Well to sum things up the concert was "beyond all your experience". Actually I have no idea how it compared to other MM concerts. This was my first. I've waited 2 years for this! When MM came to Vancouver last I had no idea they were even here, and the time b4 that I was in Edmonton.

Background:

I read the Idaho review, and that concert sounded relatively similar (seeing as how it was only 3 days b4). So I guess a lot of this review will be a repeat of that one, but I'll try to make it interesting.

Cast:

Sam (aka Coma, thats me!, from Van)
DeadSoul (aka Toni, fellow spook, from Edm)
PU Bear (aka Jeff, fellow spook, from Edm)
Bloodsucker (aka Nadine, former and future spook, from Edm)
Ollie (my friend, from Edm)
IRC person (fuck I'm bad with names, from ???)

. Pre-Concert:

I met DeadSoul and PU Bear this xmas vacation, but we never arranged a place or time to meet at the concert. Me and Ollie got there about 4 hours early, and decided to go get some food. On our way who would we run into, but the whole gang of spooks :) So we hung out til the concert. Doors were at 6:30, and we all piled in. I could have brought in a gun if I wanted. The bouncer was about to frisk me (he actually had his hands on my shoulders), but then some lady said "Don't frisk him until he checks his collar." So I checked my collar, and walked away :)

So we're all just standing around, and DeadSoul (lucky MF) spots Zim Zum just standing around. No one recognized him AGAIN! He does look pretty different without makeup. Anyway Zim Zum was really nice and even obliged Bloodsucker with an autograph. I just got a quick hello in cuz he didn't seem to wanna stay in one place too long. After all if we recognized him, then someone else would have eventually. NOTE: Me and nadine later witnessed Zimmy sending a couple of "valley girl" groupies back into the audience. From our pre-show yacking I came to the conclusion the groupies were most likely Twiggy's ;)

*An interesting fact* Pogo and Zim Zum both smoke cigs (I had no idea).

The Bands Attire:
The rev was wearing the frilly underwear and a girdle, then he changed into a suit for a few songs, then he wore the white rages for Man That You Fear. He took off his underwear to show off a leather g-string. It was slightly smaller than his old zippered leather bikini .

Twiggy had a cool dress on. I think it was a green army dress of sorts. His makeup was extremely poor. But I'm not much for Twiggy anymore.

Ginger has grown his hair a bit longer. Its black and he has a cheesy duck tale. I've never seen him look worse, but he is the best drummer I've ever seen! He beat the shit out of the drums!

Pogo had his typical army outfit on. The same one in most recent pics. His hair is about an inch long, spiked, naturally red, and looks so good I can't describe it. He needs his hair!

Zim Zum was by far the best dressed. He had his typical makeup on. He was wearing a small camoflage t-shirt and looked BEYOND sexy in his extremely short shorts, nylons, and garders. Move over Pogo... Zim Zum has the BEST legs by far!

The Concert:

The setlist (in only a vague order) was:

Angel With The Scabbed Wings, GYG, Dogma, Tourniquet, Lunchbox, Dried Up, Sweet Dreams, Cryptorchid, Cake and Sodomy, TBP, The Reflecting God, ACS, *Encore1* IHA, 1996, *Encore2* Man that You Fear

There were no between set comments worth mentioning (the usual stuff). And no Sweet Dreams/TBP comments.

I thought the most well performed songs were Angel With The Scabbed Wings, and The R God. The worst song was Sweet Dreams. I suck at guitar, but after watching Zim Zum try to play Sweet Dreams I wanted give him a lesson :) His fingers were just all over the place. He even missed the first part of the solo!! I love Zim Zum, and he even got Lunchbox right, but there is something about Sweet Dreams .

The highlight of the show was ACS the song. I've never seen any performance that powerful in my life. The crowd was just screaming "HEIL". The stage (as most of you know) looked like it was straight out of Nazi Germany. The rev was tearing pages out of the bible, and then whipped it into the crowd. The rev just hung over the podium like a puppet at one point. Its something you have to see to believe! It ended with "You might as well kill yourself you're already dead". I'm not sure if thats common in concert.

The self-mutilation made a small come back. The rev broke a wine bottle and jab himself with it. He also wacked himself with the SD light, and made a small hole in his chest, but no blood came out (???). I guess he really is already dead :)

Spit was flying everywhere during the concert. The rev was giving me the infamous eye contact, and I launched a nice wod of spit at him, and guess where it landed... on his eye lid! Not only did he not break eye contact, but he didn't even wipe the spit off. I just found this kinda funny.

Post Concert:

The police confiscated all the illegal collars that people checked in at the coat check type place. Mine was one of them, but the lady handed it to me and said "Boy you're lucky. The police took all of these collars." Then I went outside and heard a grrl say "I can't believe they took my fucking collar". I had to leave right away cuz my ride wanted to go so there's not much more to tell.

Oh and the autograph signing the night b4 was the a nightmare. I waited in line for 3.5 hours. Some nice people let us in line with them, and they were there 2 hours b4. So technically I waited 5.5 hours! At 6pm I was 10 people away from the door, and what would happen, but they broke the front window of the store. The line was like 10-20 people wide and there were only 4 people between me and the window. The 5-10 people who were crushed against the window are lucky they didn't go right through the window. Huge pieces of glass just crashed against them, but no one was seriously hurt. And guess who I blame it on... The A & B Sound bouncers. They didn't make any attempt to control the crowd. Instead they forced people off the road and into the window, and thats why it broke. The crowd was fine until the window broke and the bouncers got physical with us. One bouncer threw 3 of us backward away from the store, and caused a domino effect that almost caused me to break someones leg. Then some patty wagons came, and we all had to leave. We made the 6 o'clock news :)

Sam