The last show of the tour was definitly not the least. I will go into unwanted detail, sorry. As soon as we got there a garbage cannister caught on fire and it's heads up for all police. Then I got checked by the metal detector. I have nine screws and a plate in my leg. Lit up like a Christmas tree' "Go ahead sir". My buddy goes through, his pack of smokes set it off,"Sir please stop we must search you". We haven't purchased tickets yet. We wait in line and when we get to the front the man asks for our voucher. We're like what voucher, we were told that we could get tickets here. The guy slips us two free tickets. Now I had every intention of buying one but what would you do? Hopefully I made up for it by buying an Anthrax hat. It was played at The Palace where NBA team Detroit Pistons play(fairly big). The whole floor sold out and 90%of the lower bowl sold with straglers in the top. I couldn't fucking believe it. I thought maybe 750-1000 people would show up. Approximately 4000 at my guess. If anyone could get a confirmation it would be great. They had a backdrop of Ratfink from Cartoons. When the houselights go down the Blues Brother theme kicks in. The set list was the same as the ones posted here previously except: about ten seconds of Turbo Lover( that's what the guys behind me told me, I couldn't even fucking recognize it), then Ripper came out a sang Caught in a Mosh with John. They exchanged verses then some in unison ("were you dropped as a baby 'cause brains you lack"). Fucking cool! The guys were totally stoked playing that type of venue again. Both John and Scott said it was the best audience of the tour.
Ya had to be there but after 'Superhero'John asked "Does that have balls?". A giant "Yeah" from the crowd. Then John with a very tounge in cheek responding "COOL". At the end of Priest's set (took a little effort, but...) the guys came back out and sang a few measures of 'United'. Scott had his own mic while the others were on one. I'm pretty sure that other one wasn't even turned on. My friend said one of the guys was cupping his hands over his mouth. I saw them all laughing and pointing at something on the stage and were very afraid to touch it. Afterwards, a roadie came out and cleaned it up. Probably puke but could someone find out please. Then these exotic dancers came on for Priest's encore. I don't know if it was routine or a joke set up by the guys. Ripper and the bass player(fuck, I can't remeber his name) were getting "handled" big time and kept cracking up. Well, that's it. Hope ya found it interesting and not causing too many headaches.
