Every cowboy has a sad, sad song
Aug. 21st, 2008 10:56 amSo, Bemo got some leftover free tickets from the radio station, so we spent last night at a Poison concert, with Sebastian Bach opening for them. It was super loud, super cheesy, and I think I may have lost a good 10% of my hearing! I'm walking around today feeling like my head is underwater, but that's what happens when they have the drums up so loud that your CHEST VIBRATES and you can feel your jeans twitch every time the drummer stomps on the kick drum pedal.
Sebastian Bach was actually the most cheesy - kinda overeager to please. And he kept name-checking our city every two seconds: "I can't hear you LINCOLN NEBRASKA! Are you rocking tonight, LINCOLN NEBRASKA? Put your hands in the air LINCOLN NEBRASKA!" I figure he had it written on the inside of his wrist and just got a little over-excited. Plus, if he played "18 and Life" we missed it, and "Youth Gone Wild" just doesn't hold up, especially when Bach apparently has it tattooed on his elbow? And was cuing us to sing along by pointing at his elbow repeatedly?
Poison brought it - fireballs we could feel all the way back where we were standing, and confetti and a shower curtain of sparks and a big video screen and the works. There were a lot of really young kids in the audience - all there, it seemed, because they were fans of Bret Michael's reality show. And apparently his two sisters live outside of Omaha, so he has a fondness for the state.
Alas, no 40-year-old women attended in neon spandex and teased hair, because that would have been TOTALLY AWESOME. In fact, like I said, most of the crowd was too young to have seen them back in their day. Bret took two long breaks while CC and then the drummer did big masturbatory solo thingies, which lead me to wonder if his voice was not up to a full show. He also talked a lot between songs - about being happy to spend 22 years doing what they love, and the fans are great, and Go America, and We Love Our Soldiers, and Dreams Can Come True, yadda yadda. But they played all their hits (OMG I forgot "Unskinny Bop" was theirs - I frickin' love that song! I danced! I shook my booty! I put my hand in the air and went WOO!) and people put up lighters and cell phones and swayed back and forth to "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" so I guess a good time was had by all. And I lost my wager with Bemo - CC DeVille didn't look too corpse-like.
Sebastian Bach was actually the most cheesy - kinda overeager to please. And he kept name-checking our city every two seconds: "I can't hear you LINCOLN NEBRASKA! Are you rocking tonight, LINCOLN NEBRASKA? Put your hands in the air LINCOLN NEBRASKA!" I figure he had it written on the inside of his wrist and just got a little over-excited. Plus, if he played "18 and Life" we missed it, and "Youth Gone Wild" just doesn't hold up, especially when Bach apparently has it tattooed on his elbow? And was cuing us to sing along by pointing at his elbow repeatedly?
Poison brought it - fireballs we could feel all the way back where we were standing, and confetti and a shower curtain of sparks and a big video screen and the works. There were a lot of really young kids in the audience - all there, it seemed, because they were fans of Bret Michael's reality show. And apparently his two sisters live outside of Omaha, so he has a fondness for the state.
Alas, no 40-year-old women attended in neon spandex and teased hair, because that would have been TOTALLY AWESOME. In fact, like I said, most of the crowd was too young to have seen them back in their day. Bret took two long breaks while CC and then the drummer did big masturbatory solo thingies, which lead me to wonder if his voice was not up to a full show. He also talked a lot between songs - about being happy to spend 22 years doing what they love, and the fans are great, and Go America, and We Love Our Soldiers, and Dreams Can Come True, yadda yadda. But they played all their hits (OMG I forgot "Unskinny Bop" was theirs - I frickin' love that song! I danced! I shook my booty! I put my hand in the air and went WOO!) and people put up lighters and cell phones and swayed back and forth to "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" so I guess a good time was had by all. And I lost my wager with Bemo - CC DeVille didn't look too corpse-like.