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Rocklahoma 2018 Lineup Announced
Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 12:01AM
Headliners for Rocklahoma 2018 include Poison, A Perfect Circle, Godsmack and Cheap Trick. The festival takes place May 25,26 and 27 in Pryor, Oklahoma. There's not enough here for me to make the 1,000 mile journey - but maybe you dig it?
Reader Comments (14)
Priorities are a bit different tens Year’s on so I shall not invest in this journey.
Tempting though
I agree with you on Cheap Trick Bob, I've seen em twice the past couple years and more and more people seemed to be into em. I also hope that since Poison is playing this they do another tour next year and maybe change up the set list a little bit. I'm gonna stop hoping for new music every year because it just doesn't seem likely. But you'd think they could throw in Back To The Rockin Horse or Cry Tough instead of covers and a drum solo.
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Plus Poison, Ghost, The Cult, Lynch Mob, Stone Temple Pilots, Diamond Head, Andrew W.K., Halestorm and Vince Neil?!!!
If I’ve got the cash when it get’s closer, I’m there!
They only drawback for me is the name in the lower right hand corner of the poster. Then again, he was probably instrumental in pulling in several of the bands listed above. Thus is the enigma of Eddie Chump.
p.s. I saw Cheap Trick 8 times and all I can say is their latest album, “We’re All Alright!” Is proof positive they haven’t lost a trick. If anything, it’s the reason to go see them now more than ever!
Also, I was thinking how cool it would be if Nielsen joined Poison on stage or C.C. hopped on stage with Cheap Trick at this festival. After all, C.C. is on record saying “ Talk Dirty To Me” is a direct lift of “She’s Tight”.
Whatever happens, it’s surely to be a great fest!
One very annoying thing I just want to mention is that Bret now introduces every song as "Poison's Talk Dirty to Me" or "Poison's Fallen Angel", etc. No shit Bret, I mean we're there to see Poison and don't need to be reminded every song that it's a Poison song! I've never seen anybody else do that. I wonder how the other 3 feel about that, or if they're just happy to be counting the cash.
As you’ve observed, no one does that and there are a multitude of reasons why they don’t! ...
Here I go again, dancing on yet another head of a pin! ...
First of all, it’s just plain stupid. Once again, Michaels is demonstrating yet another example of how he talks down to his audience, assuming they’re as stupid as he is. I mean, what, 99.999% of the crowd doesn’t know their songs.
Like most other popular bands, Poison, doesn’t need to even announce what song they’re about to play, or if they do, like you said they don’t need to flag it as their own. I’m gonna guess he thinks he needs to do it for two reasons, the first being to cover the handful of kids in the audience he thinks haven’t heard of Poison or their songs simply because they weren’t around in their heyday.
This exemplifies an attitude that’s becoming more and more prevalent today among the 50 and over set (Welcome to the club, folks!) as a result of younger people not knowing who a megaselling band is when talking music in a conversation, i.e. “Creedence Clearwater Revival? Who’s that?!” It’s happened to me more than once.
What’s extra moronic about when Michaels announces “This next one’s Poison’s ‘Talk Dirty To Me”...”, is the fact that, Huh-uh-uh-lo-oh, isn’t the audience sitting in front of you there to hear you perform songs they are assuming are yours.
Michaels may also be doing this because he thinks he needs to differentiate Poison songs from the way to many covers they perform in their live set, something we’ve discussed here ad nauseum and DJ appropriately brings up again because, idiot Michaels doesn’t understand Poison can play more of their catalog, particularly, as DJ mentioned, “Cry Tough” and, if I may ad, “I Want Action”.
Reality is, they could play the whole first album and blow the audience away. The fact they’ve got some other great songs from “Open Up and Say Ahh”, i.e. “Unskinny Bop” etc. is icing on the cake and more reason not to do any covers.
Yet another reason Michaels may be doing this dumb new ritual is he may think he needs to hit audience members over the head by branding the songs to possibly increase the likelihood they’ll know what to look for on iTunes or Spotify, etc.
And second to lastly, it may just be he thinks he needs to make clear the audience is watching Poison and not his sh*te solo act, which, if true, is the weirdest backhanded compliment he could pay the other members of Poison.
Yet, finally, I think, ultimately, It’s just another example of Michaels simply not believing in himself.
What he obviously doesn’t realize is it’s a distraction that craps up the show with extra bullsh*t on top of his already mindless between-song banter we don’t need thrown in.
Michaels, I know it’s probably fruitless to plead but puleeez, take heed of the immortal words of Joe Perry — “Let The Music Do The Talking” and Just shut up and play, man! Well, that is, play Poison songs AND, while you’re at it, take a cue from your fellow L.A. brethren, L.A. Guns, etc. and get in the studio with the boys and record a new album, already!
It’s funny, even after I write all this, it’s still a damned mystery to me why Michaels feels he needs to do this whole “Here’s Poison’s ‘Fallen Angel’”. If I ran into him, I wouldn’t hesitate to ask him, but I have a feeling he’d either be too embarrassed to answer or not want to reveal his what must surely be LCD (lowest common denominator) reasons.
And that’s annoying as h*ll, too, Svenrox!