Post by Katkick on Jun 26, 2007 12:21:35 GMT -5
Thought I'd seen a Sydney thread but can't find it? - ah well..
here is guy's review
posted on Rock Dad..
{ June 26, 2007 @ 2:15 pm } · { third Rock from the sun } · { Comments }
The city… the venue … the crowd … and the big bands that roared the night through. What can I say???
It was an onslaught - Damn it was GREAT!!! It was the last show of the 2007 world tour of GN’R in Australia.
The first act of the night started at 8:15pm and it was Rose Tattoo. Angry Anderson’s voice rocked the house. He sang a lot of Aussie classics and one of my faves “We can’t be beaten”. Indeed, Rose Tatto is one of the loudest rock band in the world if not the number one loudest of ‘em all. With the opening band like this the night was certainly worth the money.
Second Act was Skid Row’s frontman Sebastian Bach clad in leather and armed with screeching voice. He is with a new group now. His voice was just so Awesome. He brought back the days of hair metal (head bangers) and he roared some of Skid Row’s anthems mostly from their self titled album and Slave to the Grind album. He head banged across the stage - here and there. He was all over the scene and swinging the microphone like a lasso above his head whilst head bangin’. Unfortuately cameras were not allowed in the venue. I did not manage to capture the event but never mind because I have it imprinted in my memory.. At one point Sebastian Bach stood up and said to a man in the front row “Dude… do you wanna take a photo? C’mon take a photo…What do you mean no mobile phones, no cameras? It’s 2007 for f@ck sake, who cares - here take a photo..There no harm done”…. At that point he captured the people’s admiration - the people just loved him. True to ROCK he was and is. He defied the show’s emposed ban on cameras because of digital rights and greater more he defies the US Army’s Drafting System as a Dad protecting his 19yo son….and the mass just applauded him. The crowd started shouting “NO MORE WAR” repeatedly - Now that is absolute ROCK!!! And of course in a true Sebastian Bach fashion he sang some of my faves such as “YOUTH GONE WILD, MONKEY BUSINESS, 18 AND LIFE, PIECE OF ME and I REMEMBER YOU”… The night took me 15 years back in time… Back to when I was 17 when my sister gave me a shirt with his photo printed on the front and on the left chest was written “SKID ROW”. I have to thank my sister for that again.. Sebastian Bach and his band could play all night and I would not mind at all if they did.
Then at 11:55pm….
After almost an hour’s break from experiencing hard rock frequency blistering through my ears, the lights went off. The speakers thumped and every strand of hair on my body just felt the intensity of the drums reverberating through the giant speakers… The crowd began to chant “Guns and Roses” repeatedly… With massive on-stage fireworks, one of rock world’s most unforgettable bands came out.
The stage background was draped with GNR but written to resemble like Chinese characters. They were promoting their album Chinese Democracy. Axl Rose, the only original member left, came out screeching into the crowd with “WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE”… At that point, I forgotten about whatever happened to the original GN’R… This time it was about the performance and the music and not about who or who was. Just forget about what you read on the internet discussions. They are just moaning because their sorry asses are sitting at home and have not been to a GN’R live gig recently and has not personally seen Axl Rose sing again (probably the sorry asses could not afford it)… The true test of an artist is a live concert in front of a massive crowd…. If you like the music GO and SEE the CONCERT! His voice sounds almost the same as it was 15 years ago. They sang and played classic Gunners such as SWEET CHILD O’ MINE, NOVEMBER RAIN, KNOCKIN ON HEAVEN’S DOOR, YOU COULD BE MINE, MR BROWNSTONE, MY MICHELLE and OUT TA GET ME…
And yes, the crowd sang DON’T CRY whilst being played as a guitar solo…
And yes again the crowd whistled to the intro of PATIENCE and sang along…
Every now and then the stage was erupting like a volcano as five mushroom clounds of fire of about 1.5 meter diameter belched behind the band and vanishing at about 5 meters up in the air. It was like hell (as I imagined it to be) but in a good way…The fire went on and on… The lights were intense and so were the mosh pits from where I was. Axl, played the piano and stood on it as well. He called on Angry Anderson back and also Sebastian Bach on separate songs. He sang a couple of songs from Aussie legends like INXS and AC/DC… Definetely there was an encore and it was madness when he sang PARADISE CITY. Absolutely the night (24.06.2007) took us there….And the city - Sydney!
I went home at half-past three and went to work at six of that same morning. I had the balls for not having a day off because I had an amazing time. And the first thing I did when I got home from work was grab my guitar, plugged it and had my headphones near to full blast and went 12-15-14-12-15-14-14-14 (you can easily guess what song it was)….
… AND THE FEELING WAS BLOODY GREAT!!!
…. OH and YEAH you can admire my shirt on top of that, HUH!!!
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here is guy's review
posted on Rock Dad..{ June 26, 2007 @ 2:15 pm } · { third Rock from the sun } · { Comments }
The city… the venue … the crowd … and the big bands that roared the night through. What can I say???
It was an onslaught - Damn it was GREAT!!! It was the last show of the 2007 world tour of GN’R in Australia.
The first act of the night started at 8:15pm and it was Rose Tattoo. Angry Anderson’s voice rocked the house. He sang a lot of Aussie classics and one of my faves “We can’t be beaten”. Indeed, Rose Tatto is one of the loudest rock band in the world if not the number one loudest of ‘em all. With the opening band like this the night was certainly worth the money.
Second Act was Skid Row’s frontman Sebastian Bach clad in leather and armed with screeching voice. He is with a new group now. His voice was just so Awesome. He brought back the days of hair metal (head bangers) and he roared some of Skid Row’s anthems mostly from their self titled album and Slave to the Grind album. He head banged across the stage - here and there. He was all over the scene and swinging the microphone like a lasso above his head whilst head bangin’. Unfortuately cameras were not allowed in the venue. I did not manage to capture the event but never mind because I have it imprinted in my memory.. At one point Sebastian Bach stood up and said to a man in the front row “Dude… do you wanna take a photo? C’mon take a photo…What do you mean no mobile phones, no cameras? It’s 2007 for f@ck sake, who cares - here take a photo..There no harm done”…. At that point he captured the people’s admiration - the people just loved him. True to ROCK he was and is. He defied the show’s emposed ban on cameras because of digital rights and greater more he defies the US Army’s Drafting System as a Dad protecting his 19yo son….and the mass just applauded him. The crowd started shouting “NO MORE WAR” repeatedly - Now that is absolute ROCK!!! And of course in a true Sebastian Bach fashion he sang some of my faves such as “YOUTH GONE WILD, MONKEY BUSINESS, 18 AND LIFE, PIECE OF ME and I REMEMBER YOU”… The night took me 15 years back in time… Back to when I was 17 when my sister gave me a shirt with his photo printed on the front and on the left chest was written “SKID ROW”. I have to thank my sister for that again.. Sebastian Bach and his band could play all night and I would not mind at all if they did.
Then at 11:55pm….
After almost an hour’s break from experiencing hard rock frequency blistering through my ears, the lights went off. The speakers thumped and every strand of hair on my body just felt the intensity of the drums reverberating through the giant speakers… The crowd began to chant “Guns and Roses” repeatedly… With massive on-stage fireworks, one of rock world’s most unforgettable bands came out.
The stage background was draped with GNR but written to resemble like Chinese characters. They were promoting their album Chinese Democracy. Axl Rose, the only original member left, came out screeching into the crowd with “WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE”… At that point, I forgotten about whatever happened to the original GN’R… This time it was about the performance and the music and not about who or who was. Just forget about what you read on the internet discussions. They are just moaning because their sorry asses are sitting at home and have not been to a GN’R live gig recently and has not personally seen Axl Rose sing again (probably the sorry asses could not afford it)… The true test of an artist is a live concert in front of a massive crowd…. If you like the music GO and SEE the CONCERT! His voice sounds almost the same as it was 15 years ago. They sang and played classic Gunners such as SWEET CHILD O’ MINE, NOVEMBER RAIN, KNOCKIN ON HEAVEN’S DOOR, YOU COULD BE MINE, MR BROWNSTONE, MY MICHELLE and OUT TA GET ME…
And yes, the crowd sang DON’T CRY whilst being played as a guitar solo…
And yes again the crowd whistled to the intro of PATIENCE and sang along…
Every now and then the stage was erupting like a volcano as five mushroom clounds of fire of about 1.5 meter diameter belched behind the band and vanishing at about 5 meters up in the air. It was like hell (as I imagined it to be) but in a good way…The fire went on and on… The lights were intense and so were the mosh pits from where I was. Axl, played the piano and stood on it as well. He called on Angry Anderson back and also Sebastian Bach on separate songs. He sang a couple of songs from Aussie legends like INXS and AC/DC… Definetely there was an encore and it was madness when he sang PARADISE CITY. Absolutely the night (24.06.2007) took us there….And the city - Sydney!
I went home at half-past three and went to work at six of that same morning. I had the balls for not having a day off because I had an amazing time. And the first thing I did when I got home from work was grab my guitar, plugged it and had my headphones near to full blast and went 12-15-14-12-15-14-14-14 (you can easily guess what song it was)….
… AND THE FEELING WAS BLOODY GREAT!!!
…. OH and YEAH you can admire my shirt on top of that, HUH!!!
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