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Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
It could be worse...
He could be telling you to shut the fuck up, ask you about reading Rolling Stone, telling Kurt Cobain, Warren Beatty, Bon Jovi, the police, his mother, the caterer to fuck off...
There was one guy that did that... name escapes me...
Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
lol
I'll have to make sure I check out Stone Sour then. I've never really listened to much Slipknot nor seen Corey as a frontman so I will have to have a look.
I'm pumped to see Slash again tho!
Metallex I read you guys were ripped off and Slayer didn't play, how did that go over with the crowd when it was announced?
- metallex78
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Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
It could be worse...
He could be telling you to shut the fuck up, ask you about reading Rolling Stone, telling Kurt Cobain, Warren Beatty, Bon Jovi, the police, his mother, the caterer to fuck off...
There was one guy that did that... name escapes me...
Hahaha True
But at least Axl is genuine, even when he went into his rants, and part of that nuttiness is what makes Axl great.
Corey was nothing like that. Corey could go into a rant and it would just come off as try hard. Still can't believe he brought up his hair looking dorky... 
- metallex78
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Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
love the new Stone sour album...its pretty bad ass if you ask me
i;ve never seen stone sour though so i cant comment on his stage presence
Yeah, I have no complaints about what I heard musically, and I think I'll check out their new album too.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
Bought some stone sour off itunes. Corey's singing voice is awesome.
- metallex78
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Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
Metallex I read you guys were ripped off and Slayer didn't play, how did that go over with the crowd when it was announced?
Yeah, everyone from the main arena pretty much left after Slash finished to go watch Slayer at the other stage. We waited 20 minutes for them to come out, and then the announcement was made that their singer fell ill a couple of hours earlier in hospital and the band wouldn't be playing.
I'm not really a Slayer fan, so I wasn't too fussed, but people started booing and throwing bottles at the stage, which I thought was out of line - the singer was in hospital - give him a break!
Only thing that sucked was the event organisers waiting so long to make the announcement to the crowd. I thought a riot would start, so I got out of their pretty quickly.
What they should've done too, is bump up one of the other bands to play for longer. From what I hear, Rob Zombie who was following after him, even came out late. That's really bad organising!
- monkeychow
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Re: Slash @ Soundwave Festival Australia!
So checked out soundawave in melbourne last night.
Here's the line up I checked out...
Monster Magnet
Bullet for My Valentine
Stone Sour
Primus
Thirty Seconds to Mars (sort of - was queing at the fence for slash but could hear them at the stage next to us)
SLASH
combination of Slayer / Rob Zombie / Food/ Beer Break
Iron Maiden
This was my first exposure to Stone Sour, and I think he must have read metalalex's review because he didn't seem to be talking much between songs at all yesterday - except for the ocasional "this is on our first album" type comment. I didn't know the songs but they sounded a pretty bad ass mix of heavy in places but still musical and quiet in others. Definately going to check some of their material now.
So anyway onto the slash part. Was pretty funny waiting for slash. After stone sour I pretty much started woking my way to the front during primus and so on. Eventually got right next to the rail for slash. Anyway they had 2 stages side by side - with each act on one - then the next act on the other. So there's a lot of us basicly lined up for Slash while 30 seconds to mars are playing beside us. Was kinda of bizzare cos there's a mosh going on over there...and then our whole crowd was basicly heckling them the whole time. Calling for slash - insulting the 30 seconds and so on. Very childish really, but you sort of had to laugh in a purile way at times...as the 30 secs singer has this habbit of stopping every song mid way and interacting with the crowed like "is the guy with the pink hair jumping? Grab his balls if he doesn't jump" and like "who knows the words? Who wants up on stage?" and so on - and everytime he went silent for some interaction you'd get two sounds - the first are their fans playing along - then the second was the rest of the crowd going "fuck off..." etc. Like i said - disrespectful and lame really - but as a dude who doesn't really get 30 seconds of mars - it was also pretty damn funny and sort of happy making that people were calling for an old school rocker like slash.
So onto the set. This is the 8th time i've seen slash overall and he still doesn't disappoint. There's just something about the guy. He's just got that X factor. Very watchable and a motherfucker of a player. I will say this gig actually got a little un-fun this time for me because of the crowd. I'd got right to the front which was great - but there was a lot of drunkenness and the moshing/pushing/trampling/crowd surfing got a little out of hand. It's such a fine line. I mean obviously for the peformer there's nothing better than poeple going nuts. And when you are in the audinece it's good to go nuts and frustrating at shows where no one seems excited. But then there also comes a point where the pushing and shoving elment gets to a stage where you have to stop listening/watching the band because you are literally fghting to stay standing and not be trampled, or when you cop one too many kicks to the back of the head from someone crowed surfing behind you. So yeah...i'm glad it was a bunch of hardcore fuckers going nuts. And call me a pussy if you will. But it also was getting to the point where you just get hurt to an extent that it interferes with the enjoyment of the set. I always have this dilemma...as there's nothing like being as close as you get at the front, but then again - the back is a more relaxed experience. So i tend to do a bit of each depending on which gigs I can get close enough and my mood each day. Like how old i'm feeling hahah.
Anyway....aside from the insane drunken audience....great show as usual from slash. Killer fucking playing the guy is on fire at the moment, and he also seems to get a little bit more buff every time I see him.
Myles was also great. I know he doesnt have a lot of fans on this forum...but i think he's starting to settle into the GNR tracks more. Obviously he's not Axl - but he manages to pull off most of the tracks from VR/Snakepit/Solo as well as tollerable GNR covers...which is not at all an easy thing to do.
Setlist...well I can't remember perfectly cos I was getting the fuck beaten out of me. I remember:
Ghost
Mean Bone
Back from Cali
Nighttrain
My Michelle
Nothing to Say
Sweet Child of Mine
Slither
Paradise City
Might be more that i'm not remembering...but it was a pretty quick show cos of the time slot.
Anyway...overall kickass show - probably would have enjoyed it more if i was tougher and less of a shortman pussified dude...so that I could hold my own at the front better. But it was very atmospheric despite the violence.
The short set was a necessary evil due to the nature of the show, but did make me nostalgic for gigs like that MTV gig I was lucky to go to where slash played like double this length at least.
Anyway, I remember recently bumble was saying about how there's "and" people and "or" people. I'm definately an "And" person. I recently went to adeliade and enjoyed the shit out of the new GNR....and yesterday I saw Slash and enjoyed the hell out of that. It saddens me that more people don't see how amazing all these people are and get lost in the politics.
So yeah, i've said it before but i'll add again, if you're reading this and get a chance to see slash at a solo show near you, i'd really recommend going, he really is one of those one-in-his-generation dudes I think.
