Elton John And His Band Live In Bangkok Dec 13, 2012

[Jingthing]

He did not go down well at his last appearance in Bkk. Thais expect a show for their money, not just an old bloke sitting at a piano belting out past glories. Hope he has some better advice for this one.

I am not into his scene but I am sure that there are a few in Thailand that are. The ladyboys will be flocking to his show I am sure.

I'm not so sure. His music is now more for the older crowd, isn't it? LBs in my view tend to be more ... TRENDY.

[chooka]

He did not go down well at his last appearance in Bkk. Thais expect a show for their money, not just an old bloke sitting at a piano belting out past glories. Hope he has some better advice for this one.

I am not into his scene but I am sure that there are a few in Thailand that are. The ladyboys will be flocking to his show I am sure.

I'm not so sure. His music is now more for the older crowd, isn't it? LBs in my view tend to be more ... TRENDY.

Yea a little bit before my time. Didn't he recently become a mother?

[tominbkk]

Gone are the days when songs stayed in the charts for many months. These days, a song shoots into the top 10 for a week or two and then disappears into the ether.

Oh, you mean back in the days when a band meant musicians playing instruments?

There are plenty of bands out there that play their instruments. Lots of really good bands. You just have to look. PRoblem is most people when they reach the age of 30 or so stop looking for bands they would like and complain instead about what mass media pumps out on the radio, pining for the days of yore when they were a kid and all the bands were good.

[tominbkk]

I saw Elton John in concert back in the States. He puts on a great concert. Hope to catch this one.

I saw him about 10 years ago here at Muang Thong Thani. Great show.

[tominbkk]

I don't think there would be to many Thais who could afford the 2,000 baht ticket prices or are these the farang prices and Thai citizen prices start at 30 baht?

Concerts at those prices are full of Thais.

Really geez, Paying 25% of your monthly wage is a lot.. A little like me trying to find around $1,500 AUD for the cheapest ticket. far to expensive

Plenty of middle class families making combined incomes of 75K plus.

[tominbkk]

He did not go down well at his last appearance in Bkk. Thais expect a show for their money, not just an old bloke sitting at a piano belting out past glories. Hope he has some better advice for this one.

Just him and his piano and voice was a great and captivating show. I was in the 5th row and everyone I saw was very happy with the performance.

[tominbkk]

He did not go down well at his last appearance in Bkk. Thais expect a show for their money, not just an old bloke sitting at a piano belting out past glories. Hope he has some better advice for this one.

I am not into his scene but I am sure that there are a few in Thailand that are. The ladyboys will be flocking to his show I am sure.

Well the homophobes are out tonight!

[transam]

There are some sad folks on here.

Hmmmm, really, depends on ones taste in music.

[stoneyboy]

Elton John or Psy and his Gangnam Style,give me Elton any time.

[Morakot]

The Ali G interview with Elton John,

Ali G : Alo! I is ere wiv none uver dan da batty boy of pop, John Elton. Respect.

Elton John : It's Elton John actually Ali.

Ali G : Aiih, whatever. So John, is you always been a batty boy cause I erd dat you woz once married - although I also erd dat da missus was mingin?

Elton John : Well Ali if you mean have I always been gay then probably. Deep down I was but maybe fought it because in my younger days especially it was not socially acceptable to be gay.

Ali G : Fer real, but when you was gettin' jiggy did you fink about people like James Dean and that Jonny Rottweiler who was tarzan so you wouldn't end up wiv a floppy or woz you trisexual and didn't care where you was stickin' Mr biggy?

Elton John : Again I probably fought hard to convince myself I wasn't gay so I never had a problem maintaining an erection with women. I now know I am homosexual so I would probably struggle to get aroused with a woman now.

Ali G : Wow, I fink I might be homosexual then cause Mr biggy wasn't coming out to play last Saturday night although ma Julie says it woz coz I drank a bottle of Dan Jackiels and had about 6 spliffs. I fink it woz coz me Julie isn't very subtractive now in fact she's a dog.

Elton John : I think you're Julie was right - it takes one to know one.

Ali G : Wot, is you saying me Julie is a batty boy? Nah, the bitch won't take it up the exit hole, I've tried slipping it in a few

times. Happarently Julie is too nice a girl for batty sex but she's not too nice for a threesome wiv me mate Dave - it woz wicked!

Elton John : Well a lot of women are not keen on anal sex just as I know some gay men who are not keen on it either. Just because you're gay doesn't mean that you have to like it - there are other ways to express yourself sexually with another man.

Ali G : Eh? Like fellatilatio you mean or gaelic.

Elton John : Gaelic?

Ali G : Aiih, gaelic. When batty boys lick each other.

Elton John : Sure, oral sex is one way of pleasing a lover but sensual massage can be very enjoyable for example.

Ali G : But dat is a bit rank innit - ah mean you need to lose you're range juice or what is da point. Anyways enough talk about homosapiens - I hear dat you spend killions of dosh every year on shopping. Is dat because you is a feminist?

Elton John : I do spend a lot of money on shopping yes but I wouldn't describe myself as a feminist.

Ali G : But I thought dat all gay people were feminists?

Elton John : Eh?

Ali G : Chill. Anyway, is you related to dat lefty comedian Ben Elton cause I fink he is rank.

Elton John : No, I told you before my name is Elton John and not John Elton.

Ali G : Cool, woz your parents spaced out when dey named you?

Elton John : No, that's not my real name but my stage name. Many performers change their names to try to sound more appealing to the public. Take Gary Glitter for example, his name is really Paul Gadd - can you imagine the same guy selling so many records as Paul Gadd or me as Reg Dwight.

Ali G : Nah, but I can imagine him taking some poor kiddies up the Gary Glitter coz he's a paedovile innit. Anyways, talkin of sickos - how's yer mate George Michael - I would never let my son go down on him the preverted bastard.

Elton John : OK so George made a mistake - anyway I thought you said enough of the gay talk. I'd much rather you concentrated on another aspect of me.

Ali G : Me know what you is saying, sorry Mr Elton. OK then, does you not fink dat you looks rank wearing a wig? Ah mean you looked a total dick in the seventies wiv da shades but everyone looked like dicks in da seventies.

Elton John : If you're going to insult me any more I will walk out of the interview - I can put up with a lot but you're going too far.

Ali G : Chill Johnny, no offence. OK - you re-wrote dat Candle in the Wind song when Princess Di got wasted, do you fink she was incinerated by da SAS on da Queens orders or do you fink it woz just down to dat pissed French ****.

Elton John : Really Ali, Princess Diana was a very dear personal friend of mine whom I loved very much - I don't want to discuss it.

Ali G : You loved her, but how could you if you is a batty boy? Is she a femisist or somefink?

Elton John : (Elton leaves the room)

Ali G : Nil respect to da menstral batty boy of pop - some people is just too sensidine. It must be all da years hangin wiv da homosapiens and havin his batty bashed. Anyways I is off for some erbal remedy wiv me boyz westside. Boyakasha!

Edited October 23, 2012 by Morakot

[chooka]

He did not go down well at his last appearance in Bkk. Thais expect a show for their money, not just an old bloke sitting at a piano belting out past glories. Hope he has some better advice for this one.

I am not into his scene but I am sure that there are a few in Thailand that are. The ladyboys will be flocking to his show I am sure.

Well the homophobes are out tonight!

So if you do not like his music then that somehow makes you a homophobe? Really? I liked Queens music, big fan so does that make me a homosexual or somewhere in between? Huge fan of green day also so what category does that put me in now bisexual. What are you getting at exactly?

[NoshowJones]

I think we have better and more important things to worry about than watching Elton John. You're doing the evenly corrupt entertainment business a favor by filling money into their pockets

I will make sure I am well away from Bangkok on that day. What ordinary person wants to see someone performing with teenage boys dressed in very short pants dancing behind them?

[transam]

I think we have better and more important things to worry about than watching Elton John. You're doing the evenly corrupt entertainment business a favor by filling money into their pockets

I will make sure I am well away from Bangkok on that day. What ordinary person wants to see someone performing with teenage boys dressed in very short pants dancing behind them?

Quite a few posting here it seems.

[NoshowJones]

Another date is scheduled on december 14.

This time it will be unplugged, and will only play flute at pattaya... soi boyztown

Careful. He's a married man!

Another date is scheduled on december 14.

This time it will be unplugged, and will only play flute at pattaya... soi boyztown

Careful. He's a married man!

Man?

[Bender]

Another date is scheduled on december 14.

This time it will be unplugged, and will only play flute at pattaya... soi boyztown

Careful. He's a married man!

Canot stop thinking, Elton singing : "I m still standing yeah yeah" at the jomtiem gay nursing beach.

ps: just kidding

Edited October 23, 2012 by Bender

[NoshowJones]

Gone are the days when songs stayed in the charts for many months. These days, a song shoots into the top 10 for a week or two and then disappears into the ether.

Oh, you mean back in the days when a band meant musicians playing instruments?

There are plenty of bands out there that play their instruments. Lots of really good bands. You just have to look. PRoblem is most people when they reach the age of 30 or so stop looking for bands they would like and complain instead about what mass media pumps out on the radio, pining for the days of yore when they were a kid and all the bands were good.

I have played in live bands all my adult life, and although it is hard to find a good Thai singer, male or female (I'm not saying there aren't any) I have heard live bands here in Thailand with some very good musicians.

[NoshowJones]

I saw Elton John in concert back in the States. He puts on a great concert. Hope to catch this one.

I saw him about 10 years ago here at Muang Thong Thani. Great show.

You must be easily pleased.

[Millard]

I just looked up the venue (Impact Arena) and it's not actually in Bangkok proper, but rather Nonthaburi province. Is it easy to find a taxi that'd be willing to drive me there from the Sukhumvit/Nana BTS area? Thanks in advance.

[NoshowJones]

I think we have better and more important things to worry about than watching Elton John. You're doing the evenly corrupt entertainment business a favor by filling money into their pockets

I will make sure I am well away from Bangkok on that day. What ordinary person wants to see someone performing with teenage boys dressed in very short pants dancing behind them?

Thanks Transam, we sure seem to have a lot in common.

[harryfrompattaya]

I think we have better and more important things to worry about than watching Elton John. You're doing the evenly corrupt entertainment business a favor by filling money into their pockets

You must live a boring life or too poor to buy a ticket.

I am happy I just brought 4 tickets to the up and coming great show

[Jingthing]

I think we have better and more important things to worry about than watching Elton John. You're doing the evenly corrupt entertainment business a favor by filling money into their pockets

I will make sure I am well away from Bangkok on that day. What ordinary person wants to see someone performing with teenage boys dressed in very short pants dancing behind them?

Not aware of his stage show. Do you have a youtube link?

[GentlemanJim]

I have played in live bands all my adult life, and although it is hard to find a good Thai singer, male or female (I'm not saying there aren't any) I have heard live bands here in Thailand with some very good musicians.

I saw Elton John in concert back in the States. He puts on a great concert. Hope to catch this one.

I saw him about 10 years ago here at Muang Thong Thani. Great show.

You must be easily pleased.

It is funny when a wannabe musician slags off one of the legends of modern day music. And he has achieved what exactly...........worldly fame, recognition and wealth and you............oh that's right you were happy with artistic expression, money and fame were irrelevant.

[Nisa]

Either he still spends his money like a lunatic and/or he truly still loves playing for people because he has got to be near 70-years old and don't think he has any kids to leave his fortune but I could be wrong. Given his decades of success, he should be one of the worlds richest entertainers.

[Nisa]

You know, this might actually be a good concert to go. Good music without a roudy young crowd? Assuming tickets are sold out already, does anyone know where people can get tickets to sold out events here? Is there like an online place or location that sells them?

[stoneyboy]

Either he still spends his money like a lunatic and/or he truly still loves playing for people because he has got to be near 70-years old and don't think he has any kids to leave his fortune but I could be wrong. Given his decades of success, he should be one of the worlds richest entertainers.

English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor, Sir Elton Hercules John has a net worth of $355 million (£220m) as of April 2012, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Sir Elton John is the second richest singer in UK. In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. The prolific songwriter and a flamboyant performer, had 30 different hits on the top 40 charts between 1970 and 1982. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.

[uptheos]

Maybe he's looking for new talent?

[Nisa]

Maybe he's looking for new talent?

In a Gary Glitter kind of way? (joke)

[Morakot]

That's how he looked in 1972.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Morakot

[uptheos]

That's how he looked in 1972.

Certainly got better with age.

[soomak]

You know, this might actually be a good concert to go. Good music without a roudy young crowd? Assuming tickets are sold out already, does anyone know where people can get tickets to sold out events here? Is there like an online place or location that sells them?

There are thousands of tickets left:

http://www.thaiticketmajor.com/concert/concert-detail.php?sid=1535&la=en