Well, they didn't cancel this one, so I was happy about that. I was a little mad, cause I was supposed to hook up with a couple friends, but they thought that "getting there first" was more important than their real friends. My mistake tho, for introducing MM music to one of them. So his trendy friends are more important than me and my other spooky friend. Well, at least I know she would never do that. We have always stuck together, regardless of wether or not we missed the opening band. We usually try to miss the opening bands, though, because they usually suck. I never heard NYloose, but I wasn't going to listen to a band with a name like that, just caus they are touring with mm. So, even though the tix said that the show was to start at 6:30, we didn't get on the highway till 6:45, (on purpose. We would have made it later, except we were bored. We drove really slowly down there, and stopped at a restaurant to doddle some more, after mapping out parking and such by the club. Time was going by really sloooowwwww...Finally, we got bored with that, and went back to the club to check on the line. Of course, it still hadn't died down by 8:40 pm. So we waited in the car till it did. The chick with the metal-detector at the door freaked out because I think that she thought my inhaler was a gun or a bomb or something. I told her not to worry, that it was just an inhaler (it gets so stuffy in clubs) and that I come in peace. I don't think she caught the humor. Well, we still got up front, as usual, with little resistence, and we waited... Some guy near us was reading a book, and I had really wished I had brought one too, because I was so sick of waiting at this point. They finally came out, after playing David Bowie (i think) over the P.A. for like 20 mins. They opened with "angel..." like you all didn't know that already. And almost immediately, I was caught up in that old feeling I thought would be gone, since MM's so huge now. Actually, it still seemed personal and interactive like before, despite the magnitude of the audience. Twiggy, as usual, was hiding behind the speakers, drooling and pouting, occasionally peering out. He looked different, maybe because he grew back his eyebrows. Mr manson was still the same, and kept beating himself up with the microphone. Well, at least he wasn't cutting himself. This was a no-frills show, by comparison to some of the other reviews I have seen on here, no mixing bowls, no podium, no suit, or whatever. Just MM onstage, and a vast audience. Zimzum looked as if he was in shock at the size of the audience, like he can't believe he is in the band, being that famous. He is now a "big rock star" heheh. I could barely even see Madonna, through all that smoke. And Ginger was hidden behind the speaker stack, thankfully. (I still wish they had Sara Lee Lucas). I think that Ginger is annoying, pompus, and silly. He seems more like a "Sweet Dreams" fan, rather than part of the band. I think that the "beautiful people" (video) displays the extent of his talent accurately. Maybe they should just give him one big kettle drum and a gong, and get rid of his drumset. Make it easier for him...heheh. Anyway, the sound was clear and good on the vocals, as well as everything else. I really got into it. Some skinhead was giving me dirty looks cause I was singing along, moving to the rythm, etc, as if I was supposed to just stand there and twiddle my thumbs. I saw some posts about how it's a shame that ppl are just going to see MM for a little halloween fright. Yeah, I agree the tix could go to some more deserving fans./ So I was going to try and remember all the songs, and the order they were played, but I was so into it, that didn't matter after awhile. Mr. Manson looked like he was having fun, up there, and didn't seem cranky. I think it's cool of them to keep playing despite all those bomb/death threats they have been getting. I kinda thought to myself, wow I could be standing here having fun, seing my favorite band one minute, and like a bomb could go off and we'd all be dead. that would suck. I noticed that Mr. Manson was pretty much daring the coward fools who want to kill him/see him dead. I forgot which song it was during, but he was like yeah, come on motherfuckers, daring people to come up on the stage. Of course, no one did. It's too bad that whoever is threatening them has to do so anonymously. I hate people like that, who are such wuss's that they can't say "I hate you," or "I disagree with you," to someone's face. They have to hide behind some sort of threat (weather it be real or not). It's so stupid!! Some idiot was throwing shit at Twiggy, and basically annoying him and pissing him off. It's like this, either you like mm, or you dont. If you dont, then leave. If you do, then learn to appreciate the band members (except ginger, who has no purpose), but there is no need to throw shit at them. How hard is that to comprehend. Talk about tickets that got wasted. Well, other than all those idiots, it was a cool show. The pit was pretty cool, actualy. I thought it was going to be this deadly whirling vortex of blood and body parts, but it was ok. At the end it got a little dead in there to say the least--everyone was just standing there. It was so weird...even during Misery Machine and such. I'd have to say the highlight of the evening though, was when they came back for a 2nd encore, kicked into "Cake and Sodomy." It rocked!!! Well, thats it.
Whew!

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Until next time,
TheOneGoddess
SweetWhip@Juno.com