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serinde ([personal profile] serinde) wrote2007-05-21 04:46 pm
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It's 1985, bitch. Suck it.

Saturday night, the universe was kind enough to continue its trend of giving me do-overs on all the Big Important Shows I was too young to see the first time.

And by that I mean:

MEGADETH!

and

DIO SABBATH!!


(Oh, and there were some jabronies called Machine Head opening for them, who sucked in every conceivable fashion, up to and including a gratuitous Diamond Dimebag Darrell fansquee moment. Ignore.)

Megadeth seriously brought the house down. Incredible; just incredible. Tight and fast and hard, thank you kindly; no over-wankery, just METAL!~. Also, Dave Mustaine is still way hot.

Dio + Sabbath's average was a little lower than Megadeth, but their high points were higher. Or, well, maybe not everyone ranks hearing "Neon Knights" in the original style on their Top Ten Things I Need To Do Before I Die list. But it was stormin'. Some small issues were that their sound man should have been taken out back and shot--Dio's voice kept getting downmixed under the instruments, which is very, very wrong--; sometimes the wankery went on a little long for my taste; and (not their fault, of course) it was ass-freezing cold and by then standing in motorcycle boots on cement for nigh four hours was taking its extreme toll on my constitution. But. I would not trade it for the world.

[identity profile] missionista.livejournal.com 2007-05-21 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Rock on!!!!

My expereince with those bands was similar. Megadeth=TEH AWESOMEST, and damn, Dave Mustaine is kinda hot. Dio Sabbath was kind of disappointing, in that the wankery was ENDLESS. (and they didn't play some of the stuff I hoped they would...)

[identity profile] agnosticoracle.livejournal.com 2007-05-21 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You were much too young for me to suck in 1985. I was however driving a 1969 Camero which regularly had Black Sabbath and Ronnie James Dio in the cassette player. Is that worth anything. =)

[identity profile] arkham1010.livejournal.com 2007-05-21 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
wow, woulda have liked to have heard about that, i would have liked to gone.

*sob*

[identity profile] darkteddybear.livejournal.com 2007-05-23 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Is this a good time to mention that I just found a club that does big hair heavy metal Kareoke?