strangeness abounds!
1. ace frehley doing a kiss cover with tommy lee, rob zombie, slash, scott ian (on bass?), and (oddest of all) gilby clark (that other guitarist dude who replaced izzy stradlin when he was kicked out of GnR).
2. then KISS takes the stage minus ace frehley (who was obviously in the building) and no peter criss anywhere to be seen. i know theres been bad blood between all those folks for a while, but it was weird to see. they probably sounded better without peter criss anyway since he's not a very good drummer.
3. earlier in the night, dave grohl and taylor hawkins of the foo fighters BOTH playing drums along with queen drummer roger taylor (3 drummers?). brian may playing amazing as always. and new singer paul rodgers (from bad company, who i'd never heard before with queen) singing queen songs however he frigging wanted to. different vocal patterns/rythms/etc. which at first i was mad about, then i thought about it and if he had just gotten up there and mimic'd mercury, i would have called him a karaoke hack (especially with trying to replace such a legendary and insanely talented singer). there was bits of the original vocal lines in there, but much of his own "influence" on the songs. obviously i prefer the original, but understand why he's doing what he's doing.
anyone else see this? it was alright. there was some other stuff that i didnt see (the def leppard stuff, i didnt see much of the judas priest stuff). if we're talking about rock and "honoring" the influential ones, wheres black sabbath? zeppelin? the who? hell, where's van halen? i guess theres always "next year", but it seems like there was some better choices...
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