Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Friday, 24 Jul 1992 18:01:07 EDT
From: <32GCHRG@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Subject: Re: G 'N' R/Metallica/FNM in Indianapolis
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul23.214215.5275@ucqais.cba.uc.edu>, chaas@ucqais.cba.uc.edu
(Christopher J. Haas) says:
>
>Just a little review of last nights show for anyone who may be interested.
>
>Faith No More
>Not bad for an opening act.  Though there was a bad mix between the vocals
>and the instruments.  I think everything was probably tuned for Metallica
>already.  They played for about an hour, and about 60% - 70% was from their
>new album.
>
>Metallica
>Excellent.  I cannot say enough about them.  I am not a big Metallica fan,
>but I do like their new stuff and some of their old stuff.  Both the sound
>and the stage show was excellent.  The band was full of energy and kept the
>audience in the show including about ten minutes of "Seek and Destroy"
>choruses
...so you'd rather hear 10 minutes of SEEK AND DESTROY chorus sung
by the crowd than a guitar solo by Slash.  Then of course(at least
when I saw Metallica) theres the wonderful drum solo by James
Hetfield...what's that all about????
>between the band and the audience.  They played for a little over two hours
>including six or seven songs in the encore.  If your a Metallica fan, their
>performance alone is worth the price of admission.
>
>Guns N Roses
>Axl Rose is the biggest WUSSIE in rock and roll.  They started out very
>strong,
>then they started playing several slow songs in a row with Axl lecturing to
>the audience in between about his thoughts on society.  This included slamming
>the entire state of Indiana and society in general.  This combined with
>several
...maybe because Indiana(and Michigan and California) and everyther
state in the US deserves to be slammed...societys fucked up and
obviously you needed to be told...whats wrong with Axl doing it?
>overly done guitar solos and Axl disappearing behind stage every time there
>was
>a break in the lyrics(I wonder what he was doing back there) brought the show
...probably getting a drink, changing clothes, and whatever else he felt
like doing, whats wrong with that?
>to a screeching halt.  It was 1:00 A.M. at this point, and after an hour, we
>had only heard about four or five songs.  Understandably, after 6+ hours of
>standing people started sitting down or leaving altogether.
...you knew it would be a long concert and you knew GNR would be
playing late...so why'd you go?
>Finally, Axl walked off stage complaining about all of the people sitting
>down.
>At this point we left.  We heard on the local radio that they did continue
>to play, but that a lot of people were really upset.  Myself and three of my
>friends paid $64 a piece for our tickets, took off of work early, and drove
>110
...where did you buy tickets that cost $64...they were about
half that in Detroit.
>miles to Indianapolis.  To me thats an awful lot of work to have Axl throw one
>of his temper tantrams.  Don't get me wrong, I still love their music, but
>because of Axl's childish pussy antics, myself and my friends will probably
>never go to see Guns N Roses live again.  I saw them previously last summer
>before Illusions I and II were released, and it was one of the best shows I
>had
...me too(at Alpine Valley) and they were great!!!


>ever seen.  Since then my roommate has seen them (at that show they started
>four hours late because Axl wasn't ready to go on stage) and this show was
>just
>as bad.  Does anyone who saw them at any of the three shows have ony comments
>on those performances?(Washington, New Jersey, Detroit)  I heard nothing but
>great reviews before the show.  Axl had better get his head out of his ass
>before he alienates all of his fans.  Izzy has already left the group because
>of his antics.  It is the responsibliity of the band to get and keep the
>audience in the show.  Nobody came there to listen to Axl lecture about his
>social/political views.  They came there to listen to Guns N Roses, and there
>was very little of that.  If you plan on attending to hear G N R, be careful.
>Think twice about it and be sure that you don't live somewhere that Axl
>doesn't
>like.
>
>HAAS
>
>
>--
>Chris Haas                                             Consultant
>chaas@ucqais.cba.uc.edu                                University of
>Cincinnati
>"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble
>gum..."
>                                                              Rowdy Roddy
>Piper
Obviousle all this is just my opinion...flames are welcome.

                        Doc Holiday

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