velvet revolver, alice in chains, sparta and chris brown

wednesday night i had the pleasure of hanging out with chris brown. well, not the young, dancing r & b chris brown, but still. i was also hanging out with steve. the three of us went and saw sparta, alice in chains and velvet revolver @ the selland arena in fresno. very good show. here are some photos i took.

sparta opened. i have their first album, and like them. seeing them live makes me want to pick up their subsequent releases. also, these guys are skinny. what's with rocker being skinny, and wearing tight, black pants?







alice in chains. i wish i'd seen them back in the day. this was almost as good. they rocked hard. very hard. and the new singer does a great job completing the sound they had. aic played all the hits. only song i would have liked to hear was sea of sorrow. but, hey, i wasn't making the set list.



let me just say that the new lead singer looks a whole lot like warrick from csi. with bigger hair.



from here on out is velvet revolver pics. scott weiland is a great frontman, and quite the rockstar. certainly a performer. dude struts around the stage a la jagger, bowie or iggy pop. i'd seen him do it before w/stp, and this tiger hasn't changed his stripes.



same tight, black pants. well, sort of. weiland started out w/a coat, and worked in phases down to shirtless, and then was wearing a blanket. okay, it was a sarape. later, you may notice he's rocking a fur coat.












mid way through the show this guy comes up to me and says, "that's slash!" and i respond, "uhhhh, yeah."







i was surprised by how many guns n roses and stone temple pilot songs that they played during the night. very cool. i remember patience, it's so easy and mr brownstone from gnr, vaseline, interstate love song, and sex type thing from stp. they may have done more, but i can't remember now. they also covered pink floyd's i wish you were here. all that and velvet revolver songs, of course. i think they played around an hour and a half.

very good show. fun night.