My Tulsa review...

[Falcon]

can be found here:

http://www.belowempty.com/vr/concerts/2004/041019_TulsaOK.php

[metallex78]

Cool review, but why does the band play such short sets? Especially when they could easily throw in a few more Contraband, GN'R or STP tunes.
To play for just 1 hour would leave you feeling a little ripped off wouldn't it?

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Falcon sez:

They looked like a rock band should look, sounded heavy as hell with great sense of urgency about them

now what if they hadn't looked 'as a rock band should'... would you have liked the show less?

Anyway, glad you had a good time.     

I assume they didnt play a longer set because this was a festival and hence they had to fit their set within a time slot.

[Falcon]

now what if they hadn't looked 'as a rock band should'... would you have liked the show less?

Good question.? I do enjoy the "look" presented by a rock band in a live setting and a less is more
approach to a stage set.? ?So, maybe I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much if they'd come out with matching 3 piece suits and fedoras.

I assume they didnt play a longer set because this was a festival and hence they had to fit their set within a time slot.

That's exactly right.

[jarmo]

I thought headliners get around 90 minutes. 




/jarmo

[W. Botaxl Rose]

For the life of me I don't understand why they include Dirty Little Thing in their sets right now? I know there's a little keyboard action in it, but I don't think it would be missed too much live. Come on Slash, show off a little!

[Falcon]

I thought headliners get around 90 minutes.?




/jarmo

They were scheduled to play from 9:45-11:00.

[Falcon]

Concert Review: Velvet Revolver
By MATT GLEASON World Scene Writer
10/21/2004



Velvet Revolver shoots from the hip on festival bill

You could almost smell the pheromones emanating from Velvet Revolver front man Scott Weiland on Tuesday night at the annual outdoor concert, Edgefest.

Actually, Weiland was so "in the mood" he even asked the crowd if it wanted to fornicate. Of course, he used a shorter f-word.

Throughout the show, the former Stone Temple Pilots' singer slithered around, his groin always at center stage, looking like a man whose heart was a disco ball, and who couldn't help but preen to his own beat.

Clad in ebony, skin-clinging pants and an official-looking cap atop his head, Weiland looked like one of the Village People.

As he whirled about and struck many a pose, it was like watching Mick Jagger or Iggy Pop in his glory days. To say the least, he was mesmerizing.

If it weren't for Weiland having to share the stage with Guns N' Roses alum lead guitar slinger Slash -- plus other GNR alums, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum, and Wasted Youth's Dave Kushner -- Weiland would have stolen the show.

Slash looked, as he always has, otherwordly. It was as if he had been sent from a planet whose residents have a symbiotic relationship with Les Pauls? ?
 
and tend to hide behind their black, curly locks grown thick like they were a hunter's blind.

From the crowd, it seemed as if Slash hasn't aged much since his GNR days. Perhaps, like Dorian Gray, Slash keeps a painting of Axl Rose backstage that does the aging for him.

When he finally donned his signature top hat towards the end of the show, it was like seeing Superman putting on his cape.

The music VR created had everything one could want. Weiland did his best to make people forget about Axl, and Slash did his best to remind people of his GNR-era guitar superheroics as he played his six-stringed musical lover with its neck cast skyward.

The set list mostly stuck to cuts from VR's hit, debut album "Contraband," such as the Bic-flipping-worthy ballad "Fall to Pieces" and the Stone Temple Pilots-esque rocker "Slither."

But let's be honest here, one doesn't go to a VR show just wanting to hear its original material.

A handful of songs into the show, an appetite for classic GNR and STP covers arose that probably had others drooling in anticipation, too.

It's a tricky situation for the band, though, because even though it's a supergroup, VR doesn't want to pander to the audience and become a traveling juke box. So the band kept the covers to a minimum, performing much-lauded versions of GNR's "It's So Easy" and STP's "Sex Type Thing."

Weiland closed out the latter song chanting "Here I come, I come, I come . . ." through his bull horn, and then punctuated it with an unholy squall before letting the horn's siren pierce the cold air. (Given Weiland's past, one wouldn't figure he'd much like sirens anymore.)

Really, the only complaint was the band played for about an hour and then headed off stage, never to return. It's funny, one has become so accustomed to the mandatory encore that it's taken for granted, so when the realization hit that the show was actually over, one felt a bit jilted.

As a side note, Weiland had to play the role of sheriff of the wild, wild Edgefest, offering a reward -- five backstage passes and VR merch -- to anyone who turned in the shoe-throwing culprit that so enraged the band.

I'm glad it wasn't my shoe. Slash and the boys looked mighty peeved.

[Doc Emmett Brown]

From the crowd, it seemed as if Slash hasn't aged much since his GNR days. Perhaps, like Dorian Gray, Slash keeps a painting of Axl Rose backstage that does the aging for him.

what an odd statement... it's meant to be a diss at Axl but likening Slash to Dorian Gray is no compliment either. 

I'd like to know - how do you compare the Distiller's performance with that of VR? (edgy young band vs. old experienced band). Which was better?

[Falcon]

I'd like to know - how do you compare the Distiller's performance with that of VR? (edgy young band vs. old experienced band). Which was better?

I was looking forward to The Distillers as much (or more) than I was VR and unfortunately, they cancelled.

[Cocaine__tongue]

I thought headliners get around 90 minutes.?




/jarmo

Besides this is a festival and normally the leading act plays a longer set, do you think the set list will be longer for the fall tour?. 'cause i certainly would feel ripped off if I went to see them and they'd play an hour set list.

[jarmo]

I really hope they don't play the same set they had in the summer.




/jarmo

[metallex78]

I thought headliners get around 90 minutes.?

/jarmo

Besides this is a festival and normally the leading act plays a longer set, do you think the set list will be longer for the fall tour?. 'cause i certainly would feel ripped off if I went to see them and they'd play an hour set list.

I hope so too, I mean not only are there more songs from Contraband that they could play, but they also have a bunch of STP and GN'R songs they could play as well.

I'd love to see a setlist with all of CB's songs plus Brownstone, It's So Easy, Used To Love Her, Crackerman, Sex Type Thing, Interstate Love Song (their acoustic version was great!) and that could easily fill 1-2 hours.

[Falcon]

The sets I saw were a bit different, no "Spectacle" or "Superhuman" when I saw them in Kansas City on their initial tour, both songs of which were featured in the festival set I saw them perform last week in Tulsa.

I really don't see them doing any hour and half/2 hour sets any time soon, especially on the radio fest circuit.  Set up time between bands hardly ever goes smoothly and curfews come into play as well. 

Even when the radio shows are done, I doubt we'll see anything over 14-15 tunes...

[Dayle1066]

They played for a hour n a half in manchester in september i think thats just there festival set

[Ignatius]

No Surrender!! that sucks. I can't wait to hear that song.

Did the band interact a lot with the crowd? Does Scott do all the talking-rambling-ranting or does Slash help out?

[Falcon]

Did the band interact a lot with the crowd? Does Scott do all the talking-rambling-ranting or does Slash help out?

Scott had plenty to say to the crowd, he declared himself the "MC" of the evening, lots of banter during the set.

Slash only spoke when someone threw a shoe on stage and Duff followed up with "Don't piss Slash off".? Matt came off the riser at the end and thanked tulsa for a great night.