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There is something between SKID ROW and small clubs, a unique ability of communication with the crowd…They wave, they smile, they "preach"revolution, drink beer…a sense of a wild party among a loving psycho family-and SKID ROW party never ends…
People started gathering up in front of the gates of AN club early at noon and until 9pm the place was unpenetrable and full of 80's, poser, glam rock and punf vibrations.
The two opening acts, the Greek LIVESTOCK and WILD MACHINES in their zebra tights and with make up on, got us back in time of glam rock music.
The twenty minutes delay was nothing compared to the twenty years of waiting for the Greek audience. SKID ROW got on stage with "Makin A Mess", although, it was hard for us to imagine the song without the tall and loud peroxide angel of the 90's, Sebastian Bach, being the one-not-makin the mess. Still, Johnny Soliger, on his 8th year with the band, stood his ground and won the Greek skidders by showing great will, passion and character. "Piece Of Me" and "Sweet Little Sister", from their first album, gave a big adrenaline boost as the atmosphere was ready to explode. "New generation" from "Thickskin" album followed up and as the first notes of "18 & life" were heard, people started singing along. Heads going up and down by the rhythms of "Monkey Business", "Big Guns", a "Psycho Therapy" cover, with Rachel Bolan, bass player and founding member, on the leading vocals. The guys slowed it down a little bit with an unplugged version of the infamous "I Remember You". "Disease" was the one and only song taken from their latest album, "Revolutions Per Minute", that they performed live for us, while the blonde frontman made sure that "Skid Row are still here, still making music and won't rest on old success and glory". They caught our breath with "Slave To The Grind", "Beat Yourself Blind" from the "Subhuman Race" album and "Get The Fuck Out" from the "Slave To The Grind" album.
The song that established SKID ROW as the messiahs of revolution, the pouncing and kicking anthem of the young "Youth Gone Wild" was the closure for the show in a club filled with lifting fists in the air.
SKID ROW were here! (although we enjoined on stage only two of the original members, Rachel Bolan and Scotti Hill-Snake Sabo couldn't make it due to obligations with the band Dawn as a producer…Twenty years after their first hit and they still spread pure energy!If you love Rock N Roll, then you definetely have to love SKID ROW…!
Set List:
01. Makin A mess
02. Piece Of Me
03. Sweet Little Sister
04. New Generation
05. 18 And Life
06. Monkey Bussiness
07. Big Guns
08. Psycho therapy
09. I Remember You
10. Disease
11. Slave To The Grind
12. Beat Yourself Blnd
13. Get The Fuck Out
14. Youth Gone Wild
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