Review: Rock Star Supernova fails to impress at Las Vegas opening

[FunkyMonkey]

Neil Davidson of the Canadian Press reports:

The reality TV show is over for ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA. Now there's just the reality of turning a made-for-TV group into a real rock band.

And judging from the foursome's opening show New Year's Eve, there's plenty of work left to do.

Led by Toronto singer Lukas Rossi, SUPERNOVA delivered a wildly uneven show before some 2,000 at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

SUPERNOVA chugged through the show like a car on its last legs, occasionally speeding up only to lose power and fall back. It was one step forward and two back for most of the eighty-minute, 13-song performance that started at 11:20 p.m. after a performance by opening act LUNA HALO, a fivesome from Nashville.

The band's musical hiccups weren't helped by a sophomoric "Girls Gone Wild" mentality throughout the show, with drummer Tommy Lee digging into the M?TLEY CR?E vault for the "titty-cam" to encourage women in the audience to bare their breasts for the big screen.

No stranger to using a camcorder, Lee should know better.

And any style points the band received for using a four-woman string section for three songs were lost by the decision to have two dancers in lingerie, denim chaps and boots gyrate on several others. All that was missing was the pole, but it's early days on tour.

Rossi was welcomed by a vocal Canadian contingent, with Maple Leaf flags and at least one Leafs jersey with the name Rossi stitched on the back.

All of them must have cringed when guitarist Gilby Clarke introduced Rossi "from the great state of Toronto, Canada."

Read the rest of the article here:  http://www.570news.com/news/entertainment/article.jsp?content=e010102A

[tomass74]

That is a shocker.. That whole thing was a joke from the beginning.....

[Robman?]

Thats pretty sad, it will suck for them if the critics turn against them. 

[bigbri]

Thats pretty sad, it will suck for them if the critics turn against them.?

Well, if they are shit, they're shit. Sucks for them, yeah, but get a singer the old-fashioned way, not from reality TV. I saw some of their NYE show on CD USA, and it was not impressive at all. It definitely would not make me go out to buy the CD. Or even download it.

[FunkyMonkey]

The other side of the coin...

Rossi generally pleased with Rockstar Supernova debut
Thu, January 4, 2007

By JANE STEVENSON, SUN MEDIA

LAS VEGAS -- Toronto's Lukas Rossi says he can breathe a major sigh of relief now that he's performed the first Rockstar Supernova concert, which was on New Year's Eve in Sin City.

"It's just a feeling of accomplishment," the 30-year-old singer said after the North American tour launch at the Joint in the Hard Rock Cafe. "It's good to get it under your belt. It's kind of like, 'Well, we went through all this, we can only go up from here,' you know what I'm saying? I think the band gave it 110 per cent. I think we just brought it as best we could, man. And it's going to get better. This is the first show of the tour, so it's taking baby steps."

Rossi, seated on a couch in the Joint's second-floor, candle-lit dressing room of his Rockstar Supernova bandmates guitarist Gilby Clarke and bassist Johnny Colt sipped on a soda and seemed generally pleased with his opening-night performance, despite some room for improvement.

For example, Rossi stopped and restarted the band's show-ending cover of the Rolling Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together because he wanted the crowd's response to be louder. What he didn't realize at the time was that his voice was being drowned out in the mix and the audience couldn't hear him.

"There's glitches here and there," Rossi said. "Hills and valleys, man, and we hit a couple of valleys (Sunday) night, but the best thing about falling down is getting up again and you've got to do it really quickly."

Rossi said Rockstar Supernova, rounded out by Tommy Lee of Motley Crue on drums, had only about two weeks of rehearsal before the New Year's Eve launch.

A North American tour wraps up at the end of February with dates following in Australia and rumours of a more extensive Canadian tour.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/ThursdayTicket/2007/01/04/3155497-sun.html

[Robman?]

Thats pretty sad, it will suck for them if the critics turn against them. 

Well, if they are shit, they're shit. Sucks for them, yeah, but get a singer the old-fashioned way, not from reality TV. I saw some of their NYE show on CD USA, and it was not impressive at all. It definitely would not make me go out to buy the CD. Or even download it.

Yeah, i haven't even bothered buying the CD, or downloading it either.

[Groovie In VT]

Actually before the show at The Joint they played the Freemont Street Experience New Years Eve show , they played about 5 songs and went over well with the crowd. I shot some pics and video from there. You can see some of the pics on this page.  http://www.outsidegroove.com/Vegas/vegas.htm

I am looking for a host for the video as its quite large in size, I will let you know when I find a place. I got some decent Gilby footage, a bit shakey but hey, the drinks are cheap in Vegas.... and BIG! LOL!