Saturday night in Boston. The frightening thing was how many moms and dads brought young kids, resplendent in Halloween costumes, to a truly adult rock and roll program. Opening act
Wednesday 13 http://www.myspace.com/officialwednesday13 opened the show at 7:26 PM as the lights went down, and they had very little to offer. This pedestrian group cops Alice's riffs with no dynamics, nothing original and were a good reason for many to jam the lobby before venturing into the grand antique theater. Poison, Ratt and Quiet Riot musically said it all before while Alice Cooper himself presented these same themes with a bit of class and humor. Wednesday 13 were simply in your face noise found in any high school auditorium on any given weekend night. Picture a band emerging out of the film "Spinal Tap" and actually believing they are the real deal. Yawn.
Alice Cooper, on the other hand, knocked it out of the park from the moment he took the stage.
Thirty five years after the Billion Dollar Babies tour rocked the old Boston Garden some of his previous audience found itself with people who weren't even born when "No More Mr. Nice Guy" graced the radiowaves in this city and across the country. The show was absolutely terrific and this journalist has 14 pages of notes to be posted up here later today.
http://www.myspace.com/officialAliceCooper
