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Same here. Ours were $60 and I was second row center.

The critics' reviews have not been good. I was wondering if people who played would like it more than the average schmo, and I'm glad that's the case. I won't see it in the theater but I will definitely jump on it as soon as it hits streaming.

I like those animation cels, especially the one from Bully for Bugs (what a nin-cow-poop!). My sister started collecting them years ago when you could get them for nothing. She must have at least 50, all from Looney Tunes or Disney, except for one from the Grinch. I have one seri-cel of the Beatles from Yellow Submarine.

Thanks! I had found it while I was at the show but today when I looked I gave up after trying four or five links, lazy bastard that I am.

I saw this in Hopewell VA Tuesday night, second row center. I'd rate it a good 9 out of 10. I had seen lots of videos of opener Jared James Nichols online over the years and I couldn't have despised him more. I liked his playing but his ridiculous guitar faces absolutely ruined it for me. Live it was an entirely different story. He is nowhere near so over-the-top with the faces as he is online and his songs are decent hard rock stompers for the most part. He tries a little too hard to show his control of dynamics, taking his volume down to damn near inaudible on several songs throughout the night. Once or twice would have been plenty. His drummer and bass player were both solid players and backed him up well. The bass player was the spitting image of Brian Robertson of Thin Lizzy. Someone else mentioned they closed with a cover of War Pigs which they did at the show I saw too, and Jared pretty much let the audience sing it. He was grinning and having a great time and I like him a lot more now after seeing him live. I've never been the biggest UFO fan and actually prefer his MSG stuff and Chapman-era UFO to Schenker-era UFO, but I had seen him for the first time at Schenkerfest a few years ago and I swore then if he came back around I would go. THAT was incredible and all 4 of the singers were excellent. He had the same second guitarist/keyboard player (Steve Mann) and drummer (Bodo Schopf) from Schenkerfest with different bass player (Barend Courboois) and singer (definitely NOT Erik Gronwall, but I didn't catch his name). Steve Mann is a great guitarist in his own right and actually took the first solo of the night along with several others later. I looked up Courbois and he has played with a hundred different bands. He was great and had kind of a tough guy stage presence. The singer reminded me of Klaus crossed with Dio. It might have been just because he was short and had curly hair like those guys (although more of it 🤣). Even though I am not deep on older UFO, I recognized almost every song and I must say I liked the songs a lot more at this show than I ever have on record. One thing I think is cool about Schenker is that he doesn't tap or sweep. He just plays with killer tone and feel. I loved it when he took extended solos. Really inspiring player. He also looked like he was having a great time and stepped up to the mic several times during the night to say thanks. If you ever liked Schenker or UFO I would highly recommend seeing this show. (No pics because I don't take pics at shows. There are always plenty of other people doing it.)

I love the AC/DC one and would take a whole album of that! I hate the Iron Maiden one. I've heard WAY too many of these that claim to be a certain song done in a radically different style than the original and it turns out it's nothing like the original song at all; the chord changes and melody are nothing like the original song and isn't that what a song is? The Maiden song is just their lyrics set to completely different music. Barf.

There is a Brown Sabbath in Richmond, VA that's has been around for at least 15-20 years but they just do straight up covers of Sabbath material. They're damn good.

I'm going tomorrow night (Tuesday 9/9)! I saw him for the first time on the Schenkerfest tour with the 4 singers a few years ago and it was fan-damn-tastic. I'm not a big fan of UFO (in fact I prefer the Chapman era) but I couldn't pass up seeing Schenker again and I thought maybe seeing some of his era's UFO stuff performed live might warm me up to it a little.

But when he did actually play, he was great. (Actually, kind of liked the musical noise too.)

Funny story about this…I saw this show Tuesday night in Richmond, VA. A friend of mine texted me about a week before the show saying he had an extra ticket to see the Beat show and I could have it for free if I wanted. Well, I jumped on it because the Beat have played here in Richmond a few times over the years and I have always missed the show. Save It For Later, Mirror in the Bathroom, Twist and Crawl...yeah, man! Yes, I thought he was talking about the English Beat! It was my friend's birthday and he was going with a bunch of his other friends. He sent out an email to sort of coordinate activities like going to dinner beforehand and I could tell from the people who were going something was wrong. I looked up the restaurant that he suggested, and got one of those "events in this area" notifications. That's when I realized it was actually the King Crimson Beat show. I didn't say anything because I was embarrassed! Coincidentally I had recently sold three King Crimson albums, the two Bears records, and Adrian Belew's Twang Bar King out of the record collection of a friend of mine who died a year or so ago. I already had the two Bears record, and I listened to the other stuff before I sold it but a little that goes a long way with me. Anyway, I went to the show with an open mind and it was amazing. I agree with a lot of Polara's assessment, except the sound at the Carpenter Center in Richmond was excellent except for Steve Vai's guitar being too low in the mix for my show all night. Tony Levin's stick especially sounded amazing; huge round deep tones. I commented to the other guys after the show that Adrian Belew's solos were really musical noise rather than actual guitar playing. I'm glad I went, and if another show similar to that came around again it's possible I would check it out having gone to this one. I'm also going to listen to some King Crimson on Spotify to see if I recognize the songs I heard the other night.

Leave it to me to ask the question and then forget about it for a few weeks! Corrected that situation and contributed today.

Thanks! That's pretty old though. I hope Ted or someone else will chime in to say whether that is still the best way to do it, or to advise of any other options that might be available now.

I've contributed in the past to the support/maintenance/upgrade or upkeep costs of the HFC but I don't remember how. I think I just PayPal'd Ted? Anyway, it seems like a long time since anyone made a post saying "don't forget this site isn't free to run" so I guess that's what I'm doing now. If someone could refresh my memory on how to contribute to the operating costs, I would appreciate it.

When I posted the Highway to Hell video in response to Blackberry Smoke (who I just saw recently), I immediately thought of what I would post if Highway to Hell was still open to comment on and then I thought "who says I can't go twice in a row?" so here you go...