M3 Rock Festival - 80's Hard Rock Fans Rejoice!

[TAC]

I'd say because of it!

Enjoy the rest of the night, bro!

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Meh. Left after Loverboy. I'm kinda over Kix.

[TAC]

How was Loverboy? Did Mike Reno need his own stage?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Not bad. A lotta songs I've never heard before.

[jingle.boy]

Shit, even Winger makes fun of Faster Pussycat.

Shit, even Tim makes fun of Faster Pussycst!!!

I've seen Faster Pussycat. TWICE. In 1987. The worst live band I've ever seen.

You obviously never saw The Bulletboys.

How was Loverboy? Did Mike Reno need his own stage?

 

I heard he has a dozen 20-packs of McNuggets in his rider.

[hefdaddy42]

Cold blooded, man.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

It was a great weekend.  I drank from Thursday through Sunday, so I might have to avoid anything that looks like alcohol for a few days.

*might*

Jack Russell still kicks ass.  Don Dokken still does not.  Station was excellent, despite not getting very long to play and the morons at MPP opening the gates at 3:30, the same time Station started.

And apparently everybody hates Faster Pussycat.  *shrugs* 

[hefdaddy42]

And apparently everybody hates Faster Pussycat.  *shrugs*

I always liked that one song House of Pain.  It got a lot of radio play.

But every time I tried to dig deeper into their stuff, it sounded really derivative and "just like all these other bands".  And not in a good way, to my ears.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

And apparently not to anyone else's ears, either.  And I get it, I do.  Either way, they put on an ass kicking set and still would have if TD was there.

[bosk1]

It's all good.  We're just giving you crap.  If ever there was a band that would be an easy target on a prog forum, it's FP.    For the record, you know I'm a long-time fan of a lot of that genre, but having seen them twice, they've never been a band I've been the least bit fond of.  /opinions

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Again, I get it, I do.  I guess being another vocal defender of the genre on a prog forum, I get a little too touchy about it sometimes.

Anyway, my shoulders are burnt, despite all the hair, the top of my head is burnt, I'm still pretty tired (we had band practice yesterday, after two days of M3), and I think I'm finally half recovering from a 3-4 day hangover, but I'd do it all again.

Intoxicated and singing along with my wife to Great White's "Save Your Love" - moments like that are why I will always keep coming back to M3.

[hefdaddy42]

I like the genre as well, although more in a nostalgic, "remember those times" way.

We had to go to a baby shower yesterday (drive 2 and half hours, stay for 45 minutes, drive 2 and a half hours back - yay!), and we actually listened to the Hair Metal station on Sirius XM for a large portion of it.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Bitchin.  I picked up Station's CD while I was there, talked to the guys for a bit, and got the CD signed.  Listened to it today and it's really pretty good stuff.

[hefdaddy42]

Not familiar with that band.

Any sign of Roxy Blue?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Station is a band from NYC that got on the bill this year, likely thanks to the fact that a ton of their fans GO to M3 and petitioned for them to be there.  Here's their Youtube page:

https://www.youtube.com/user/StationNYC/videos

There are 6 “official music videos” from the album.

Alas, no sign of Roxy Blue.  I think the guitarist is a dentist nowadays.

[hefdaddy42]

Remember Marchello?

[King Postwhore]

I have a 7 hour playlist of 80's songs I'll be playing driving to RoSfest.  Plenty of Hair metal on that playlist.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Remember Marchello?

Amazingly, no. 

I have a 7 hour playlist of 80's songs I'll be playing driving to RoSfest.  Plenty of Hair metal on that playlist.

F*cking right, there is.

[hefdaddy42]

One of my favorite bands from that time period was Tattoo Rodeo, but no one else knows them.  I also liked Junkyard quite a bit, and the Four Horsemen.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Junkyard was there this year, but not one of the bands I went out of my way to check out.

[bl5150]

Nice to see some of these old names.   Was never a fan of Faster Pussycat.  Like some of the stuff from Station.     I have some Marchello but only ever really played one song (All Gods Angels?........memory)

I love The Four Horsemen's "Rockin Is Ma Business"

Never liked Tattoo Rodeo but was into the earlier incarnation of the band (White Sister).  Shame about their production.

[jingle.boy]

I love The Four Horsemen's "Rockin Is Ma Business"

... and business is good.

That's a pretty decent album, but I don't know anything else by them.

One day, I'll crash the Coz and Mrs Coz show at M3.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

[Samsara]

Been waiting almost 30 years to see Vixen. Hopefully they will do a gig I can get to at some point soon.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

They sounded great.  Their setlist Link

Perfect Strangers was a minute or two snippet, led in from I Want you to Rock Me.  Extremely cool.

As mentioned earlier, Share sang House of Pain for FP's set, and she sounded great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDbhxIYoROc