80's and back

[Bobo135R]

Truth is, NO group or entertainer that began in the 90's to the present can call themselves a "supergroup" or "act", you know, an artist that can sell out 70,000+ football stadiums, etc.. Try to think of the biggest concert names in music and they're all from the 80's and back. The Stones, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Madonna, U-2, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, even Garth Brooks. There just aren't any really huge bands anymore. Nirvana from the 90's may have been close, only 3 albums though, and an untimely death. Maybe time will tell with other 90's and present day acts. Just my $.02.
DLR rules and can't wait to see Van Halen!

 

[Typhoon1244]

 

[Magneto]

Does anyone listen to Phil Hendrie? He does this hilarious bit where he acts like he has Eddie Van Halen in the studio with him (he does Eddie's voice). Since Eddie had cancer of the mouth, he talks as if Eddie has no tongue. It's hilarious.

Guess you had to be there. Sigh.

 

[UnstableAviator]

I know what you mean. Bands like Zep, Pink Floyd, U2, The Stones, etc aren't starting up anymore.

I think it is mostly due to record company politics, they want to spend the money on the acts that make money, such as teen-pop and pre-manufactured heartless country. The people who buy the most CD's are and always have been younger teens and housewives....not metal-heads and music lovers such as myself.

I DO still buy CD's, but only if it is something really worth my money and those are usually from bands that aren't very popular in the mainstream. (I'll never be one of those geeks who listen to crappy bands just to say "its underground man!")

 

[flyifrvfr]

I know you are referencing classic rock but there are several artists in country music who consistantly sell out stadiums and arenas. Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Toby Kieth, Shania Twain, Reba, Kenny Chesney, just to name a few.'

Most of these singers except alan Jackson, have songs that can actually cross over to other types of music. The pop charts has seen these singers cross over, but thier roots remain to country.

I like country music when you play the song loud and when you are pulled over and the cop asks why were you driving so fast, all you have to do is turn on the radio and say this is why. The **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** song has a hell of a beat. I don't like the lost my dog, job, woman, songs. They depress me.

 

[Airpiraterob]

dont forget the beastie boys. another 80's band.

hmm, who sells out 70k+ stadiums and is from the 90's?
umm...


i heard janes addiction is back..it it true?....they will sell it out if they play.
if G&R would play again i think they would.
is weezer big enough?
Beck? would he?
Tool does.
Bad religion does i think.
Rob zombie i believe does when he plays.

but unfortunately you may be right. theres no really huge 90's bands that are guaranteed to sell out 70k+, unless you count sarah McLaughlin (however its spelled) and her lillith fair.

a friend of mine went to a Slayer (80's) concert in St. Louis last year and it sold out completely. i dunno how many seats they had but it was packed....yeah hesa metal head.

 

[Resume Writer]

Makes me wonder if we are going to be in our 60's still holding a lighter at a Van Halen or Aerosmith concert! Guess the Stones act will be different when Mick Jagger is in a wheelchair. But alas, Keith Richards, the only man who will survive a nuclear war with the cockroaches, will still be there rockin that stadium!

Kathy

 

[Snakum]

Bands like Zep, Pink Floyd, U2, The Stones, etc aren't starting up anymore.

And that, my friend, is a VERY good thing.

Minh

Forty years-old and listening to Green Day, Bad Religion, Miles Davis, Brian Setzer, Jim Brickman, and just about everything else besides ... uuuuhhhh .... classic rawk. Uggggghhhhhh ... vomit ....

 

[jarhead]

Sting

 

[I.P. Freley]

Apiraterob sez:

>>>hmm, who sells out 70k+ stadiums and is from the 90's?
umm...<<<

And lists the following "From the 90's" bands....

Jane's Addiction... From the 80's.
G'n'R... From the 80's.
Weezer... Yep, you're right.
Beck... Yes, but barely. First recorded in 1991.
Tool... Yep, right there, too.
Bad Religion... From the 80's. Been around nearly as long as U2.
Rob Zombie... Yep, 90's.

As for why the 90's bands don't sell out big stadiums, well, it appears to me that the popular music isn't so much "bands" any more as bubblegum pop and rap. The only actual rock and roll band of the last 7 or 8 years (new band, that is) that has gotten me even remotely excited is 3eB.

 

[low-n-slow]

Way back yonder whenever I was a smudgepot of a kid I always thought that by the time I made it to 30 and 'really old' there wouldn't be any more good music left because it was going to be all used up. No kidding, I really thought that.

I remember as a kid listening to Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth' and thinking there ain't no way in heck music will ever get any better than that, been some good chit along the way but as far as I'm concerned there hasn't been many much better than that.

Back in the day and during the early to mid eighties who would have thought that Aerosmith would have rebounded like they have? Not me.

 

[N2264J]

Try to think of the biggest concert names in music and they're all from the 80's and back.

The Beatles (who by the way was not Paul McCartney's first back up band) sold out Shea Stadium in 1965 or 66. At the time, it was unprecedented for a musical act to play and fill up a sports stadium.

 

[quigs]

Don't forget the best band in the whole world KISS!!! They are still playing to sold out crowds worldwide. They are what you call the monster rock concert. Perhaps the best concert I have ever been too.

 

[jdru25]

Kiss and Poison will be touring together this summer. I am getting ready to buy some tickets for their show in PIT. I've seen both bands play.....Good times ahead.

 

[FN FAL]

I like country music when you play the song loud and when you are pulled over and the cop asks why were you driving so fast, all you have to do is turn on the radio and say this is why. The **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** song has a hell of a beat. I don't like the lost my dog, job, woman, songs. They depress me.

Don't feel bad. The tank top wearing, milwaukee's best drinking (substitute primo on the west coast), harley davidson sticker displayed on the bumper of a rusty camero driving, base ball cap on backwards wearing, trailer park dwelling people have to have their own music too!

 

[na265]

Speaking of G&R, Slash, Duff and Matt have teamed up with Scott Wyman from STP to form Velvet Revolver. Good stuff......

 

[Skyboss]

Def Leppard (Late 70's) is still out there. Still plugging along. They outsold everyone in the 80's. They are the last band I know of from the 80's that sold out a Stadium and are slowly becoming the sole survivor from the era.

Poison? Aren't they dead?

 

[Kingairrick]

I can't believe nobody mentioned AC/DC yet.

It's impossible to be depressed while listening to AC/DC really loud.

 

[Snakum]

Poison? Aren't they dead?

No, but the guitar player, CC Deville (don't remember his real name), almost did his last encore in the crash that killed comedian Sam Kineson (sp?). Last I heard he was still pretty messed up physically, even after all this time. Anyone know if he's playing on the tour, or are they using a hired gun?

Anyone seen Tommy Thayer with KISS? I have been told he really nails those old solos, which Ace played so sloppily 'cause he really didn't wanna be there on the last three tours.

Minh

 

[Flynfish]

RUSH sold 60,000 plus in Rio and is still touring.