AeroForce 2 "Deuces are Wild" show reviews!
Apr 10, 2019 22:13:24 GMT -5
AeroCooper, HATTAH, and 6 more like this
Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 22:13:24 GMT -5
IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE SHOW AND DO NOT WANT SPOILERS ON THE SET AND THE OVERALL SHOW BUT ARE CURIOUS ABOUT MY THOUGHTS DO NOT GO FURTHER THAN THE NEXT SENTENCE OF THE REVIEW. I LIKED THE SHOW A LOT EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE SOME FUCKUPS. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE CONTINUE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
"Somebody keeps stepping on my note. Okay, we're going to do this until we get it fuckin' right, ready? 'Love in An Elevaaytaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh fuck it.'"
Arms raised in incredulence as Steven looks to Joey for the fact that he missed his cue. Joey looks like "what the fuck do you want me to do about it?" Then the above mentioned lined happened.
I don't want to say that summed up the night. It was a great fuckin' night. The guys played hard. Like a lot have said here, they may play the same songs a lot, but they play them damn well. The night started out okayish. Nothing on their end was wrong. The crowd was wrong. I was just up off of the place where they sit at the tables and drink. And I was surrounded by an interesting group and no one stands. Not one of them. I was the lone stander (not really, made Jason stand too) in my little section of people around me for most of the show. It's just not in me to sit at a concert unless its a concerto. There was the whooo girl behind me that could hold that whoo for at least an eight count and she did not lose strength in her voice at all through out the night. She was the least of the worries. There were a bunch of yuppies that must of gotten tickets on a whim at the casino in front of me. The young one who looked a lot like Geoff from the Goldbergs was explaining Aerosmith to his 75 year old dad/granddad as that band that does that song about closing your eyes and falling asleep but not missing anything, what's the name of it? I really could not believe it and truly wish I was making that up. Next to me was a early 60s guy having a great time with a 19 year on his shoulder who looked like she wished she could be anywhere else but there. Soon joined by a 40s guy with the most pornstache mustache I've ever seen. He was awesome. He was at the show opening night and griped a bit about the set being the same but seemed to enjoy himself. The video started and no one paid any attention to it at all. if I can figure out how to upload photos I have some shots from the performers
During the video which was pretty much the inside flap of the book that comes with Pandora's Box down to Slash's word for word Aerosmith testimony about discovering them through Rocks and Hetfield telling the story of his mom painting him as Steven and as Joe on his wall. Some of the clips of the songs were interesting. No More No More sounded like it was taken from a live performance as did the clip of Movin' Out. The artwork and photos were great to look at. To the casual concert goer it did a great job of introducing them to the band with about as much info as they could've gotten if they picked up the autobiography Walk this Way and gave the first six chapters or so a quick glance. The sound system is fucking incredible whoever it was that asked about it. I am not a technical guy in the least so unfortunately I am the last guy to give you details on it, but it was awesome. The effects were incredible also. They put some dough into this. The performers were dressed as some of the circus performers from Jaded, the Nine Lives Cat, the sexy Robot girl from Just Push Play, and they traversed the crowd and stage until the band came on.
The band. The buildup to the band coming on stage was awesome. Train was off the hook. Steven missed a mic grab once and had to snag the mic by a scarf before it hit the stage but that was it. They killed it. Next up Mama Kin. They did the full intro and the sax was reintroduced with it's full solo. The extended jam was removed which i was a little disappointed by, but that's okay because next we had Saddle. Saddle was awesome. It's kinda apparent that Steven's screams are really buffed up by the sound system and the female backup singer and the keyboardist. Tom hits the end of the catwalk and starts that solo to Sweet Emotion and for some reason the reality of the situation for this band hits me and at this moment I am teary eyed looking at Tom nail this solo like he does every night. They've had one helluva journey and Tom looks like a worn warrior out there at the end of the stage his fingers flying over that bass. It was a moment for sure. The song goes well, Steven misses a cue or two and this might've been the song when he was singing to the rich folk up on the stage and almost lost his footing and caught himself before falling. Not having the best night tonight, is he? Kings and Queens up next and it was awesome not much to say about it. The stage effects are amazing and change with each song. They seem a bit apocalyptical during this song. Suddenly the stage effects are a prairie and an old wooden cabin with a rocking chair on the porch which is creaking along to the crickets. Now we come to our sit down portion of the evening, beginning with Hangman's Jury. I'm in awe watching these guys. It is easy to forget that they are late 60s early 70s. They got more energy and raw emotion to their performance that many young performers out there right now. Seasons of Wither, when Steven jumps out of that chair at the end and stalks to the end of the catwalk in a swirl of scarves and hair, and tells the audience how they are living on borrowed time, it was awesome to see. Next up was Stop Messing. I was ready to be bored but the jams were great. The sax had a solo that was pretty awesome as did the keyboardist. Steven had his usual fun with the harmonica and then we had Cryin. Maybe it is the extra two singers. Maybe it is the prerecorded Steven backing vocals, but for once I noticed Cryin was held out to its entire length like the studio version. When he performs it live, usually its Cryin is shortened by two beats "I was Cryin' when I met you now I'm tryin' to forget you." Tonight it was "I was Cryyyyyin when I met you now I'm tryyyyyyyin to forget youuuu." He held it out. I liked that. It always bugged me with the song live. But honestly whenever I hear Cryin all I can think of is this video I saw about how every song out there is Pachabel. Cryin' is Pachabel in Canon D. Just sayin'.
Livin' on the Edge. I know tomass. You give it a D. This night it goes up to a C+ sir. The extended jam ending was added back into place which usually gets scrapped. It was a welcome addition. Steven did get his scat ending and did it well. Next is the bane of my fucking Aerosmith existence and the absolute joy of others. I Don't Want to Miss A Thing. As I am watching the crowd during this song I reminded of five year old girls and the song Let It Go by Frozen. It does not matter where they are or who they are with. They hear those first few notes of that song and their eyes light up, they clutch their hands to their chests and they belt that fucking song at the top of their lungs word for word, tears streaming in total I DON'T GIVE A FUCK mode. That was three quarters of the women surrounding me. Our eight octave note whoo girl used this moment to blast the audience with "SING IT STEVEN!" and I thought, she speaks! And I realized IDWTMAT is not for me or any of us 70s and 80s guys. Steven tells you who it is for as he yells "THANK YOU LADIES!" after it is finally fucking over. Next is Love in an Elevator and I swear somebody got fucking fired. Steven was so pissed that he missed that cue and he spun on Joey Kramer. Then as Joey brought it a close Joe had to tap Steven on the shoulder and bring him over to him to do the closing line of the song together. Steven wasn't having it. "Somebody keeps stepping on my fucking note. Okay, we are going to get this fucking right if we have to do it all night "Love in an Elevayyyyytoooorrrraaaaahhhh Fuck it." and with that Steven swung his mic stand around his head as if he was trying to erase the performance from everyone's collective memory. I laughed so damn hard. Toys in the Attic begins but Steven is still not over the Elevator fuck up. The toys are lowered from the ceiling, the dancers are wandering around being goofy and no one is paying any mind because during the guitar solo Steven disappears behind the drum riser to yell at somebody and misses his cue for the verse coming back so only gets back halfway through. Joe doesn't look happy at all. Tom and Brad are in their usual, I will play on this side of the stage mode out of the line of fire and Joey looks like someone will eat a drumstick if they bug him. The song ends and the band goes into a nasty fucking Dude Looks Like A Lady. It was awesome. Steven says goodnight and drops his mic stand on the stage in total "it's over mode" and they go off for about 2 or 3 minutes. Up comes the piano from the stage beckoned by Steven in a new outfit and much calmer and he bids us sweet adieu before digging into Dream On. Joe goes up the piano for the solo and then Steven goes up for the scream and gets hit directly in the face by a blast of smoke and fucks up the scream. It's okay, Steven, we still love you.
Next up is Walking the Dog. I was not expecting it and got really excited and all yelly as you can hear on my video on my facebook page (I facebook lived like half the show and wish I knew how to save the video so I could post it here) when it started. It was the best song of the night to me. Now for the finale. Walk This Way. A catwalk comes down from the ceiling stretching from the stage to the upper balcony. Of course Steven is up there by the end of the first chorus waving his mic stand over the crowd and getting everyone to sing along. Plus scaring the shit out of me. Remember I told you he dropped the mic stand once or twice? Visions of brained concert attendees below were dancing in my head. But thankfully, he did no such thing and after one little moment that hattah tells me made her heart go in her throat as he was walking back down the catwalk the show ended and all was well.
So, Steven did not have the best night. The rest of the band was on point. The production values are stellar. The setlist is what it is. After seeing the show that I saw, there's probably a reason there are only 16 or so songs. Joe had two collapses in the past few years. Tom beat back cancer twice. Joey had his heart thing. As far as we know Brad and Steven are immortal. I wish that for all of them because they are playing and singing harder than ever. As a real reviewer stated "These guys are setting a hard level to attain for AARP members."
I feel I have been hard on Steven throughout this review. For all the fuckups there were also so many moments of pure brilliance. He is our ringleader and he is masterful at it. I would highly recommend this show to everyone. And kinda wish I could see it again. But I prefer being married.
"Somebody keeps stepping on my note. Okay, we're going to do this until we get it fuckin' right, ready? 'Love in An Elevaaytaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh fuck it.'"
Arms raised in incredulence as Steven looks to Joey for the fact that he missed his cue. Joey looks like "what the fuck do you want me to do about it?" Then the above mentioned lined happened.
I don't want to say that summed up the night. It was a great fuckin' night. The guys played hard. Like a lot have said here, they may play the same songs a lot, but they play them damn well. The night started out okayish. Nothing on their end was wrong. The crowd was wrong. I was just up off of the place where they sit at the tables and drink. And I was surrounded by an interesting group and no one stands. Not one of them. I was the lone stander (not really, made Jason stand too) in my little section of people around me for most of the show. It's just not in me to sit at a concert unless its a concerto. There was the whooo girl behind me that could hold that whoo for at least an eight count and she did not lose strength in her voice at all through out the night. She was the least of the worries. There were a bunch of yuppies that must of gotten tickets on a whim at the casino in front of me. The young one who looked a lot like Geoff from the Goldbergs was explaining Aerosmith to his 75 year old dad/granddad as that band that does that song about closing your eyes and falling asleep but not missing anything, what's the name of it? I really could not believe it and truly wish I was making that up. Next to me was a early 60s guy having a great time with a 19 year on his shoulder who looked like she wished she could be anywhere else but there. Soon joined by a 40s guy with the most pornstache mustache I've ever seen. He was awesome. He was at the show opening night and griped a bit about the set being the same but seemed to enjoy himself. The video started and no one paid any attention to it at all. if I can figure out how to upload photos I have some shots from the performers
During the video which was pretty much the inside flap of the book that comes with Pandora's Box down to Slash's word for word Aerosmith testimony about discovering them through Rocks and Hetfield telling the story of his mom painting him as Steven and as Joe on his wall. Some of the clips of the songs were interesting. No More No More sounded like it was taken from a live performance as did the clip of Movin' Out. The artwork and photos were great to look at. To the casual concert goer it did a great job of introducing them to the band with about as much info as they could've gotten if they picked up the autobiography Walk this Way and gave the first six chapters or so a quick glance. The sound system is fucking incredible whoever it was that asked about it. I am not a technical guy in the least so unfortunately I am the last guy to give you details on it, but it was awesome. The effects were incredible also. They put some dough into this. The performers were dressed as some of the circus performers from Jaded, the Nine Lives Cat, the sexy Robot girl from Just Push Play, and they traversed the crowd and stage until the band came on.
The band. The buildup to the band coming on stage was awesome. Train was off the hook. Steven missed a mic grab once and had to snag the mic by a scarf before it hit the stage but that was it. They killed it. Next up Mama Kin. They did the full intro and the sax was reintroduced with it's full solo. The extended jam was removed which i was a little disappointed by, but that's okay because next we had Saddle. Saddle was awesome. It's kinda apparent that Steven's screams are really buffed up by the sound system and the female backup singer and the keyboardist. Tom hits the end of the catwalk and starts that solo to Sweet Emotion and for some reason the reality of the situation for this band hits me and at this moment I am teary eyed looking at Tom nail this solo like he does every night. They've had one helluva journey and Tom looks like a worn warrior out there at the end of the stage his fingers flying over that bass. It was a moment for sure. The song goes well, Steven misses a cue or two and this might've been the song when he was singing to the rich folk up on the stage and almost lost his footing and caught himself before falling. Not having the best night tonight, is he? Kings and Queens up next and it was awesome not much to say about it. The stage effects are amazing and change with each song. They seem a bit apocalyptical during this song. Suddenly the stage effects are a prairie and an old wooden cabin with a rocking chair on the porch which is creaking along to the crickets. Now we come to our sit down portion of the evening, beginning with Hangman's Jury. I'm in awe watching these guys. It is easy to forget that they are late 60s early 70s. They got more energy and raw emotion to their performance that many young performers out there right now. Seasons of Wither, when Steven jumps out of that chair at the end and stalks to the end of the catwalk in a swirl of scarves and hair, and tells the audience how they are living on borrowed time, it was awesome to see. Next up was Stop Messing. I was ready to be bored but the jams were great. The sax had a solo that was pretty awesome as did the keyboardist. Steven had his usual fun with the harmonica and then we had Cryin. Maybe it is the extra two singers. Maybe it is the prerecorded Steven backing vocals, but for once I noticed Cryin was held out to its entire length like the studio version. When he performs it live, usually its Cryin is shortened by two beats "I was Cryin' when I met you now I'm tryin' to forget you." Tonight it was "I was Cryyyyyin when I met you now I'm tryyyyyyyin to forget youuuu." He held it out. I liked that. It always bugged me with the song live. But honestly whenever I hear Cryin all I can think of is this video I saw about how every song out there is Pachabel. Cryin' is Pachabel in Canon D. Just sayin'.
Livin' on the Edge. I know tomass. You give it a D. This night it goes up to a C+ sir. The extended jam ending was added back into place which usually gets scrapped. It was a welcome addition. Steven did get his scat ending and did it well. Next is the bane of my fucking Aerosmith existence and the absolute joy of others. I Don't Want to Miss A Thing. As I am watching the crowd during this song I reminded of five year old girls and the song Let It Go by Frozen. It does not matter where they are or who they are with. They hear those first few notes of that song and their eyes light up, they clutch their hands to their chests and they belt that fucking song at the top of their lungs word for word, tears streaming in total I DON'T GIVE A FUCK mode. That was three quarters of the women surrounding me. Our eight octave note whoo girl used this moment to blast the audience with "SING IT STEVEN!" and I thought, she speaks! And I realized IDWTMAT is not for me or any of us 70s and 80s guys. Steven tells you who it is for as he yells "THANK YOU LADIES!" after it is finally fucking over. Next is Love in an Elevator and I swear somebody got fucking fired. Steven was so pissed that he missed that cue and he spun on Joey Kramer. Then as Joey brought it a close Joe had to tap Steven on the shoulder and bring him over to him to do the closing line of the song together. Steven wasn't having it. "Somebody keeps stepping on my fucking note. Okay, we are going to get this fucking right if we have to do it all night "Love in an Elevayyyyytoooorrrraaaaahhhh Fuck it." and with that Steven swung his mic stand around his head as if he was trying to erase the performance from everyone's collective memory. I laughed so damn hard. Toys in the Attic begins but Steven is still not over the Elevator fuck up. The toys are lowered from the ceiling, the dancers are wandering around being goofy and no one is paying any mind because during the guitar solo Steven disappears behind the drum riser to yell at somebody and misses his cue for the verse coming back so only gets back halfway through. Joe doesn't look happy at all. Tom and Brad are in their usual, I will play on this side of the stage mode out of the line of fire and Joey looks like someone will eat a drumstick if they bug him. The song ends and the band goes into a nasty fucking Dude Looks Like A Lady. It was awesome. Steven says goodnight and drops his mic stand on the stage in total "it's over mode" and they go off for about 2 or 3 minutes. Up comes the piano from the stage beckoned by Steven in a new outfit and much calmer and he bids us sweet adieu before digging into Dream On. Joe goes up the piano for the solo and then Steven goes up for the scream and gets hit directly in the face by a blast of smoke and fucks up the scream. It's okay, Steven, we still love you.
Next up is Walking the Dog. I was not expecting it and got really excited and all yelly as you can hear on my video on my facebook page (I facebook lived like half the show and wish I knew how to save the video so I could post it here) when it started. It was the best song of the night to me. Now for the finale. Walk This Way. A catwalk comes down from the ceiling stretching from the stage to the upper balcony. Of course Steven is up there by the end of the first chorus waving his mic stand over the crowd and getting everyone to sing along. Plus scaring the shit out of me. Remember I told you he dropped the mic stand once or twice? Visions of brained concert attendees below were dancing in my head. But thankfully, he did no such thing and after one little moment that hattah tells me made her heart go in her throat as he was walking back down the catwalk the show ended and all was well.
So, Steven did not have the best night. The rest of the band was on point. The production values are stellar. The setlist is what it is. After seeing the show that I saw, there's probably a reason there are only 16 or so songs. Joe had two collapses in the past few years. Tom beat back cancer twice. Joey had his heart thing. As far as we know Brad and Steven are immortal. I wish that for all of them because they are playing and singing harder than ever. As a real reviewer stated "These guys are setting a hard level to attain for AARP members."
I feel I have been hard on Steven throughout this review. For all the fuckups there were also so many moments of pure brilliance. He is our ringleader and he is masterful at it. I would highly recommend this show to everyone. And kinda wish I could see it again. But I prefer being married.