concert reviews: June 2008 Archives
This is a followup entry to the time I told you about how I stayed up late to buy pre-sale tickets to see Dethklok.
The show was last night. A dark, dreary, brutal kind of night. It had become summery here in Seattle, but yesterday the storm clouds and the cold returned. A perfect night for a metal show, I suppose. I took notes on my phone, so rather than trying to craft a story about the whole experience, I think I will just include the out-of-context notes I took during the show here:
If you're wondering if they performed as cartoons or humans...the answer is both. The humans came out and played in front of a big white projection screen, which played the appropriate clip from the appropriate episode when the appropriate song came on. So it was kind of like watching a Monkees episode during a musical montage, where you're sorta watching a live performance, but you're sorta watching a TV show? At the very beginning they showed a special clip of the council discussing the impending Dethklok tour and their plan to release a virus to all the people attending the shows.
And also if you're wondering, Dethklok fans look less like the uber-hot Toki Wartooth:
And a lot more like this:
The show was last night. A dark, dreary, brutal kind of night. It had become summery here in Seattle, but yesterday the storm clouds and the cold returned. A perfect night for a metal show, I suppose. I took notes on my phone, so rather than trying to craft a story about the whole experience, I think I will just include the out-of-context notes I took during the show here:
- two girls were dressed as rock n' roll clowns (who presumably do c-c-c-cocaine)
- I did not have to sign a liability waiver (although there was rain water dripping through lighting rigs and it was easy to imagine a mass electrocution)
- roadies did not wear executioner hoods (in fact one roadie looked like he could be Skwisgar's grandpa)
- plan of attack: stick close to guy in sleeveless Bathory tshirt
If you're wondering if they performed as cartoons or humans...the answer is both. The humans came out and played in front of a big white projection screen, which played the appropriate clip from the appropriate episode when the appropriate song came on. So it was kind of like watching a Monkees episode during a musical montage, where you're sorta watching a live performance, but you're sorta watching a TV show? At the very beginning they showed a special clip of the council discussing the impending Dethklok tour and their plan to release a virus to all the people attending the shows.
And also if you're wondering, Dethklok fans look less like the uber-hot Toki Wartooth:
And a lot more like this:
