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Monday, 5 April 2004
THE LIVING END/JET & THE VINES @ HARD ROCK,LAS VEGAS
Mood:
 cheeky
Why iz it that everytime I go to a show I'm dead tired?Seemz like I never get enuff sleep the night before,so goin' to a show iz kind of a big deal for me,and unless the bands are really good and wake me up I spend most of the show waiting for it to end.
Well,last nights' show at The Joint in the Hard Rock hotel waz another challenge for me to make it thru.I waz pooped,got out of work,lost an hour of sleep due to the daylight savingz time demon,and my dogz were tired.
I pretty much missed the opening act Neon.From what I did see it looked like one of those droning noise maker type bandz.You know the ones that don't bother to even try to make music with any pop sense-ability.Hold on to that one note and just let it ring kinda bandz.
After downing a tasty beer and mingling about The Living End hit the stage.From the moment they charged into thier rock-a-punk-o-billie jo armstrong laden toonage they owned the stage.The guitarist,sportin' one of those hollow body Ted Nugenty geeetarz ripped the frets like nobody's business.Like The Stray Cats genespliced with Social Distorton.They impressed me much,not really knowin' much about them they gave me a much needed surprise and an energy boost.Thumbz Up!
Another beer down and startin' to feel the effects,Jet sauntered onstage with that "bitch" song,but it took them three or four songz to finally get the crowd goin'.Somehow,the band I came to see and expected them to garage rock my ass off just couldn't follow up The Living End."Are You Gonna Be My Girl" upped the ante and almost made it,with it's groovy beat and audience singalong,but it all else became a jumbled mess and lost it's momentum,tho Jet tried hard they just couldn't take off.
By this point I waz done with the beer and just downing a straight coke.The tiredness waz kicking in again and when The Vines finally came out with thier blinding lights burning into my bloodshot eyes,I waz done.Tho interesting for about 5 minutes,the Vines get boring really fast with it's wailing off key vocals and sloppy guitar work.The band looked like they were lost trying to keep up with the singers contrived "I'm crazy and look at my craziness"yelpfest.Sure,I give props to any band that trashes thier instruments by the end of the show but even I want something I can hum along too inbetween the feedback and cymbal crashes.Not very impressed.I think the singer iz on The Dope.
Winner of the evening:The Living End!
Ragz Rates The Living End:8.0
Ragz Rates Jet:6.5
Ragz Rates The Vines:3.0
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 9:03 PM PDT
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