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Last night Crue Fest rolled into town  and with a line-up that had every aspect of the rock/metal genre in attendance the stage was set for an interesting evening… and they did not disappoint.

from the leather clad metal-heads pretending to be long lost friends of the motley boys from Hollywood to the to the young children of true Crue fans who have found they’re own niche in the Emo/Scene genre but are lucky enough to have parents who grew up listening to they’re own rebellion based angst driven rock and roll that surely drove they’re parents nuts, so these young-lings of the original Motley Crue fan base accompanied their parental units to this evening of mayhem madness and what surely seemed to be a ride on the wild side….

the nights lineup was as follows opening the show was Trapt.. i must say that i only caught a couple of songs from their set and i was entertained enough to make me visit their Myspace page to investigate further all in all a good (fairly new) rock band i give them 3 out of 5 stars.. up next was Sixx A.M. this is a side project of Crue axeman and co founder Nikki Sixx. in a refreshing surprise this band is different than Nikkis original band. a bit more to the alternative rock side of things.. with dare i say it a pop feel..  i totally dug this band. i give them 4 out of 5 stars…  up next was Buckcherry i have heard this band band before and personally do not care for them, that being said they put on a very energetic set and whipped the crowd into a frenzy of sorts (or maybe that was the alcohol) be cause by the time the played they’re chart-breaking anthem “crazy bitch” the crowd was jumping with crazed energy…

Now time for a venue check…   on what we call the sierra plaza in conjunction with Hot Topic, the gameing producers of Rock Band had a merch booth set up so that fans attending Crue Fest could put together 4 man bands and play on the stage that Rock Band had built into the 45 foot trailer they rolled into the venue so that said 4 man bands could compete for a grand prize that would be later announced to the winner…. as you can guess the crowds swarmed to the Rock Band / Hot  Topic trailer with great purpose… and when all was said and done the winner was chosen and they’re prize that they had no previous knowledge of was revealed… they would be performing on the main stage in front of the entire crowd waiting to see Motley Crue. they would take the stage after the last opening act was finished to play one song, have that 15 minutes of fame that all humans will have at some level at one moment in they’re lives. for these four guys it came on a grand scale, and completely unexpected. un fortunately i was backstage as i had been most of the evening so i was unable to see the (what must have been) deer in the headlights experience for these guys walking out on stage in front of 12,000 plus. i am sure they had fun no score for the Rock Banders.   OK up next on the stage was Papa Roach, local boys from the Sacramento Valley  area… so being the home town boys the crowd went wild. for some reason during P-Roaches set the crowd went insane fights ensued both between men, also between women, and also unfortunately there were cases of domestic violence. we even had a situation where a woman in a wheelchair was assaulted. now please understand that i in no way equate the escalation of violent behavior with Papa Roach. i personally believe it was because the fans all started drinking (heavily) very early and reached (coincidentally) stupidity level at the same time P-roach hit the stage.  as for Papa’s performance… awesome, they totally left it all on the stage for the sac town crowd… i would have to give them 4 to 4&1/2 stars outta 5… they flat out rock the house and even surprised the crowd with a couple of cuts from the first LP, ”Last Resort” and “Broken home” … great show!   ok so now we come to the night headliner and host of Crue Fest, Motley Crue i could sum up the Crue by simply saying They absofuckingloutly showed up…

they handed the crowd they’re proverbial asses on a silver platter. the Crue Kicked ass and took names. from the opening note of “Live Wire” to the final not of they’re encore “Home Sweet Home”  the boys were flat on it… they looked, (without makeup) sounded, and performed like the old Motley Crue i must give the boys 5 stars they were completely and in-explicitly “en fuego” last night…  in short, i for one am glad to see yet another great band from the 80’s glamdays in Hollywood still kickin ass…

p.s.  on  humorous side note i did see another home town rocker from Sacramento’s very own Tesla, singer Jeff Kieth cruising around completely un noticed (except for a few people) with radio personality Pat Martin… and it was amazing to me how many people he was able to just walk by and they had no idea he had just been standing beside them…..

well that’s all for now, see you all soon with another observation from another concert….  hope you enjoyed my ramblings…