Mötley Crüe
Support: Alice Cooper, the Cringe
Date: Saturday August 22nd, 2015
Venue: the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Ontario
T-shirt worn: goat pentagram
I wasn’t too stocked to go to this show. Stories of Vince Neil’s less than stellar vocals the past decade kind of turned me off but also intrigued me. Like a trainwreck; sometimes you just want to see it get bad. The cost of a hundred dollars was redonculous too and our seats flat-out sucked. I don’t go to too many arena shows so anything further back than a few people is just way too much for me. Oh well.
The Cringe came on at seven and promptly began to suck. They still haven't topped le Butcherettes as the worst band I've seen all year but they were definitely the blandest. They sounded like one of those bands that started out when Mötley Crüe did but just never made it and are still at it. If there were two thousand people there for them then it was probably forty times the crowd they’d drawn on their own. And there was a siren during their cover of Jailbreak that was just lame. And like others have said: six songs and two covers?
The Cringe
1. ?
2. ?
3. On and On
4. Big Trouble
5. ? w/Paranoid
6. Jailbreak
I missed Alice Coopers first song because daddy needed booze. I've known these song titles for years but it was the first time I've actually heard any of them EXCEPT School's Out and Feed my Frankenstein. He was pretty good. Not my style but whatever. I thought it was pretty cool that he had three guitar players. I wish more bands would do that. I don’t know why since most times it would just mean three people playing the same thing but I’m sure there’d be a time when it would be necessary. Hearing the Ballad of Dwight Fry was a massive highlight for me because I've known that song as the Melvins cover for like twenty years but I've never heard the original. It was really cool to hear. Poison and Dirty Diamonds were pretty good too.
Alice Cooper
1. The Black Widow
2. No More Mr. Nice Guy
3. Under my Wheels
4. I'm Eighteen
5. Billion Dollar Babies
6. Poison
7. Dirty Diamonds w/bass, drum and guitar solos
8. Go to Hell
9. Feed My Frankenstein
10. The Ballad of Dwight Fry
11. Killer
12. I Love the Dead
13. School's Out
I’ve never been a very big Mötley Crüe fan but I like them enough to spend a hundred dollars on a ticket and twenty-five more on two beers once in my life. Their music is actually pretty good. And I think Nikki Sixx may be one of the coolest guys in the world. Tommy Lee though I think may be one of the biggest douches. Vince sounded fine to me. He did crack a bit on some of the high notes but I can’t hold that against him. I think they may have been playing with pretty heavy backtracks. If anything the entire band was just way too quite. The fireworks (and their were lots) completely overpowered the band. Which brings me to the fireworks; which were awesome. Again, I don’t go to arena shows so I never see pyro. If anything I see lights at the odd show. But what Mötley Crüe had tonight was just nuts. The fireworks I wasn’t too keen on but the fire and lights were fucking awesome. The flaming pentagram that came at the end of Kickstart My Heart should have gone on the whole show. That was cool. Then there’s Tommy Lee’s drum rollercoaster. That was…okay. I went pee during his drum solo and when I came back he was still going and went for another five or ten minutes still. And what he was playing totally didn’t fit the rest of the music. Dude is still stuck in 2001 with Fred Durst and Jeff Hardy. It was just glitched out nu-metal and pop. It fucking sucked. Mick Mars’ solo afterwards was brutal as well. It went for what felt like ten minutes too and he’s a good guitar player but not that good. I’d rather listen to Jeff Loomis for fifteen seconds. Or even the girl who was playing for Alice Cooper. She had chops. The solos both sucked.
Aside from that they played some pretty good stuff. Much like Alice Cooper I really only knew a lot of these songs as title and was hearing a lot of them for the first time. I maybe had heard eight of the songs they played before this show? I really liked the song Looks that Kill. Home Sweet Home shouldn’t have been the encore. I know it’s maybe their biggest hit but it should have gotten played towards the end of the main set and Kickstart My Heart should have closed the show. The fireworks and pyro at the end of that song were crazy. But maybe they’re going for the whole “nostalgia and heart-tugging” shit because it’s the last time they’re playing in whatever city…before they go backstage and do rails off a groupies ass. I can’t say if I’d ever see them again because this is the FINAL TOUR, RIGHT?! But if they happen to book fifty-two consecutive shows in fifty-two different cities in a row some time down the road I may,
Mötley Crüe
1. Girls, Girls, Girls
2. Wild Side
3. Primal Scream
4. Same Ol’ Situation
5. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
6. Smokin’ in the Boys Room
7. Looks that Kill
8. Mutherfucker of the Year
9. Anarchy in the U.K.
10. Shout at the Devil
11. Louder than Hell
-- Drum solo
-- Guitar solo
12. Saints of Las Angeles
13. Live Wire
14 Dr. Feelgood
15. Kickstart My Heart
[encore]
16. Home Sweet Home
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Follow up:
This was a fun show. I don't think I've listened to a note of any of these bands music since that night and if I did it was because it was on the radio.
As far as I know Mötley Crüe haven't played since so maybe this was their last tour ever?
Support: Alice Cooper, the Cringe
Date: Saturday August 22nd, 2015
Venue: the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Ontario
T-shirt worn: goat pentagram
I wasn’t too stocked to go to this show. Stories of Vince Neil’s less than stellar vocals the past decade kind of turned me off but also intrigued me. Like a trainwreck; sometimes you just want to see it get bad. The cost of a hundred dollars was redonculous too and our seats flat-out sucked. I don’t go to too many arena shows so anything further back than a few people is just way too much for me. Oh well.
The Cringe came on at seven and promptly began to suck. They still haven't topped le Butcherettes as the worst band I've seen all year but they were definitely the blandest. They sounded like one of those bands that started out when Mötley Crüe did but just never made it and are still at it. If there were two thousand people there for them then it was probably forty times the crowd they’d drawn on their own. And there was a siren during their cover of Jailbreak that was just lame. And like others have said: six songs and two covers?
The Cringe
1. ?
2. ?
3. On and On
4. Big Trouble
5. ? w/Paranoid
6. Jailbreak
I missed Alice Coopers first song because daddy needed booze. I've known these song titles for years but it was the first time I've actually heard any of them EXCEPT School's Out and Feed my Frankenstein. He was pretty good. Not my style but whatever. I thought it was pretty cool that he had three guitar players. I wish more bands would do that. I don’t know why since most times it would just mean three people playing the same thing but I’m sure there’d be a time when it would be necessary. Hearing the Ballad of Dwight Fry was a massive highlight for me because I've known that song as the Melvins cover for like twenty years but I've never heard the original. It was really cool to hear. Poison and Dirty Diamonds were pretty good too.
Alice Cooper
1. The Black Widow
2. No More Mr. Nice Guy
3. Under my Wheels
4. I'm Eighteen
5. Billion Dollar Babies
6. Poison
7. Dirty Diamonds w/bass, drum and guitar solos
8. Go to Hell
9. Feed My Frankenstein
10. The Ballad of Dwight Fry
11. Killer
12. I Love the Dead
13. School's Out
I’ve never been a very big Mötley Crüe fan but I like them enough to spend a hundred dollars on a ticket and twenty-five more on two beers once in my life. Their music is actually pretty good. And I think Nikki Sixx may be one of the coolest guys in the world. Tommy Lee though I think may be one of the biggest douches. Vince sounded fine to me. He did crack a bit on some of the high notes but I can’t hold that against him. I think they may have been playing with pretty heavy backtracks. If anything the entire band was just way too quite. The fireworks (and their were lots) completely overpowered the band. Which brings me to the fireworks; which were awesome. Again, I don’t go to arena shows so I never see pyro. If anything I see lights at the odd show. But what Mötley Crüe had tonight was just nuts. The fireworks I wasn’t too keen on but the fire and lights were fucking awesome. The flaming pentagram that came at the end of Kickstart My Heart should have gone on the whole show. That was cool. Then there’s Tommy Lee’s drum rollercoaster. That was…okay. I went pee during his drum solo and when I came back he was still going and went for another five or ten minutes still. And what he was playing totally didn’t fit the rest of the music. Dude is still stuck in 2001 with Fred Durst and Jeff Hardy. It was just glitched out nu-metal and pop. It fucking sucked. Mick Mars’ solo afterwards was brutal as well. It went for what felt like ten minutes too and he’s a good guitar player but not that good. I’d rather listen to Jeff Loomis for fifteen seconds. Or even the girl who was playing for Alice Cooper. She had chops. The solos both sucked.
Aside from that they played some pretty good stuff. Much like Alice Cooper I really only knew a lot of these songs as title and was hearing a lot of them for the first time. I maybe had heard eight of the songs they played before this show? I really liked the song Looks that Kill. Home Sweet Home shouldn’t have been the encore. I know it’s maybe their biggest hit but it should have gotten played towards the end of the main set and Kickstart My Heart should have closed the show. The fireworks and pyro at the end of that song were crazy. But maybe they’re going for the whole “nostalgia and heart-tugging” shit because it’s the last time they’re playing in whatever city…before they go backstage and do rails off a groupies ass. I can’t say if I’d ever see them again because this is the FINAL TOUR, RIGHT?! But if they happen to book fifty-two consecutive shows in fifty-two different cities in a row some time down the road I may,
Mötley Crüe
1. Girls, Girls, Girls
2. Wild Side
3. Primal Scream
4. Same Ol’ Situation
5. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
6. Smokin’ in the Boys Room
7. Looks that Kill
8. Mutherfucker of the Year
9. Anarchy in the U.K.
10. Shout at the Devil
11. Louder than Hell
-- Drum solo
-- Guitar solo
12. Saints of Las Angeles
13. Live Wire
14 Dr. Feelgood
15. Kickstart My Heart
[encore]
16. Home Sweet Home
________________________________________________________
Follow up:
This was a fun show. I don't think I've listened to a note of any of these bands music since that night and if I did it was because it was on the radio.
As far as I know Mötley Crüe haven't played since so maybe this was their last tour ever?
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