My Velvet Revolver review

[Streetchild]

Tuesday April 1, Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam. The last show ever from Velvet Revolver with their frontman Scott Weiland. And one of the lucky people who got to watch this show was yours truly.

After walking through Amsterdam the whole day, my friend and I arrived at the Heineken Music Hall around 7. The hall was pretty empty, so we could get inside pretty quick and walk up to the front, so we had some great places. At 8 the support act (Sons of Albion, with the son of Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant) played a half hour set. Velvet Revolver was supposed to start at 9, but it was 9.30 when they took the stage.

The place was almost full by then, just some empty seats in the back. They kicked off with Let it Roll, and the place went wild. I can't believe how awesome these guys are on stage. Slash and Duff are truly rock gods. Weiland kept word that he would sweat, bruise, and bleed for the fans. Matt proved again what an awesome drummer he is and Dave is just awesome and a real asset for this band.

My personal highlights of the show: The GNR covers (It's so easy, Patience and Mr. Brownstone), Sucker Train Blues (ended up in the mosh pit a few times), Slash's 5 minute solo before Set me Free and Slither (one of the best songs I've heard in years).

The only bad things were the sound during the first few songs (the Heineken Music Hall has the best acoustic in Europe, so I don't know how they screwed that up) and the not working talkbox from Slash during his Get out the door solo. And although everyone was awesome on stage, you could see the chemistry between Scott and the rest of the band wasn't what it used to be anymore. The only mention of a break-up was before the last fight, when Scott announced how appropriate the song was. 

It was definately one of the best shows I've ever been too. Too bad it was also their last.

Setlist:
Let It Roll
She Mine
Sucker Train Blues
Do It For The Kids
Just Sixteen
Big Machine
American Man
Vasoline
The Last Fight
Interstate Love Song
Patience
She Builds Quick Machines
Get Out The Door
Fall To Pieces
It's So Easy
Slash Solo
Set Me Free
Mr Brownstone
Sex Type Thing
Slither

Here are a few pictures we took:
Slash and Scott:


Scott in action:


Slash during set me free:


Slash and Dave during Set me Free:



The next day we visited Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo. And I know it has nothing to do with the topic, but I just wanted to post this picture of this incredibly cute racoon:




-StreetChild-

[Atharot]

LOL!!!!!

[anahiderose]

ROTFLMAO! at that pic!! absolutely nothing to do.. :p but it looks sweet


glad you had a good time SC, too bad we dont have so many concerts here in Mexico, and if we do, you have to travel long Lucky you

[Streetchild]

ROTFLMAO! at that pic!! absolutely nothing to do.. :p but it looks sweet


glad you had a good time SC, too bad we dont have so many concerts here in Mexico, and if we do, you have to travel long Lucky you

Thanks.

But you might have the chance to see Elan, but she never tours in Europe .

And racoons rock

[Bill Bailey]

Wow. That's awesome! You witnessed history in the making.

And it looks like the concert was fun too.

[anahiderose]

ROTFLMAO! at that pic!! absolutely nothing to do.. :p but it looks sweet


glad you had a good time SC, too bad we dont have so many concerts here in Mexico, and if we do, you have to travel long Lucky you

Thanks.

But you might have the chance to see Elan, but she never tours in Europe .

And racoons rock

aaah but maybe you can come to Mexico once to see her, i saw at ticketmaster.com.mx she's gonna have some little tour through the republic

[ddm]

ah glad you had a good time mate.. i wish slash did some solo's when they came down here.. but yeah.. cute raccoon im sure i wont run it over if i see it here.. 

[Ice Queen]

You had a great time SC...i´m glad you had fun! and don´t worry you´ll have the chance to see Elan

hey great pic of the racoon! hehe