On Wednesday night January 27th Earl I ventured out to the Motley Crue(Dead Of Winter Tour appropriately named,it's fuckin' cold here)concert at Rexall Place (free tix thanks to K97) with openers Airbourne and The Joe Perry Project.The seats were in the 3rd row of the upper deck next to the stage, not bad seats, but holy shit,no wonder I don't like sitting up there, felt like fucking sardines packed in them seats, way too tight, or maybe I am just getting fat. Nonetheless, we moved up ever further for the Crue where there was some room to move and a guy could get away with smoking.
We missed the opening band Airbourne as we were downing a quick six pack before heading in. After all, beers are a whopping 8 bucks a piece at Rexall for shitty draft. So a few beers out in the cold beat the hell out of paying for them inside.
Earl and I made sure to get inside in time for Aerosmith's guitar players new band The Joe Perry Project. His set started strong opening with the song "Let The Music Do The Talking" I have always liked that song for some reason and ending with the song "Train Kept A Rollin'" the rest of the set just felt like filler, more like an Aerosmith cover band. It was nice to see Joe Perry playing some rock n' roll guitar instead of the ballad shit Aerosmith has put out on their last 4 albums. But all and all Joe Perry is really nothing without Steve Tyler, so here is hoping that Aerosmith can get there shit together.
Next up was Motley Crue, this was my sixth time seeing them in concert and first time since 2005 when they were on their Better Live Than Dead Tour. The show this time around was much more stripped down, no dancers,jugglers,fire breathers,no screens, just a whole lot of flash pods,fireworks and explosions, a bit much really. Kind of nice to see them like this actually. I thought the set list was quite good, with even new songs from the album Saints Of Los Angeles fitting in good. Sure I would have liked to hear more from the first couple of albums, but still thought it was alright. My biggest complaint with the show was the sound. The sound was not mixed well, sounding very muddy with Vince's vocals barried deep in the mix, which was alright actually, cause if there is a weak link in the band, it's Vince's vocals. But hell, he can get the crowd going and is a great front man for the Crue. The crowd actually did more of the singing then he did. With a crowd of 10,000 it sounded pretty cool hearing them shout out the lyrics word for word. Mick Mars was even moving around more this time, which was nice to see.
All and all, you know what your getting when you see Motley Crue in concert, and thats just some good ol' fun rock n' roll. I would give this show a 6 out of 10.
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