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Friday, August 07, 2009
The new Green Day album was somewhat disappointing...
but apparently that has carried over to their recent tour as well. Ratboy just texted Lovely from the show, declaring: "Miley Cyrus is more punk rock than these douchebags".
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Two of the Clio kids were happy enough with the show, including the Clio kid who sports a Defend New Orleans hairstyle.
Which itself is more clique-ish fashionista than punk.
Talking about the whole Defend New Orleans thing... not your kid, Clio.
Meanwhile NOLA.com insists "Green Day delivered a tour de force at the New Orleans Arena" and you know critics don't break-out that description for just anything.
Spera writes:
Not punk rock: The video "virtual graffiti" wall stationed in an arena concourse, a promotion for tour sponsor Verizon.
Indeed.
However Spera also writes:
Punk rock: Tickets priced at $25 and $49, a relative bargain for a big show -- and a price made possible in part by, yes, tour sponsorship. (Despite cheap tickets, much of the arena's upper deck was empty.)
To which I say, fuck you. "Cheap" tickets to a rock show go 10 bucks at maximum and sneak-yourself-in in an ideal world. Who is going to pay as much as 50 bucks for a ticket and have enough left to get drunk at the show?
Also "not punk rock": Playing the Arena in the first place.
Also "not punk rock:" being over 30; not driving around from gig to gig in a van threatening to break down daily; having a sound guy, lighting technician, and roadies; the word "impetuous;" and on and on.
But so what...if you like them enough to go to the show and enjoyed it, great. If not, great, too. There's plenty of places to experience punk rock of the more impetuous sort.
By 
Karaoke Joe, at
6:23 PM
Obama plans to subsidized rock concerts beginning next Spring. Of course there will be restrictions as to what the bands will be allowed to play.
(Posting a comment on this topic must be some sort of cry out of desperation I have so that I may have contact with others. There can be no other reason.)
I'll tell you whats disappointing.....A week A whole week with a posting by Oyster. Now that is disappointing.
By 
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7:37 PM