Posted by Skrud at Tuesday, October 17th 2006 at 6:38pm
Following the dilemma and subsequent decision I ended up going to the Testament concert with my backstage passes. They played an awesome set of mostly old-school songs, much to the delight of the audience (now if only another legendary band would get the hint).
(The crappy picture is courtesy of Mike Metal, but so were the backstage passes :D)
That large pizza-eating behemoth in the back is none other than Chuck Billy and that guy standing next to me is guitar genius Alex Skolnick. And that picture wasn’t taken backstage, as you can see… it was taken on the tour bus.
So to those of you who actually went to the Suicide Girls show, how was it?
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Posted by Skrud at Sunday, October 1st 2006 at 4:03am
I’m stuck. On Saturday, October 14th I’m double-booked. On the one hand, I made plans to attend the Suicide Girls Burlesque Show with a bunch of friends, and on the other hand I had planned to see the Testament concert. This is a very tough decision, so I seek the input of you, the friend who somehow stumbles upon this blog post.
The Case for the Suicide Girls Burlesque Show
I’m not the kind of guy that goes to strip clubs on a regular basis. (In fact there are only two occasions where I’ve ever been in a strip club. The first was when I was 17 or so and was just curious – the second was when some guys from Ubisoft were visiting Concordia, buying tons of booze and eventually declared “to the strip club!”). Seriously, strip clubs are pretty depressing places. However SucideGirls is a strange and much documented web site that is usually, well … tasteful. A lot of girls use it as a social networking site, and get paid to do nude photo shoots, and then guys pay to look at the pictures. Most of the girls on SuicideGirls are undeniably gorgeous, and weird enough to be interesting.
The above paragraph is a mediocre attempt to justify what I’m really thinking: “hot naked goth chicks.”
The Case for Testament
I have never seen Testament live, however my guitar teacher – having been a huge Testament fan – taught me many Testament songs and solos, mainly because his guitar teacher, Alex Skolnick was in the band up until 1992, and recorded and wrote their most classic and awesome songs. The reason I want to go to Testament so badly is because Alex is joining them on this tour, and I’ll finally get the chance to see all these songs I’ve learned over the past few years of my guitar playing on stage, live, the way they’re supposed to be played.
(I’m also going to see Alex with his jazz trio tonight at Boodha Bar, which I would highly recommend to everyone, whether or not you like jazz. Tickets are only $12 – I intend to get mine at the door).
Well, dear reader, which one would you choose?
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