From: chaas@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (Christopher J. Haas)
Subject: G 'N' R/Metallica/FNM in Indianapolis
Summary: Metallica worth the price of admission
Keywords: Axl is a Wussie
Organization: University of Cincinnati, College of Business
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:42:15 GMT

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
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
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
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.  
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
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
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

   
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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
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA