This is the
Fuel edition of Once Upon a Concert.
Not it's current lineup either, the new singer just doesn't cut it for me. I don't care what anyone says, you can't change your singer and expect to be the same. You also should change the name. You can change a bass player or drummer and no one will probably notice, but a lead guitarist and singer and two items that can't be replaced very well. There's only a handful of bands that have done that with success.
Ok, end rant.
Last Friday the wife and I went to see Re-Fueled. With Brett Scallions on the vocals and the bass player from the Fuel I know (oh his name is Jeff Abercrombie, whatever bass player). It was night out without the kid, so that was good. But it was a long day, only made longer by the fact the doors "opened" at 7:30 and then there proceeded to be 4 opening bands. FOUR OPENING BANDS! Seriously, what the fuck. Re-Fueled didn't come on until 11:30. I'm not up for that anymore, I was hoping to be home by 12, there were plenty of times 10 years ago I would not have minded if the last band didn't go on until then. But that never happened, they were normally done by that time.
Oh, and with the fees I paid the same price for 3 tickets. God I hate ticketmaster.
Re-Fueled was great, although the lead guitar was lacking, he wasn't Carl Bell, suitable but things you can't change apply here. This was really like stepping back 10 years ago seeing Fuel. A band I saw so many times in one year, I don't even have all the tickets, just a few. They played a good mix of songs from Sunburn and Something Like Human. Funny nothing of Natural Selection, fine with me that Album kind of sucked and seemed really rushed. Oh and I got some shitty cell phone video of their opening song, Untitled. I love that song.
And damn, $4 draft beers, that's just too much damn money for a beer in a plastic cup. If I'm going to drink a $4 beer, it better be in an oversized frosted mug.
The above picture are all of my ticket stubs from the previous Fuel shows. I loved everyone of them, even the tickets you don't see.
The first time I saw Fuel was at the
Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA. It was January 1998, I had just started a job at Willow Valley Manor North as a kitchen prep helper. I had friends that worked there and it was during winter break from college. I had never heard of Fuel at this point in my life. We went and got tickets at the door, that was the last time that would ever happen. Awesome show, even though the only song I knew was during the encore when they played their version of the Beatles - Revolution. I was hooked, I got their CD as soon as I could. I would see Fuel numorous times at various venues in the area. I got drunk at a bar for the first time seeing Fuel. Good times indeed.
I think the best time I saw Fuel was when they opened up for Van Halen at the Spectrum. Fuel was meant to be a stadium band, they had that sound that would fill a venue like that.
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