His rationalization was thus: even though on paper it looked like a score, he couldn't get excited enough to justify even spending that much.
So the question begins to form in my mind - what possible reunion tour would have you so excited that you would throw caution to the wind? Cost be damned!
To frame this in the current times, no Lazarus like appearances are possible (i.e. Ramones); you gotta work with who is living today.
without the ability to raise anyone from the dead (hello there, Thin Lizzy and The Clash) i can't actually think of any band that i'd be THAT excited about a reunion.
ReplyDeleteIf I had talked to G$ before he turned the VH tickets down I would have advised him as his attorney to go to that show, (and take me). He was saying that he would be stoked to see the original lineup of Black Sabbath and sadly that doesn't look like it will ever happen again. He also mentioned that a Velvet Underground reunion (sans Morrison of course) would be pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking about this all day. I am sure I will come up with more but at the moment the only one I have is The Misfits. Oooh wait, Spacemen 3 would be pretty sweet as well.
I would also like the 1970s Aerosmith to reunite.
OK so I just found out that KOOL & THE GANG are opening up for Van Halen. That is bizarre. Still, now that I have given a full day to contemplating it, I wouldn't be adverse to checking out VH when they return to the Allstate Arena in April. Any takers?
ReplyDeleteDid some more thinking. I would really like to see a full show by Big Black. And as classic of a lineup of The Runaways as possible please!
Called SD tonight and what he had to say on the matter is definitely true: Reunions are so commonplace now that it is harder to get excited about them. It is almost expected that a band will make a return if you are patient...
On the flipside, that kind of expectation made it a lot easier to accept Sleater Kinney's break up. And I would be lying if I said I wasn't keeping my fingers crossed for The Refused and At The Drive In to both make a trip to Chicago this summer (as long as it isn't Lollapalooza).
Original lineup of Smashing Pumpkins would turn me out for sure (I suspect playing Gish on G$'s new stereo system planted that seed in my head).
I never got a chance to see Godflesh and that definitely feels like unfinished business. And if James Plotkin ever wanted to tour just playing Old's album Formula I would travel across state lines.
Doomtree's imminent arrival blinded me to Minneapolis' charms of another era...tell me a Husker Du or a Replacements reunion wouldn't knock your socks off?
ReplyDeleteI thought about both Spacemen 3 and Husker Du, too. Galaxy 500... It'd be fun to see Mick Taylor have the chance to get on stage with the Stones, but that's a whole different thing.
ReplyDeleteG$ may disagree, but the Velvets ain't the Velvets without Sterling Morrison.
And then there's Sonic Youth... ;-)