Concert Update

So about a week ago I was supposed to Aerosmith play a big greatest hits tour but the Steven Tyler fell off the stage and the tour got cancelled. This development left a big open hole which was fill partially by going to see the Cult play their 25 year old album "Love". I have never seen the Cult live and I don't recall ever really needing to but there I was with a couple friends on the floor ready to rock.



The band today which is Really just the Singer Ian Astburry and the guitarist Billy Duffy is definitely older. While Billy looks more like he did when the album was releaced with platinum spiked hair, Ian is a bit more bloated than those days and looking more like a latter day Jim Morrison than a Native American Warrior. There was also some bassist who seemed to be retrieved from the Elvis Costello vault. So the band played the "Love" album from beginning to end and it was tight even though the vocals seemed drowned and they seemed to rush their way through "She Sells Sanctuary". When the singer spoke to the crowd you could barely hear it making whatever message he was trying to convey totally lost. His other interaction with the audience consisted of throwing tambourines into the crowd. What can I say, Love is a good collection of songs from beginning to end; it's not the great under rated album of the 80s but it is worth a listen after all these years since junior high when I originally heard it.

After a small break the band came back on stage and continued the show with some highlights of their catalog:
Electric Ocean
Wild Flower
Fire Woman
Rise
Dirty Little Rockstar
Love Removal Machine
there was also a song they played that I had no idea about. Anyway these songs showed how rock n' roll the band became after Love. Stating with the "Electric" album which showed a hard on for big 80s riffs and a harder sound, this somehow led to the unfortunate case of "Sonic Temple" which did give us "Fire Woman" but in the end was a horrible metal album that seemed to be the bands sell out and the end of their relative importance in music. It seemed about another 10 years before they released "Beyond Good and Evil" which offered up "Rise" a triumphant rocker that has some grit and pays tribute to "She Sells Sanctuary". By no means was this song a comeback for it was on the radio a little back in 2001 but that seemed to be it for the Brits. The singer went off and toured with The Doors and Fuel (is that right?) anyway here we are and I saw them in 2009.

You know I used to have a Love T-shirt; I think I tossed it because it grew too tight or it was too itchy or it just wasn't en vogue anymore.