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Black and Blue Concert Movie Review
Last night our local independent theater chain, The Alamo Drafthouse, played the 35mm version of the legendary Black and Blue concert from 
1980 which featured Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult live in Long Island, NY. I hadn’t seen this movie in about 20 years and had forgotten a lot about it. For some reason I thought that there were some interviews along with the concert footage, but I was sadly mistaken.
The movie starts out with some silly little movie by BOC called Here’s Johnny. Completely goofy. Then the live footage starts.
Let’s clear the air here. I’m no true BOC fan. They have a handful of songs that are friggin’ brilliant, but most everything else of theirs is hokey cheeseball stuff. I’ve tried time and time again to get into them and just can’t do it save those handful of songs that I really like. Their stage show was completely goofy. Sure, it was 1980, but c’mon. For the song Divine Wind, they dedicated it to the Ayatollah Khomeini and were flipping him the bird. Yes, I know that it was a big deal when all that was going on, I remember it well. And I guess that the news reflects in music quite often. Remember all the songs in the last 80s and early 90s about TV preachers and such? But still. Too goofy for me. Maybe had I been at the show I would not have thought the same. The only songs that BOC did in this set that I moderately liked were Cities On Flame and Godzilla (purely for nostalgic reasons). BOC’s stage presence is pretty boring as well. I met those guys about 7 years ago and they were a bunch of douches. It was at a biker rally in Virginia Beach, VA and they were doing a little meet and greet before their set. They treated every person there like shit. We stayed for 2 songs and left. Fuck ’em. But that experience plays no hand in this review.
Now, on to better things. Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio. Ronnie always seems more animated when the cameras are running. When I saw DIO in 2002, he was lively but not cartoonish. When I was at Radio City Music Hall (NYC) in 2007 for the filming of the Heaven and Hell DVD, he was certainly more lively. Gotta play it up, eh? But in this movie, he’s over the top, more so than I have ever noticed in past live footage. Ronnie is very good with his between song banter. He throws the horns aplenty. He even says in one spot, “A lot of people mistake this sign for being something evil when it really just means long live rock and roll.” They play a lot of the Ozzy era stuff and I never thought Dio sounded good on it. Just like Ozzy would sound terrible doing the Dio era stuff. They some Dio era stuff and it sounds pretty good. Tony and Geezer are killing it although Tony looks wasted. Geezer is playing an awesome BC Rich Eagle bass, unfortunately they don’t show him as much as I would like. It was interesting watching him use a pick in a few songs. Overall they sounded great but would have been a little greater had Bill Ward been behind the drums. When they did N.I.B., Dio made the comment that it doesn’t stand for Nativity In Black, it just stands for N.I.B.
The crowd in the theater was about half full, not too shabby for a 10:15PM showing on a Monday night. Tickets were $2 each. Our whole row seemed to know each other and that was fun. My friend and singer for local doom band Mala Suerte sat next to me. I cracked him up when I leaned over and said, “This is definitely a night for mustache rock!”
In the end, it was cool to see this on the big screen and to hang out with some good friends while doing…but I am tired today.
Here’s the setlist:
BOC
- Here’s Johnny
- The Marshall Plan
- Doctor Music
- Cities On Flame
- Divine Wind
- Godzilla
- Roadhouse Blues (The Doors)
- Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)
Black Sabbath
- Warpigs
- Neon Knights
- N.I.B.
- Iron Man
- Paranoid
- Heaven and Hell
- Die Young
This came out on VHS and Betamax in 1980 and a few years later on Laserdisc. It was supposedly being released on DVD in 2002 and for unknown reasons got canned. You can view the entire show on YouTube on this girl’s channel.
Scorpions/Ratt – Concert Review – San Antonio, Tx – July 23, 2010
SCORPIONS – RATT
San Antonio, TX July 23, 2010
Amazing. In a word that’s the best way to describe this show. But as always, I will go into more detail.
The day starts out with me picking up Christine and Charlotte, piling their pretty selves in my car and heading 75 miles south to San Antonio to the AT&T Center. Since it’s a Friday we allowed some extra time to
Christine, Charlotte, Yours Truly
get through Austin and SA’s traffic. Good idea. The doors opened at 6:30 and we arrived at about 5:45. Hung out in the parking lot, had a beer, talked music and talked a lot of BS. Good times.
We hop in line and 15 minutes later we were in the door. Of course we head to the merch booth to check out the shirts. Both Ratt’s and the Scorpion’s shirts were pretty fugly so I didn’t pick one up. That’s a rarity, me no picking up a concert shirt. We’re inside, grab a beer and go find out seats. I of course looked at the seating chart as I was buying the tickets but didn’t really realize how good they were. My photographer friend, Jinger, was behind us when she wasn’t in the photo pit shooting both bands.
The place was filling in pretty well and I believe it was sold out by the end of the night. San Antonio is a legendary town for metal. So many bands from around the world got their first US break there. Scorpions and Ratt were 2 of those bands. Sure Ratt was popular in the LA scene on the early 80s, but SA radio really pumped them and got them out of California. The SA crowds are great too. They love metal there. It’s pretty awesome.
Warren, Carlos and Robbie
The lights go down and on comes Ratt. Thanks to the interwebz I had seen the setlist that they have been running for this tour and was pretty stoked for it. Morning After! Alright! Stephen Pearcy was never known for being a great singer and he’s still not, but he did a pretty good job last night. The band consisted of Pearcy, Warren DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer, Robbie Crane and Carlos Cavazo(!). Carlos! I’ve always been a huge fan of the first 3 Quiet Riot albums that Carlos was on. Was fortunate enough to meet and hang out with him in 98. Nice guy, fine guitarist. Ratt sounded great overall. Warren is definitely a hotshot player. Robbie’s been in the band for a long time now and did a fine job. He’s got strong backing vocal skills too. Seeing Ratt was a bit special for me as I had never seen them before. “Back in the day” they came to town with Poison and Bon Jovi and I refused to pay to see either of those bands. Blech! So this was a perfect bill for me to see them on, even if it was 20+ years after their heyday. The only song I didn’t care for in their setlist was Way Cool Jr. That song sucked then and it still sucks now.
Here’s the setlist as I recall it:
- You’re In Love
- Lay It Down
- Lack Of Communication
- Loving You’s A Dirty Job
- I Want A Woman
- Best Of Me
- Slip Of The Lip
- Nobody Rides For Free
- Back For More
- Way Cool Jr.
- Wanted Man
- The Morning After
- Round And Round
Damn fine setlist.
RATT says goodbye
After the Ratt set, the girls and I go out and grab a drink and they run into some friends of theirs who ended up joining us for the Scorpions set.
The music on the PA at rock concerts has always been an interesting subject of discussion. Before the Scorps came on, they were paying all Nickelback. It was pretty annoying. Then Back In Black comes on (very
Klaus and Rudy...Sting of the Tail!
loudly) and of course people start cheering. I never cared for that song but it’s fun seeing how amped people get anytime it gets played in an arena. 20 seconds into it, the lights go down, the songs ends and here comes Rudy Schenker walking on the stage to open the show. The crowd goes apeshit…including me. Rudy! RUDY! The rest of the band quickly follows and they open up with Sting In The Tail from the new album.
The band sounded great all night. Klaus’ voice was clean and powerful even though you can tell that they were playing everything tuned down. But for a dude that’s 62, he did a fine job. They all did. They have some Polish bass player named Pawel Maciwoda and James Kottak on drums. Kottak is a maniac. One of those showy type drummers, but solid as a rock and did a great job. He did a drum solo and had a rather humorous synchronized video of him in a bunch of different live recreations of Scorpions albums. For me the video was more interesting than the solo, but the guy obviously has a great sense of humor.
I’ve seen the Scorpions twice before. Once in 1991 on the Crazy World Tour and the other in 2002 with DIO and Deep Purple. This show was probably better than the 98 show but hard to top the 91 show. I was a little
Matthias
letdown that they played nothing from the Uli Roth era as in recent years. They had been doing either In Trance or We’ll Burn the Sky, but nothing on this tour…their final tour. In general it didn’t matter. They were great. They did Send Me An Angel and dedicated it ti Ronnie James Dio. For Angel and Holiday, Rudy and Matthias had a Flying V and Explorer electric/acoustics! It made me giggle a bit but it was pretty cool.
One great surprise was at the beginning of their encore. Klaus talked about how special San Antonio was to helping the Scorpions then they went right into Still Loving You. This is the only show on the tour, as I can tell, that this song was played. We freaked out. They dropped Winds of Change (thank God). That song always annoyed me. The finished up with No One Like You and Rock You Like A Hurricane. I would have stayed for another 2 hours of music had then been able to do it. The energy from the crowd and from the band were pretty amazing. In recent years the only show that rivaled this one was Iron Maiden in 2008.
The setlist:
- Sting Of The Tail
- Make It Real
- Bad Boys Running Wild
- The Zoo
- Coast To Coast
- Loving You Sunday Morning
- The Best Is Yet To Come
- Send Me An Angel
- Holiday
- Raised On Rock
- Tease Me Please Me
- Dynamite
- Kottack Attack (Drum Solo)
- Blackout
- Six String Sting (Matthias rocks out)
- Big City Nights
- Still Loving You (encore)
- No One Like You (encore)
- Rock You Like A Hurricane (encore)
The drive home was long and both of the girls fell asleep. It was an incredible night for a lot of reasons.
Upon returning home to downtown Austin, I walked across the street and caught the last 2 songs from Jason McMaster’s Killa Maul Metallica tribute. Awesome as always. Slipped across the street from there and ate a slice of pizza, drank half a beer, came home and went to bed.
Wonderful night with wonderful people.
Long live the Scorpions!
Scorpions
The Zoo
Holiday
Concrete Blonde – Concert Review – 061910
CONCRETE BLONDE
LIVE AT EMO’S, AUSTIN, TEXAS
JUNE 19, 2010
So let’s go back to 1990/91. I was working part time at an independent record store in Norfolk, VA called The Music Man. Pretty legendary place for a store that was in a mall. Between them, Skinnie’s Records and Unicorn Records, there were none better in the area as far as indie stores went. Skinnie’s is the only one to still be alive. Awesome!
At The Music Man there was a girl named Teresa that worked there. Tall, dark hair, black leather jacket, seemingly pissed off at the world and would likely kick your ass. We weren’t friends by any means but were amicable. Concrete Blonde’s Bloodletting had come out and any night that we were working together, she spun it in the store. I neither liked nor disliked it, but I became very familiar with it. She was a Concrete Blonde fanatic. So for the year or so that I worked there, the album was force-fed to me.
A month or 2 ago it was announced that they were going to tour for the 20th anniversary of Bloodletting and were coming to Austin on the tour. I figured what the hell, never seen them, liked some of the stuff I remembered by them, so why not go? As I am apt to do, I bought 2 tickets. I mentioned the show to my stunningly gorgeous friend, Christine, and she accepted. This is the same Christine that went to Iron Maiden with us last weekend.
So I pick her up, we go eat some awesome sushi at Mushashino, grab a margarita at my favorite bar in Austin which shall remain unnamed) and head downtown. Jason McMaster’s Killa Maul was playing early at Red Eyed Fly and we wanted to catch some of their set. Killa Maul is Jason’s Metallica tribute band which plays only the Kill ’em All album. It’s a fun show to watch, mainly because you can see him having so much fun with it. We only caught 2 or 3 songs and had to head to Emo’s for the Concrete Blonde show. They were playing the outside stage and it was hot and muggy and slightly uncomfortable with such a large crowd. It seemed that no matter where we stood, some dude wanted to take his shirt off right in front of us. We ran into my friends Sean and Jen and found a decent spot to catch the show.
An announcement came on before the band took the stage dictating that there is to be no filming of the show and no flash photography. So, sorry…I have no photos or video to share.
The band took the stage which was purposely poorly lit on Johnette’s side. They opened with Bloodletting (Vampire Song). Her voice sounded good and really got better as the night progressed. Next song was their hit “Joey”. They botched the intro and I noticed on a vid or 2 on YouTube that they had done this a time or 2 already on the tour. Hey…it happens. We’re musicians, we’re not always perfect! ha
Overall they sounded really good. I was quite impressed with their guitar player. He had a cool style, switching between using a pick and just fingers and sometimes a combo of the 2. Drummer was solid. Towards the end of the set, Johnette really belted out some lyrics.
Overall it was a good show and my friend seemed to enjoy it as well. The one thing I could have done without was the cover of Little Wing. I’m not a Hendrix fan in the least. That being said, not too many people can do his stuff justice. Their version wasn’t bad, but, well…ugh. Hendrix. ’nuff said. I would have rather heard their version of Thin Lizzy’s It’s Only Money. That would have been bad ass. But alas, no. I knew the Hendrix cover was in the set thanks to the interwebz, so it was expected.
Instead of doing encores, they just played through to the end of their set. Four of the last 5 songs were done with no bass. Just vocals, acoustic guitar and drums. Sounded pretty cool. They closed with Still In Hollywood.
As expected, this was a mostly “older” crowd and it’s obvious that some of these people don’t get out much these days. It was great people watching for sure. I was a little surprised to not see much of the goth crowd there.
In the end, nice job to Concrete Blonde. We had a great time and they sounded really good.
This setlist may be a little jumbled up. I’ll fix it later if I can find the correct order.
1. Bloodletting
2. Joey
3. I Don’t Need a Hero
4. Days and Days
5. Lullabye
6. Scene of the Perfect Crime
7. Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man
8. Someday
9. Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen cover)
10. Caroline
11. When I Was a Fool
12. God Is a Bullet
13. Run Run Run
14. Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix cover)
15. Heal It Up
16. Your Haunted Head
17. Mexican Moon
18. Happy Birthday
19. True
20. Tomorrow, Wendy
21. Still in Hollywood
Iron Maiden – Concert Review – 06/12/2010
The last time I saw Maiden was in 2008 on the Somewhere In Time Tour in San Antonio, Texas. It was probably the best performance I had ever seen by the band and was my 3rd show since the Seventh Son Tour. Anyone who knows me knows that Maiden is my number one band of all time. Sure they have some albums that I despise, but I love them. Always have, always will.
When I found out that they were coming to San Antonio’s AT&T Center this year, I was stoke. Even more so because this time it was an inside arena show. There’s something special about seeing big bands in an arena as compared to an amphitheater. I wasn’t too excited to learn that Dream Theater was opening up. Sure, they’re a talented band but I haven’t cared for anything they have put out since Images and Words.
As usual for just about any show, I bought 2 tickets. Someone always wants to go who may have forgotten to get a ticket or couldn’t afford one at the time or whatever. My spare ticket was originally purchased for my guitar player but he decided a few weeks ago that he didn’t want to go. No biggie. So I asked my beautiful friend Christine to go with me as my guest and thankfully she obliged. Her knees may have even buckled a little when I asked. :)
The only unfortunate thing was that I bought my tickets late in the day when they went on sale as I forgot all about it. I got decent seats, but not great seats. No biggie. Just being there is all that matters.
A few weeks ago my friend Michael asked if he and our mutual friend, Sean, could go with us and of course I said yes. He’s a huge Maiden fan as well, no matter that he’s the bass player for a well known country band in Texas. A few days before the show we were chatting he said that he may be able to get us better seats or a box suite for the show. He knows a dude who knows a dude or something like that. I got even more excited about the show, but even without a hookup, the trip with good friends to see the greatest band in the world was going to be wonderful…and it was.
I saw the setlists from the previous 2 shows in Dallas and Houston and was originally a little disappointed that it contained stuff primarily from the last 3 albums with 3 or 4 old songs thrown in at the end. After a day or 2 of rationalizing, I figured hey, they did the hits tour 2 years ago, why not play stuff that is fresh to them, eh? Sure, having to endure songs from the painful Dance of Death wasn’t making me excited but they were playing some stuff from Brave New World and the awesome A Matter of Life and Death. So, we’re all good here.
So here we are on Saturday, show day. I played taxi and picked everyone up separately and we headed south to San Antonio. We get to the venue around 6:30PM and the crowd is rolling in. It’s a hot and beautiful day.
There was a merch booth outside and we grabbed a load of shirts and then get in line as the doors were open to the venue. Michael and Sean had to go to the will call booth to get theirs so we met them inside. Christine and I hit another merch booth and I buy some more shirts. Iron Maiden always makes shirts especially for their Texas shows and this one was no exception. In 2008 I only bought one shirt for me and the next day they were selling on eBay for $100 or more. You see, I am a capitalist. If I can turn a profit on my investment, I’m going to do it. So I bought a small load of the Texas only shirts. We’ll see how my venture turns out. :)
Michael calls us as we are finishing up at the booth and we meet him near the main entrance. We get introduced to his “guy” and we’re ushered up the step to the box suites. He says, “I’ll bring some beer in a little bit but this is the best I can do for the moment.” The best you can do? Dude! You just put us in a beautifully decorated box with a great view of the stage! None of us were complaining and we were all a little freaked out by the whole thing. It was very special treatment and I certainly owe my friend something huge in return for this.
After getting my head back down to earth, the lights go down and Dream Theater takes the stage. I’m not really a fan even thought I like their first 2 albums. I don’t know any of the material beyond Images and
Dream Theater
Words and suspected that they wouldn’t play anything except Pull Me Under. I was right. Their performance was solid but I was a little bored. The rest of crowd seemed to enjoy them pretty well.
Here’s their list:
- As I am
- A Rite of Passage
- Home
- Constant Motion
- Panic Attack
- Constant Motion
- Pull Me Under
Dream Theater taking their final bows
Between sets, Michael and Sean go down to see where their seats are and they’re close to the front on Gers’ side and they stay there for Maiden’s set. Christine and I stay in the box. It was literally about 10 rows straight up from where our seats were, so why leave?
Maiden hits the stage and starts the rock with Wicker Man. The sound was good and the band was energetic. In true Maiden style, they changed back drops quite a bit and Bruce was all over the stage. The band was
Bruce Bruce. Photo used by permission by Jay West
great. They always are. As most who know me already know, I despise the fact that Gers is still in the band. It always pains me to see him prancing around the stage and playing sloppy solos. Last night was a little different though. It seems as if they have maybe reigned him in a little bit. Sure he did a little of his prancing and guitar twirling, but he mostly stayed to his side of the stage. I think also that since they were primarily playing songs from “his” era, he was involved in the music a little more. His solos were pretty good. It does still pain me to see him doing some of Adrian’s solos in the old stuff while Adrian is standing there on stage. I would assume that Adrian isn’t bothered by it.
Christine and I rocked it in the suite. It was a blast and was a very special night. Any night seeing Iron Maiden is special for me. Bruce stated that the show was sold out but I saw lots of empty seats. Maybe some people got mad about the setlist and didn’t show. Who cares. We were there. Dallas got to see them do Brighter Than a 1000 Suns but for Houston and and San Antonio we got Wrathchild. I would have preferred 1000 Suns. I love that song. I think they threw it in the list as a replacement to keep the crowd involved. Bruce said several years ago that US fans only wanted to hear the hits and that it was annoying. He was right. We got the hits 2 years ago so I can totally see why they wanted to do a set of stuff that was more fresh to them. They played a new song from the upcoming album…El Dorado. It sounded much better live than on the studio recording that was released last week.
One awesome thing that I saw was that there were 2 people on the floor behind the soundboard doing sign language to every song for both bands and all of the between song banter. Obviously there were some deaf people in that section. That was pretty cool to see.
Here’s Iron Maiden’s setlist:
- The Wicker Man
- Ghost of the Navigator
- Wrathchild
- El Dorado
- Pachendale
- The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
- These Colours Don’t Run(!!!)
- Blood Brothers
- Wildest Dreams
- No More Lies
- Brave New World
- Fear of the Dark (I hate this song…and album)
- Iron Maiden
- Number of the Beast (encore – they have a new devil!)
- Hallowed Be Thy Name (encore)
- Running Free (encore)
Let me just add in here that I am so friggin’ glad I didn’t have to sit through the Trooper. That almost made the show worth it right there.
Overall it was a great night with great friends seeing the greatest band in the world. I am utterly humbled and thankful for the special treatment that we got. The drive home was great and went by quickly. All of us talking about the show. This was Shawn and Christine’s first Maiden show and they were blown away. It’s funny, Michael and I have only known each other for about 2 years. He’s originally from Virginia as well. He was wearing his original Seventh Son tour shirt and we both saw that show at the Hampton Coliseum in 1988. Small world. Thanks Michael, Christine and Sean. Always nice to share experiences like this with good people.
I’ll have videos uploaded soon. For now, enjoy the pictures.
Iron Maiden
Sean and Christine in our sweet suite
The view from up there...where eagles dare.
Me, Michael, Sean...Eddie's boys
La mas bonita del mundo disfrutando el show.
Texas only shirt...front
Texas only shirt...back
Iron Maiden
Always look on the bright side of life...
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UP THE IRONS!
Pentagram – Concert Review 052610
PENTAGRAM – BLACK TUSK – RWAKE – MALA SUERTE – STRIDER
So let’s back up to July of 2009. Looking at my review I don’t remember liking the show as much as I wrote about. No matter. This is May 2010 and a different day.
As some of my faithful readers may know I recently moved in downtown Austin to be closer to all of my favorite music venues to make things a bit more accessible. Mission accomplished. Last month I was able to hang out with some of the guys from Hammerfall and do dinner with them. More or less this happened because I live 3 blocks from this particular venue.
Last night my luck struck again. I left my apartment to hit a local burger joint to meet up with Amelia and have a burger and some beers before we both went our separate ways to see different shows. As I am crossing the street I see this group of longhairs and noticeably I see Bobby Liebling and Victor Griffin from Pentagram. I also recognized the drummer Gary from the previous Pentagram show and from a show where he drummed for Valkyrie a few years back.
Basically the first words out of my mouth when we were face to face, and I am sure I stuttered, were, “holy crap…you’re Pentagram!” I meet tons of bands, some big some small…but this is Pentagram. The band that
Greg, Bobby, happy fat dude, Victor, Gary...PENTAGRAM!
did Day Of Reckoning! To me one of the greatest doom albums of all time. So, as I am totally trying not to be a fanboy, I ask for a picture with the band. One of their old friends lives here in Austin and he snapped a few shots with my camera and then some with his. As we’re doing pictures and standing in the street, I asked if they were going to hear Burning Savior from Day of Reckoning. Victor said no. Then I asked about Living in a Ram’s Head and Bobby quickly said, “We’ll never fucking play that song again. I never really liked it!” Damn! Then he says to me, “Didn’t Burning Savior scare you?” I replied with, “It probably scared my mom back in the 80s but never phased me.” “Right on,” he replied. So I ask them where they were heading and they pointed to the restaurant that was right behind us. I told them that they would be making an intestinal mistake if they ate there and they asked for my recommendation. I took them to Chupa Cabra, the same place I took Hammerfall. They loved it. Conversations were pretty funny at the table. Everyone in the band kept giving the new bassist a hard time. As we were walking to dinner, Victor and I talked about the upcoming Place of Skulls album. September! He asked if I liked it and I said, “If you’re on it, I’m a fan.” Which is true.
Bobby was great to be around and he seemed clean of drugs. Sure, he’s a bit burned out but he was pretty funny and had some really cool stories to share. He seemed like a “sweet old man”, and I say that with the highest respect and regard for what this man has meant for metal. It was a pleasure to spend that kind of time with the band, especially with him and Victor. I mentioned to them that I had a book that I would like both he and Victor to sign. I mentioned that I had a spare copy for sale and Bobby asked if I’d trade a t-shirt for it. In the grand scheme I lost a little money in the deal but how often does anyone get to give a legend a cool gift and have said legend give you a cool shirt and a poster in return? After the transaction, they went back to their hotel to rest.
Gary Rosas and Mala Suerte
There were 4 other bands on the bill and I wanted to catch a few of them. Since I obviously dissed Amelia to hang out with Pentagram I met her up the street for a beer with our friend Natalia. I caught the last 3 songs of Strider (Austin, TX) and liked what little bit that I heard. After their set we all just hung outside on the Emo’s patio and jibber jabbered. Lots of familiar faces, of course. Mala Suerte was up next and this was the first time I had seem them with their new guitarist. Seamless transition. They were good, they always are. Consistently. Their singer is one of the first people I met when I moved here and one of my favorite people in this town. Great dude. He was wearing an awesome original DIO Last In Line shirt as well. They finished their set and it was back to the patio.
Next up was Rwake (Arkansas). They’ve played here several times in the last few years and I always miss them. I caught a few of their songs last night and will likely never see them again. Just not my thing. More patio!
Black Tusk
Black Tusk hit the stage and are a very energetic 3pc stoner rock band. Their drummer was fantastic. Seriously. Fantastic. The band was fun to watch. Don’t know that I’d buy their album but I’ll surely go see them live again when given the chance.
The crowd had increased and tonight’s show was on the inside stage as opposed to the outside stage from last year’s show. I staked my claim at the front of the stage as Pentagram was setting up so I could at least get a few decent photos. Pentagram his the stage and opened up with the song Day of Reckoning. They sounded great. The band was tight, the sound was good and most importantly Bobby’s voice sounded much better. I had a huge smile on my face for the whole show. They were great. I was totally elated.
I am one of the luckiest people I know sometimes.
The setlist was as follows:
- Day of Reckoning
- Forever My Queen
- Ask No More
- Run My Course
- Frustration
- You’re Lost, I’m Free
- Review Your Choices
- Petrified
- Relentless
- All Your Sins
- 20 Buck Spin
- Pentagram (Sign of the Wolf)
- When the Screams Come
Setlist...love how they coded it.
Bobby Liebling
Victor Griffin
Pentagram
Greg, Bobby, happy fat dude, Victory, Gary...PENTAGRAM!
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