St. Louis Review

[DizzyReed63]

Here's my story:
Got to venue at 5:15, waited in line to get in until 7:10.
Got in... got a spot infront of Slash's area... turns out to be the perfect spot...

Few styles of shirts for sale, black with a siloutte thing of a naked chick, holding a gun, cities of tour on back.

Opening band was pretty good. Played quick 30 min set... rockin, sounded like Black Crowes.

Then the wait was on...
Took about an hour before VR went on... people were getting restless... visions of Philly were going thru my head.

Then it was time... around 9:30, "what's up fuckers.... from hollywood, Velvet Revolver..."

They just kinda walk out on stage, and bust into the new tunes...
Weiland crowd surfs... he comes out wearing black leather pants, black shirt w/ vest, sunglasses, and black leather cop hat.
Slash has on some black shirt, black leather pants. Duff has orangish shirt on. Matt was mostly shirtless i think.
By the end, they all were shirtless, and Slash wore his hat for the final song.

While surfing, Weiland loses his ear monitor, and when they can't find the little pieces he needs, "I guess that comes w/ the territory" so he was coo about it..

They suddenly busted into It's So Easy, and f'n rocked it.
Then they played Set Me Free, and rocked the hell outofit. Then Slither, and Slash played the entire song/solo right infront of me... literally about 2-3 feet away, teasing us with the neck of his guitar.
He also threw a cig. butt and it hit a sec. guard.. good stuff.

During a solo for a new song, Slash started playing Rocket Queen, but then went back to the song.
All the new songs had great solos.. one sounded like the intro to Attitude... another similar to You're Crazy.
Fallin' To Pieces was slow, intro like Patience...

Duff and Slash would roam around... infront of me, and the other side. I had the f'n perfect place. My friend behind me dancing, a very hot chick, probably helped the fact that they always were right there in front of me.

Duff said something like, "we haven't been in St. Louis in a long time, great to be back.." somethin like that.
The vocals were very low in the mix i thought. Hard to hear.

Weiland described Fallin to Pieces as a song about putting his life back together.
Some speech about American Rock n Roll.
He crowd surfed during a song, and still sung while in the hands of the crowd.. that rocked.

During So Easy... he jumped in at "Fuck Off" and it was nuts!
He also said somethin like, "get a good look at this... this may be the last time you see us like this"

They ended the first set w/ Slither. Seemed quick.
Then they came back and Slash alone said, "you may know this one"
Used to Love Her... and the rest of the band finally joined in. Everyone sung along.
Then they played STP Sex Type Thing.. ROCKED. F'n Highlight of the night i thought... VR plays it 10 times better than STP... amazing performance. Again Slash extended soloing 2 feet from my face. Mesmerizing.

Then they went off stage again. Then they came back, and Matt came alone. He started bustin' out the Brownstone Drums... then the band came out.
People were reaching for Duff's bass guitar while he was infront of us... and beggin for a hand shake... then one time, Duff shouted... "I can't, I gotta play" or something like.. it was funny.

Then Weiland said if someone could give him his monitor piece, he'd give them free tix and a backstage pass to the show in KC tomorrow...  they found one piece of it.. not the other.. the whole band was helping to look.. was funny.

Then they busted into the Nirvana cover, and played the fuck out of it...
Slash ended by laying his guitar during feedback infront of his Marshalls.
Chucked some stuff out... I couldn't catch any.
And that was it.
Cool t-shirts for sale outside. Old guns logo kinda... without the roses.. the circle kind.

Well worth the 20 bucks admission.
Great opening night...
few miscues...
Weiland's megaphone wouldnt work once, so he slammed it down, got the other one.
Weiland fucked up the lyrics in Brownstone, and started singing verse 1 during the final verse, and got himself confused... shaky for just a second.
Matt's gong wouldn't work, so he just started banging it over and over and laughing.

Weiland looked like Iggy Pop on dope. But he rocks, and slithers around like a snake.. had convulsions during the STP cover... flailing on the ground.
The rest of the band looks fucking ripped. Seeing Duff/Slash together in that stage light was amazing.

Some offical photographers and film people were also there.

Played about 2hrs flat. 2 encores... same setlist as Roxy, but diff. order I think.

No words about Axl or GnR at all. Hardly any talk. Just rockin.
Slash played great on the talk box once.

Great great great show. Great seats that I fought for.
Never thought I'd get that close to the slash/duff action.

It's late. I'm out. Thought I'd write this up b4 I turned out.
And for those w/ out tix.. lots were tryin to sell their extra tix, for face value. So give it a shot if u missed out on the sale.

[eNgIeS]

Sounds awesome thanks for the quick review & glad you enjoyed it

[jarmo]

Thanks for the review!




/jarmo

[starchild_666]

why everyone is only mentioning SLither and Fall To Pieces from all the new songs?  

[Booker Floyd]

Thanks a lot for the review...sounds great as expected.

why everyone is only mentioning SLither and Fall To Pieces from all the new songs?  

Hopefully Falcon will have a detailed report tomorrow night...  

[Mikkamakka]

why everyone is only mentioning SLither and Fall To Pieces from all the new songs?  

Because they don't know the song titles?

[tomass74]

Can I say wow...... 15 days till my show...... Cannot fucking wait... That sounded insane. I really hope they are working up to play Rocket Queen...

[killingvector]

i hope they don't play any more old gnr songs. ISO, Brownstone, and Used to Love Her are enough.

[Evil Ash]

C'mon people, the MUST be a bootleg of this show ?!?!

[Walapino]

i hope they don't play any more old gnr songs. ISO, Brownstone, and Used to Love Her are enough.

I agree that 3 is a good number for GNR covers in the shows but a bit of rotation would be nice. They should play diff GNR covers from time to time. I think it would be more exiting, specially to get the boots  

[starchild_666]

i hope they don't play any more old gnr songs. ISO, Brownstone, and Used to Love Her are enough.

I agree that 3 is a good number for GNR covers in the shows but a bit of rotation would be nice. They should play diff GNR covers from time to time. I think it would be more exiting, specially to get the boots  

I agree  

[DizzyReed63]

Forgot to post...
For one new song, Slash said it was one we'd never heard, cuz they just made it or something...

I thought the cover rotation was good. The meat of the show was the new album. Then the encores were the covers.

Security was pretty tight up front. And they wouldn't allow cameras and felt people up.
but every venue will be different.

With the new songs, they were all rockers, so it was hard to figure out what was what. Fallin' to Pieces is the only one that sounds different, cuz it's slow.

My fav new song was the opening one...
The songs felt like straight up rockers, with killer solos.
Set me Free was also an extended jam.

[Funeral]

Thanks for the review Dizzy

-F

[W. Botaxl Rose]

Great report Dizzy!

It's now going to be an even longer two days before i get to see my Minny show.  

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Forgot to post...
With the new songs, they were all rockers, so it was hard to figure out what was what. Fallin' to Pieces is the only one that sounds different, cuz it's slow.

Thanks DizzyReed!

um.. so they didnt play You Got No Right?     I guess they dont want to overdose on the slow songs or something.

[DizzyReed63]

Hey random,

Yeah, the only slow new song I remember was Fallin' to Pieces.
But I may be wrong... all the new ones kinda blended together for me, cuz w/ out hearing the album, i had no frame of reference.

That's the only negative thing, no telling what the new stuff is. But it's all just in your face, straight-up rock. Classic Slash riffs.

[axls#2]

here is a review from one of the local papers.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/Concert/DA5BF26C0D79F70586256E9400596B79?OpenDocument&Headline=Stone+Temple+Axl+who%3F+Velvet+Revolver+hits+target

[Top-Hatted One]

maybe they are not going to play the other 2 new songs until the album is out. Like they did with Nov Rain. it's was only debuted in May of 91 in Indiana

[Ignatius]

The tickets were just 20 bucks??

I wonder what Scott meant when he said " this is the last time you'll see us like  this"

Anyway, cool. Thx for the reviews...you guys keep them coming. It might be a while until they come to Europe.

[jarmo]

maybe they are not going to play the other 2 new songs until the album is out. Like they did with Nov Rain. it's was only debuted in May of 91 in Indiana

Huh?  

The UYI albums were released in September 1991 so when they debuted November Rain in May, the albums were not out yet.


/jarmo