Its always about money with them, isnt it. lol

This is true! I live in Alberta, things are getting better, but it's taking it's time, that's for sure!


(World of Warcraft, baby!!)

I just moved away from Vancouver. However... I'm only 2 hours away, and have front row seats to ALICE COOPER! in september. And I hear Pat Benatar is coming. And I saw billy idol, korn, deftones, bill cosby, gov't mule, and many more in the last few years. You gotta go where the action is. I have gone far into the US for a concert - then it becomes more than seeing a concert... it becomes an experience.

Yeah, I really shouldn't complain a lot, we just had TWO Ozzy concerts and Queens of the Stoneage are coming soon. And others too, but I can't be bothered to think too hard this late in the day (i can think of two more, but I am embarrased to say lol). I just wish we had more and better, cause we have the potential, but the people in charge of these things just do not seem very smart.

The money part of it is just a sad fact of life. If the bigger acts tried to bring their shows to Bugtussel USA, or Eastern Slombinia they would be losing a lot of money. I always hated growing up in the Baltimore-Washington area, but I gotta' say we always had a steady stream of the most popular acts around. 76' was a great year for me, I saw..

Late May, RFK Staduim - Ted Nugent, Nazerth, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Aerosmith. A week later at RFK, Gary Wright, Peter Frampton, and Yes. I think both events were promoted by the same people. Later that Summer I saw Little Feat, (Lowell George was still alive then), at the Warner Theater. Near the end of that Summer I saw Larry Coryell open for James Taylor at Merryweather Post. That fall there wasn't much happening, but in Feb of 77' I saw Kiss. I still remember that ticket costing $20. I had it good, and I know it. But living in any major city has it's drawbacks. There were countless times I wished I could have lived in a small rural town away from traffic jams, and crime. Everytime you go to cut your postage stamp lawn at least 30 people know it. But hey, life's a trade off.

I live in Moncton NB, and lately I find it's getting better....but if you're into metal and hard rock, it seems most of these acts avoid the region like the plague...as if they're afraid they'll leave with a fiddle player added to the lineup.

Moncton for the past 15 years has seen an endless stream of country concerts....Ozzy was a treat and I'm excited for Alice Cooper coming this fall, but these are the first concerts to come to Moncton in 10 years that I was interested in (oh, except for BB King in '04)

The situation here is almost as bad as Halifax (but not as bad).

I find alot of the groups do the usual Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver thing with a couple of other cities in between and say "fuck the east"...what they don't realize is we're starved for good music and the energy of the crowds here is very high.

I remember seeing an interview with Metallica during their Justice (around 88 or 89) tour where they were asked about their favourite city in the whole tour...they said Moncton, because we were so crazy.

Aww, this happens to me all the tome I live on Vancouver Island and I can never go to the concerts because of school days Argh!!!

We dont get many bands in Kentucky, but we have some great local bands