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Ok, I grew up with The Boss, and others as voices for the blue collar/working man, and his struggle against the system.
How many blue collar workers can afford to go to one of these shows? None.
How fuckin ironic is that…nuff said! —I Work For a Living
This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2012.
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Tell me this. Does the idea of being penned into a fenced enclosure of humanure on a sweltering Moncton summer day with 70,000 other proles just to watch a giant viewscreen not seem like an Orwellian nightmare. Besides, you can still illegally download tunes with all the avarice of a 19th century robber baron and still have enough money to do your girlfriend, Mary, in her “Pink Cadillac”
Orwellian nightmare. Brilliant.
Uh, tons of blue collar workers are going. You know, the smart ones who can put a loonie in a jar every day. A Springsteen ticket works out to roughly 65 large coffees or 3 24’s of Labatt’s. So how much Timmies and shit beer you chug back a week, sport?
Dude: You should have realized the dichotomy between the way Bruce sings and the way he lives about 25 years ago. Ring, ring! It’s the twenty-first century calling! It’s for you!
Ewwwww, who drinks Labatts? I pour that shit out to make ashtrays for any company that smokes!
OB, there is a difference between “blue collar”, and some assclown that has no skills and works no talent jobs for minimum wage. I am “blue collar” and can afford to go to all the concerts I feel like attending.
There’s no way this concert is attracting 70,000 people. The days of huge concerts are over in the Maritimes. The novelty has worn off
I can’t believe slash hasn’t sold out yet….
all the better for me with less competition to get a decent spot.
Just means he likely won’t be returning for a long while…
if he even lasts that long.
he’s not in the best of conditions…
You can’t believe Slash hasn’t sold out? Maybe it’s because he’s with a bunch of nobody’s. Really, I’m not going to a concert just because I like the guitar player.
Slash and Axl, I’d pay to see. Slash alone? Not so much. I won’t pay to see Bruce Springsteen or Mellencamp either.
nobodies?
Alter Bridge is pretty bad ass…
Metalingus (edge’s intro music) should garner enough chatter about going to see him.
There’s no doubting wrestling is popular pretty much everywhere.
and Myles Kennedy rocks.
Not to mention he’s not just playing his new album…
he’s been playing GnR and velvet revolver songs in there too…
I’m amped… but feel for him.
you wouldn’t go to just hear ‘a guitarist’?
At his concert last night (july 23)… he played a solo of the godfather theme…
I’m definitely hoping to hear shit like that!
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/slash/2012/t…
i saw slash in a interview, he has a lovely mouth
Sorry, I would definitely label a band who’s claim to fame is writing a stupid wrestler’s intro as nobodies. They’re a definite shoo in for the hall of fame
I guess you’ll just have to stay home, drink, reminisce and watch YouTube videos instead OP.
http://youtu.be/1t-gK-9EIq4
😀
OP, if you can’t afford a Boss ticket, then you probably can’t afford a hockey ticket, or to take the family out to a fancy restaurant, too.
OP, I think you are a retail worker that ‘thinks’ they are blue collar.
OB says, “How many blue collar workers can afford to go to one of these shows? None.”
Hmmm, that’s a sweeping generalization that I would feel safe to bet against. If your finances are tight and you can’t come up with the funds to attend the show … then you probably have little or no discretionary funds at your disposal. If it’s none … doesn’t matter if the show tickets were $10 … wouldn’t help you. And if it’s little … the show announcement was made early enough that you could have made some sacrifices in want vs. need expenditures to save the cash necessary to go.
Zed … ditto on Slash. I can’t believe the Moncton show has sold out but Halifax hasn’t. Bad for Slash and Halifax’s rep … but all the better for me and my short stature to see the stage in a general admission show.
I haven’t heard about Slash coming to Halifax.When,where?
He does have a lovely mouth.
FYI-His mother was(I think she’s dead)the black woman in the mixed racial couple that was the upstairs neighbour of George Jefferson,from the old tv show Moving on Up.
Slash. Cunard Centre. July 31st. Slash is not Lenny Kravitz. Google some shit.
Sherman Hemsley died yesterday, Let’s all have a moment of silence for a true American hero, who demonstrated that an ethnic slur can be funny, so long as it sounds funny. And all us Honky Jive Turkeys laughed and laughed
I used to watch that show with my honky grandparents … oh how I miss them. RIP Sherman Hemsley … your talent brought me a lot of laughs … thanks for that.
“I would definitely label a band who’s claim to fame is writing a stupid wrestler’s intro as nobodies.”
yeah, kid rock… nobody.
Limp bizkit… nobody
motorhead… nobody
drowning pool … nobody
idiot
ok, fair enough it wasn’t some of their claims to fame…
but a single wrestlemania playing their song (or even them holdng a half-time concert like they have in the last few years) is more publicity than you could ever imagine.
Really Fire Ragezzz, and how many CD’s have they sold? How many shows have they sold out? Huge fucking difference between the other bands you mentioned and Alter Bridge is they were already established acts, and other than Motorhead, all crap. Get your head out of your ass and stop watching fucking wrestling. What are you, 12?
” stop watching fucking wrestling. What are you, 12?”
WWE programming reaches approximately 12 million viewers in the U.S. each week.
Balanced age distribution with 74% of the audience aged 21 or older.
21 % of our audience is under 18 years old
25 % of our audience is 18-34 years old
23 % of our audience is 35-49 years old
30 % of our audience is 50+ years old
Strong female audience
34 % of our viewers are female
Diverse audience
Raw is the #3 most watched regularly scheduled entertainment program on primetime cable among Hispanic viewers.
Raw is the #4 most watched regularly scheduled entertainment program on primetime cable among Black/African-American viewers.
Raw is the most watched program on USA among Black/African-American viewers.
SmackDown is the most watched regularly scheduled program on television Friday nights among Hispanic males (M2+).
SmackDown is the most watched program on Syfy among Hispanic viewers.
SmackDown is the most watched program on Syfy among Black/African-American viewers.
Source: Nielsen Media Research (12/26/11-3/25/12)
Hurr durr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxrXMjPMcc
name ANY other show with 1000 episodes, Broc.
any one. Simpsons are in 23 seasons and only half way to that milestone.
I barely watch it anymore but you just can’t deny the powerhouse it is.
Best punk band I’ve ever seen live was the Dean Malenko’s and they haven’t made it big mainstream. I’m pretty sure marketing is the major factor most of the time.
Best punk band ever? – Zyklon B. Goode .
Never heard of them ? That’s cuz I just made it up. Hurr Durr.
“I’m so pretty, oh so pretty. Pretty Vay-CUNT!”
Pistols being played at the Olympics. Johnny must be pissed.
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/3…