M3 Official Lineup Poster

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[glamrockerarchie]

Love this lineup I'm gonna have to move my ass n get my passport

[bkallday]

Lol. LA Guns is the biggest, most accomplished, and most talented band on this bill, and yet they get third level billing??? Oh yeah....the Winery Dogs blow, imho.

[Mike]

@bkallday... This isn't really L.A. Guns though, anymore than its Dokken, Dio, Warrant or Bang Tango... At least the Disciples acknowledge that they are paying tribute.

[JackT.Ripper]

Phil Lewis IS LA guns! Don Dokken IS Dokken! Joe Leste IS Bang Tango! Ill give you Warrant! But Warrant can never be Warrant again! Crap happens its like 25-30 years later, people fight people die all things cant remain the same, so enjoy what is left!

[JackT.Ripper]

Also, Yeaaaa Boooooy!

[GNR]

I'll agree with LA Guns assessment. Lucky enough to see a full set of them 2 February(s) ago. Spot on, great show. Would easily be better or on par with almost all above them !

[GNR]

Question from the peanut gallery : Has anyone attended a Danko Jones concert ? Recently came across their album collection vs. a song here and there.

Glam enough ? Maybe/Maybe Not :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBgT0VVs-jo

[fletch]

another hijack here. this one goes out to my nieces and nephews playing scattergories at Christmas. Things to do on the Internet: Hope, Heal, Healthy, Have more coming! Hijack.

[Kenny Ozz]

GREAT lineup. I am IN. Roadtrip from Cincinnati in full effect!

[Dj]

Headliners are a good choice. Quiet Riot and Warrant should not be there at all. I love both bands...but in this case they died with their lead singers .

[fletch]

hey hey you you, get off of our cloud (until you understand it) is where my hate came from. my bad.

rolling stones.

[Dj]

I can't remember which version of the band I saw. But LA Guns is an amazing live band and they should be on the main stage or pretty damn close. They were my first show ever at one of the "Rock Never Stops" tours and they are one of the best live bands around. At this point in the festival I would go with the big guns and the bands with close to the original lineup. Bring in some newer blood like Buckcherry, Steel Panrher, The Darkness, Crashdiet, and Hardcore Superstar. And by big guns I mean bands like Poison, Twisted Sister, La Guns, and even bands like Dokken and Great White if they ever got back together with original lineups. Hell get Vince Neil or Sebastian Bach. I like most bands on here but I think they could do better.

[fletch]

ok, rikki and alan.

my bad, not!

[Metalboy!]

Hallelujah! Sh*tmeisters TeslUGH! are thankfully not f*cking up this line-up anymore than it already is!

Hear, hear, BK! Whinery Dogs are indeed complete sh*te!

L.A. Guns are great, Mike... BK is right again... Even if Tracii ain't with 'em anymore, and especially now since they brought back Kenny Kweens on bass. This guy is a complete 110% BADA*S consummate showman on stage! The guitarist also completely kills.

These two hired Guns will be jumpin' around as much as Whiteman & Younkins from KIX (if not more), I assure you! I've now seen L.A. Guns 5 times (3 times with Tracii, one of which was in L.A. before they were signed and the last time with him being in 1989 at The Ritz in NYC). I saw 'em at M3 the year The Scorps & Cinderella headlined (2010?) and they completely killed it with Kweens stealin' the show. Lewis is cool, too, complimenting me from the stage on my impromptu backup vocals on "I Wanna Be Your Man".

The last time I saw Guns was on The Monsters of Rock Cruise and they were killer, the guitarist totally swabbing the deck with our faces! No doubt, now with Kweens back in tow, they will put on a helluva show!

Oh, and BK... Dokken is not Dokken without Don's voice. The guitarist is great, though -- a disciple of Lynch. I saw Dio's Disciples on Monster's of Rock... They didn't really do it for me though I really did want to like 'em. Krokus should be amusing as will AOR comedians, EUROPE, who, I predict, will surprise everyone. Queensryche, Vixen, Black n' Blue, Tyketto, Quiet Riot will be solid but not essential for me since I saw 'em all on MORC and/or M3 fairly recently, though I would recommend seeing any or all.

The one sleeper you MUST see, however, is KILLER DWARFS! Saw 'em twice on MORC and they were absolutely killer!

And I agree with DJ! If only M3 would think to get bands like The Darkness for this... THAT would be HUGE! It's actually something I've been saying for years and the same holds true for your other suggestions for newer acts. More new blood is required!


p.s. Ripper... Though we may disagree on TeslUGH!, one thing we can generally agree on is your great quote in your comments here, "...People fight, people die, all things can't remain the same, so enjoy what is left." Where it gets a little iffy is with Warrant for two reasons... Their treatment of Jani Lane and the halfas*ed mediocre singer they have now. But where your observation will really ring true is having to cringe through intros by Tawny Kitaen and Bobby Brown, who look like they were in fights, died and came back, and definitely did not remain the same, something which their plastic surgeons made sure of!

[Metalboy!]

Oh, and Y&T are f*cking borefests, too!

[Mike]

Phil Lewis has an iconic voice, and L.A. Guns have a stellar catalog of material, BUT without Tracii it's a shell of what it was. Michael Grant was awesome in Endeverafter, but the footage I have seen of him in LAG is sloppy, like he has not even tried to learn the parts.

... and don't give me that Joe Leste IS Bang Tango line. Joe is not the singer he used to be by any stretch, you never know if he is going to be sober enough to make it through the set,,, and his revolving door of band mates could never hold a candle to what the original band had going on.

I will be going to see MSG in May, and the opening band is billed as Don Dokken, now that's truth in advertising. Again, without Jeff, George and Mick it's not "Dokken". I saw Dokken in the 2000's with Reb Beach, who is a phenomenal player, but he hasn't got George's tone or attack, and even with 3/4 of the classic lineup, it sounded off to my ears.

These 80's throwback shows are sometimes fun, and were a breath of fresh air throughout the 2000's,, but now that the bands are splintering down to fewer and fewer original members, it's actually becoming more sad IMHO.

All of this being said, if I were on the East Coast I would probably still go, for the party aspect, and to see KIX.

[Ace Steele]

There is not a single band on this bill that plays venues bigger that a few hundred people at a time. Even the "headliners" have the stature of only being able to play the Whiskey A Go Go in L.A. , or Vamp'd in Las Vegas. I really expected something a little bit "more".

[Ace Steele]

There is not a single band on this bill that plays venues bigger that a few hundred people at a time. Even the "headliners" have the stature of only being able to play the Whiskey A Go Go in L.A. , or Vamp'd in Las Vegas. I really expected something a little bit "more".

[Metalboy!]

Mike, indeed, it's a shell, but I gotta hand it to Lewis... Grant is a showman and it doesn't matter if he's sloppy and all over the place, he's still playing blistering fast with long extended solos in the vein of Tracii. Just cuz you're replacing someone, doesn't mean you have to replicate their sh*t note for note.

With Riley still on board and the fact they got Kweens back makes it even more kicka*s!

Dokken's not Dokken with Don Dokken without his voice. However, that dude he had on guitar at M3 (notice I'm too lazy to look up names if I don't remember, even if I had beers with Grant on MORC)
is as close as you'll get to Lynch. He's actually a former student of Lynch's, personally trained by him, and does go for that classic Lynch sound, as opposed to more of an approximation you claim Grant is doing for L.A. Guns.

And, Mike, your estimation of Leste and Bang Tango is accurate. Now calling him a shell of what he once was would be an understatement as his voice is completely shot and you can understand why. I had the fortunate experience to see them at Limelight in NYC back in '90 and they were stunning with Slash joining them in stage for 3 songs. Where's Kylie Kyle (or whatever the h*ll his name is).

Leste was nice toward me on MORC, primarily because of that story for which he probably bought me a drink. One just gets the feeling he was too much to deal with for the others in the classic line-up and probably had to go it alone with hack players to simply eek out a halfway decent living.

And you're right about the scene becoming more sad as many of the bands are becoming more and more splintered... But with L.A. Guns being the exception, IMHO.

[JackT.Ripper]

Atleast we have have the Mighty Tesla alnost all original! Still Rockin after all these years! Keith and Hannon are a dynamic duo to say the least! Its up there with Tyler/Perry and Plant/Paige! Yeaaa Booooy!