drbunnig

Yeah, too many Sabbath songs. Two at most would suffice. Nice to see "Believer" and "Desire" back, but I can't say I'd consider them big surprises like "The Ultimate Sin" and "Killer of Giants" were with Gus. Other than that, bog standard setlist, but at this stage I'd just be glad to see him live.

A few new clips from the album at this link: https://www.capital.it/programmi/708090/puntate/708090-del-04-07-2017/?refresh_ce

27:55 - Paranormal  /  34:45 - Genuine American Girl

Alice has also said they might play "Roses on White Lace" at Wacken as it's a more metal crowd. Sure to please some long time fans who've been wanting this for a while. Whether it's part of 'the trilogy' remains to be seen.

A few other games I always enjoyed that I haven't seen mentioned:

Plok

Jurassic Park

Alien 3

Turtles Tournament Fighter

Aladdin

First five albums are golden. Get Your Wings is my top pick, Draw the Line runner up.

The greatest death metal song, from the greatest death metal album, recorded by the greatest death metal band there ever was.

Good song. Alice sounds great. Looking forward to the album of course. Seems like an eternity since W2MN.

General admission (standing) ticket for London on Fri 16th. £80 including delivery. Payment by Paypal or in cash if you want to meet up beforehand on the day.

EDIT: Ticket likely gone.

The weakest Hudson era album imo. Seems less concise and focused than the other two. Nothing awful though, and still has 3-4 great songs.

Just back from the Liverpool show. Absolutely incredible.

7 hours ago, Use Your Delusion 1 said:

Going to the London concert. Anyone else think Iron Maiden's strike rate from their debut through to Seven Son is the best run of albums in metal history? I have been listening to Piece of Mind and Iron Maiden recently and they are magnificent.

Easily the best run in metal history.

How much are shirts on this UK run? Are event specific shirts more expensive?

Original group from the '70s. When people refer to the Alice Cooper group, it's always the original late '60s / early '70s line up, before he went solo.

Alice on vocals, Dennis Dunaway on bass, Neal Smith on drums, Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton (RIP) on guitars.

Rock Bottom

Details about the new album Paranormal

- released on July 28th

- produced by Bob Ezrin

- 12 tracks with a bonus disc containing live stuff and three studio tracks featuring the original group

- song titles include "I've Fallen In Love and I Can't Get Up" and "I Wanna Be a Genuine American Girl"

- guests include Roger Glover (Deep Purple), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) and Larry Mullens Jr (U2)

I've been reading around some fan groups / forums and there's suggestions that six songs were done with the original group. Whether there's three on the normal album with the rest on the bonus disc, or whether three failed to make the cut, or if there's more than the three confirmed songs, I'm not sure. Either way, I'm really looking forward to this.

Setlist updates (spoiler tagged just in case):

Really hope that the new album release (rumoured for July) doesn't see any of the above change.

Alice Cooper with Love It to Death and Killer (1971). Considered their 1973 output too but not sure Muscle of Love qualifies as amazing (I do think it's a good album though).

7 hours ago, axlslash said:

Has Ozzy ever appeared on the same recording as a harmonica? This looks cool, but seems kind of like a Woody Guthrie commemorative distortion pedal. Not exactly the instrument I associate with the Prince of Fucking Darkness...

Think he also played harmonica on Alice Cooper's "Wake the Dead" from the Along Came a Spider album.

14 hours ago, Silent Jay said:

week 5: #8 52,451 SPS 23%

Gold certification.

Where are these figures from? Any idea if the number of discs impact the numbers i.e. is it 52,000 copies or 26,000 copies x2 as it's double disc? Also wondering whether it only needs 500k to go platinum as that'd be a million discs shipped (or even less if the three disc copies count). Not really sure how it all works these days.

Definite:

February 4th: Black Sabbath / Rival Sons (final show) - Birmingham

February 28th: Kreator / Sepultura / Soilwork / Aborted - Manchester

March 11th: Children of Bodom (20th Anniversary show, old school set) - Manchester

May 6th: Deftones - Manchester

May 20th: Iron Maiden / Shinedown - Liverpool

June 16th: Guns n' Roses - London

August 19th: Miranda Lambert - Manchester

November 15th: Alice Cooper / The Mission / The Tubes - Manchester

Maybe:

January 13th: Poets of the Fall - Manchester

January 22nd: Black Sabbath / Rival Sons - Manchester

February 16th: Firewind - Manchester

March 20th: Sonata Arctica / Striker / Triosphere - Nottingham

May 30th: Kiss - Manchester

For me it generally depends when I got into them. I know Metallica's entire catalogue back to front (Lulu aside), but I got into them when I had less disposable income and music wasn't so readily accessible. I'd get an album or two a month and that'd be it, and I'd listen over and over. With someone like Tori Amos (who I'd say is my favourite artist), I have spent less time getting to know her music because I got into her when Spotify was taking off and I could afford to buy multiple albums a month. I know her early stuff very well, but I'd be at a loss to name every song on American Doll Posse or Abnormally Attracted to Sin.

I'd say I know these catalogues very well:

Metallica

Alice Cooper (both group and solo)

Edguy

Avantasia

Children of Bodom

Guns n' Roses

Kreator

Type O Negative

There's a poster doing the rounds with several UK arena dates scheduled for May. Any idea if it's legit @Powerage5?

Word has it "The World Needs Guts" has been put into the setlist for the past few shows at the expense of one of the covers. "Grim Facts" isn't too far off hopefully.

Live video of The Ninth Wave performance from her Hammersmith residency in 2014. Unsure of the date. Don't know how long it'll stay on youtube for.

Absolute Radio Classic plays the full version of a few songs. SCoM, November Rain, Bat Out of Hell off the top of my head. I imagine they think the audience for this particular station has no problem with lengthy songs. However on the standard Absolute Radio they play the edited versions of the aforementioned songs. Just depends on the station I guess.