Concert Review: Detroit Rock City!!!
Holy F**k! What a magical night that was in Detroit. I didn't think anything could top Tuesday night at Massey Hall, but this concert might be the best one I’ve ever been to. The acoustics at the Masonic Temple were wonderful. I was in row six tonight, and it rocked (two rows of pits and in the fourth row of seats, on the aisle, right in front of Garry and Tim). I understand now why people pay so much money for front row seats. I can’t wait to be in the second row of the pit in Norfolk, VA.
The Lovehammers hit the stage in high gear, and did themselves proud. In the middle of the set the band left the stage and someone came out with a stool and an acoustic guitar, and I squeed because I knew what that meant. Marty gave us an amazing solo acoustic performance of 'Mr. Brightside'. This is the third night I've really enjoyed the band's set, and I'm learning a lot of the lyrics. 'Hold On' and 'The Tunnel' were stand-outs. During the later, Marty ventured into the audience up the left aisle. He had a hard time getting back to the stage because so many people had surged forward. I may just end up buying their album by the end of the tour, and get them to autograph it.
Then INXS took the stage with a fury that didn’t stop for close to two hours. They. Rocked. Detroit. It was orgasmic. They were on fire, and the audience responded, and fed the energy. It was a beautiful cycle. I was still spent more than twelve hours later. Andrew told JD within the first few songs that this was the best crowd yet.
Whoever is dressing the boys needs to be commended, because they are all looking fine. Very fine. Tim was wearing those yummy brown leather pants, a Morphine shirt, and that long gold plaid jacket he wore for the VH1 awards. I really like that jacket, and he looks great in it. For the third night running there was no leather on Garry. But his ass-ets were on fine display in a pair of Levi's, and he was wearing that reddish coloured cross design T-shirt. JD was wearing the butterfly T-shirt again, and the jeans with the leather back patches and the front laces. Those laces are so distracting! He started out with the gloves, leather jacket, and sunglasses again. And he wore the PETA T-shirt for the encore. Andrew was wearing a dark T-shirt and jeans, and he started out with a fetching white jacket. Kirk had on a caramel coloured leather blazer, and he was wearing a spiffy dark striped dress shirt and blue jeans. Jon was wearing some tight black pants, and a silver grey Morphine shirt.
I was very happy that JD’s voice was much better tonight. After the scratchiness at the end of the Massey Hall gig on Tuesday night, I was worried about him.
'New Sensation', 'Afterglow', 'Original Sin', 'Kick', and 'Devil Inside' were real stand-outs. 'Taste It' was so hot I’m surprised there wasn’t spontaneous combustion inside the Masonic Temple. JD was giving the microphone stand quite the work-over. He used his tongue and moved his hands all over it as if he were pleasuring a woman. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. One of the women I travelled down to Detroit with said she felt she was intruding on a private moment. And I wanted him really, really badly after that number.
Throughout the concert Tim was being Tim and licking guitar picks and sticking them to his forehead, then grinning out at us. He was having a great time. And Garry, Kirk and Andrew kept smiling throughout the show. When we could see Jon, he was grinning too.
I brought along my Canadian flag, and saw numerous ones, big and small, throughout the venue. And there were tons of Ontario license plates in the parking lot we were in. It was a Canadian and American INXS love-in at the Masonic Temple.
There were several girls in the audience with signs that read various derivations of “Let Me Taste It JD.” I guess the success of the girl who got the kiss on Tuesday night at Massey Hall is going to be fuelling a lot of these signs. Around the time INXS played 'What You Need', Dino, Bobby, and Billy from the Lovehammers came to the right side of the stage to watch the show. One of them held up a “Let Me Taste It” sign when JD came over, and he really cracked up. Timmy knocked knuckles with all of them, and when Garry came over, a mere 10 feet from me (squee), he motioned to Billy about something and got a “yes” nod and Garry gave a few pelvic thrusts. That was a panty poofing moment. As they were leaving, I told Billy they were great tonight, and he gave me a big hug.
Security was extremely vigilant, and I had a dude who was treating the section of the venue I was in as his own personal war zone. We were barely allowed to step into the aisle before we were pushed back in, hard, so there was no going down to the stage for the encore tonight. I’m surprised I don’t have bruises from the pushes.
The concert ended with a rousing rendition of 'Don’t Change'. I love this song but knowing it is the last one of the night always makes me a little sad.
After the show we saw the tour buses outside the venue, and they were calling our names, but it was so cold in Detroit that we decided to skip it, and headed back to Windsor.
It’s going to be another few days before I pick up the tour again in Reading, PA, and I’m already going through withdrawal. But I’m lucky enough to be seeing INXS five more times before the first leg of the tour ends.
Three gigs in three days was awesome. And exhausting. And I’d do it again in a flash. And this gig was truly amazing.
Garry, Andrew, Jon, Tim, JD, and Kirk, thanks so much for rocking my world.
Set List:
Suicide Blonde
New Sensation
Devil’s Party
Mystify
Disappear
By My Side
Afterglow
Taste It
Original Sin
Hungry
Never Let You Go
Need You Tonight
What You Need
Kick
Devil Inside
Pretty Vegas
Encore
The Stairs
Never Tear Us Apart
Don’t Change
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