By: Rav

I don't usually do reviews,but it was so bad,I have to. :)

I was not familiar with either opening bands material, so I only have a live perspective, and unfortunately a lot of bands don't quite make the transition from tape to live...

Drain...Throughout their set,I wanted to scream "Bring back Manhole!!!"

Stuck Mojo... Well,the leadsinger didn't seem cocky to me. I wanted to thump the bassist over the head, give the guy a guitar and he becomes an idiot. He had the dorkiest stage antics, it's safe to say,that I have ever seen. All in all, I liked them ok, they weren't no Life Of Agony, but they were decent. They kind of had a Cypress Hill thing going.

The setlist for Type O was much the same. I swear the show is scripted. Can't you picture Peter writing dialogue around the setlist and memorizing it, to complete the whole stage show ambience? Anyway, I will put down the set list, kind of do a song by song review. But, it will seem shabby,because I'm a bull, not a goat. ;) (songs listed as close to order as they're gonna get)

**Prelude to Agony- If I had a gun,I would have shot Peter for rolling the R's and singing rather than screaming half the song. Unfortunate, this being one of my favorite top five TON tunes.
**Pain-I couldn't believe it, they got into Origin tracks, and not a single you suck from the audience...
**Love You to Death-they seemed to have rearranged this one, and I did not care for the new version.
**Cinnamin Girl-The keyboards which make up part of the melody were totally lost. However, he did do the low notes... ;) (WooHoo!)
**Kill All the White users-with special guests introduced as the guys from Stuck Mojo, I guess they don't have names...You could tell who had the original BK release, and who had the digipack....
**Light My Fire-I think Peter forgot his intro lines here....Snicker.....
**In Praise Of Bacchus-Sounded very whiney....Intro-ed with a sad attempt at the War Pigs riff.So bad in fact, that maybe it wasn't the War pigs riff at all....
**Gravity-This song kicked ass, my fave off of Origin, the blond standing next to me was giving me the strangest looks, I'm assuming that it was because I was singing along. She had a lost look on her face. LOL
**Christian Woman-the first song they played that my blond neighbor recognized.
It was nice to hear them do the whole thing,last time they ommitted the J.C. part.And once again, he hit the really low notes. He also totally screwed up verse two, he actually stopped when it became beyond repair and let the crowd sing for him, then thanked them for covering his mistakes,I think I was the only one who noticed.
**Too Late:Frozen intro-ed with Suffrage City (a nice Bowie surprise) and then the Iron Butterfly Ina Gadda Davida, I never spell it right....And of course, Aqualung in the middle. This song has always been my favorite live, it is the only one they don't wimpify. I too (not sure who said it first) was in absolute hysterics watching Peter get the frozen effects by tapping on his throat. Well worth my 15 dollars. LOL. Oh yeah,insert snow machines...
**Wolf Moon-They should have left this one on the album... They couldn't pull it off as a live song. Peter changed the lyrics, but I couldn't understand what they were???
**My Girlfriend's Girlfriend-The keyboards need to be changed ::blech:: I have never been quite fond this one.
**They closed with Black No 1. Which was obviously my blond neighbors favorite, as she actually danced and sang along.

Da Rav

Return to the '97 US Tour, part 2 or read the review of someone not so spoiled.