Kissmas Bash Review


From jrh@acsu.buffalo.eduFri Dec 15 14:32:34 1995
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:28:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Joseph R Haniszewski 
To: J@acsu.buffalo.edu
Cc: googoo@wopr.gsm.uci.edu
Subject: Re: BUSH

Hey, well the rumor is most likely true... they are touring with Bush and 
Heather NOva..mmmm, babe  ;)  as for the Kissmas Bash last night... if 
you are under 21 or didn't get to go... you didn't miss much...  I'll 
start of with mentioning that it was my 18th show... the last show I went 
to was at Sheas and there was no mosh pit, but it sounded extremely good, 
so I was somewhat happy... but as for last night, it started out with the 
feeling that I was underdressed in a Goos Uncool shirt and jeans.... 
eveyone that seemed to be there was either in a tux or a gown... But some 
dude was wearing some funky shirt(thats another story about some freak).. 
the show was well attended though and they raised about 5 grand for 
charity... the opening band was Banarama, not high on my favorite band 
list... first off, it wasn't the original singers... the girls(2 singers) 
were about 22 or so... and there were 2 guys dancing on stage with 
them... there were no people playing instruments oreven the cheesy 80's 
electric organ...and to top it off, I'm almost positive the girls were 
lipsyncing!!!  they played about 5 songfs and then left... the the guys 
that sing the Macarina, something seemed weird when they played the album 
version twice for us.... then they said that the band didn't show.... 
upset #2.... then they announced the Goos....finally...  so here it was, 
i was with my friends to the right of the crowd toward the center... they 
came out and they only had their acoustic guitars.... they played songs 
like Impersonality, Naked, Name, 2 Days in Feb., Lance even showed up for 
Never Take the Place of Your Man... that was cool to see him again...  
the pit was nothing for the 1st 3 songs, then when Naked come on(my 
favorite song on BOY) I had to get a pit going  ;)   I went out there 
with 3 other guys and we started jumping around... People all dressed up 
looked at us likewe were crazy, moshing to the goo goo dolls, no way... 
damn posers.... we even got a few people to crowd ride, we slammed around 
some large girl in a dress because she refused to move so we could jump 
around... the bounces in the pit just laughed...  now, the summary.. the 
concert sounded good, the pit was nothing til we started something, but 
it was too short, the people there were so damn fake, and the beer 
sucked! I myself will stick to the small club scenes, all ages, less 
poser shows(even though when they come again, i'll be there) I guess 
thats what happens when a band you followed since they were small becomes 
big...  there was a small group of poeple there singing along, which was 
coool., but people there looked at you like you were crazy to mosh... 
Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine, ignorant wanna be's.... well, thats my 
summary... Oh yea, they played Don't Change too... and they didn't have 
an encore even though we kept chanting "Goos, Goos"... then when they 
took apart Mikes drums, we started chanting "bullsh*t"... they Kiss 
organizers didn't like that, but too damn bad... Oh well, enough out of 
me, GooBye... see ya at the next small club, all ages show, with Bush and 
Heather Nova  ;)

Joe Haniszewski
jrh@acsu.buffalo.edu
"I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden."
"If F*cking up takes practice, than I feel I'm well rehearsed."
"Goo Goo Dolls"


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