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Tonight I got to three conclusions. First one is the realization, that a tough pneumonia can be cured with beer. Next one is the nice feeling occuring out of the smoking ban in concert venue. And third of all is the price question: what have Holy Moses and Reggae Music in common? Oh and before I forget, I have to apologize once again for my delay. Because that's the reason, that I missed the first band, opener Avatar. I can only excuse myself with the fact, that the showtime shown on the venue's website read a bit different to the actuall start. So it's not really my fold, is it?! Sad but true is once again the lack of interest of the thrash-death... or whatsoevr society. I mean, when there are more than 3.000 freaks showing up, when Slayer, or like recently Machinehear are in town, then nobody can tell me this musical style is out of fashion. Okay, Obituary and Holy Moses don't exactly have the same status like the just mentioned artists. But you can't neccessarely call 'em beginners, can you?! Bad weather, smoking band since the beginning of the new year, or an evening in the middle of the week are reasons but no excuse. No, I presume, we won't get to the point, why there are only aprox. 350 fans here, and I don't wanna waste much more time with this. Holy Moses, holy Moses
it's coming out of the boxes meant as the intro to a more or less sexy
rendevouz with a band named Holy Moses and their apparently pneumonia
suffering frontwoman. Yep, this intro got something about it, announcing
the group what's up to the name, not so much stylistically. Because this
here is more a raggae tune, originally penned by Raggae-Dub-Teccno artist
Lee'Scratch' Perry. However, without him, Holy Moses might not be named
Holy Moses. - For you average musical knowldege I just wanna say, that
Lee'Scratch'Perry had a hitsingle with this song back in 1984. And it's
from his album 'Mystical Miracle Star.
Obituary,
just imported from Florida, have taken quite something with them, but
definately not the nice temperature from the northamerican sunshine state.
And for that one, I'd give something right now, believe me. Therefore we
got endless lots of hair, which takes our focus first of all when hitting
the stage.These guys are also not what their name means, but they are very
much alive and full of energy. And we do get that energy tranferred with
lots of power acoustically. Holy shit....they are wakening up the dead
ones, who pull back their obituary for even more life.
Anyway, Obituary were founded in 1984,
seperated in 1997 and got back together in 2003. In Germany this reunion
went even pretty successful, as the album 'Frozen In Time' from 2005 went
straight into the german album charts. Last year another longplayed came
out named 'Xecutioner's Return'. The Line up is:
John Tardy with the monster hair on vocals, Donald Tardy with
less hair, but with a baseball hat on drums , Frank Watkins on Bass, Trevor
Peres on one guitar and Ralph Santolla on the other six string.
Although the headliner does
not that easy, because they do not have these little extraordinary bits,
like Holy Moses. A female singer in this stylistig is unusal anyway
accompanied by all these circumstances tonight. But it's also the way of
the entertainment, which is a bit too straight through the eyes powered
through the Backstage venue's carpet. And Aladin's lamp is exploding ten
times as fast as the speed of light. The dance on the volcano has just
started, but dare you, when you get into the eye of the storm right in the
middle. I for my part prefer to shoot my pics from a certain distance just
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