Well I went to the Motley Crue & Motorhead show last night in Melbourne.
Motorhead played for about 45 minutes, fuckin loud too! I'm not a fan to be honest and didn't really get into it but they are a tight band and played a strong set.
Motley were next, I have alot of mixed emotions about the show really. There were some great points but also alot of low points. Overall, it was a good show and they did the job - the entertained the crowd well with a fun, wild, big over the top decadent rock & roll show which is what they were there for. But there were alot of the things about the show which I think could have been ALOT better.
Firstly, Tommy Lee should not be allowed NEAR a microphone. He's a fucking idiot. I don't know about you guys, but I don't go to a Motley Crue show to see 20 minutes of the show wasted on the drummer wandering around the stage making homeboy hand movements yelling "Who's your motherfuckin boy! Who loves ya! Who loves ya! Gimme a motherfuckin 'YO!' motherfuckers! Who's your boy!" Secondly, Nikki Sixx is so overrated as a performer. I thought Vince did an excellent job though. He was all over the stage putting on a show and working up the crowd, when he couldnt sing parts he'd at least point the mic to the crowd to cover up well instead of singing badly, good job.
Another thing, the breaks in the show. Come on... 40 minutes into the set, "We're taking a 10 minute break, see you soon". What the fuck? Alice Cooper & Kiss are way older than Motley Crue and player longer shows with NO breaks! And the breaks between songs were too long as well. Just too much fucking around and unprofessionalism. They were also not very tight, some songs it took half a verse to pick what song it was (Tommy's playing was on the money but Mick & Nikki were just a mess), and also they used backing tapes for the choruses of all the post-Theater of Pain songs. Very un-Motley!
Apart from those things though, they played most of the songs I wanted to hear, some songs were real fuckin highlights and awesome (Shout, Girls & Feelgood especially!), the stageshow was amazing and up to Kiss standard (shame their performance as a band was nowhere near the professionalism of Kiss), Vince was a great performer, the crowd was wild, Nikki said Detroit are usually loudest but we were almost as loud as Detroit and he'll have to tell them about Melbourne next time haha (funny coz Detroit & Melbourne seem to be Kiss' 2 fave cities in the world too), and yeah overall it was just a great fun, wild, outrageous decadent rock & roll party with loud tunes, fire, strippers, midgets, and tits being flashed everywhere!
Good night out
Motorhead played for about 45 minutes, fuckin loud too! I'm not a fan to be honest and didn't really get into it but they are a tight band and played a strong set.
Motley were next, I have alot of mixed emotions about the show really. There were some great points but also alot of low points. Overall, it was a good show and they did the job - the entertained the crowd well with a fun, wild, big over the top decadent rock & roll show which is what they were there for. But there were alot of the things about the show which I think could have been ALOT better.
Firstly, Tommy Lee should not be allowed NEAR a microphone. He's a fucking idiot. I don't know about you guys, but I don't go to a Motley Crue show to see 20 minutes of the show wasted on the drummer wandering around the stage making homeboy hand movements yelling "Who's your motherfuckin boy! Who loves ya! Who loves ya! Gimme a motherfuckin 'YO!' motherfuckers! Who's your boy!" Secondly, Nikki Sixx is so overrated as a performer. I thought Vince did an excellent job though. He was all over the stage putting on a show and working up the crowd, when he couldnt sing parts he'd at least point the mic to the crowd to cover up well instead of singing badly, good job.
Another thing, the breaks in the show. Come on... 40 minutes into the set, "We're taking a 10 minute break, see you soon". What the fuck? Alice Cooper & Kiss are way older than Motley Crue and player longer shows with NO breaks! And the breaks between songs were too long as well. Just too much fucking around and unprofessionalism. They were also not very tight, some songs it took half a verse to pick what song it was (Tommy's playing was on the money but Mick & Nikki were just a mess), and also they used backing tapes for the choruses of all the post-Theater of Pain songs. Very un-Motley!
Apart from those things though, they played most of the songs I wanted to hear, some songs were real fuckin highlights and awesome (Shout, Girls & Feelgood especially!), the stageshow was amazing and up to Kiss standard (shame their performance as a band was nowhere near the professionalism of Kiss), Vince was a great performer, the crowd was wild, Nikki said Detroit are usually loudest but we were almost as loud as Detroit and he'll have to tell them about Melbourne next time haha (funny coz Detroit & Melbourne seem to be Kiss' 2 fave cities in the world too), and yeah overall it was just a great fun, wild, outrageous decadent rock & roll party with loud tunes, fire, strippers, midgets, and tits being flashed everywhere!
Good night out
