Road Reporter
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Location: Baltimore, MD | Rock10 - 2014-10-02 11:35 PM
Armadillo - 2014-10-02 6:03 PM
Good god. Gotta wonder...Do you go to an Italian restaurant and bitch that you can't order decent Chinese food?
Seriously--you are like the Eeyore of the slam board. Twisted Sister could announce a brand new album with a world tour including U.S. dates in every major city, call you personally and offer to play your cousins bar mitzvah and you'd still probably find something to complain about.
You are a lackey for the band. Everything that they do is great in your warped mind.
This is great. I think I'll get that made into an embroidered patch. Twisted Lackey. Thanks Rock10, you're a peach.
Now here's a little something for you, sweet cheeks.
I fly to every Twisted Sister show on my own dime. Every train…every bus…every flight….every toll. I've been writing the road reports now for 11 years--7 of those were "unofficial"--the last 4 in an official blogger capacity. No one asked me to. No one told me to. For those first 7 years of reunion shows, I was outside in the snow, the rain, the heat and the hail hours before every show so that I could get up front, and spend time getting to know other SMFs…other fans. (many from this slam board) When I started traveling internationally, TS decided to make the blog official based on the positive feedback from the very people on this slam board. The band doesn't tell me what to write, and I tell it like it is. The good, the bad and the ugly. Fortunately, the really ugly shows are few and far between, and it's all relative. Even their worst show has managed to kick the ass of the best shows of virtually every other band on their bills.
I was given an opportunity that very few fans ever get--a chance to join the road crew. A chance to learn as much as I can about the in's and out's of working with a band and that means helping out whenever and wherever necessary with any logistics within my ability so that the technicians, engineers and managers can do their jobs and not sweat the small stuff. You can call it a lackey…but clearly, you've never worked on a road crew. And thank god for that, because there's no room or tolerance for complainers and whiners on a crew. It is something that I absolutely love every fucking minute of it and make no apologies for that. It is mentally tough, physically grueling and at times, remarkably stressful. No one twists my arm. (no pun intended). If the shows sucked, I would have gone once or twice, and said, well….that's that. [and there are PLENTY of bands that I've seen and decided they weren't worth spending money on again] None of them have ever inspired me to go all-in the way Twisted Sister has.
It's really a shame that you have no seemingly capacity for appreciation for the Twisted Sister live experience--many others on this board certainly do--and those are the S.M.F.s Maybe you just lack social skills…or maybe you're just a troll.
Now, I really don't understand the psychology of trolls, but it seems like every chat room has them. If I don't like a band, I don't waste bandwidth (whoops. another no pun intended) visiting their webpage and annoying their fans. Trolls like to come into the room and try to be contradictory and annoying because they enjoy firing everyone up. It's baffling to me, but I have a few in-laws like that. They insist on discussing politics every Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, I hate to deny someone their simple pleasures. If you enjoy being a wanker, then carry on. You're quite proficient at it.
Otherwise, please return to your home planet here: www.bieberhood.com
kiss, kiss, darling.
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