Rock Star Supernova Tour Review Value City Arena Ohio
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Rock Star Supernova Tour Review Value City Arena Ohio
Rock Star Supernova lead singer Lukas Rossi must have felt the precariousness of that lifestyle last night in the Value City Arena, as his band put a glitzy but sad face on it before about a quarter-filled house. Though a sizable portion of the fans diligently pumped fists and screamed on demand, most had likely never been to a concert that didn’t end in an encore.
The band, perhaps smelling continuing foul odors on an underwhelming tour, finished with a ballad (Can’t Bring Myself To Light This Fuse) sure to send the crowd packing.
It was the uneventful coda to an evening of music from an unsurprising album produced by what sounds like a marketing team. From grunge to Nine Inch Nails, glam-metal to 1980s power ballads, most all of the band’s set fit a mold. The cover of David Bowie’s Suffragette City obscured the vocals with the band’s groove and guest guitarist Dave Navarro; the Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony bludgeoned the live string section and butchered the song.
A little background on the quartet may serve to explain the lackluster response and the tediously anonymous music the group offered:
Supernova, or “Rock Star Supernova,” as it was forced to call itself for copyright reasons, is the product of a reality TV show uniting former members of Motley Crue (drummer Tommy Lee), Metallica (bassist Jason Newsted) and Guns ?N Roses (guitarist Gilby Clarke) in search of a lead singer to front their new band. (Ex-Black Crowes’ Johnny Colt replaced the injured Newsted on the tour.) Toronto’s Lukas Rossi won the competition, which resulted in a major label album and a tour befitting, well, a rock star.
The trouble is that the show, the album and the tour illustrate the spoiled, empty values of rock stardom and the avariciousness of the business that peddles it. “Where are you,” Rossi pleaded during a fevered moment in It’s All Love last night; “Red Bull just ain’t gonna (bleep)-in’ cut it tonight. You guys are gonna have to wake my *** up,” he joked later. But toward the end of the just hourlong show, he effused about the support that had propelled his career and even called the diminished affair “one big (bleep)-in’ party.”
Rossi rose through a series of on-air trials and (purportedly) viewers’ choice. Last night, he looked like a squat monkey with bad hair dancing sometimes as comically as Charlie Chaplin doing Mick Jagger and perhaps unaware of the big white cross on the back of his jacket.
In an allegedly party-hearty, bone-crunching rock concert, there were more than a few American Idol moments.
Maybe the tour wasn’t such a good idea, after all. Love ‘em or not, Metallica, Motley Crue, Guns ?N Roses and the Black Crowes didn’t make music to satisfy a demographic or a television audience. If nothing else, last night’s concert confirmed that magic doesn’t come from the recommendations of focus groups.
I took my daughter to this concert. She is 13 and I am old at 40. We loved the concert. We enjoyed every minute of it. The Columbus Dispatch wrote a terrible review and we disagreed with it. We thought Lukas acted like himself not a squat monkey. If you watched the show you would have known his style. He was having such a good time. At least we thought so. Toby was awesome as was Dilana and Magni who I might ad was not even mentioned in the review from the Dispatch. I was surprised that the language was not bad. I expected alot more vulgar language. We were not on the floor, but we still had a good shot of everything. Tommy Lee was awesome on the keyboards. I can not say enough good things. WE really enjoyed the performance. My daughter was so excited to meet Toby. She got a hug and an autogragh. That was so fun. She will remember him forever. It seemed to me that most people that were at the concert enjoyed it and that is all that mattered. We really got our money’s worth. I actually wish I had paid more to get a better seat. Yes, I would have paid more to see SUPERNOVA!!!!!!!!!!! I also enjoyed Gilby. He is very talented.