This is gonna be my final review of the Munich show:
one the one hand it was great, amazing, fabulous. but on the other hand it sucks big time, and this hand is more serious. Which hand is which you wonder?
the positive thing is the band, the music(except wild in the streets). The negative thing: the people,the crowd. I'll explain: We had thousends of discussions about Bj becoming a pop act and all that stuff and I can tell you now: they were senseless,all of them. The band isn't the problem, they prooft last night that they're still a rock band, which know how to perform perfect(except Wild in the Streets). But the crowd...OMG. One line in the song " idiots are taken over" on the current NoFX album says "ignorance is celebrated" and that's exactly what happened yesterday. Before I go on I'll tell you some bits from last night. What do think, at which point of the show the crowd reacts the most? What do you think was happening on stage when the biggest reaction came from the crowd? I think some of you guess right(sadly): The biggest reaction came as you could see on the screen Jon shaking his ass .
Next thing: Do you think "Something to believe in" is a dark or at least a sad song? During that song a wave goes through the stadium(I don't know if I find the right words in ENglish, I hope you know what I mean) and during TD the people danced as if it isn't a sad song but a kind of a dance hall song instead.
The only thing that has to happen to get the crowd screaming was to show up Jons face on the screen, nothing more.
I don't know what you think about those things but I think this current situation is impossible, absolutely inacceptable. To come back to the point: The band isn't the problem, they ain't a pop band, they ain't a boy band. But we have a pop-crowd, a boy-band crowd in the arenas and in the stadiums. I mean come to think about these things: they don't care about the music all they want to see is Jon shaking his ****ing ass. Shall I tell you what I did during the concert? Nothing, absolutely nothing! WHy? Sure it was probably one of the best BJ shows ever and definately the best I've seen so far(except Wild in the streets) but I just don't want to fratenize with the people around. I really felt strange there. I can't fell any earnestness withhin this crowd. All I saw were stupid people who just want to sream and clap their hands like stupid machines. Sometimes I felt like even if the guys come on the stage and say "we hate you all, you're the biggest assholes we've ever seen" they would scream too.
I konw that some of you can't stand my Bruce Springsteen - Bon Jovi comparisons but 'ill do another anyway: 3 days before Bruce was in the same stadium and within this crowd I felt home, home and comfortable and had one of the best nights ever. not because Bruce and E-street were better than BJ,no I would say both were equal but the crowd was different. Within the Springsteen crowd you could feel earnestness towards the music and the band. In the Bj crowd I just felt strange(OMG now my nickname finally makes sense).
It's a sad fact but you could take 80 % percent of a BJ crowd, put it into one of those popidol/popstar concerts and nobody would recognize it because it's the same level.
On the one hand I think this is really sad because the band performed ****ing great last night and deserves a much better and much mature crowd that they have right now but on the other hand is this just the consquence of the last 3 years.
But there are some things I've learned on this Friday night. one of them:
Every female BJ-fan is at least suspicious!!! Sorry I know this is really generalizing but from this day I don't believe any female that she likes Bj because of the music. The concert last night was too traumatic.

To bring it to an end: as long as nothing dramatic within the composition of the audiences at a BJ show changes, I won't visit any because I don't have to pay 42 Eur to ruin my evening.
We really have a great problem here. As long as BJ have this kind of fans nobody would take them for serious and they won't get any respect for their work.
It's sad that I write this now and not yesterday because during the day a lot of things I wanted to express slipped out of my mind.
I'm tired now so I close with two quotes: the first is from Manowar and I want to sent out to the kind of "fans" I described above:
Whimps And Posers, Leave The Hall!

and the second one is a derivative of the NoFx song I mentioned above:
the idiots obviously have taken over!






(Oh and if you want to know what the problem with WITS was: instrumental it was perfectly played but Jon squeezed the voclas so much that it killed the power of that song,but fortunately this was the only bad performance on this night.)