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Last night's Exodus/Rob Zombie/Slayer show was a lot of fun. (Dreamwidth peeps, the photo of my outfit with the amazing skeleton jacket my friend Thea painted is over here.)
I always forget how much of a pantomime metal shows are (including the crowd) until I go to one. I Do Not Blend (and in fact, frequently confuse the natives), but I always have a good time. The second time I left and returned to the bar area, I started to pull out my ID for the security guard, but he just smiled and waved me through, saying "Go on, Cupcake". I'm pretty sure he had no idea of my nickname, it was just happenstance.)
Before Exodus took the stage, our crowd realized that none of us could remember any songs by them. At all. We all knew we'd heard some, but we couldn't remember them. When the lead singer introduced "Toxic Waltz", Jesse and I turned to each other with expressions of "Oh, right!"
Rob Zombie, as always, puts on a show of amazing bombast. Giant robots! Lurching skeletons! Giant gouts of flame! Zombie wearing some sort of huge articulated claw hand! He played "Living Dead Girl" and "More Human Than Human", so I was happy. (I wanted to hear "Spookshow Baby" or "House of 1000 Corpses", but I knew that wouldn't happen.)
Slayer. Wow. Loud. I don't actually own anything by Slayer*, they were always the music of boyfriends. But I admire them, and they put on a very intense show. And in between songs, the lead singer comes across as very soft spoken and sweet. (It turns out he's a devout Catholic, and teaches Sunday School. I am utterly charmed by this.)
So all in all, a fun time, and I'm very glad I keep the good earplugs in my purse.
*In fact, the only Slayer-related song I own is Tori Amos' cover of "Raining Blood". Which I adore. No, really, it works amazingly well!
I always forget how much of a pantomime metal shows are (including the crowd) until I go to one. I Do Not Blend (and in fact, frequently confuse the natives), but I always have a good time. The second time I left and returned to the bar area, I started to pull out my ID for the security guard, but he just smiled and waved me through, saying "Go on, Cupcake". I'm pretty sure he had no idea of my nickname, it was just happenstance.)
Before Exodus took the stage, our crowd realized that none of us could remember any songs by them. At all. We all knew we'd heard some, but we couldn't remember them. When the lead singer introduced "Toxic Waltz", Jesse and I turned to each other with expressions of "Oh, right!"
Rob Zombie, as always, puts on a show of amazing bombast. Giant robots! Lurching skeletons! Giant gouts of flame! Zombie wearing some sort of huge articulated claw hand! He played "Living Dead Girl" and "More Human Than Human", so I was happy. (I wanted to hear "Spookshow Baby" or "House of 1000 Corpses", but I knew that wouldn't happen.)
Slayer. Wow. Loud. I don't actually own anything by Slayer*, they were always the music of boyfriends. But I admire them, and they put on a very intense show. And in between songs, the lead singer comes across as very soft spoken and sweet. (It turns out he's a devout Catholic, and teaches Sunday School. I am utterly charmed by this.)
So all in all, a fun time, and I'm very glad I keep the good earplugs in my purse.
*In fact, the only Slayer-related song I own is Tori Amos' cover of "Raining Blood". Which I adore. No, really, it works amazingly well!
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