Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Saturday, 25 Jul 1992 00:55:32 CDT
From: A.D. <U55052@uicvm.uic.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.
>
Since I went because of Faith No More (I have already seen Guns and MetallicA
in concert) I was pleased with their performance.  I would have liked to hear
Falling to Pieces and I don't think RV is a good concert song.  It was very
hard to understand.  I can honestly say that the people I was with, myself
included were some of the few standing for them.  We care A Lot was awesome.
Most people recognized Epic and that was the only song which got a response
from most of the people.  I think I was one of the few who knew more than just
the chorus.  I hope to see them again soon.

>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.
>
I agree.  Once again they were execellent.  They once again opened with
Creeping Death.  Their selection of songs was good.  They even played
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) which they must have neglected in DC.  They played
about two or three songs from each album execept the new one.  They played all
the singles plus Sad But True and Of Wolf and Man.  They closed with Enter
Sandman which was a suprise.  They kept tempo going throughout the whole show.
The fans their for Guns were obvious when they remained silent throughout
MetallicA until Enter Sandman.  We had to laugh after singing and banging our
heads throughout the entire act.

>Guns N Roses
>Axl Rose is the biggest WUSSIE in rock and roll.

I second that (add in annoying also)

>They started out very strong,

Three in a row from Appetite

>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.

What did he expect when Knockin' On Heaven's Door went on forevvvver.
At this point we had to get up and walk around to stay awake.

>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.

We have planned to do the same.  The wait before the show is too long (1.5 hour
s after MetallicA and 2 or 3 hours the last time I saw them), the solos are way
too long, and I don't want to know Axl Roses's philosophy on life.

>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.
We travelled all the way from Chicago to see them figuring  this would be the
concert of the year.  The first two-thirds were awesome but after five and a
half hours of waiting we were just to out of it to enjoy Guns.  It also would
have been a lot better if they had played Coma, Don't Damn Me, Right Next Door
To Hell, and Get in the Ring.
Other than that it was an awesome show I wish was going to be closer here but
I'm glad we made it there.  I had been planning to go for months.  We were also
lucky to have decent seats.
>HAAS

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