I saw Aerosmith once. It was many years ago at City Park in New Orleans. Rocks had just come out so it must have been summer 1976. They were at the top of their game. Steven Tyler is probably the worst live singer I have ever seen and that was when he still had a little bit of a voice. After the 3rd song in their set, his voice was shot. The music was still top notch, though. When we left, they were playing Sweet Emotion and I don't think I'll ever forgive him for the way he ruined that long and fantastic intro the rest of the band gave him. It would have been a showstopper had he been able to do his part worth a damn. It was that good. Rock n Roll screamers usually sound different live than they do on their albums because they can't maintain their voice night after night if they don't adjust. You just can't scream at the top of your lungs every night for every song. Singers like Robert Plant and Ian Gillan adapted and sounded great live. Tyler never did. I won't waste any of my money on them. Steve Marriott is the lone exception to that screaming rule but that guy was an animal. He lived hard and died hard. Saw him once, too. He was with Humble Pie and I would pay almost anything to see that band again.
Speaking of screamers, Newt Gingrich in USA Today:
Unless fiscal discipline is restored, our children and grandchildren will not inherit a country that leads by principle, encourages a free-market economy and responds to those in need throughout the world.
He doesn't really scream but his rhetoric does. The drinking game catchphrase for Gingrich is "children and grandchildren". It should be childrenandgrandchildren because it is one word the way he says it. He almost never says one without the other and all of his pontifications include it. I think he's running for POTUS in 2012. He's too mean for the job.
- Alone And Forsaken (with Dave Mathews) - Neil Young - Hope For Haiti Now
- Outside The Wall - Pink Floyd - The Wall [Disc 2]
- I Guess You're Right - The Posies - Every Kind of Light
- Shadows - Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold Volume II
- Stormtroopin' - Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
Quote of the Day
The next day I'm at the ball park in Cleveland, all packed, ready to drive back home to New Orleans. I'm just looking around, killing time, and I walk into this room piled high with stacks of programs to Game 5. Could have taken as many as I wanted. I always regretted not taking one.
Bo Strickland, Cleveland Indians
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "I'm no fan of Rom-Com's unless it's got a Zom in the middle of it or it's the surprisingly decent "It's Complicated", and I struggle to understand what is the point of them as most are so formulaic and predictable but they keep getting made with little degree of success so I entered the screening of Leap Year with little confidence and walked out at the end with little to boost my feelings towards this genre."
