The Crue Review
Let me just start by saying that this morning I ordered myself a pair of these. It was absolutely the loudest concert I have ever attended. My ears are beyond ringing today. I'm very uncomfortable and hate to think about the hearing loss I sustained last night.
But I digress ....
The show started out with "Shout at the Devil" ... one of my all time favorite Crue songs. Now ... either I've forgotten the lyrics to the song or Vince Neil has. And seeing as I've done way far less drugs than Vince Neil, I'm gonna go with him being clueless. It was horrible. And I was sure that this was gonna be a waste of my 12th row seats. Things did improve however ... here's the set list I nabbed from another site (Hey ... my memory ain't that good ... well better than Vinces' though):
01. Shout at the Devil
02. Too Fast For Love
03. 10 Seconds to Love
04. Red Hot
05. Too Young to Fall in Love
06. Looks That Kill
07. Live Wire
08. Girls, Girls, Girls
09. Wild Side
10. Home, Sweet Home
11. Don't go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
12. Primal Scream
13. Louder Than Hell
14. Dr. Feelgood
15. Same Old Situation
16. If I Die Tomorrow
17. Kickstart My Heart
Encore:
18. Anarchy in the U.K.
That looks to be about right to me. Obviously it's all the hits ... which worked out good for me because I don't own anything from Crue past the Dr. Feelgood Album. Heck most of my Crue collection is still on vinyl!! I especially enjoyed Live Wire and ... here's the shocker ... Tommy's percussion solo. Now those of you who know me at all know that I abhor percussion solos. Getting Halford only intensified my hatred, because the vibration actually makes him ache a bit. But I gotta say ... Mr. Lee was quite entertaining. He had two stations set up about 4 rows behind us up in the air and it was just a really cool set up. He went back and forth between both platforms and talking to the audience throughout. Once he returned to the stage, he passed around a couple of bottles of Jeigermeister in the audience. I've gotta say that I've never seen that happen before ... too bad it wasn't tequila though.
The show has a circus theme to it ... complete with scary clowns, a midget and three exotic dancers/contortionists. Kudos to those ladies. Aside from being EXTREMELY attractive they all were very talented performers in my opinion. For all you guys out there it might be worth the price of admission just to watch the soft porn going on onstage. LOL This definitely isn't family entertainment.
All in all I enjoyed all of the show ... even the moments that I broke out in laughter because it sounded as if Vince had suddenly inhaled helium! LMAO I still get tickled thinking about it! I wish I would have seen them back in the day .... but that's one band I didn't get around to until now. I don't think the musicianship is what it was ... or what it should be, but it was definitely entertaining. And HUGE KUDOS to Mick Mars ... he's still an awesome guitarist despite the ankylosing spondylitis that he suffers from. I think it's just amazing that he's on stage doing what he does at this point.
But I digress ....
The show started out with "Shout at the Devil" ... one of my all time favorite Crue songs. Now ... either I've forgotten the lyrics to the song or Vince Neil has. And seeing as I've done way far less drugs than Vince Neil, I'm gonna go with him being clueless. It was horrible. And I was sure that this was gonna be a waste of my 12th row seats. Things did improve however ... here's the set list I nabbed from another site (Hey ... my memory ain't that good ... well better than Vinces' though):
01. Shout at the Devil
02. Too Fast For Love
03. 10 Seconds to Love
04. Red Hot
05. Too Young to Fall in Love
06. Looks That Kill
07. Live Wire
08. Girls, Girls, Girls
09. Wild Side
10. Home, Sweet Home
11. Don't go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
12. Primal Scream
13. Louder Than Hell
14. Dr. Feelgood
15. Same Old Situation
16. If I Die Tomorrow
17. Kickstart My Heart
Encore:
18. Anarchy in the U.K.
That looks to be about right to me. Obviously it's all the hits ... which worked out good for me because I don't own anything from Crue past the Dr. Feelgood Album. Heck most of my Crue collection is still on vinyl!! I especially enjoyed Live Wire and ... here's the shocker ... Tommy's percussion solo. Now those of you who know me at all know that I abhor percussion solos. Getting Halford only intensified my hatred, because the vibration actually makes him ache a bit. But I gotta say ... Mr. Lee was quite entertaining. He had two stations set up about 4 rows behind us up in the air and it was just a really cool set up. He went back and forth between both platforms and talking to the audience throughout. Once he returned to the stage, he passed around a couple of bottles of Jeigermeister in the audience. I've gotta say that I've never seen that happen before ... too bad it wasn't tequila though.
The show has a circus theme to it ... complete with scary clowns, a midget and three exotic dancers/contortionists. Kudos to those ladies. Aside from being EXTREMELY attractive they all were very talented performers in my opinion. For all you guys out there it might be worth the price of admission just to watch the soft porn going on onstage. LOL This definitely isn't family entertainment.
All in all I enjoyed all of the show ... even the moments that I broke out in laughter because it sounded as if Vince had suddenly inhaled helium! LMAO I still get tickled thinking about it! I wish I would have seen them back in the day .... but that's one band I didn't get around to until now. I don't think the musicianship is what it was ... or what it should be, but it was definitely entertaining. And HUGE KUDOS to Mick Mars ... he's still an awesome guitarist despite the ankylosing spondylitis that he suffers from. I think it's just amazing that he's on stage doing what he does at this point.