Today I watched a great video I borrowed off a mate.
Warrant live at Gazarri's (legendary rock club on Sunset Strip) in 1987! A year before Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinkin' Rich their first album was even released! The place is PACKED, and Jani says during the show that he was told that they broke the attendance record there previously held by Van Halen.
Anyway, they play a GREAT show... they sound really tight (I thought DRFSR Live must've been waaay overdubbed coz they sound so good but after seeing this, they really are very tight and Jani has a great voice live!), and they put on a great show which really highlights whats missing in small club shows today. The venue is only about as big as The Corner Hotel or Gershwin Room (or maybe a bit bigger, Hi-Fi bar perhaps) but they put so much more effort into their show than any band does that I've seen here. For some reason now each band member in bands seems to have "their spot" on stage, nobody in Warrant did, they keep moving to different parts of the stage every 2 seconds and they are so flamboyant & energetic! Awesome show! I wish bands in clubs would put that much effort in today. The only bands I've seen do anything even close to that these days are Kiss tribute bands and thats only coz they're putting a scaled down Kiss show into the club!
Anyway, here is the interesting thing. THE SETLIST! Only 3 songs off the first album, the rest is stuff I've never heard before!! There is almost an entire album worth of unreleased songs in the setlist!
Here it is:
Cold Sweat
Down Boys
Let It Rain
Sad Theresa
Jimmy
All Night Long
Heaven
Bang Bang
It's Not The Size That Counts
Down The Road
Tease Machine
My Baby Loves To Rock (blues jam thing with Taime Downe I think & some other glam singers on stage)
Some of those songs rocked too! And Heaven was totally different! Up until the end of the first chorus is totally acoustic, then it gets heavy starting from the 2nd verse and the song pretty much isn't even a ballad! It's really interesting but the album version is better, definitely got re-worked alot in the studio! Cold Sweat & Down Boys though sound EXACTLY like on the album but with alternate solos (obviously re-written later in the studio too).
Was very exciting and interesting to see a big arena band like Warrant playing a club back before they got famous!
Warrant live at Gazarri's (legendary rock club on Sunset Strip) in 1987! A year before Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinkin' Rich their first album was even released! The place is PACKED, and Jani says during the show that he was told that they broke the attendance record there previously held by Van Halen.
Anyway, they play a GREAT show... they sound really tight (I thought DRFSR Live must've been waaay overdubbed coz they sound so good but after seeing this, they really are very tight and Jani has a great voice live!), and they put on a great show which really highlights whats missing in small club shows today. The venue is only about as big as The Corner Hotel or Gershwin Room (or maybe a bit bigger, Hi-Fi bar perhaps) but they put so much more effort into their show than any band does that I've seen here. For some reason now each band member in bands seems to have "their spot" on stage, nobody in Warrant did, they keep moving to different parts of the stage every 2 seconds and they are so flamboyant & energetic! Awesome show! I wish bands in clubs would put that much effort in today. The only bands I've seen do anything even close to that these days are Kiss tribute bands and thats only coz they're putting a scaled down Kiss show into the club!
Anyway, here is the interesting thing. THE SETLIST! Only 3 songs off the first album, the rest is stuff I've never heard before!! There is almost an entire album worth of unreleased songs in the setlist!
Here it is:
Cold Sweat
Down Boys
Let It Rain
Sad Theresa
Jimmy
All Night Long
Heaven
Bang Bang
It's Not The Size That Counts
Down The Road
Tease Machine
My Baby Loves To Rock (blues jam thing with Taime Downe I think & some other glam singers on stage)
Some of those songs rocked too! And Heaven was totally different! Up until the end of the first chorus is totally acoustic, then it gets heavy starting from the 2nd verse and the song pretty much isn't even a ballad! It's really interesting but the album version is better, definitely got re-worked alot in the studio! Cold Sweat & Down Boys though sound EXACTLY like on the album but with alternate solos (obviously re-written later in the studio too).
Was very exciting and interesting to see a big arena band like Warrant playing a club back before they got famous!
And now you mention Skid Row.... haha! You and my sister must have some connection that goes beyond science & logic.