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| SickFuk User Info... | So recently I've been in multiple conversations about this, and I'd like to hear other peoples opinions on it... What are peoples impressions of a band when they have a "Sideshow" going on? Examples of this are: Firebreathing, people in cages, people on crosses, strangely dressed dancers, or even live dramatizations of songs.... Personally, I love this shit... but other people have the opinion that it takes away from the actual music... I think it enhances the show all around... look at bands like GWAR, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie... I don't consider them any less of musicians because they're good showmen... in fact, Alice Cooper is one of my main influences... anyone who has seen him live, or even a video of him live remembers the crazy shit he does up on stage... Sorry, I had to get that rant out of my system... anyone got any opinions? 'ere - Wed, 9 Feb 2005 3:56pm | ||
| BBJones User Info... | I saw Alice when they played at the Memorial Arena a long time ago. Most entertaining show I have ever been to. I still remember the opening bit when Alice first appeared on stage... it was a thing to remember for sure... becuase I still do :) The way they did the lights it looked like a massive floor of people's heads that Alice was going to run out onto. Wicked! Whoever else saw that show knows what I'm talking about... - Wed, 9 Feb 2005 4:26pm | ||
| Tragedy User Info... | I heard it from my house. I was 5 and my parents were there. I'm definitley for sideshows. Go-go dancers rule. - Wed, 9 Feb 2005 4:30pm | ||
| SickFuk User Info... | I've got a couple of live shows of Alice Cooper on tape... and I saw him live for the Brutal Planet tour... One of my all time favorites was in "The Nightmare Returns - 1986" when Alice impales one of the cameramen with his mike stand... or of course, there was Alice decapitating himself to the tune of "I love the Dead"... "Welcome to my nightmare, I think yor gonna like it... I think your gonna fear you belong" 'ere - Sat, 12 Feb 2005 9:27am | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Sideshows rock, I mean if your in a band and do something different then the fans have something to remember when they go home. Just look at Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dolls, when I saw them live at Lucky bar last year, the stage girls really added something different to the stage show. - Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:18am | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Sideshows are great. I like GWAR. But when I went to see them for the first time it was not to hear the music as much as it was to finally see the show!! Pink Floyd had some crazy lazer light show mojo going on too. - Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:27pm | ||
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| The Wolf User Info... | 1988 I think was Alice Cooper that was the last and only show I went too at the Memorial... No Motorhead but "Faster Pussycat opened" ....LOL... I love "Sideshows" they add an element to the performance... The Champions of Hell show, Big John Bates. Zappnin and the nurses Cannon...etc etc - Sun, 13 Feb 2005 9:29am | ||
| Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | The rest of the members of Champions of Hell knew I wasn't big on their stage antics (I told them I saw Gwar doing that fifteen years ago) but if you're out-voted on something, then that's the way the cookie crumbles, I'spose. At least they didn't try imposing on me to wear shit. The Cumsocette with the glasses I can deal with, though. There was this ultra-crummy Relapse band called Nightstick that featured some totally whack mime dude who I thought kinda ruled. - Sun, 13 Feb 2005 9:50am | ||
| The One After Two User Info... | Charlie Drown from vancouver (I think they were from Van) had sideshows down to a fine art. Their lead singer would enter from behind the crowd, carried on a cross by these monk guys while her band played some sort of doom metal intramental. Then they'd put her on stage and untie her and she'd be in a sheer red see-thru top and crotchless red vinyl pants. Hot. Not to mention the show began with some fire dancer and midgets... I mean these guy delivered! Music was so-so but the show was art and erotic all wrapped up innto some sort of sinister present. - Sun, 13 Feb 2005 2:18pm | ||
| SickFuk User Info... | Anyone ever seen the Pantera home videos? Some of the crazy shit they did on stage... nothing too choreographed... just crazy shit... or when I saw them the last time in Van, they had a big "Reinventing the Steel" made out of steel and they set it on fire, so fucking hot you could feel it at the other end of the arena... Or on another tangent... Weird Al Yankovich... I saw him live at the Royal Theatre a few years back... it was fucking amazing... for each of his 30-35 songs, he changed costume, set, and had a choreographed show for each song... and he made an acordian sound good! now THAT is unbelievable...{:) 'ere - Tue, 15 Feb 2005 3:30pm | ||
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