08.14.07
Drunk Woman: NO COLDPLAY KARAOKE! POW!
(from antiMUSIC) It’s things like this that restore my faith in the future of good music – a 21-yr old vigilante young woman took the law into her own hands as some drunk, heartless bastard barraged the unexpecting crowd with Coldplay’s breakaway smashout falsetto-pitched hit “Yellow” – you remember, the song that annoyed the shit out of everybody before you knew that Coldplay was “the next big thing” and that the lead singer was married to Gwyneth Paltrow. The woman, upon hearing the opening notes of the shameless track, yelled something about how she couldn’t stand that song and promptly got up and clocked the dude in the face. Since the man was singing “Yellow”, he probably cried and said “I came along! I wrote a song for you!” The woman got dragged out before she punched a bar employee in the face twice (presumably for allowing the dastardly customer to pelt the audience with such rubbish). As you can imagine, she was arrested. But if I had some kind of medal to award her, I totally would. She didn’t mean any harm, guys. She was performing some kind of Pavlovian experiment in reverse, and that’s admirable.
Van Halen Plan N.A. Reunion Tour, Talk World Tour, More
(from antiMUSIC) Wouldn’t it make your life to see “Eruption” performed live? No? Oh. Well, David Lee Roth has decided that 22 years is a long enough period of time to hate his old band Van Halen and the band’s hitting the road once again for a 25-date North American tour and, according to the singer, “We’re getting along better than ever before”. I would see to it that I made nice too if I were gearing up for a tour that’s likely to leave a couple of dollar bills in my pocket! Things were looking uncertain for a while when the band’s namesake, Eddie Van Halen, checked into rehab back in March, “so that in the future I can deliver the 110% that I feel I owe you and want to give you.” Both a wise and admirable move, following yesterday’s post on Michael Schenker’s onstage intervention of sorts. Then again, I just couldn’t picture Eddie getting too drunk to play. Didn’t he do something along the lines of…inventing the guitar? I forget. Nonetheless, he’s out and ready to rip it up.
It won’t be a full-scale reunion as the original bassist Michael Anthony won’t be returning – but tell me this isn’t bad ass: Van Halen’s sixteen-year old son Wolfgang will be bassing it up! How many legendary moments like that come along before you even hit senior prom? “Yeah, I rocked out with VH on stage for a couple months. What? He’s just my dad.” The tour’s expected to evolve into a full-blown globetrot, but as of right now here are the dates (with Dallas, even Texas altogether, notably absent; prepare for road trippage!).
Sep. 27 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Bobcats Arena
Sep. 29 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
Oct. 01 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
Oct. 07 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Oct. 10 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
Oct. 14 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Field House
Oct. 16 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
Oct. 18 Chicago, IL United Center
Oct. 22 Auburn Hills, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
Oct. 24 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Oct. 26 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Oct. 28 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
Oct. 30 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
Nov. 03 E. Rutherford, NJ Continental Airlines Arena
Nov. 13 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Nov. 20 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
Nov. 23 Glendale, AZ Jobing.Com Arena
Nov. 25 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
Nov. 27 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena
Nov. 29 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose
Dec. 01 Portland, OR Rose Garden
Dec. 03 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Dec. 05 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
Dec. 09 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
Dec. 11 Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
