Alice Cooper with Twisted Sister
After the intense disapointment of missing Twisted Sister two years ago at Wacken, although I had only heard of the festival a couple of months prior and had no way of getting there, anyways. Finally got to see them with everyones favourite halloween nightmare in a tux Alice Cooper.
Only bad thing about the gig was, it was all seated, although in retrospect I suspect this was a good thing as it stopped the kiddies having a pit of the mosh variety, and no one sits at a seated gig anyway, unless youre watching the Osmonds or some such hellish creation.
After purchasing my obligotary (sp?) tshirts and swanky new bandana I made my way to my seat. The stage had been pulled forward a bit from when i saw Velvet Revolver and Rammstein, but was still bigger than the last place i saw Mr Cooper (Hammersmith Apollo) and ended up more packed.
Twisted Sister came on and you could see they still had it. Dee Snider sporting pink American Football pads and giant hair of doom. Although the rest of the band looked more subdued, gone were the leopard print spandex and terrible makeup (DS not withstanding) they did sound absolutely fantastic though. Blasting through (in between berating the crowd for not being on their feet, accusing them of being in wheelchairs and then proclaiming miracles when the boring bastards finally stood up_ "I am, I'm Me", "The Kids Are Back", "It's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It", "We're Not Gonna Take It" and of course the anthemic "I Wanna Rock". The latter of which seemed to be the only thing some people knew by them, to be expected but still disapointing. They also played a song which I didn't know was by them "Burn In Hell" which I had only heard previously by Dimmu Borgir (a bit far removed from TS) but it made my hair happy as it smacked into the faces of lots of Geordie's who backed away cautiously. Not to take anything away from Alice Cooper but they really took the show for me.
Twisted Sister buggered off to make way for AC who came on with "No More Mr Nice Guy" and played a fantastic set which included most of his major fantastic songs although missing from this lineup was "Bed of Nails" and "Hey Stoopid" but with 50bajillion albums then its hard to pack everything in there. His daughter making an appearance as a ditzy Hollywood blonde and also one of the gang who put Mr Cooper in the Guillotine. "School's Out" caused a lot of large balloons to be flung at the crowd which he popped with one of his many swords. There was corpses and tongue in cheek behaviour and it was all fantastic. Anyone who hasnt seen him, even if you dont like his music should do so, right now, cos it's muchos fun.
Pictures can be found: http://www.mckjerral.co.uk/doomdoom/ under the appropriate directory
Only bad thing about the gig was, it was all seated, although in retrospect I suspect this was a good thing as it stopped the kiddies having a pit of the mosh variety, and no one sits at a seated gig anyway, unless youre watching the Osmonds or some such hellish creation.
After purchasing my obligotary (sp?) tshirts and swanky new bandana I made my way to my seat. The stage had been pulled forward a bit from when i saw Velvet Revolver and Rammstein, but was still bigger than the last place i saw Mr Cooper (Hammersmith Apollo) and ended up more packed.
Twisted Sister came on and you could see they still had it. Dee Snider sporting pink American Football pads and giant hair of doom. Although the rest of the band looked more subdued, gone were the leopard print spandex and terrible makeup (DS not withstanding) they did sound absolutely fantastic though. Blasting through (in between berating the crowd for not being on their feet, accusing them of being in wheelchairs and then proclaiming miracles when the boring bastards finally stood up_ "I am, I'm Me", "The Kids Are Back", "It's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It", "We're Not Gonna Take It" and of course the anthemic "I Wanna Rock". The latter of which seemed to be the only thing some people knew by them, to be expected but still disapointing. They also played a song which I didn't know was by them "Burn In Hell" which I had only heard previously by Dimmu Borgir (a bit far removed from TS) but it made my hair happy as it smacked into the faces of lots of Geordie's who backed away cautiously. Not to take anything away from Alice Cooper but they really took the show for me.
Twisted Sister buggered off to make way for AC who came on with "No More Mr Nice Guy" and played a fantastic set which included most of his major fantastic songs although missing from this lineup was "Bed of Nails" and "Hey Stoopid" but with 50bajillion albums then its hard to pack everything in there. His daughter making an appearance as a ditzy Hollywood blonde and also one of the gang who put Mr Cooper in the Guillotine. "School's Out" caused a lot of large balloons to be flung at the crowd which he popped with one of his many swords. There was corpses and tongue in cheek behaviour and it was all fantastic. Anyone who hasnt seen him, even if you dont like his music should do so, right now, cos it's muchos fun.
Pictures can be found: http://www.mckjerral.co.uk/doomdoom/ under the appropriate directory