On Friday, October 30, 1998 I attended yet another great metal show in catching Motley Crue at the Beacon Theater in New York City. I have followed this band since the days of "Too Fast for Love" and "Shout and the Devil" and am, even now, a continuing fan of the Crue's music and bad boy antics.

In a nutshell, the show was spectacular. The venue was small/medium size and the Crue had the sell-out crowd on their feet, rocking the place from start to finish. I haven't the slightest idea who the opening bands were, there were 3 of them I think, and I spent most of the opening band time walking around mixing with the Crueheads out in the lobby. I realize that my time spent in the lobby should not find its was into this review, but when you have Sebastian Bach (Ex-Skid Row) and Jesse Camp (MTV) mixing with the crowd as fellow Crueheads, it adds a sense of adrenaline and excitement to the aura that surrounds a Crue show.

At a little after 9, the lights went down and Motley Crue took the stage. The stage was pretty simple. A tremendous lighting rig (which later fired tons of Confetti) and Tommy Lee's Drum Kit took up most of the stage. The opening tune was "Dr. Feelgood", which was definitely a kickass tune to get the show started, Crue Style. From that moment on, the Beacon Theater was electric.

Motley Crue was totally "on". The show simply rocked. The onslaught of the Crueheads was nonstop, as the Crue ripped through tunes from the beginning of their careers and took it up to the present "first greatest hits" cd. The set was phenomenal, including classic Crue tunes such as "Wild Side", "Girls, Girls, Girls", "Shout at the Devil" (97), "Live Wire" and "Home Sweet Home".

I have never, in all my concert days, witnessed a crowd so into jumping on stage and female showing of breasts. It was simply anarchy, and the Crue loved it. Girls were jumping on stage and dancing, flashing the Crue, flashing the crowd, everything was wild!!! The guys would jump on stage and, if they got passed the tackling of security, would get to rock with the Crue, they didn't mind. One guy jumped on stage at least 3 times, and security tackled him each time. The 3rd time, security was out for blood when Nikki Sixx, with one hand on his bass, used to other hand to rip the guy from security and bring him to the Microphone to sing with them......simply awesome !!!

Other tunes that were played were "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)", "Afraid" and "Looks that Kill". The crowd was totally on fire when Vince Neil started speaking of the anarchy that was taking place - and the Crue broke into "Anarchy in the U.S.A." Another great Crue tune that was released from the arsenal was "Primal Scream", a song which I have waited quite a while to catch live, and it simply rocked. Motley Crue also threw in the tune "Bitter Pill", which is on their just released Greatest Hits package.

The encore was spectacular also. After a lengthy interval, the Crue took back to the stage and began their last set. If my memory serves me correctly, the Encore was comprised of three Crue tunes. The first was the classic "Ten Seconds to Love", the second, "Too Fast for Love" and they wrapped it up with "Smokin' in the Boys Room", featuring MTV's Jesse Camp on vocals with Vince Neil. It was a unanimous agreement from all the Crueheads reactions that Jesse should be shot and maimed immediately and he positively destroyed the last song with his "I'm not too smart" routine.

In conclusion, Motley Crue Live is highly recommended. Motley Crue was in top Bad Boy form and still continues to sell-out their shows. The show rocked, and proved that this band is still a driving force in Heavy Metal. It was just amazing to me, that I could turn around and look, and over to the left, two seats away was Sebastian Bach, former singer of Skid Row, banging his head, with beer in hand, singing along to every Crue tune word for word, simply amazing!! This band continues to respect and honor their fans. Tommy Lee even walked to the front of the stage and thanked everyone for his newly found freedom from prison, chanting "Fuck, it's good to be free!!"