shows what she's capable of.

Our picks for the final two are Adam Lambert and Allison Iraheta.

Allison Iraheta - Papa Was a Rolling Stone - Motown week. One of my favorite songs by the Temptations anyway...this little 16 year old girl just totally belts it out.

Adam Lambert - Satisfaction - Difficult to watch cause we think he's probably gay or just completely narcissistic...but the guy can hit some crazy notes. Would've made a great 80's hair band / hard rock lead singer.

Adam Lambert - Ring of Fire - This is the version he did for country week...lol.

Allison Iraheta - Give In To Me

Allison Iraheta - Blame it on your Heart

Adam Lambert - Tracks of my Tears - Motown week.

Linda also likes Kris Allen. In case you didn't watch AI last year, check out David Cook - Billie Jean (the Chris Cornell version)

Lyrics "Broken"

Here we are love turned to words
Spoke in an misunderstanding
you don't believe me and I can't prove its true
lately we feel like the calm before the storm
I'm broken heart and spirit
I did my best but my best wasn't good enough
I'm broken heart and feeling
and your turning it around and around and I
never trusted you
you broke my heart and nothing else matters
I'm broken heart and spirit
but I could never do you no harm
I look around what do I see
a thousand millon people happy but me
maybe next time I'll use more philosophy
I'm broken heart and spirit
I did my best but my best wasn't good enough
I'm broken heart and spirit
my head is turning around and around and I
never trusted you
you broke my heart and I won't recover
I'm broken heart and spirit
But i could never do you no harm

--
N.Benson