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So, my buddy calls me up yesterday morning to tell me he has 4 free tix, and my name is on one of them. Later that day, another friend calls and offers me another 4 free tickets. I am thinking, "this show is going to suck if they're giving away that many tix". Free parking reinforced up my feeling that they would be bussing in the homeless just to fill the seats. We hook up in the evening, drive to the show, perfect timing. Sat down, in our surprisingly good seats for free, about 45 seconds before Whitesnake started.
For a band with one original member, Whitesnake rocked the house. Never saw them before and I was quite impressed. David Coverdale must be around 60 and still pulling the screams. I can say, Coverdale is holding on to his voice better than Robert Plant (closer to the same age) or Joe Elliot (20-ish years younger). For me, Doug Aldrich stole the show... the tone... the playing. The guy is the master of the "three finger tecnique". I saw some pinky flying, but it was mostly 3 finger. Reb Beach was good, but either didn't have the slice to his tone or got robbed in the mix. Sorry to say, Reb had tricks... whammy, two-hand tapping... but Aldrich owned. Oh the tone...
After a relatively short intermission to change stage, Judas Priest took the stage and played the entire British Steel album. I guess they have a newish record and the tour is the 30th anniversary of British Steel. For the first several songs, all I could think was, "Rob Halford looks old, stiff and half asleep. But, damn! This old man still has the screams too." I had forgotten how many good songs are on British Steel. By the end of the album, Halford seemed to have warmed up and was a little more interesting, opening his eyes occasionally. By contrast, the rest of Priest looked great for a bunch of old guys. KK Downing, in particular, was very animated (musta had a nice cortizone shot before going on).
Judas Priest must be one of the only bands still using Hamer guitars almost exclusively. I will give them having a signature sound, but yeesh! It sounded "ice picky" and over processed. I wouldn't be surprised if their tone was all digital. At the same time, it was about dead-on to the album tone.
Both bands had ridiculous amounts of delay on the vocals which washed out the rest of the music until the delay stopped.
All in all, it was a darn good time with friends and was very inspirational. I don't know how much the tickets cost, but I bet you could get passes if you poke around a little when they are in your town. Definately a show worth seeing.
For a band with one original member, Whitesnake rocked the house. Never saw them before and I was quite impressed. David Coverdale must be around 60 and still pulling the screams. I can say, Coverdale is holding on to his voice better than Robert Plant (closer to the same age) or Joe Elliot (20-ish years younger). For me, Doug Aldrich stole the show... the tone... the playing. The guy is the master of the "three finger tecnique". I saw some pinky flying, but it was mostly 3 finger. Reb Beach was good, but either didn't have the slice to his tone or got robbed in the mix. Sorry to say, Reb had tricks... whammy, two-hand tapping... but Aldrich owned. Oh the tone...
After a relatively short intermission to change stage, Judas Priest took the stage and played the entire British Steel album. I guess they have a newish record and the tour is the 30th anniversary of British Steel. For the first several songs, all I could think was, "Rob Halford looks old, stiff and half asleep. But, damn! This old man still has the screams too." I had forgotten how many good songs are on British Steel. By the end of the album, Halford seemed to have warmed up and was a little more interesting, opening his eyes occasionally. By contrast, the rest of Priest looked great for a bunch of old guys. KK Downing, in particular, was very animated (musta had a nice cortizone shot before going on).
Judas Priest must be one of the only bands still using Hamer guitars almost exclusively. I will give them having a signature sound, but yeesh! It sounded "ice picky" and over processed. I wouldn't be surprised if their tone was all digital. At the same time, it was about dead-on to the album tone.
Both bands had ridiculous amounts of delay on the vocals which washed out the rest of the music until the delay stopped.
All in all, it was a darn good time with friends and was very inspirational. I don't know how much the tickets cost, but I bet you could get passes if you poke around a little when they are in your town. Definately a show worth seeing.
Priest kicked ass...........
