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Went to the "Full Metal Racket" gig last night, and the "Black Mac Sabbath" gig the night before. Back to my roots as a headbanging metalhead, before it was ruined by the thrash crowd in the mid eighties.
Full Metal Racket are very good - covering an assortment of classic metal (Thin Lizzy, ACDC, Deep Purple, Scorpions, etc.) most convincingly. I enjoyed it, and I'd go again.
Black Mac Sabbath suffered from being over-ambitious, and it didn't quite work. They need to tighten up considerably, too. I think that being a tribute band means that it's quite important to be an accurate copy of the original, and it shows when you aren't. It's easier to be a general covers band 'cos so long as you play well you don't have to copy the original so closely.
Nice to hear music which isn't horribly distorted by the common "turn the base up" tendancy, too. Actually being able to hear the tune! And we were probably of the average age for the crowd, rather than amongst the oldest, which makes a change. Hopefully next time we won't be quite so knackered and be up to dancing. After working frantically all week then xmas shopping I was finding it an effort to tap my feet!
Full Metal Racket are very good - covering an assortment of classic metal (Thin Lizzy, ACDC, Deep Purple, Scorpions, etc.) most convincingly. I enjoyed it, and I'd go again.
Black Mac Sabbath suffered from being over-ambitious, and it didn't quite work. They need to tighten up considerably, too. I think that being a tribute band means that it's quite important to be an accurate copy of the original, and it shows when you aren't. It's easier to be a general covers band 'cos so long as you play well you don't have to copy the original so closely.
Nice to hear music which isn't horribly distorted by the common "turn the base up" tendancy, too. Actually being able to hear the tune! And we were probably of the average age for the crowd, rather than amongst the oldest, which makes a change. Hopefully next time we won't be quite so knackered and be up to dancing. After working frantically all week then xmas shopping I was finding it an effort to tap my feet!