The Link 07 N.Z. Corner

;"""""""""""""";
# N.Z. SECTION #
;"""""""""""""";

review RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS by ROGUE

N.Z. NEWS











hello fans...
heres your favorite kiwi bloke again
with this issue's N.Z. SECTION for
your pleasure and enjoyment... as most
of my contacts already know i have
been blabbering on about going to an
ultimate concert by THE RED HOT CHILI
PEPPERS. in my notes for a few weeks,
so now that its been, i thought i would
use this column to do a review of it for
yerz all.... so here we go.....

me my bruvva and another mate clinbed
into my bro's old honda accord around
6pm on teuesday night, and headed headed
down to pick up another couple of mates
down the other end of town. we got to
the show building at 6.45 pm and joined
in the chant 'OPEN THE FUCKING DOORS'
with the rest of the decent sized crowd.

we felt a bit out of place because we
had'nt brought any drink with us and
3/4 of the crowd were already pissed.
so one of my mates set about nicking
2 six packs of waikato (a fucking
disqusting kiwi beer) which we downed
and got slightly happier. anyway at
about 7.20 they finally opened the
doors and the crowd got in one at a
time. they were searching everyone to
start with but, but there was so much
of a crush to get in, they just opened
the doors and everyone poured in.

there were two halls, the first with
all the food and the CHILI PEPPERS
merchandise (which none of us could
efford), and the other had the huge
stage with about 10 mema-speakers each
side up the front, seats on all sides
which filled up quickly, so we decided
to stay in the crowd near the front.

after about 1/2 hour delay,the first
band came out, which was a pathetic
rap group, which was'nt even advertised,
by the name of 2 tribes. they did all
the usual  rap stuff with an unhealthy
dosage of 'motherfuckers!' and 'my
brothers' thrown in. the crowd was'nt
exactly receptive to this group. one
of the group yelled out,'lets here you
say FUCK THE POLITCIANS (a most original
title?) and the crowd replied 'FUCK OFF'

next up was HEAD LIKE A HOLE, who
literally stole the show. they thundered
through their set, and the hometown
crowd was more than keen to give
support. they gave the set a bit of
humour, with their trademarks of the
microphone inside a rubber chicken, and
their lead guitarist (fucked if i can
remember his name) playing in his
birthday suit, and added to this with
the singer coming out dressed with a
pink bath robe and with realistic
breasts. songs like, life's a joke, afro
surprise, miserygutz and spitbag went
down a treat. an awesome extended
version of penut shone out as the
highlight. closely followed by 12. an
excellent set, made all the more
remarkable by the fact that tall (bass)
was playing with cracked ribs and almost
did'nt make it on stage. by now it was
fucking hot in the middle of the crowd,
so some of us went back to fill some of
the seats on the stands near the back.
this turned out to be a great sport
because of the fantastic view of the
stage.

the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS had come
promising rock for this town, and for
a little while it looked like it would
be a show to remember. the mighty give
it away crashed open the show, and
everthing looked set for a big night.
but as the show progressed, things got
a little worrying and the crowds
attention started wandering. backwoods
and bulletproof thudded along until a
powerful SUCK MY KISS brought the eyes
back front stage. but nobody just
meandered along, and if you had to ask
and my lovely man didn't capture hearts
or minds. fleas (bass) lived lived up
to his nickname, leaping all over the
place, and drummer chad smith and new
guitarist arik marshall showed
themselves to be great musicians. but
on a few too many songs they and
singer anthony kiebes didn't seem to
mesh. they tried are mut the 'magik'
just did'nt seen to be there.

maybe the new line-up still needs to
settle down. but the potential is there,
and when the CHILLIS got it together,
they rocked in rare good fashion. and
electric stonecold was followed by a
stunning blood sugar sex magik and
higher ground. a glitter ball used
during sex magik achieved a near
impossible feat, and made the show and
sports centre look semi-attractive.

a very short set, an hour and 15 minutes
was followed by a one song encore. top
marks for the helmets though - each
pepper had a 3 foot gas flame on top
of their head. when the RED HOT CHILI
PEPPERS fired, they were fucking
briliant, the hit under the bridge
especially so. but they fired a few
too many blanks. that and the short set
meant that the biggest show of the year
ended up being some-what of a
dissapointment. not an especially bad
concert, by comparison to others i've
seen, but it could have been a lot
better.


rating out of 10 *'s: * * * * * *


well thats it from me this time. next
month i'll have something to do with
the scene to bore you with, but for now
it's toodle pip from


                    THE ROGUE/TSR

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""




 ;"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""";
 # fire button to return to main menu #
 ;"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""";