And sometimes it's just a case of getting exactly what you want, and hearing all the hits, and getting that perfect encore, and being happy, with few surprises.
Like seeing the Beastie Boys in their mid-2000s pomp - it's something I'll never have again, now that Yauch has merged with the infinite, but their performance that cool January night will stick in my head forever. Or going to Queens of the Stone Age when they were touring with NIN, and both bands were trying to outdo each other in showmanship and crowd reaction, or the time we went to Radiohead (not that one) and it was just an predictably unpredictable as expected.
I do think Alice Cooper is more of an artist than the popular perception, but an Alice Cooper show without the fake guillotine and the rubber bats, as well as No More Mister Nice Guy, wouln't feel like a proper Alice concert at all.
The only important thing is that once you've seen the kind of show, you don't repeat it. I saw Iggy Pop do his thing at a Big Day Out and it was so good, it was all the strutting and crowd surfing you could ask for, but then I saw him a couple of years later, and it was exactly the same. All the same tricks. And not quite as good, since the first time featured as many of the original Stooges who were still standing at the time, and the second time didn't.
It's like eating the best piece of cake, but then ruining it by going back for seconds, when you should have got a fuckin' sausage...
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