The Art of Getting Really Drunk and Loosing My Hearing

On saturday I decided to go to Reggie's. After downing a good size whisklurpee (get a slurpee and then pour whiskey in it. it is by the far the best drink i have ever come up with, the one other drink i made up (tepid vodka and cold coffee, just like in russia!) is testament to madness.) I found myself in line at Reggie's along with the unwashed masses of freaks yearning to breath free, and by breathing free I mean drinking copious amounts of booze, so the typical metal crowd. At some point the doors open and everyone trudged in.

The show took a really long time to start, long enough for the crowd to start chanting "Start the show!," for the first band to come on stage. It was way cool that Chicago's own Disrobe opened up, but they were cursed by the opening band syndrome of short set time and low volume. The audience dug them, which was really cool, but it hunger makes the best spice as they say.

Raise the Red Lantern (i think) came on next and they went and squandered any momentum that Disrobe built it up by sucking. But one of my friends kept buying me beers and that kept my mind off them. Their fatal mistake was that they were rather ponderous. Oh wait not it was their sucking.

The third band, Vöetsek, proceeded to kill. They played fast and loud, finally. You know how sometimes you smoke some weed and you're thinking, ah I'm not high at all, so you go off on your business and then while waiting in line at subway or something it hits you so hard you almost fall down? Vöetsek were kind of like that, they snuck up on me and it was like getting hit with a water balloon full of thrash metal.

Municipal Waste's set was exactly what I expected it to be, fast, rowdy, and stuffed with all the ridiculous thrashness that MW always brings. It was one of those shows where I couldn't fight the compulsion to toss my glasses at a friend and jump into the pit. After the show my straw cowboy hat, which has a metal wire in the rim to shape it, looked like a spider that had been smacked with a heavy book. Alas, Municipal Waste fell down that slope of playing so fast that set seems way shorter than it actually was, and even then it wasn't a long set.

For real, an all ages show? I know the 17+ shows go on pretty late, I don't know why they didn't go with that option. If they had I can imagine having to stand around listening to another shitty band, so it's a wash. Reggie's is always pretty cool about everyone having a good time, hell they'll let you go feed the parking meter! They won't let you do that shit at the Metro, much less the goddamn Aragon or whathaveyou. It was a pretty good metal show, the perfect thing to be totally trashed on some weird concoction, running into various people, and waking up the next day feeling like you fell of a cliff.