Posted by Smalls at syr-24-24-14-133.twcny.rr.com on December 06, 2002 at 12:18:53:
In Reply to: 9am rant with sexyj..... posted by SexyJ on December 06, 2002 at 09:43:42:
CKY was really good and looked surprisingly like what Bill and Ted would look like in real life and in the year 2002.
Mix Master Mike... well, come on, a rock show in Albany, a mixman isn't going to get much support... but the thing is if you're just a mixman and you're completely unaccompanied except for inflatable Ultraman puppets, you're just not going to get support beyond about a half an hour, no matter how clever you are. Especially if you go eighty-fucking-minutes.
Mullets? In Albany I didn't see many mullets at all... mostly like seventeen-year-old kids in Slipknot and Triple H shirts with their fitted hats and their wallet chains. Perhaps it's not understood by the general public, but among wrestling fans, a Triple H shirt is worse than wearing no wrestling-related paraphenalia at all and leads to the thought: "Hey, one of those guys who still thinks its real."
And yeah, the tits thing was... interesting for about twenty minutes, then when it was mostly seventeen-year-old trailer girls making out with each other topless it got boring as shit. Only funny thing was the occasional joke camera shot of frumpy ladies who clearly weren't going to be lifting their shirts.
As for the new band? Musically speaking, they were at-least a little bit more musically talented than the old GNR... I mean, Buckethead is God and Robin Finck is well-above-average... the drummer and the bassist just looked like they were so happy to be there that it was infectious, Axl's a lot better of a piano player nowadays... I mean, what did Slash really have, three blues licks? My only question was, was that second keyboardist doing anything except maybe the synth on "The Blues" when Dizzy went down to the main piano?
"So you're in the new Guns N Roses, huh?" "Oh yeah." "What do you do in the live show?" "Well... I'm like fifth-backup vocals and I play the synth on the two songs where an extra set of hands is needed." "Wow. Axl's sure fucking rich isn't he?" "Oh yeah."
And Axl's still Axl. A screeching delusional little warpspeed motherfucker of a rock god. And yeah, the henna cornrows are fucked up but, come on, are they any more fucked up than the Appetite for Destruction hair? Clearly no. The only time the guy didn't have strange hair was on UYI when it was just pulled back in a bandana anyway.
Twas Awesome with a capital Awe when I saw it.
Mike