Finally back from Vegas. What a fucking weekend!
I thought I was dreaming when I heard them do "Love Hate Love" acoustically in St. Louis. When Jerry started playing this tune plugged in I nearly pissed myself. This is my favorite song, period. My own personal "Stairway" if you will. If any one AiC song could be used as a benchmark towards just how good William is, its this one, and I am telling you, William owned it. He just owned it. I really just cant get over how good he is.
The world could have ended when they finished Love Hate Love and I think I might have been ok with it. It really was that good.
Columbia and KC are up next for me on back to back nights.
That having been said, I thought VR was as good as anyone could be following up an act like AiC. They were tight for sure, Slash was spot on and Weiland did a great job on the GNR songs. I did get the impression Slash did not like playing STP songs. They butchered "Vaseline" but the others were decent. The GNR covers were much much stronger.
More plugged in gigs please. I love the acoustic shows but nothing kicks more ass than these guys plugged in.