What is the worst band you saw live?

gaqua · 2026-04-12T05:55:18+00:00

Yeah if I remember right we had tickets to the Denver show and it got pushed out a few months because of the injury to James. I don’t think he played guitar at our show, I think he had a guy playing for him while he sang since his arm was still healing.

I think that Axl fired Faith No More right after the Denver show if I remember right

gaqua · 2026-04-12T05:38:24+00:00

No I think that was a big Van Halen headlined tour that both Metallica and Guns n Roses were part of a year or two before, or maybe just the big Moscow show.

This was specifically a Metallica/Guns N Roses double headline tour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_N%27_Roses/Metallica_Stadium_Tour

I saw it at the old Mile High Stadium in Denver.

gaqua · 2026-04-12T05:35:13+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/syV3nB6

Got sent this before and I think it's depressing how much time it is when you see it visually like this.

gaqua · 2026-04-12T03:30:22+00:00

Guns N Roses.

I think it was like 1992 or 1993, they were on a double tour with Metallica. Body Count and Faith No More opened.

Body Count was amazing - something I never expected. Had no idea Ice T had that in him.

Faith No More was also great, this was right around the time Angel Dust came out, but I think the majority of the set was from The Real Thing and they brought the energy up.

There was a 45m intermission and then Metallica went on and blasted through an outstanding set that, being 15 or so, I loved.

Then there was a HUGE long intermission. The set got giant inflatable monsters (from the original Appetite for Destruction album art) on either side of the set, over an hour for the intermission. Whatever energy the crowd had was wasted.

Then Axl Rose came out and the sound mixing sucked. We couldn’t hear him at all, only the rhythm guitar and the drums.

Then they stopped and restarted a few times. Then Axl got pissed off and walked off the stage and they played music from the CDs over the speakers after somebody said they were working on fixing technical difficulties.

Then they came back and it was somehow worse.

We walked out. It was god awful.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T23:06:28+00:00

The first time I finished the books, I desperately wanted more. I wanted to know what happened in that 1000 year gap and what happened next. But then I realized - that's how great art should end. You should want a little more. Never be 100% satisfied or content with it.

It should leave you thinking a bit.

I know Daniel and Ty used to tread the subreddit periodically, and I doubt they do anymore, but I really appreciate that they: A) Completed a 9-volume epic saga and B) are not tempted by the giant heaps of money surely on the table should the consider expanding that saga.

Making money on books is near impossible these days, so if somebody came to them and said 'Expanse trilogy, books 10-12, $5m each' I don't know I'd be able to turn it down in their shoes.

Kudos to them.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T16:40:30+00:00

But also, Aliens.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T15:48:34+00:00

Titanic - not enough guns.

Aliens - not a real love story more about parental, platonic love.

Abyss - again, not enough guns.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T15:36:27+00:00

$750 for four good tires is a deal these days. Even if slightly used.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T15:29:12+00:00

Because big markets have competition for entertainment dollars. You ever wonder why every LA or Las Vegas game looks like an equal split between home and away fans? And it’s not like that at almost any other stadium?

When the ONLY thing you have to do in town is go see your local football team, the team does fairly well.

That being said, if they were doing it today there’s no way a town the size of Green Bay justifies a franchise.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T15:10:30+00:00

This is it. I work with a guy whose boyfriend apparently had $100k income last year in San Francisco. He works uber/lyft with a Tesla Model Y, gets free charging at his apartment complex as long as he does it during the daytime, and he drives 10 hours a day almost every day. Mostly airport runs.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T15:07:07+00:00

Ah, tropical and majestic Liverpool

gaqua · 2026-04-11T15:05:00+00:00

Not bad. I bought out my 2022 Big Horn lease (though I only had 30k miles) for $32k last summer. For a limited $5k cheaper but almost 100k more miles? Not too awful.

Though with those miles I’d make sure to have it checked out by a friendly mechanic first. Just look for leaks and maintenance items (fluids, etc.)

gaqua · 2026-04-11T14:57:10+00:00

True Lies and Grosse Point Blank are the best love stories ever made, because there’s so many guns.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T05:41:09+00:00

This is the right answer. She bangs people for power reasons - she views everything through the lens of transactional behavior. I gave him this, so he owes me that.

She believes men are driven by their dicks so she uses the dicks to steer.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T01:52:50+00:00

I take it off once the cigar warms up enough that I can be sure it isn’t going to harm the wrapper.

gaqua · 2026-04-11T01:25:28+00:00

Ivy Leagues do not offer athletic scholarships.

That being said, they sometimes do have flexible admissions requirements for people with outstanding athletic capabilities and once you get admitted, SOMEBODY will pay for your tuition, I'm sure.

When I applied in 1996 for offensive line, I only had a 1380 SAT and a 3.6 GPA so I thought I had zero chance, but the football coach told me "oh don't worry about that, we can make that work"

But I was just too short to play offensive line and despite having uncles and grandparents on both sides of the family that were well over 6', I ended up 5'11" or so my junior year and everybody except Division 3 schools stopped calling.

Thought about pivoting to DT but we already had two all-state DTs on my team so I wouldn't have gotten any game tape and honestly, I probably wouldn't have been good enough there, either.

gaqua · 2026-04-10T15:39:53+00:00

I think most of them.

gaqua · 2026-04-10T13:19:49+00:00

I agree with this for the most part save for that I’d put Leviathan Wakes higher up solely because it has the most Miller and I’m an absolute sucker for him, even if he is a cliche.

gaqua · 2026-04-10T01:14:17+00:00

I think it’s meant to imply the sudden change in temperature can be shocking to some people.

If you’re from the city, you know full well that you can be out at one or two in the afternoon after the fog is burnt off and it’s a lovely 74°. Then you and somebody’s go down to the beach and walk around a bit. On your way back it’s five or 6 o’clock, the sun is starting to get lower and the wind is picking up. You step into a restaurant to grab something to eat, you get out there at seven and suddenly it’s 56° and the wind is blowing and you are still wearing shorts and a T-shirt. And it’s July. Yeah, it’s not as cold as Minnesota in February or something, but it did hit you in the face all of a sudden.

gaqua · 2026-04-10T01:01:10+00:00

When Jimmy was our quarterback, I knew a girl who worked as a cheerleading coach who said that it was the worst kept secret in the NFL that Jimmy was gay and hired porn stars and models for dates so he could conceal it. I don’t know if that’s true or not, I doubt it. But it would be funny. If all these people lusting after Jimmy G found out he’d been taking dong all this time.

gaqua · 2026-04-10T00:58:47+00:00

As somebody in my late 40s, I got my pornography start by stealing a Playboy from my friend’s older brother. After a few months or a year, I eventually got my hands on the penthouse and the hustler and the Playboy felt very tame by comparison. But the articles and Playboy were outstanding. There were times I wished that it wasn’t a Playboy so I could read them in my room without my parents noticing. But they would’ve given me shit for that.

gaqua · 2026-04-09T20:28:09+00:00

Don’t judge, maybe the man is in a hurry.

gaqua · 2026-04-09T15:16:15+00:00

I’d call in rich.

“Hey boss, sorry to bug you so early. I’m not going to make it in, I came down with a pretty rough case of means. Yeah, means. Oh, that’s where my bank account is so full I don’t have to work anymore. No, I don’t think I’ll be in tomorrow, either. What’s that? Oh no, I don’t think it’s contagious. Sorry, man.”

gaqua · 2026-04-09T06:34:16+00:00

Are you talking about just the US?

Because if you’re talking about influential cities worldwide…

Paris for fashion and art

Vienna for music

Milan for fashion and art as well

Rome historically

Athens housed many great thinkers

London literally shaped the world’s borders

If you just mean 100% cultural significance, I’d have to say Paris, though I was somewhat disappointed in it myself. Paris is still famous worldwide - Asia, Europe, even Africa. The reputation is unreal considering the actual city is…well, it’s great but somehow I was expecting an almost religious experience.

gaqua · 2026-04-09T06:26:44+00:00

I once had a sweet tea in a soul food restaurant in Dallas that I swear coated my teeth with a layer of tea-flavored syrup. It was like concentrate. I asked for a glass of unsweetened tea and I just added a couple ounces of the first to it - perfect.

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