I found out that I can still rock out like I did with Tool, Faith No More, etc. in the old days. It just hurts a lot more the next day…
Fu Manchu blew up The Knitting Factory touring behind their new album, We Must Obey. The new material is pretty good but hearing these guys rock out the old stuff was fantastic. I haven’t been around a crowd of metal heads in quite sometime, certainly in New York. The piercings, tattoos, bad B.O., stage diving, crowd surfing and shoving were actually a welcome departure from the hipster too-cool-to-really-enjoy-yourself type crowds I’ve become acustom to.
During the last song, I got hit in the face by a jacket knocking off my new glasses I had picked up in Chicago as a last minute replacement. Somehow, I recovered them after a minute of scouring the gnarly venue floor. And somehow, they did not get trampled or crushed by the crowd. The rock gods were smiling on me last night.
My ears are still ringing, though. I probably need to look into earplugs.
And I wasn’t able to put a setlist together but they played 20/80 new/old stuff. Rockin’ show.
I was just listening to Fu Manchu - Evil Eye