don't go away mad, just go away

Saturday evening I drove to the far reaches of Burbank and loaded into a mini-van to attend the Motley Crue / Aerosmith concert on the far east end of LA...here were some of the high points to the concert:

• Motley Crue sounds terrible, and when Vince is singing - he only sings every 3rd word. They also completely back lit their stage so that you can't see the faces of the band members. Truthfully, from the front of the lawn where we were it could have been four guys that they picked up in Riverside up on stage.
  
• Tommy Lee has become more of a front man than Vince Neil is. Tommy's success due to his reality show, and his home videos has propelled him to the biggest name in that band. However, name recognition doesn't equal brains as he shouted "how are you doin San Diego?" and the concert wasn't in San Diego.
• Apparently, burning a vinyl jacket to keep warm is good for both drunk concert goers AND the security guards sent to put the fire out. After some of the former party started a jacket on fire, the security guard who showed up to extinguish the fire seemed more interested in getting close to warm himself than in putting it out.
  
• Stephen Tyler must have steel vocal chords because there is no way his voice could hold up any other way. Seriously, the man can still belt out the scream in "Dream On" like he could 20 years ago (or so i'm told by the drunk lady behind me)
• Aerosmith can still put on a great show, both in sound and visuals and are worth the price of the ticket by themselves.