Jews and Mexicans - Shane's Ranting

Okay, so Barney and I went to the Troubadour last Sunday. The Troubadour is the only good club left in Hollywood, because they have good shows, good sound, and they dont do pay-to-play. The show was 10 bucks, which is awesome! The first band was Horse The Band, who are gods. It's too bad they were on at 7:30, I have a feeling if they played later, there would have been more people there. There were enough people to get a decent pit going. I gave Barney a gift certificate for Tower Records, so he bought my ticket for me. Horse was awesome, the keyboardist wore a gold skintight tracksuit that he slowly removed throughout the show. Horse, awesome!!!!!

We could have left after that, but we decided to stay and see what else the Troubadour had to offer. We took a seat in the bleachers upstairs. The bleachers are what else is tight about the Troubadour. The next band, Spacehorse, was like a band that brought a knife to a gunfight, only they brought a hardcore band (punk) to a grindcore show. They were alright for what they were. I feel punk hardcore should be more screamy and less whiny though. They did give it their all, though.

Then came the surprise of the night. Cattle Decapitation was starting to look like one of those equipment whore bands. As they came on stage, they brought racks and racks of cymbals, cabinets filled with rack-mounted effects, and a whole briefcase full of pedals. Guitar Center loves these bands, they keep them in business and propagate the theory that the more a band spends on equipment, the better they sound. Fortunately, this turned out to be false. They were fucking incredible. The guitarist had the most incredibly fast hands I have ever seen, we're talking Kirk Hammet. The bassist was this huge bald dude with a huge grisly black beard who used distortion on his bass, TIGHT!!!! Drummer TIGHT! Singer: fucking incredible. I had to look over at Barney a few times to make sure I was still alive, and not in some pit of grindcore inferno hell where Satan is the lead singer and sounds like a rabid pterodactyl on pcp, with a syringe of steroids jammed in his balls.

Some Girls, the next band, had a tough act to follow, but they were pretty good. They did this cool thing at the end where they played the same thing over and over again for like ten minutes straight which sounds lame, but it was awesome! Plus, their bassist could do this cool leaning backwards thing.

So, to recap:
Horse The Band=God
Spacehorse=Ehh
Cattle Decapitation=Surprising
Some Girls=Pretty Cool

Seacrest out!