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| Death to all but Metal! |
Steel Panther, the Greatest Band Ever
Not profane, just horribly terribly enjoyably beautifully wrong: Backstreet Boys cover.
Their music is too dirty to be played on US radio, but there's different standards over here, and every time I hear "Community Properity" I crack up. The pan-European (mostly France) tax-funded TV channel Arte (which I would describe as a "PBS without cooking/crafting/children's shows/BBC content") has shown them playing at at Wacken and Hellfest. They're hilarious. Also they can shred.
Somehow Mr Radish remembered how much I laughed at the television and bought us tickets to see their sold-out show in Munich last night at a venue known for hardcore metal ("Fallujah" and "Bloodlet" were playing in the smaller building adjacent to the arena, I'm not looking them up.). We're old engineering-type people. This is insane.
It was great. I laughed so hard my face hurts this morning. And we didn't particularly stand out; lots of people in denim jackets with concert patches, lots of people in black concert tees, and even a few other people who look like they also bought tickets because they enjoyed seeing the Wacken footage on Arte. Lol.
I wore a Weird Al Yankovic shirt. It's my most metal apparel.
And the beer was reasonably priced for Munich.
I also enjoyed the warm-up band Wayward Sons from the UK, in the way I enjoy local bands playing their own songs--they could play, they got the crowd going, and they looked like they were enjoying themselves.
I forget how much I like live music until I'm hearing live music.
