So, let's get to it!
Saturday started off pretty good. Me and my buddy, Mike went to the Emerson to see the show. Doors were supposed to open at 6, but for some reason, they made everyone stand outside during the sound test, and they took their sweet time. Doors opened around 8:00, and it was hot as fuck outside just sitting there waiting to get in.
Some homeless guy was on acid or something and kept yelling at everyone standing outside. He asked who was playing, and how much it was to get it. Then he preceded to tell everyone that he lived just around the corner. Strangely he acted surprised to see people hanging out outside the theater even though there are shows there all the time, and given his home's supposed proximity. Loud obnoxious homeless man just kept bantering his hippie bullshit, "it is what it is", a statement that says nothing! And then spouted out some religious ,"all hail the goat monkey king for he comes in the distance." That last one is not an actual quote, but it doesn't really matter. Dude was creepy.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the theater hired him to creep people out so they would go away. Combined with making us stand outside and be subject to the heat, and strategically having the creepy homeless guy harass us, was all just a ploy to get people not to see the show.
And then they let us in.
Luckily, creepy homeless dude did not actually attend the show. He was gone when we finally left, so I think he probably just forgot that stuff was going on once everyone went inside.
So the sheep were herded into the venue, where we were once again contained. Unable to head out to the actual space in the main room. Sound testing as still going on, but at this point, they were adjusting the levels for Cast From Perfection, who were scheduled to go on first.
Finally, they let us onto the floor and we were able to stretch out, sit down, walk around, move about. Space is your friend when you're surrounded by a bunch of people.
You probably know how excited I have been to see Cast From Perfection again after the Battle of the Bands on 7/7. They were still just as awesome this time around. New favorite local band? I think so. Previous favorite local band? Perfect Nothing... and that was over 10 years ago.
I tried to get a pic of all of them, but every single time someone was either turned around, as you can see here, or ducked down, or temporarily hiding behind their hair. I'm not a photographer. Deal with it.
I captured some video, with shittastic sound quality, but I fixed it by layering the actual recording of the song over the top. "Six Minutes" is misleadingly not six minutes long.
They do sound really good live. I am just at the mercy of crappy equipment that can't filter out white noise.
After that, we got to hear The Room Colored Charlatan. And I thought they sounded sad. Like their music was sad. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I could definitely feel a sadness to it. Maybe they were sad because one of them wore a purple shirt. Why didn't he match! Why!
It's ok to disagree with me. Here is their Facebook page with some of their music. All I'm saying is that if I were pissed at the world I would listen to this. It's good.
Something else I noticed about these guys, they seem to want to have as many strings as possible. Both guitarists had 7 string guitars, and the bassist had a 5 string bass.
Stay tuned for Mega Metal Weekend Review part 2 where we'll pick up with 7Horns 7Eyes.
