MANSFIELD - Mötley Crüe That remains not only around 2014, but capable of almost sold on Xfinity Center Sunday night has little to do with any lasting merit group's music may have had or any special resonance that allows his songs speak to through generations. It's because people liked in high school. And if the current tour the band is actually his past, then - to paraphrase one of the opening acts of the night - for the school to be forever.
Sunday night, the band seemed well overdue to graduate. "Too Fast for Love" seemed too fast for Vince Neil, who galumphed the stage so clumsily bassist Nikki Sixx profane description of his call girls in its heyday may well have been about a completely different frontman. Neil's voice not take over; he walked through "Girls, Girls, Girls" without the seasoning of the underworld found in the recorded version, and called for zero force when needed, shanking whole verse melody of the ballad prom "Without You".
Moreover, drummer Tommy Lee Canyon although as an excavator, when the song screamed for him to lay back. Whacking his kit at 11 at all times, offered no shade. Dio "Smokin 'in the Boys Room" shuffling, but no swing, and even metal burners vertigo as "Live Wire" called for a limberness he could not muster.
But it's not like Mötley Crüe going to start becoming a better band at this stage, and the single relentless riff of "Looks That Kill" and burn hard rubber "Kickstart My Heart" generates some solid momentum. By the time the concert ended on a satellite stage in the audience with "Home Sweet Home" Mötley Crüe had blown past the curfew place, something that his fans probably knew much about in high school.
Armed with a clearly delighted to have achieved the concert and determined to work hard and not mess up, Alice Cooper, who played before sharp band was all Mötley Crüe was not: tough and threatening, but fun, and crap (although a one-stage) that gave songs a genuine kick. If he was not as agile as his younger self, his showmanship remained, from moments of great show like transform into a giant, clumsy puppet-monster Frankenstein's and later being guillotined apparently deranged remains just mocking character directly .
The sound of two guitars of Raskins opened the concert, vacuum delivery, reactionary hard rock.
