DUST BOWL METAL SHOW
Local Metal Review for July 22nd
2016
After finding out this show was happening I gave Scott Rowe
of ALL
IN A ROWE PRODUCTIONS
a shout and asked if I could attend the event and like always let me in without
hesitation. Thank you Scott, for your dedication to the local Arizona music scene,
you are a true local legend, with your ALICE
COOPER TRIBUTE SHOW and
the DUST BOWL METAL
SHOW has nothing but
love and respect for you.
Upon arriving at the show I was greeted at the door by Scott
and I arrived a bit too late to see the first band perform. 6 GRIT sorry about that guys did my best. We
will catch you on another one really soon.
The band that was loading in was one I have seen a couple
times before it’s a band call MERSA.
“If they really want to
do covers; That is all well and good, but if you do not
nail the covers as they were originally done by the band that wrote them, or
really close, then it’s probably a good idea not to do them.”
I think they had an off night at pranksters because nothing
was going smooth at all on that stage. The bass sound according to a member of
the crowd,
“The bass was obnoxiously
loud, and the tone was annoying.”
KEVIN HUGHES was spot on like always showing pure
professionalism. When you have to do as much as he does on that stage to pull
off a great show, you can have nothing but love and respect for him. The second
guitar player was very good; great leads, and great sound, but he looked bored
as heck on stage, it was the same for the bass player. (Audience member)
“It looked as if they
really did not want to be there. The drummer looked like he was having a hard
time hearing other members of the band in his monitors. This may account for
all the mess ups.”
“All in all I was not
impressed by their performance on this show.” So; many things went wrong, and they did not look
like they were having a good time up there at all. It was a complete struggle.
We at the Dust bowl metal show love you guys and we hope the next one is better
for you. This performance gets (\m ) 2/3 metal horn. Because Keven Hughes, was
awesome on that stage.
a band I have never had the opportunity
to see and I guess tonight was as good a night as any. OK they jumped on that
stage like they owned the place, and took complete control over the crowd. With
style and finesse, their set was an explosion of total badassery. The singer HECTOR CAMACHO had such charisma about him, that the
crowd had no choice but to be totally captivated by it. He is also a guitar player, and played it very
well. Great sound and I don’t know what kind of guitar it was, but it looked
very, very cool. Audience member said,
“Damn these guys got it
going on they have some very catchy tunes.”
A band that keeps my eyes on them the whole show, gets 1 2/3 metal horns. ( \m/ \m ) a couple of the
other members could work on their stage performance a little more.
Next up was STAREN BLACK
“If I wanted
to just hear music I would go to my car and pop in a CD. I want to see a show
as well as hear it, and these guys are giving me the whole enchilada.”
There you have it folks. Practicing your
music is job one, but practicing your stage performance is job two.
FRANK stage left, and BONES the vocalist
as well as the drummer DAVE SCHAD were the focal point during this performance. Bones is a very
good front man and the attention the crowd gave him on this night was amazing. Not
to say the other members weren’t performing it’s just that the majority of the
action was coming from these three members. Now what makes this performance absolutely
amazing is that the drummers back was all messed up. He was limping around the
venue with his back all crooked and you could tell he was in a great deal of
pain. This man got on that stage killed it on the drums and not once did he
stop playing. The drums were spot on with every song. The bass player ROD REASNER could stand
there and do nothing and he would still be a bad ass. The second guitar player BRUCE MENCHEN has some
crazy killer chops not too much on the stage action department but with 5
members on stage there really isn’t much room to go ballistic. Needless to say,
these guys have an infectious sound very powerful and defined.
This band has played a few shows you can definitely
tell. I go to many performances and see many, many bands. This band has their
shite together. I was very entertained the entire set. STAREN BLACK Gets 1 2/3 metal
horns (\m/ \m ) because they came that night to destroy that stage and destroy
that stage they did.
