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Madd Hatter
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12/3/01
Well, I went to the Merry Mayhem tour last night in Des Moines.... and it was fucking...AWESOME! I'm pretty sure it was the coolest show I've ever gone to, and it's right at the top with Bob Dylan for things I'm happy as hell I was there for.
Show was supposed to start at 6:30, but at 6:00 Soil came out. My woman and her friend were busy getting ripped off on shirts so we missed about half of them. $32 for a shirt!!! I said screw that. Unfortunately, in my altered state (no, not drugs) after the show, I was bamboozled by a counterfeit vendor into spending 10 bucks on a shirt that is already missing a 2" chunk of paint and I'm sure will lose the rest in the wash. After intermission Mudvayne played...loudly. I could not understand a word the lead singer was saying, but I didn't care, I was not there for them. It ended mercifully enough and then another intermission... and then it was time for Rob Zombie.
Hell yeah. Lights went out, music built up, and a large curtain dropped to reveal a large stage set up to look like something out of hell, with a devil head in the center, a screen at the top, and walkways in the background. There was a row of fire up top that could ignite quite nicely. When the curtain dropped you just saw a chaotic bunch of flaming red. He started out with Superbeast, and I was pretty jacked from there all the way through. Thunderkiss 65, More Human Than Human, Feel so Numb, Living Dead Girl, and a really freaky part showing a few minutes of his movie. For his encore, a Munsters clip started playing of Herman racing on a track, and I knew right away Dragula was coming, which it did. He ran down N'Sync and TRL, and we got to see a nice flash on his big screen from a girl in the crowd. He noted how this show as unusual for him, what with all the chairs and people sitting and all, but he said the Pantera/Zombie tour was just one huge chair bill, so forget he said anything.
Then after yet another intermission, it was time for Ozzy to take the stage. The first 8 minutes or so was a bunch of TV parodies airing on a screen, with the gremlin guy changing between them with a remote. The music from Moulin Rouge started, and we were all like "WTF?" Then the video started playing, only spliced in were scenes of Ozzy dressed up and dancing like Christina, basically. Good god it was hilarious. Then it went to Ozzy dressed up as Miss Cleo, with the voice and everything, telling us the cards don't lie and degrading callers, with the number 1-800-666-HELL at the bottom. This popped up a couple more times, and it too was utterly hilarious. There was some J'lo video (I'm guessing, I don't watch the crap) where she's by her pool talking on the phone, only Ozzy's on the other end telling her he won't make it tonight and then calling her a bitch in the end. He was dressed up as some ghetto rapper I guess, in a limo with a woman. There was also Madonna's "Music" video where Ozzy was the driver. Most memorable lines from this would be Madonna saying blah blah "you wish" and Ozzy saying "actually, I do" and then once the song starts, saying "THIS FUCKING SUCKS!", and taking it out of the CD player. But the funniest video would have to be Ozzy sitting on a couch with a big J a'la Afroman with "But I Got High" playing. Needless to say the crowd went nuts, I went nuts, the guys behind me were in conniptions (most likely because they were toking up at the time as I could smell). I would give my left nut if I could get this footage on my computer or on tape. From here it only got better...after the screen went dark, for some reason I knew to turn around and there, not 10 feet from me, dead center, was a fucking sleigh.... with OZZY IN IT! As he looked around the crowd, he actually could make all of us out because we were all so close, and as I was trying to show my worshipness for my hero, the sleigh raised up near the ceiling, and rode up to the stage. The stage was a basic band setup with a cross bearing "Ozzy" and Santa Claus crucifixed on it high and center, with a medium/small sized screen on either side. Throughout the show, the screens would show Ozzy singing from different angles, band members including Zakk playing, video clips, and a couple crowd shots. Ozzy opened with I Don't Know, before going into a couple songs off the new album, including Junkie. Others he played were Gets Me Through, Mr. Crowley (let me see your fucking cigarette lighters!), No More Tears, Road to Nowhere, Paranoid, I Don't Want to Change the World, and Crazy Train. It's worth noting that Zakk Wylde did a good guitar solo, and usually I'm the least enthused by that stuff, but he merged into The Star-Spangled Banner at the end, and images of the flag and him playing were faded together on the screens.
Ozzy jumped and ran around, despite having just returned from a broken leg. His cast must've been on under his pants, but you could still tell he wasn't healed as he limped around stage. But he did it with gusto dammit! We were in Row 19, but several times I felt all alone just staring at this crazy, wonderfully talented man. I was so very close to my fucking hero. I've never wanted something to never end so much.
I tried to keep this short (yes, this is short, I could go on forever). Words cannot do this justice, as they usually can't for events like these. I wrote this more than anything as something to keep around to help me remember, as my memory completely sucks. Then I figured I'd post it up for any curious parties. Yes, this show KICKS ASS. Yes, Rob Zombie puts on a hell of a presentation. And yes, the Wizard is alive, well, and the fucking man!
Well, I went to the Merry Mayhem tour last night in Des Moines.... and it was fucking...AWESOME! I'm pretty sure it was the coolest show I've ever gone to, and it's right at the top with Bob Dylan for things I'm happy as hell I was there for.
Show was supposed to start at 6:30, but at 6:00 Soil came out. My woman and her friend were busy getting ripped off on shirts so we missed about half of them. $32 for a shirt!!! I said screw that. Unfortunately, in my altered state (no, not drugs) after the show, I was bamboozled by a counterfeit vendor into spending 10 bucks on a shirt that is already missing a 2" chunk of paint and I'm sure will lose the rest in the wash. After intermission Mudvayne played...loudly. I could not understand a word the lead singer was saying, but I didn't care, I was not there for them. It ended mercifully enough and then another intermission... and then it was time for Rob Zombie.
Hell yeah. Lights went out, music built up, and a large curtain dropped to reveal a large stage set up to look like something out of hell, with a devil head in the center, a screen at the top, and walkways in the background. There was a row of fire up top that could ignite quite nicely. When the curtain dropped you just saw a chaotic bunch of flaming red. He started out with Superbeast, and I was pretty jacked from there all the way through. Thunderkiss 65, More Human Than Human, Feel so Numb, Living Dead Girl, and a really freaky part showing a few minutes of his movie. For his encore, a Munsters clip started playing of Herman racing on a track, and I knew right away Dragula was coming, which it did. He ran down N'Sync and TRL, and we got to see a nice flash on his big screen from a girl in the crowd. He noted how this show as unusual for him, what with all the chairs and people sitting and all, but he said the Pantera/Zombie tour was just one huge chair bill, so forget he said anything.
Then after yet another intermission, it was time for Ozzy to take the stage. The first 8 minutes or so was a bunch of TV parodies airing on a screen, with the gremlin guy changing between them with a remote. The music from Moulin Rouge started, and we were all like "WTF?" Then the video started playing, only spliced in were scenes of Ozzy dressed up and dancing like Christina, basically. Good god it was hilarious. Then it went to Ozzy dressed up as Miss Cleo, with the voice and everything, telling us the cards don't lie and degrading callers, with the number 1-800-666-HELL at the bottom. This popped up a couple more times, and it too was utterly hilarious. There was some J'lo video (I'm guessing, I don't watch the crap) where she's by her pool talking on the phone, only Ozzy's on the other end telling her he won't make it tonight and then calling her a bitch in the end. He was dressed up as some ghetto rapper I guess, in a limo with a woman. There was also Madonna's "Music" video where Ozzy was the driver. Most memorable lines from this would be Madonna saying blah blah "you wish" and Ozzy saying "actually, I do" and then once the song starts, saying "THIS FUCKING SUCKS!", and taking it out of the CD player. But the funniest video would have to be Ozzy sitting on a couch with a big J a'la Afroman with "But I Got High" playing. Needless to say the crowd went nuts, I went nuts, the guys behind me were in conniptions (most likely because they were toking up at the time as I could smell). I would give my left nut if I could get this footage on my computer or on tape. From here it only got better...after the screen went dark, for some reason I knew to turn around and there, not 10 feet from me, dead center, was a fucking sleigh.... with OZZY IN IT! As he looked around the crowd, he actually could make all of us out because we were all so close, and as I was trying to show my worshipness for my hero, the sleigh raised up near the ceiling, and rode up to the stage. The stage was a basic band setup with a cross bearing "Ozzy" and Santa Claus crucifixed on it high and center, with a medium/small sized screen on either side. Throughout the show, the screens would show Ozzy singing from different angles, band members including Zakk playing, video clips, and a couple crowd shots. Ozzy opened with I Don't Know, before going into a couple songs off the new album, including Junkie. Others he played were Gets Me Through, Mr. Crowley (let me see your fucking cigarette lighters!), No More Tears, Road to Nowhere, Paranoid, I Don't Want to Change the World, and Crazy Train. It's worth noting that Zakk Wylde did a good guitar solo, and usually I'm the least enthused by that stuff, but he merged into The Star-Spangled Banner at the end, and images of the flag and him playing were faded together on the screens.
Ozzy jumped and ran around, despite having just returned from a broken leg. His cast must've been on under his pants, but you could still tell he wasn't healed as he limped around stage. But he did it with gusto dammit! We were in Row 19, but several times I felt all alone just staring at this crazy, wonderfully talented man. I was so very close to my fucking hero. I've never wanted something to never end so much.
I tried to keep this short (yes, this is short, I could go on forever). Words cannot do this justice, as they usually can't for events like these. I wrote this more than anything as something to keep around to help me remember, as my memory completely sucks. Then I figured I'd post it up for any curious parties. Yes, this show KICKS ASS. Yes, Rob Zombie puts on a hell of a presentation. And yes, the Wizard is alive, well, and the fucking man!
