Back to the Commodore again! No better place to spend a Friday night...
As much as I wanted to checkout 7th Sunn at Endoplasmic, and OmegaCrom at Studio 54, I already had tix to see Megadeth at the Commodore Friday night, and the show turned out to be absolutely amazing!
Exodus lost their singer to a fatal stroke (at age 41) a while back, and had gone through a few replacements (including Chuck Billy of Testament) so I had no idea what they were going to sound like. As it turns out, HEAVIER was the answer. They were great - it's awesome that they're still kickin' it after all these years... as Dave Mustaine pointed out later, The original five Nu-Metal bands were Exodus, Anthrax, Metalica, Megadeth, and Slayer. I got to see two of 'em in one night!
On to Megedeth... considering that Mustaine was told two and a half years ago that the would never play guitar again, it was one hell of a show - scratch that... even if Dave hadn't OD'd on heroin and passed out on his left arm for two days, killing all the nerves, collapsing all the veins, and leaving all the muscles in atrophy, it was still one of the best Megadeth performances I've ever seen - and this was the 6th time I'd seen 'em!
After the ministry show the other week, I thought I had seen the Commodore at capacity - but for Megatdeth, they somehow managed to squeeze another 500 - 600 people in. I've been to a lot of shows there, but I've never seen such an amazing crowd.
When the dust had settled, Megadeth had played for nearly two hours and twenty minutes - performing all their staples, a hefty swath of tunes from the new album, a few of their soundtrack only tunes, and a surprise rendition of "Back in the Day" with all the members of Exodus returning to the stage to sing along.
Considering that the only original member of Megadeth in this lineup is Dave Mustaine, the rest of the guys did an amazing job at keeping true to the sound and style that the rock gawds are so famous for.
It was a great time, it was great show - it's just too band that this is the end of Megadeth. The band was dispanded three years ago, and this last album would have been called "The Dave Mustaine" project, were it not for label obligations... they owed one more Megadeth album, and "The System Has Failed" was it.
Posted by Calvin at November 27, 2004 09:05 AMwow
all this time i thought he couldn't play guitar because of carpet tunnel syndrome
you learn something new everyday...
reminds me of a guy i knew... he was a junkie like 15 years ago and passed out for 3 days... all the blood in his body started to settle in the part of his body he was lying on ... he almost had to have his arm and leg cut off...but he survived and continued to use... it wasn't till about a year later he cleaned him self up and last time i talked to him he was vegan and had a nice girlfriend and i'm not sure if they were his kids or not...but they had a little family thing going on.... last i heard he was in rehab.... but you know how word of mouth can be especially when it's travelling across the country... scary stuff though... and then there's sunny... always talking about dave attending his meetings at AA... how's the skiing in the GVA?
Yeah, I had first heard it was collapsed viens from too many needles, then I heard that it was a skateboard accident that shattered his arm, but finally I read an article that Dave himself wrote about the whole ordeal, the physiotherapy he had to go through, retraining his muscles to play guitar - a lot of work for that stupid habit, eh?
As for skiing, Whistler only opened last week, and we only finally got our first snowfall here yesterday, so it's still a little early to be on the slopes. I suspect I won't be getting out 'till Janauary - lots of stuff booked up between now ant then - ONE more Scarecow Balcony show this year... we've stopped booking, gonna take the last half of December off so that we can all take a bit of a vacation.
Posted by: Calvin at November 30, 2004 08:35 PM