Calgary & Area Upcoming Concerts 2022

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

It's really about timing I guess. Suppposedly studies have shown that men are more likely to be stuck on music significant to/from their adolescent years.

So guys who were in their teens at the height of those punk bands at the turn of the millennium (who probanly won't be revered as musical savants by historians by any means but were then prominent in their genre) are more likely to have a soft spot for those artists.

There is a lot of gen x'ers here that grew up with Bad Religion and jive with them way more and that's fair. I couldn't care less about Bad Religion but I won't speak ill of the fact that they were an influence with people 10-20 years our senior. I hope those people get the same joy out of it.

We all have our groups that send us back and only our peers who had similar tastes will fully understand.

They aren't my favorite by any means but a couple of those albums were fire if pop punk was your thing around that time.

[DownInFlames]

Did any of you punks go see FEAR at Dickens on Sunday? Fun show and it was cool to see Danny and the Mother####ers again.

[DownInFlames]

Black Flag are playing Dickens in May.

[troutman]

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i always assume shows like that will be lucky to have one original member?

[Sliver]

Ignition is The Offspring's best album. Smash is good, too. A few after had some decent songs, but their earlier stuff is the real deal. Even "Elders" off their debut is a sick song. Other bangers on that self-titled album, too (1989 release, holy fk).

They leaned hard into pop punk with Pretty Fly and stuff and that really lost me. I don't begrudge them, of course. Go make your money and it doesn't take away from my enjoyment of the songs of theirs I like, but I dislike some of that cheese enough that I'll be crawling out of my skin during those tracks at the show.

I'm so surprised they're at the Dome. I saw them at Max Bell in the late 90s. Amazing to think they're bigger now...wtf. I do think these Gen X bands are cashing in on all of us having enough money to afford shows without a care in the world. It's great and feels really nice to see all your old Calgary show people for those of us who were at everything forever. I also like seeing young people enjoying a variety of music - I think TikTok has been amazing for introducing kids to such a wide variety of music.

My kids are going with me to this one (18 & 19). I've taken them to a few shows when they were younger (they were those little kids with giant headphones on their ears). My son got to go on stage with Pennywise at UC one time because he was the youngest one there...that was so cool.

Anyway, I'm there for Bad Religion. I don't think I've ever missed them play Calgary for decades now. Even gone up to Edmonton to see them when they were skipping Calgary. Bad Religion at the Dome will be weird AF. I'm used to seeing them in super small venues where you can just wander up really close. Doesn't matter...need to replace my Bad Religion t-shirt that is threadbare after wearing it so much (Suffer album cover burning little boy) since I was 20. Really hoping to get another one that'll ride me to the end.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by troutman

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i always assume shows like that will be lucky to have one original member?

Yeah it's Greg Ginn with a bunch of 20 year olds.

[Knut]

Going to The Slackers in May @ Ironwood.

Last saw them in Guelph in 2005. Hope its not too loud and I can sit down.

[troutman]

You generally sit at Ironwood. Won’t be loud.

[king_amonte]

Originally Posted by woob

Are The Offspring riding a popularity resurgence? Last I saw them was the Cowboys tent for Stampede some years back. Didn't realize they were still big enough to do the 'Dome.

But yeah I'd consider this just for Bad Religion.

Add them to the list of bands that couldn’t sell out the Grey Eagle before COVID and now sell out the dome at $200/ticket. Much like Sum 41, Deftones, Papa Roach, and Korn.

[TheIronMaiden]

There is a lates 90s early 2000s revival going on. All those bands are cool again in a big way.

[Engine09]

I was out and about yesterday and had a nice refresher listen to "Pretty Fly For a White Guy". I stand by every word I say about Offspring, that song is nuclear dog####.

I own Ignition and Smash, decent albums at the time. They're smart guys and good songwriters but to fully commit to the novelty, joke song path is unforgiveable. The Rob Schneider "You Can Do It!" sample is high order cringe. It's so bad.

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by king_amonte

Add them to the list of bands that couldn’t sell out the Grey Eagle before COVID and now sell out the dome at $200/ticket. Much like Sum 41, Deftones, Papa Roach, and Korn.

Not sure the Deftones belong on this list, but agree with the rest

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

There is a lates 90s early 2000s revival going on. All those bands are cool again in a big way.

I think Mils nearing or hitting 40 is making people nostalgic and COVID essentially cancelling touring for 2 years hiked up the appetite for going to shows again.

With an honorable mention of all the atrocious gen-z pop artist covers of that period of music making people want to rinse out their ears with the original stuff.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Engine09

I was out and about yesterday and had a nice refresher listen to "Pretty Fly For a White Guy". I stand by every word I say about Offspring, that song is nuclear dog####.

I own Ignition and Smash, decent albums at the time. They're smart guys and good songwriters but to fully commit to the novelty, joke song path is unforgiveable. The Rob Schneider "You Can Do It!" sample is high order cringe. It's so bad.

You're going to hate on a band because the mainstream took to their joke songs specifically? Sounds like a mainstream audience peculiarity than something wrong with the Offspring. lol god forbid a group have fun with their crafted-for-radio singles with the sampling craze that was going on across genres then.

in the 90s/2000s we were a horde of degenerate skaters, so it tracks. There was a lot of unserious music around that time, but it was our unserious music. I mean Eminem's bleach blond slim shady was the most popular character on the planet.

What's funny is I haven't had their 'joke anthems' in my offspring rotation for years, but people I know are going just to hear those. It must be a nostalgia thing for them because those songs have undeniably awful repeat value. Will be great for a one-time, "F IT" headbanger though.

Music doesn't have to be serious.