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Location: Baltimore, MD | For your reading enjoyment.....as I'm still at the fucking airport,....
http://www.twistedsister.com/armadillo/index.php
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| you meet TS again?
it's my dream......
You met Gilles and Denis? i know them.. they always wait their favorite band at their hotel and in back of the venue... |
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| http://www.demotix.com/news/797566/twisted-sister-perform-expo-quebec
Here's a review i found online...Not close to Terry's standard of reporting  |
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| oh.. and the fries with cheese is ''poutine''
and the merch tent was beside to stage. On Eddie Ojeda side.
i saw the mini dee in Quebec in 2006! also at the kiss show in 2009 (dress as a kiss member) and iron maiden in 2010.. dress as eddie (the iron maiden logo... the monster) |
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| Terry Another Great report. Thank you for keeping the entire TS family up to date with your reporting.
Hope you get home safely, there are plenty of storms in the Northeast. |
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| how were you able to meet jay jay again? was not able to meet him once.......... 
i don't thinks it will be the end for twisted sister now... do you remember in 2006? on the website.. GOOD NEW BAD NEW.. the good ; a christmas album the bad new after 2006 .. the end.. and they are still there. i'm sure they still have fun to play live. and they don't tour. 15 shows per years is not like touring all years. |
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Location: on a Twisted planet | Awesome report, and i wrote couple of comments too
for JAY JAY: PLEASE MAKE IT TO 2016 !!! |
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Location: Baltimore, MD | BIGTSFAN - 2011-08-21 10:01 PM
oh.. and the fries with cheese is ''poutine''
and the merch tent was beside to stage. On Eddie Ojeda side.
i saw the mini dee in Quebec in 2006! also at the kiss show in 2009 (dress as a kiss member) and iron maiden in 2010.. dress as eddie (the iron maiden logo... the monster)
Ah! Oui! Poutine! Merci! (pronounced Putin, like the Russian president...)
What is the cheese they put on it? (quel fromage est sur le poutine?) |
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| hmmmm i don't know how to explain... |
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Location: Auchenblae, Scotland | Great report Terry - Tres Bon! Hope you got home safely and without too much further delays! (I'm trying not to think or worry too much that it may come to an end someday.................. and pinning my hopes on the fact that now the "Un-Official Twisted Sister Road Report” has become the "Official Un-Official Twisted Sister Road Report” - they can't stop now! Looking forward to the next edition(s), keep up the good work! |
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Location: Baltimore, MD | BIGTSFAN - 2011-08-22 6:42 PM
hmmmm i don't know how to explain...
qu'est-ce que le nom de le fromage? Comme... "curds"? Il regard comme...."feta"...
EDITED:: Oui! J'regard ca! Merci.
Board folks.... French fries....with cheese curd....and gravy. Worth a trip back!
Edited by Armadillo 2011-08-22 7:02 PM
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| ahaha but yes poutine is good but how were you able to meet twisted sister again?
you are there in the US and you know which hotel they are staying at? |
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| Thanks Armadillo for the report.
Although I was happy to see Twisted Sister live again, I have to say that I was quite disappointed, not by the band's performance (which was excellent as usual) but by the crowd itself and the fair's promoters.
I live south shore of Quebec City, was born there, and have been listening for TS music for more than 25 years. Like some of the guys on this forum, I travelled to see TS and Dee's SMF to other provinces or country. I believe I am a true fan and everybody who knows me well enough could tell you how true it is.
I guess I should have known that a Twisted Sister crowd at a fair would be... different, but still I could not believe what happened that night. First of all, how can you imagine a TS show without hearing fuck at some point? How could Dee accept to perform without being allowed to speak as he likes? "You should do whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want and don't let anybody stop you, understand?" Does that quote tells you something? I mean this is no grandmamas gathering after sunday mass, this is a fucking heavy metal show! And 50% of the crowd don't get half of what Dee's saying on stage anyway!
When Armadillo says the crowd was "polite", I think it's more like an euphemism. Probably 80 or 90% of the poeple knew only 2 songs and were there by accident or so it seems. When the band came on stage with "What You Don't Know", only a handfull of fans went crazy and all the other 10,000 poeple were standing like statues, wondering who were these guys on stage. It was totally different from the 2006 show, let me tell you...
I'm glad I met some real TS fans, my friends to start with and Mike Munroe from Toronto and Gilles Bernier. I'm glad there was a few other fans I did not know but who were happy enough to join the - tiny - mosh in the front. For all those weekend warriors who were there just by accident... You sucked so much, you should have stayed home and watch American Idol or Star Academie.
Next time, please play in a smaller place with tickets at 50 or 60 dollars. Then, you'll make sure you get the real fans in the place.
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Location: Baltimore, MD | Hi Gilles and SMF-Quebec--
First...I actually walked RIGHT INTO Jay Jay in downtown Old Quebec.... my exact words to him: "Boy you never know who you'll fucking run into in Quebec!"
The crowd....well, here's the thing.
A good majority of that crowd came for the festival--and stayed for the concert. It is not radically different from the Kotka Sea Festival in Finland (except the fans there were much, much drunker) or Q-Stock in Oulu, Finland. Again, both big carnivals where people were bringing kids and families to eat delicious fried food and ride little go-karts....bungee jump...whatever. So many of those folks probably had NOT heard of Twisted Sister, although I can tell, those folks in the wheelchair section were rockin' their asses off!
It's one of those things I suppose when you play a festival. You get a mix. We saw this in Vegas at the Twisted CHristmas shows. The casinos comp a lot of tickets so you get all these tourists who have NO IDEA what is about to happen!
It was not the same vibe as some of the European countries....and nothing like South America...but I think Dee won the crowd over in the end, and it seemed like by the time Dee got to "I Wanna Rock" the crowd was into it. They may not have come as a Twisted Sister fan....but I suspect they left as one. |
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Location: Baltimore, MD | Oh! and the swearing thing....
It's actually been interesting to me....a lot of these "family" festivals, they ask the band to refrain from obscenity. Canada has some strict obscenity laws...and given Dee's personal history with obscenity laws, I don't blame him at all for abiding by the law.
Personally, I find it a bit ridiculous too...but some of the funniest Twisted Sister shows were ones where Dee couldn't curse...
I'm sorry the show didn't measure up in comparison to 2006--I wasn't at that show (boy do I wish I could invent a time machine)--let's hope they get a do-over some time next year!
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| smf_quebec - 2011-08-22 11:17 PM
Thanks Armadillo for the report.
Although I was happy to see Twisted Sister live again, I have to say that I was quite disappointed, not by the band's performance (which was excellent as usual) but by the crowd itself and the fair's promoters.
I live south shore of Quebec City, was born there, and have been listening for TS music for more than 25 years. Like some of the guys on this forum, I travelled to see TS and Dee's SMF to other provinces or country. I believe I am a true fan and everybody who knows me well enough could tell you how true it is.
I guess I should have known that a Twisted Sister crowd at a fair would be... different, but still I could not believe what happened that night. First of all, how can you imagine a TS show without hearing fuck at some point? How could Dee accept to perform without being allowed to speak as he likes? "You should do whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want and don't let anybody stop you, understand?" Does that quote tells you something? I mean this is no grandmamas gathering after sunday mass, this is a fucking heavy metal show! And 50% of the crowd don't get half of what Dee's saying on stage anyway!
When Armadillo says the crowd was "polite", I think it's more like an euphemism. Probably 80 or 90% of the poeple knew only 2 songs and were there by accident or so it seems. When the band came on stage with "What You Don't Know", only a handfull of fans went crazy and all the other 10,000 poeple were standing like statues, wondering who were these guys on stage. It was totally different from the 2006 show, let me tell you...
I'm glad I met some real TS fans, my friends to start with and Mike Munroe from Toronto and Gilles Bernier. I'm glad there was a few other fans I did not know but who were happy enough to join the - tiny - mosh in the front. For all those weekend warriors who were there just by accident... You sucked so much, you should have stayed home and watch American Idol or Star Academie.
Next time, please play in a smaller place with tickets at 50 or 60 dollars. Then, you'll make sure you get the real fans in the place.
he was not allowed to say fuck at the show? 
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| i also wonder why they don't want to play live in small place.
Maybe there was only 2000 real fan in that 10 000 crowd.
Well, i liked the show very much. i never thought i would see them 3 times. |
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| and... i almost still can't beleive that they played Like A Knife in the back because i sent a tweet to dee!
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ch7uda |
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Location: Auchenblae, Scotland | BIGTSFAN - 2011-08-23 2:53 PM i also wonder why they don't want to play live in small place. Maybe there was only 2000 real fan in that 10 000 crowd. Well, i liked the show very much. i never thought i would see them 3 times. BIGTSFAN - Glad you enjoyed it - wish I could have been there  As far as the guyz not wanting to play in smaller venues - I think it more a case of who/where books them to play choosing the size of the venue as opposed the band. Certainly the Greek shows and some of the UK shows over the past few years have been around the 2000 or less mark. I like both - the atmosphere is different according to the venue size but not necessarily bad. It kinda depends on the crowd on the day I guess. |
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Location: Baltimore, MD | BIGTSFAN - 2011-08-23 9:53 AM
i also wonder why they don't want to play live in small place.
Maybe there was only 2000 real fan in that 10 000 crowd.
Well, i liked the show very much. i never thought i would see them 3 times.
I also enjoyed the show a lot, and certainly felt like the crowd was really into it by the end of the show. I hope they come back too--I'd love to spend more time in Quebec! |
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