April 19th, 2003
Harpo’s – Detroit MI
Outspoken, Powerman 5000, Stonesour
By: Ken Coppens
Well besides the group of fucks who kept chanting “If you’re 555 then I’m 666” and besides the guy who came wearing a homemade #8 Slipknot mask, this show was fucking amazing!
Before the show a bunch of people were around waiting for Corey but once doors opened, most of them took off like dumbasses (Not knowing it doesn’t really matter if you get in first)… A ½ hour after everyone left, it was just me and 2 other people and Corey came out and talked with us for a few.. He knew me from the Stone Sour message board which was cool as hell, took some pictures and shot the shit….. Josh was out too just walking around and chatting with everyone, probably the most social out of them all.
Josh was talking with me about how he is going to be talking with D’Addario and maybe setting up something with them and using their strings, and we talked about that and equipment and all sorts of other shit… SUPER nice guy… James came out too and I got some pictures and he gave me a SS guitar pick…. That’s why I tell all of you, GET TO THE SHOW EARLY, DON’T WAIT AFTER.. There was 3 of us and the whole band was out there just signing stuff for us…
Now to the music…
The first band was Outspoken.. Not really my style and just like Trust Company, all of their songs sounded the same… Singer looked kinda like David Draiman (Disturbed) but just did some pussy singing most of the time… I wasn’t too impressed with this band.
RA was there but didn’t play, so only a total of 3 bands played.
Powerman 5000 came on and tore the place up… With the stage at HARPO’S being about 7 feet high and no security, it was pretty kickass no matter where you were.. I was at the first front against the wall taking pictures and what not.. I’m pretty sure it was “When Worlds Collide” is what they opened with (Or maybe they closed with, I can’t remember), But either way they tore the place up and before the show afterwards when I met them they were real cool guys to hang out with.
Then of course there was Stone Sour. As usual, “GET INSIDE” started and the whole floor of this huge venue in Detroit went nuts.. People were climbing on stage and stage diving (Which I ended up doing twice…. Corey gave me a 10 on my second)… Corey was hilarious throughout the entire night.. When fat guys climbed up, he asked them if they were still hungry and to get off his fucking stage.. Then later talked about the music industry and dissed THE USED and said, I believe this was the quote (about the singer of the used) “He has his head so far up Kelly Osbourne’s ass he can’t even smell shit… music shouldn’t be a fucking soap opera.”
Corey was giving ratings to everyone who kept stage diving, and didn’t mind that everyone kept jumping up at all… (I accidentally bumped into Jim when I was up on stage, tho he didn’t mind). At one point Shawn threw out one of his picks and I caught it (It’s in one of the pictures)…. I got some real kickass pictures at some points, considering I had a digital camera and could hold up to about 100 pictures anyways…. The whole crowd was digging the show the entire time.. The pits were completely insane.. .The setlist kinda threw me off though, they ended with “OMEGA” and last time they played that 2nd to last.. Everyone was waiting after it for 1 more song then the lights came on and ended it..
“Bother” was amazing though… Didn’t hear any assholes yell anything about Slipknot and masks, and everyone was singing along and enjoying it… A few even stage dove during it, and Corey didn’t seem pissed, just laughed…
If you’re seeing any of the shows this tour, you are in for a fucking treat, Stone Sour & Powerman 5000, you can’t get much of a better show… Such great live bands and nice people.
