I should have learned my lesson a year ago and saved my $15 to go toward the insanely-expensive but probably-more-worth-my-time GWAR show @ the Electric Factory. How could a band create such a great collection of songs on "Microcastle" and have a pretty good follow-up with "Halcyon Digest" yet be so completely bad live? As the band strives to recapture the energy of punk DIY culture with their “interactive Xerox art project," encouraging fans to photocopy an old-school collage flyer and paste it up all over their towns, they forget to bring any energy their live performance.
The drums were muffled and non-existent, sounding like someone forgot to take the blanket out of the kick drum after a suburban practice session. The bass player had plenty of rock star posing with no sign of any talent to back that up. Most importantly the singer phoned-in nearly half the performance and decided to add jamming what is already a psychedelic shoegaze-sound allowing the crowd to fall completely into their heroin coma right there under the flashing disco ball + spinning glow koosh Ballroom lights.
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