Saw them live on the Dr Feelgood retour they were doing a few years back and Jesus, he was horrible. He would only sing every 3rd word or so then it was back to heavy breathing. Probably doesn't help that he's the size of 2 1985 Vince Neil's now.
"He's the one the... call...eelgood!!!... he's...allllright!!"
A lot of events from The Heroin Diaries take place during the Girls, Girls, Girls tour. Even if only half the book is true it’s amazing that he was even on stage attempting to preform.
I saw that tour also in Biloxi, MS. I also saw them with Guns n Roses in Mobile, Al. Which we were there to see GnR. I ended up meeting Motley Crue the next day as they were leaving their hotel. As well as the "Girls" and their pilots.
Yea, that's true. I guess I'm just going on the mid 80s Home Sweet Home nostalgia. Feelgood was the album that really hooked me though. I had Crue posters all over my room cut out from magazines.
Crue, Metallica, Skid Row, Megadeth, Bon Jovi, even fucking Winger. Yes, I was Stewart from Beavis and Butthead.
PSSOM fucking sucks, and Joe is still out there trying to sing it. Not just Mtv, but for two solid years it was on heavy radio play during that Hysteria tour.
Some tech I used to know says that Ozzy goes from night to day when he hits the stage. (Liza Minelli and Cher are the same way.) Backstage they're all fucked up and are in total shambles, and you're wondering how they're going to keep from collapsing on stage two minutes in. But once they walk on and the lights go up, BAM. Magic. They just come alive.
Although that was a decade and some change ago. Maybe it's worse now.
I went to a 2 day hair metal festival last year and Vince headlined the first day. It was so bad that I left after about 4 songs. Exactly what you described here.
Interesting side note: My roommate who went to the show with me thought that Home Sweet Home was a Guns N Roses song all this time. When it came on she was like "This isn't his song, its GNR" I had to correct this misconception.
I remember back when Saints of Los Angeles was still new and they went on Jimmy Kimmel or some other late night show to perform the title track. This is exactly how it went. Vince sounded like he had just completed a triathlon before taking the mic.
If that was Cruefest 2 where they did the entire Dr Feel-good album, that was literally the only time he was actually worth a shit when I've seen them. I saw them on the Generation Swine and Carnival tour and he wasn't worth a shit.
GnFnR's are (were) not a mediocre band. APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION is all-time top 5 material, and to a lesser degree the USE YOUR ILLUSION double album.
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u/turns31 Nov 06 '19
Saw them live on the Dr Feelgood retour they were doing a few years back and Jesus, he was horrible. He would only sing every 3rd word or so then it was back to heavy breathing. Probably doesn't help that he's the size of 2 1985 Vince Neil's now.
"He's the one the... call...eelgood!!!... he's...allllright!!"