![]() Chris Bishop was an absolute stud on the guitar with grooving riffs and searing solos-and he’s got the Cinderella guitar flip around the neck down perfectly to boot. The set began with Yeagley wheeled out in an electric chair, appropriately leading into the opening track “Electrified.” And that’s a great way to describe the Crobot’s performance-electrifying, full of energy as the band blasted through 40 minutes of down and dirty, no frills hard rock. TRAGEDY SET LIST: “Tragedy,” “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (a Man After Midnight),” “Sweet Caroline,” “It’s Raining Men,” “You’re the One That I Want,” “How Deep Is Your Love?,” “Stayin’ Alive”ĭirect support came from Crobot, which, as frontman Brandon Yeagley noted, is from nearby Pennsylvania and no stranger to the Baltimore area. Where else can you hear a mashup of The Weather Girls’ “It’s Raining Men” and “Raining Blood” by Slayer? Whether you actually want to hear that is another matter, but you at least have to give Tragedy points for creativity.īilling itself as the “All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees & Beyond,” the band powered through a 30-minute set featuring full throttle renditions of such well-known songs as Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and the Bee Gees’ “Tragedy” (naturally) and “Stayin’ Alive.” I don’t know if I would ever sit down and listen to an entire record of this or want to take in a performance that lasted any longer, but I’m glad to have experienced Tragedy at least once. If Steel Panther offers a unique mix of music and comedy, Tragedy’s concoction of disco, hair metal and thrash metal is just as original. STEEL PANTHER SET LIST: “Eyes of a Panther,” “Let Me Cum In,” “Asian Hooker,” “All I Wanna Do Is Fuck (Myself Tonight),” “The Burden of Being Wonderful,” “Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World,” Satchel guitar solo, “Death to All but Metal,” “1987,” “Ain’t Dead Yet,” “Girl from Oklahoma,” “Never Too Late (to Get Some Pussy Tonight),” “Party All Day (Fuck All Night),” (encore) “Community Property,” “Gloryhole” He then invited all of the women in the audience to join them as the party picked back up with “Never Too Late” and “Party All Day.” Two more Steel Panther standards-“Community Property” and “Gloryhole”-made up the encore. Starr strummed an acoustic guitar for the surprisingly reflective “Ain’t Dead Yet,” leading to the similarly unplugged staple “Girl from Oklahoma,” featuring Starr serenading a fan onstage. Songs from five of Steel Panther’s six records found their way into the set list, including six from the 2009 debut “Feel the Steel”-a modern classic if you ask me-but only three from “On the Prowl.” Deep cut “The Burden of Being Wonderful” from 2014’s “All You Can Eat” was an unexpected and interesting choice-something I wish more bands would do. An older, bearded man in the audience somewhat resembling ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons caught Satchel’s attention in particular, providing fodder for jokes throughout the set and even led to a partial cover of the ZZ Top classic “La Grange.” Another recurring topic was a younger man in the audience with a sign asking to sing “Party All Day,” which somehow worked and he ended up onstage, performing with the band as the first part of the set drew to a close. ![]() As always, frontman Michael Starr and guitarist Satchel carried the show, both with their performances and seemingly endless stream of one-liners. 13 in Pollstar’s list.The band has a different look onstage now, a little less glam with the dark-haired rocker Spyder replacing the preening, blonde Lexxi Foxx on bass. Rams Head Live! finished last year at No. The club has played host to some of the music world’s most impressive acts, including Jay-Z, Natasha Bedingfield, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age, The Roots, Morrisey, Lucinda Williams, Rise Against, Marilyn Manson and Bob Weir and Rat Dog. The 26,000-square-foot club features five bars, three food stations and 44 monitors and screens. Rams Head Live! opened its doors in December 2004, and has quickly emerged as one of the mid-Atlantic’s best nightclubs. ![]() in Annapolis is Maryland’s second highest ranked venue, selling 58,255 tickets. ![]() The Recher Theatre in Towson is the Baltimore area’s second highest ranked venue on the list, posting at No. The total gives them the ninth highest total in the world, one spot below the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colo., and one spot ahead of Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium. The club, located in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live!, has sold 101,438 tickets through the first three quarters of 2008. Rams Head Live! in Baltimore has earned the right to be called one of the World’s Top 10 Club Venues, based on Pollstar Magazine’s recent compilations of ticket sales worldwide. Rams Head Live! On Stage Among Top Club Venues
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