Live Music: Steel Panther in Munich

WARNING: LINKS ON THIS POST CONTAIN NUDITY, DIRTY LANGUAGE, SATAN, DRUG REFERENCES, AND OTHER HORRIBLE STUFF. DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU CLICK ON THEM.

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.