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Joey Molland, Badfinger Guitarist, Dies at 77

firepoint525 said:
I had not heard them as being a part of this year's tour.
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As stated, "a few years ago" No idea who's on the tour this year yet. I'll probably check once they start getting closer to an appearance in my area. After all, most are getting up there in years and checking now doesn't mean they'll be around for the tour when it gets near me.....you know, illness, family issues, grim reaper could pop up. I will say this though, Ron Dante puts this show together and he does a fantastic job of getting acts from the past together. Oh, and if some concert promoter says "Coming soon, The legendary "Badfinger in concert..." ...well, since Joey Molland was the last member of the group alive, you won't be seeing ANY of the "real deal" at all unless they had a seance and got them all back from the Great Beyond.

Dammit, now you made me want to check their tour schedule and unless they add more shows, they're not going to have anything near me this year.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
As stated, "a few years ago" No idea who's on the tour this year yet. I'll probably check once they start getting closer to an appearance in my area. After all, most are getting up there in years and checking now doesn't mean they'll be around for the tour when it gets near me.....you know, illness, family issues, grim reaper could pop up. I will say this though, Ron Dante puts this show together and he does a fantastic job of getting acts from the past together. Oh, and if some concert promoter says "Coming soon, The legendary "Badfinger in concert..." ...well, since Joey Molland was the last member of the group alive, you won't be seeing ANY of the "real deal" at all unless they had a seance and got them all back from the Great Beyond.

Dammit, now you made me want to check their tour schedule and unless they add more shows, they're not going to have anything near me this year.
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I'm now at the age in which "tribute bands" are all that I will ever be able to see anymore, at least of "my" generation's musicians. Some of them are good, but they are still tribute bands. This year's "Happy Together" tour is being heavily promoted in my area. Not sure how they will get Jay & the Americans without "Jay."
 
At least the Happy Together tour has a lot of the original members of groups/artists playing unlike the 5200 different groups calling themselves "The Patters", "The Drifters", etc. when, if any of the original members were still alive, would be about 125 years old by now, not counting the ones that had hits when they were 13, 15, 16 years old back then. I think a lot of these people on the Happy Together tour would rather be sitting back in a recliner watching the sunset but think back to how badly the record companies screwed them over the years when it comes to royalties and they need the money. Ruby Nash [still alive at the time I typed this and still living in Akron last time I checked] of Ruby & The Romantics used to come into a theater I worked at and she always paid in change that she scraped together. Talking with her once she said she never made a dime off any of her recordings, the record companies took everything because they charged her for every stinking thing they could think of [bus rental for tours, gas for the bus, etc].] Ron Dante who organizes this tour will be 80 years old in August but he sure doesn't look like it. I assume he must be injecting himself with the blood of Dick Clark, [formerly known as, before dying, as The World's Oldest Teenager. Guess the Fountain of Youth ran dry.] Some of them sound very good, while others could make your ears bleed cause their voices aren't up to it anymore. But it makes me happy to hear the songs that I grew up with before a majority of my body parts started crapping out. You know the crowd at these things are older when you see defibrillators spread three feet apart all around the venue as well as Depend dispensers in the restrooms and coupons for free Metamucil at your local store.

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