Should I go see Mastodon this Wednesday?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

So you goin' or are you a pansy?

[NoCalMike 0]

I skipped out on Mastadon because there are so many good shows coming to town and I have to be kind of picky over how many of my certification classes I will miss. So far I have tickets for Deicide/Skinless/Immolation and in another month or so will be purchasing tickets for Suffocation/Crytopsy.....

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Suffocation/Crytopsy

 

Sick

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

So you goin' or are you a pansy?

Didn't I drunk dial you last night and tell that I was?

 

What sucks is I'll be going alone, which I generally don't like doing. Ah well.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Well, that was awesome.

 

After getting off to a kind of flat start, Mastodon found their groove in the third song, which is where they hooked me. These guys are nuts—their drummer, particularly; dude was throwing all sorts of crazy jazz accents in there. Plus, they ended with a Melvins cover, which put them even higher in my book.

 

As for the openers, I arrived too late for Cult of Luna, but just in time for the start of Death by Stereo's set. Awful metalcore band, with the only redeeming moment being when the singer introed a song by yelling at the audience, "I want everyone to flip me off right now! I want to feel your anger! I want to feel your rage ARUGHGGHHHGUUGGHGHH!" Ridiculous.

[BUTT 0]

How was the crowd?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I'd say only six-or-seven of the people at the venue were genuine heshers (and four of them were sporting denim jackets with large "Satan's Acquaintance" patches on the back). One of the non-jacket wearing heshers (though he had a faded Pantera shirt) kept trying to get a pit going early on with little luck; eventually, he was helped out by a really short man who ran from the back of the club for what I guess was the sole purpose of starting a pit. That's when a dozen more people jumped in.

 

They were a good, very receptive bunch, overall. Only a handful of people seemed to know who the Melvins were, though, judging from the lack of reaction when one of the band's singers introduced the song.

[BUTT 0]

You can't count on a band like Mastodon to bring in the "heshers". You have to wait until a washed-up hair metal band comes to town. If you can ignore the music, watching the crowd might be a very enjoyable experience.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

You know all that hesher stuff was a joke, right. I wasn't actively looking for them or forward to them.

 

They were there, though. Oh, yes, they were.

[BUTT 0]

I'm going to hope that calling me a moron was also a joke. I mean, I'm a totally good dude.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

[BUTT 0]

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

So you goin' or are you a pansy?

Didn't I drunk dial you last night and tell that I was?

 

What sucks is I'll be going alone, which I generally don't like doing. Ah well.

Like I ever check my voice mail. I actually never have, and am not going to until I get rid of the phone.