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@MajorRage I hope many drum kits are played to destruction to farewell Taylor. That will be a gig for the ages
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@Paekakboyz said in Happiness Scale:
@MajorRage I hope many drum kits are played to destruction to farewell Taylor. That will be a gig for the ages
Plenty of clips up on YT already
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@Crucial holy shit, caught his son playing on Hero. Far out he was fucking unreal.
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@Paekakboyz said in Happiness Scale:
@Crucial holy shit, caught his son playing on Hero. Far out he was fucking unreal.
Got a link mate?
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@voodoo equal parts amazing and cutting onions bro.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/x56cin/taylor_hawkins_son_shane_kills_it_on_the_drums/
Apparently the live stream was accessible but MTV have turned it private till the 5th. But like Crucial mentioned there are lots of clips on the Tubes and other sites.
Enjoy!
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I watched a heap
Younger Hawkins playing exactly like nirvana era grohl a highlight
Did love Rock n Roll Star
Looked a good show
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@Paekakboyz said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo equal parts amazing and cutting onions bro.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/x56cin/taylor_hawkins_son_shane_kills_it_on_the_drums/
Apparently the live stream was accessible but MTV have turned it private till the 5th. But like Crucial mentioned there are lots of clips on the Tubes and other sites.
Enjoy!
Thank you sir..
That was fucking great. Gave me goosebumps. My kid watching it now. What music is all about.
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It was pretty fucking amazing. Looking back at who we saw last night is truly mind blowing. Some thoughts:
Opening with Foos and Liam Gallagher was a master stroke. Crowd nuts from the word go.
Josh Homme does a great Bowie. Less so Elton, but he’s a hell of a musician.
Chrissie Hynde still has s beautiful voice
Supergrass, oddly, had the crowd quite flat. Was s bad sound mix.
Violet Grohl has a great voice and looks like her Dad
Taylor’s son is a mentally good drummer. Future foos drummer? I can see it. Crowd were blown away.
Justin Hawkins has one hell of a set of pipes. Didn’t know most of what he sang.
Valerie was really beautiful. Such a nice quartet on stage. However they were followed by Brian Johnson and Lars.
Brian Johnson still got it. Amazing voice to fill a stadium. Two AC/DC songs were highlight of non foos.
Grohl must be shattered today. He was onstage for prob 4 hours.
John Paul Jones looks proper old now. Sad.
Wolfgang Van Halen is a chip off the old block! Fast, although perhaps a bit more about speed than anything else. Hot for Teacher was loads of fun with him and Hawkins.
Queen stuff was good, although not a highlight for me. May solo song a little boring …
Rush are seriously talented … crowd didn’t know them at all tho. Prob should have been earlier on the bill.
All My Life remains one of the best live songs you can see. Blew the roof off Wembley.
Macca is old but Helter Skelter was cool.
The stand in drummers were all amazing. Shane Hawkins the standout, but the others really not behind. Omar Hakim insane.All in all an epic experience. Lots of references to the Mercury tribute many years ago, with many speakers throughout the evening sharing stories.
No doubt a once in a lifetime event. So glad I got tickets.
Various Artists Setlist at Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert London
Get the Various Artists Setlist of the concert at Wembley Stadium, London, England on September 3, 2022 and other Various Artists Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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@MajorRage said in Happiness Scale:
It was pretty fucking amazing. Looking back at who we saw last night is truly mind blowing. Some thoughts:
Opening with Foos and Liam Gallagher was a master stroke. Crowd nuts from the word go.
Josh Homme does a great Bowie. Less so Elton, but he’s a hell of a musician.
Chrissie Hynde still has s beautiful voice
Supergrass, oddly, had the crowd quite flat. Was s bad sound mix.
Violet Grohl has a great voice and looks like her Dad
Taylor’s son is a mentally good drummer. Future foos drummer? I can see it. Crowd were blown away.
Justin Hawkins has one hell of a set of pipes. Didn’t know most of what he sang.
Valerie was really beautiful. Such a nice quartet on stage. However they were followed by Brian Johnson and Lars.
Brian Johnson still got it. Amazing voice to fill a stadium. Two AC/DC songs were highlight of non foos.
Grohl must be shattered today. He was onstage for prob 4 hours.
John Paul Jones looks proper old now. Sad.
Wolfgang Van Halen is a chip off the old block! Fast, although perhaps a bit more about speed than anything else. Hot for Teacher was loads of fun with him and Hawkins.
Queen stuff was good, although not a highlight for me. May solo song a little boring …
Rush are seriously talented … crowd didn’t know them at all tho. Prob should have been earlier on the bill.
All My Life remains one of the best live songs you can see. Blew the roof off Wembley.
Macca is old but Helter Skelter was cool.
The stand in drummers were all amazing. Shane Hawkins the standout, but the others really not behind. Omar Hakim insane.All in all an epic experience. Lots of references to the Mercury tribute many years ago, with many speakers throughout the evening sharing stories.
No doubt a once in a lifetime event. So glad I got tickets.
Get the Various Artists Setlist of the concert at Wembley Stadium, London, England on September 3, 2022 and other Various Artists Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
I was there as well. Enjoyed most of it but thought parts of the middle section felt like some random jam session with 90 000 people looking in. Dave Grohl was fucking awesome; playing bass, guitar or drums with an eclectic bunch of musicians and just channeling raw emotion.
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From what I saw ( not much ) Brian Johnson still sounds bloody good for an old fella. You just know he’d be great company over a Newcastle Brown or 20 as well.
As expected people online are piling into Lars Ulrich which is uncalled for. Sure he comes across as a dick at times but he IS a very good drummer. Not sure why it’s so cool to hassle him ?
Glad I missed Liam Gallagher, whoever mentioned John Paul Jones ( can’t remember ) should remember he’s 76 years old ! Great that he’s still having a hoon on the bass with the young uns.
Dave Grohls nice guy act still grates but he’s obviously very good at bringing together too musos past and present
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
From what I saw ( not much ) Brian Johnson still sounds bloody good for an old fella. You just know he’d be great company over a Newcastle Brown or 20 as well.
Yep. There was something about hearing his voice which just sounded right in the stadium setting. It was a real crowd lifter before they even played a note.
As expected people online are piling into Lars Ulrich which is uncalled for. Sure he comes across as a dick at times but he IS a very good drummer. Not sure why it’s so cool to hassle him ?
Yeah, he was fine and said a few words which were well received. Online dickheads can piss off. Man has more success in his left fingernail than all of them put together. Of course he's not immune from criticism, but he played brilliant, like all the drummers.
Glad I missed Liam Gallagher, whoever mentioned John Paul Jones ( can’t remember ) should remember he’s 76 years old ! Great that he’s still having a hoon on the bass with the young uns.
British crowd, so Liam was spot on. Point about JPJ is that if you compare him to Stone / AC/DC etc he looks like an old man pulled out of his nursing home. The others look like old rock stars. JPJ doesn't, at all. He just looks like an old man.
Dave Grohls nice guy act still grates but he’s obviously very good at bringing together too musos past and present
Why does it grate? Got any inside word that he's an ass? Certainly not in synch with most there!
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@MajorRage just on the drummers, I thought Travis Barker was excellent and absolutely buzzing to be playing with the Foo Fighters.
I also didn’t know that Rufus Taylor was Taylor Hawkins’ god son. And he’s got more than a passing resemblance to Taylor Hawkins too.
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@MajorRage said in Happiness Scale:
@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
From what I saw ( not much ) Brian Johnson still sounds bloody good for an old fella. You just know he’d be great company over a Newcastle Brown or 20 as well.
Yep. There was something about hearing his voice which just sounded right in the stadium setting. It was a real crowd lifter before they even played a note.
As expected people online are piling into Lars Ulrich which is uncalled for. Sure he comes across as a dick at times but he IS a very good drummer. Not sure why it’s so cool to hassle him ?
Yeah, he was fine and said a few words which were well received. Online dickheads can piss off. Man has more success in his left fingernail than all of them put together. Of course he's not immune from criticism, but he played brilliant, like all the drummers.
Glad I missed Liam Gallagher, whoever mentioned John Paul Jones ( can’t remember ) should remember he’s 76 years old ! Great that he’s still having a hoon on the bass with the young uns.
British crowd, so Liam was spot on. Point about JPJ is that if you compare him to Stone / AC/DC etc he looks like an old man pulled out of his nursing home. The others look like old rock stars. JPJ doesn't, at all. He just looks like an old man.
Dave Grohls nice guy act still grates but he’s obviously very good at bringing together too musos past and present
Why does it grate? Got any inside word that he's an ass? Certainly not in synch with most there!
Not sure, just a personal thing. The whole “I’m a rock star but I’m a REALLY nice guy” schtick I think.
John Paul Jones never really did look like a Rock star but as the Swiss Army knife of Led Zep he did his bit and then some. Absolute legend.
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Of course the camping last night was a good offset to the funeral we attended that morning.
A couple of prelim notes:
7th September 2022 was our 20th wedding anniversary. As it was a Wednesday and I had a work function, and therefore she had to run around after guitar lessons, dance lessons, and making dinner, we decided that we'd celebrate on Friday 23rd by taking the day off together.
Mrs TA has injured her back somehow, and is having trouble sleeping properly, which is making her a little short tempered and emotional. Of course, she hasn't called fucking anyone in the medical fraternity to have a look at it, because she's "flat out at work".... right, while you're not watching Mourning TV. You had all fucking week to make an appointment with a 5 minute phone call and apparently that was too hard.
Back to the story:
A couple of years back, my wife's Aunt passed away from cancer in her late 60s. She was a nurse, smoked in her youth, and in later years didn't really look after herself physically. She declined rapidly, but that is still young.
Yesterday was the funeral of Aunt's best friend (Kiwi born, incidentally), also gone in late 60s. Similar thing in that she'd been a nurse, had some health issues later in life (not of her making tho). Cancer took her in about 9 months. We didn't know she was even that bad until about 2 weeks ago.
Her husband (Phil) is one of the nicest blokes you'll ever meet. Soft-spoken, smart, and very caring toward his whole family and anyone he considered extended family. Not that I knew him that well but every time we caught up with that particular family he'd go out of his way to ensure everyone felt included.
Anyway, the poor fluffybunny is up there, giving his eulogy while just trying to hold it together. He broke a couple of times, and you can't blame him - they would have been married 40 years last Saturday. He is no doubt thinking of the void in his life and how there was so many things they still had planned. I will admit to shedding a few tears on his behalf, wondering how such a nice bloke gets on from here with his best friend taken away.
Mrs TA is shedding tears for the loss of Aunt's friend, and for Phil. She remarked after the service how well he was doing to hold it together.
Given the delicate state of proceedings, and her sore back making her a bit waspish, I refrained from saying "Yeah well that will be one of us up there, one day, thinking about how much we still had to do in life. So let's not waste time worrying about shit we can't fix, like your Mum's fucking dementia, and enjoy our lives to the fullest."
Instead, I went camping to test out the new kit I got for Father's Day.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
we decided that we'd celebrate on Friday 23rd by taking the day off together.
OK so we did the anniversary on the 22nd instead.
Lunch at Aria in Sydney - $600 worth of fucking fantastic cuisine later and I didn't get my end wet.
"Disappointed" doesn't cover it.
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@NTA Ref called a free kick but you weren't the one delaying play. Rough bro, super rough.
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