Monster Magnet: Well, there isn't much I can say about their performance. I am not a big Monster Magnet fan, infact I down right loathe their music. Thankfully, it was a short set.. about a half an hour or so. They played all their well-known "hits:" Power Trip, Space Lord, etc. I will give them one thing, they were damned loud. That wasn't enough to keep me in the arena, so while they were on.. I left and got something to eat. So, that's that...

Hole: Once again, I'm not a big fan of Hole, except for her older stuff. I liked her pissed of, semi-psychotic rants, but not this "Malibu" shit. Their back drop consisted of a big canvas that was airbrished, painted...something to look like a series of columns with vines strewn about.

There was also a big fake fountain in the center of the stage all glittery and shit. So, the set was pretty neat, but obviously isn't enough to impress anyone. Courtney's outfit was pretty neat, she was wearing a black leather dress (which later came down and her boobs flopped out.)

She played her well known songs like "Miss World," and "Violet." During "Malibu" and big sun was a dancing around behind the canvas, it was kinda weird. Oh, and you have to love the collective stupidity of audiences. She stood up there and said," You fuckin' Oregonians...you're not people you know." Everyone cheered..."Oh, so you like that huh?" Crowds will cheer to anything the band says. By the end of her performance... she was getting pretty pissed. Most of the people there wanted to see Manson, so they didn't give her a lot of stage attention. So, during "Doll Parts" she pointed the mic in the crowd to listen if they would sing-a-long. Well, a few scattered voices here and there didn't sit too well with her. She scornfully said into the mic,"OK, that's it... that was our last song.." and stormed off stage. Everyone boo'ed her bitchy ass off, it was pretty hilarious.

Marilyn Manson: Now this is what everyone was waiting for, the grand pooh-bah. I'm going to try and recount the cocnert as well as I can, but I'm either leaving something out or mixing around songs. Well, regardless...everything I say did happen there.

Entrance: A big glittery canvas blocked all view of the stage. When the lights went off little blips of blue and white flickered behind it. Incoherent noises seemed to go on forever til they finally dropped it. The back drop was another big canvas with what seemed to be this dark cave like painting.

All the band memebers were standing there, when a huge cross of T.V.s rose up from the ground with Manson crucified on it. He was making all of these funky faces while strapped to it. Then when it rose off the ground, he was lowered down off the cross and he kicked into his first song right away.

Set list: This the best I can remember it, cuz I was too busy enjoying the concert to memorize everything:

1."The Reflecting God:" Nothing really new added to the song. Except it seems he never actually sings the chorus that is on the album and just sticks to the "Shoot, shoot, shoot motherfucker" line. It was nice and loud though, which is always a plus.

2."Great Big White World:" Once again, nothing different about it...

3."Mechanical Animals:" For this one he came out on his stilts. I remember reading in other reviews that he was as daring on them. Well,he must have drastically changed his ways. Cause he was all over the stage lifting one or both stilts above his head. He even listed them up and spun them around in the air. So, over-all...he got pretty ballzy up there.

4."Get Your Gunn:" It was nice to hear something from his older mainstream album. Nothing new to say about it...

5."Sweet Dreams:" Oh everyone went wild when he first started to play it..of course. I mean it is a good remake, but it doesn't deserve the biggest response from the audience, oh well. Nothing new to say other than he only sang like half the song. The rest of the time he was just slamming down the mic stand and throwing it, then he jut stormed off the stage. So, all in all, it was a nice instrumental piece.

6."Speed of Pain:" The stage was black except for this blue spotlight on Twiggy. He was knelt over a keyboard playing what I think was the deep, rumbling sounds at the beginning of the song. Then the stage was lit up with blue and purple lights, but it was actually really dim and moody. It was completely still in the audience during that song, everyone just kind of stood in awe of him. During that song was when he first used the black female back up singer. She has a really nice voice might I add. In the middle of the song snow started falling which created this really kick ass effect with the whole lighting scheme. He left the stage right during the "Hope that we die holding hands..." bit.

7."Rock is Dead:" The canvas dropped to show this big white and black back drop. They looked liked the 3d square theme that M.C. Escher would do. Manson strided forward boasting this huge silver cape. I'm going to get into outfits at the end of the set list, but I had to mention this one. It was this bright silver out fit and the cape was secured somehow cuz he was able to fully extend it, like wings. He wrapped it around himself and ripped it off... Nothing much else to say...

8."Dope Show:" It seems during this song he got extra-sexual. We was mooning the audience and caressing himself most of the song. Infact, during one of the "cops and queers" line he held the mic up to ass to simulate him being butt-fucked. They only change to the song, was he modified the lyrics and sang," The drugs, they say, are made right here in Portland." The crowd loved that one... Near the end of the song 3 spinning fireworks at the top of the stage shot sparks everywhere.

9."Lunchbox:" I was pretty surprised to hear this song being played. Before it he asked the audience,"So, did you fall asleep while Hole was up here?" Everyone cheered..."Well, it's time to wake the fuck up!" Then he did the whole "Next motherfucker's gonna get my metal" chant. The song lasted a long, long time because there was this segment of the song where he went to each section of the audience. Well, the staduim is shaped like a bowl with seats wrapped around with the pit right in front. So, he went to the left side first and got them to scream loud and sing along ,"I wanna grow up, I wanna be ..so no one fucks with me." Then he went to the right side and did the same, they did a better job so he blew them kisses. Then he went to the center as said,"So, all that's left are you motherfuckers in the middle." There weren't as many people in the pit as there were in the seats so we were outnumbered. I think all in all he was happy with the audience paricipation.

10."I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me):" Before this song he made a long speech about drugs, this is the best I can remember it: "I have to talk about something that I'm sure most of you can relate to, specially those people way in the back seats and you people here in the front...I'm talking about drugs." "When I was growing up, people would tell me 'you know, when I was young people said drugs were cool.'" "And you know what...they were right!"
"People say,'Marilyn Manson, you don't believe in God.'"
Various people in the audience yelled "FUCK GOD!" and he repsonded by saying,"Now, just wait a minute.."
"What do you mean I don't believe in God? I talked to God last night."
"He said,'Marilyn Manson, Jesus created marijuana."
"Jesus created cocaine."
"Jesus created L-S-D."
"So I asked, 'If he can do all these drugs... why can't we?"
Then he kicked into the song and the big drugs sign was raised and lit up.

11."Antichrist Superstar:" It was the same business as the Antichrist tour a few years ago. The verticle banners unrolled the ground and he stood atop a podium with his black suit on. The band were dressed in there riot gear. A bunch of confette fell and he ripped up the bible, same old, same old. There were a few differences, during the chorus streams of fire would shoot up by the banners. And during the line "I shed the skin to feed..." he ripped off his suit.

12."Irresponsible Hate Anthem:" Another set change... this huge American flag with the power symbol replacing the stars filled the background. Manson walked forward with the a police uniform on and the band just kept on the same outfits from the previous song. He walked forward soluting everyone. Again he went on a lil rant:
"Pretend that all those people (protesters) outside are listening..."
*Crowd roars*
"Pretend that your teachers, preachers, and parents are out there..."
*Crowd roars louder*
"Pretend all those faggot cops are listening..."
*Crowd roars even louder*
"And all the children say...we hate love...we love hate"
And in the middle of the song he walked up to the front of the stage and said,"Let me see those fingers motherfuckers..."
Near the end of the song there was this loud BOOM! and Manson clutched his chest and fell to the ground. A person dress in a black police outfit ran out on stage boasting a shotgun and a bunch of stage hands ran up to Manson a dragged him off stage.


13."Beautiful People:" Before the song started Manson said," You want to hear something special? This is the last time I'm ever going to play this song in my career. This is it Portland, after this time it's over..." "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" He only sang about half the song then he started to go ballistic and break shit. He grabbed a guitar from the back, played it for a lil bit then busted it. He knocked over Ginger's drums and that was it..it was over.

Various other stuff: No chorus, so..well..that was pretty shitty but it was a really good concert. The cross of T.V's were ignited in between songs, were got a wonderful response from the audience. He did talk a lot during the concert and changed costumes every 2 sec. I think that's why he stormed off stage a few times during the concert.

Costumes: At the beginning of the concert he had the black thong outfit with the feathered wings. Then, for Speed of Pain he wore his black leather double-breasted trench like thingy with his black leather hat. I already explained the silver outfit, it had a nice big cut out in the back so ass was exposed to the world..hooray! Then his black suit and the police outfit. That is about it... No wait..he had this black corset outfit with black bracers on his arms.

Backstage: Oh, don't get me started. That whole Radio Revolution thing seems like a joke and doesn't hold much ground to get backstage. I got my after show pass at the box office and after the show I went and I waited. I wait for over an hour in a place with about 60 other people. Then these schmucks in pink shirts started to pick people out to go backstage. For the most part, if you had tits and were of age, you were a shoe in. He walked up to me and said that my pass was good enough to go backstage. So lucky me..I got sent on my way. A bunch of bullshit...some Radio Revolution thing...backstage promise land my ass!

- The Mechanikill Messiah