Sábado 21 Abr 2007, 4:06

Tue 17 Apr – Social Distortion, black halos
Support bands were I Hate Kate and The Black Halos. Both were pretty decent though the lead singer of the Halos is hard to take seriously - he's like a cross between Stiv Bators and Pee Wee Herman. To his credit, I'm pretty sure most of the humour in his performance is intentional.

Social Distortion were on form, playing the second of two sold-out shows. I was just to the left of the very active moshing area and so had a pretty good view. I was a bit disappointed that some of my personal favorites were not played, such as Cold Feelings, I Was Wrong or Bad Luck. They did a cover of Maybellineas well as two other covers they are more well known for, namely Under My Thumb and Ring of Fire. Of their own catalogue they did Nickels and Dimes, and Ball and Chain and many others.

Audience members ranged from oldsters like me to very young fans of good rock and roll (god bless 'em). Mike Ness had to reprimand one younger audience member at one point, asking him "did your Mama tell you it was cool to spit at the band"?