Super Duper Badass Concert Thread

[Anonymous]

Saw this show in the Aztec Ballroom high as fuck on ketamine and TBPITW.  Alien Sex Fiend was always kinda fun to listen to on acid, they would make wild sounds and psychedelic music with a sense of humor not found in many of the goth/industrial type groups.  Kinda like a horror/sci-fi B-movie with hallucinations and and an audience of deviants.  They had a rotating band, some members going on and offstage with each song or two, though Nic Fiend was onstage the whole show.  They played some of the older stuff, like "New Christian Music", "Wild Women", "I Walk the Line", "Smells Like Shit", "The Impossible Mission" and tossed a hundred or so plastic Halloween skulls into the crowd during "Now I'm Feeling Zombified".  The crowd was a good mix mainly of the goth  and punk persuasion, with a few hippies and others thrown in the mix, all of whom seemed to be using drugs, which is not surprising considering the inherent vibe of substance use that permeates Alien Sex Fiend.

[Anonymous]

Saw this show at the Milk Bar, a dive in the basement of a building in lovely downtown Jacksonville, Fl.  I was kinda pissed that one of the opening bands, Kyuss, did not show up as scheduled.  However, Monster Magnet played a great show, doing songs primarily from Spine of God and 25.....Tab, staying away from their new (at the time) album, Dopes to Infinity, which was OK by me.  The show was sparsely attended, but they kicked down the RAWK for the fans, playing such excellent drug rock anthems as "Pill Shovel", "Sin's A Good Man's Brother", "Zodiac Lung", "Spine of God", "Tab...25", "Lord 13", "Black Mastermind", and others, leaving brains in a druggie haze of enlightenment through reverb.  Heavy on the guitar effects, they played loud and long, encoring with their later-to-be-an-MTV-hit, "Negasonic Teenage Warhead".  I'm glad I caught this tour, since later they became too big an act to play small clubs, mainly doing arena-sized venues.  The Milk Bar is a complete dive, but has surprisingly played host to a number of diverse and eclectic bands in its history, despite its limitations.

[Froderik]

I went to see the B-52's a couple of nights ago. It was at this nice lil venue down on Market Place. A friend of mine had some free tickets and gave me one of them. This was my first visit to this group of stripmall-like bars that had cropped up in recent years. Some old friends of mine were there out in front of Ram's Head Live (the venue) and it turned out that they were to be the opening band. Small town. So I stood talked for a bit and used Snackie's cell to call my friend with the tickets who hadn't shown yet. They were on their way. Snackie & co., The Swingin' Swamis, went inside to get ready to go on... I waited outside and watched the girls go by for a half an hour until Jonathan got there w/ the tickets...

So the B-52's were pretty fuckin' cool. At the outset I was a little skeptical about the drummer (some kid) bcuz he didn't seem like the right drummer for them at first...he sucked during the opening song which was Planet Claire. I was thinking to myself, "Ah, they got some damned second-rate metal drummer" or something. But his playing improved a great deal as the set progressed. No, it wasn't me getting progressively drunk that made him seem to get better, bcuz I wasn't drinking, not much..

The nucleus of the band is still there -- Fred S., Kate P. & Cindy W. -- and they delivered their brand of "psycho-delic" music very nicely. They played all of the good stuff from the first album like Dance This Mess Around, 52 Girls, Rock Lobster, and of course Planet Claire. They also played some songs that I liked from later albums like Strobe Light and Private Idaho, and some other not-so-great songs that were unknown to me. They pretty much played all the hits...Roam was a nice one that I recall them playing. Fred was still pulling out the toy piano and props like that, dancing his ass off at appropriate times during the set, and hamming it up perfectly. The ladies, though older, still had the same look with the hair-dos...and sang all of those harmonized parts flawlessly. A very entertaining band, go see them if you get the chance to.