The best part of live music is the moment a legendary riff hits and the whole room snaps into the same heartbeat. The worst part is realizing the people beside you might be the reason you never want to do a stadium show again. We talk through our recent Vancouver concert run, starting with AC/DC: a killer set, real respect for what the band can still deliver, and one of the most chaotic pit crowds we’ve ever dealt with. It turns into a blunt conversation about concert etiquette, safety, and why “having fun” can’t mean wrecking the night for everyone else. Then we shift to Guns N’ Roses and the bigger question a lot of fans are asking right now: are big venue concerts worth the price, the lines, the sight lines, the sound, and the sheer volume of chaos? We get into crowd behaviour, opener timing, and why it’s so frustrating to see a great band like The Black Crowes play to an almost empty stadium. If you’ve been debating Rogers Arena, BC Place, or any large venue tour, you’ll recognize the trade-offs immediately. Behind the scenes, we also cover a major podcast hosting migration. After running into Spotify copyright flags over embedded music clips, we moved our back catalogue to Buzzsprout, rebuilt the website, and survived the grind of re-exporting a massive archive. From there we dig into AI tools we’re actually using or testing, including Copilot, Brave, Gemini, and ChatGPT, plus why AI is helpful until it confidently sends you down a dead end. We round it out with Vancouver weather and climate change worries, Iceland trip planning, new music recommendations, what we’re watching, and a spicy Canada-focused rant on boycotting the USA and buying Canadian where we can. If you like honest takes on concerts, tech, and the weird state of the world, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find us. Recorded on Monday, September 7, 2026. Stephen's Music: Sleep – “Have Spacesuit Will Travel”Clutch – “The Drifter Returns”Besvärjelsen – "Accelerating Hearts”“War Pigs” with Geezer Butler, Corey Taylor, Steve Stevens, Nuno Bettencourt & Matt SorumAdam's Music: Down – "Blood Oath"Queens Of The Stone Age – "Insignificant Other"Polaris – "Without You"Butcher Babies – "Blame It On The Wind"D.K. Harrell – "A Little Taste"
