Anthrax's new album...

[MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan]

...is fucking fantastic. If you're into metal at all, I highly recommend this album. Here's more gushing if you can stomach it:

http://tempecarnivore.blogspot.com/2011 ... eview.html

[King Crimson]

not a huge anthrax guy but i have a lot of respect for them. here's why. in the total shit Primus/Anthrax/Public Enemy tour (early 90's)....(i had seen PE at McNichols with Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane....that was amazing)....this is PE for whitey and kinda lame.

anyway, this is at the Mammoth Events Center in Denver...a big barn with terrible sound. and after Primus plays the same 10 songs that were basically the same song (that's Primus, that whole slap bass thing gets old pretty quick)....Anthrax comes on and midway through their first song the electricity goes out....on stage. they just keep playing for about 45 seconds, no sound, until the elec comes back on. they rocked it all the way through. me and my buddy Shaun were right up against the stage so you could here the metallic clang of guitar strings and mic unamplified singing. it was pretty bad ass....and then the sound comes back on. didn't miss a step.....song was rolling. rock and roll.

[MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan]

First of all, I wholeheartedly agree on Primus. They are one of the most overrated bands of the '90s and Claypool in particular is an extremely overrated bassist. I remember being pissed when they headlined Lollapalooza over Alice in Chains, at least until after AiC's set was over and I realize we were going to beat about 80% of the crowd out of there. Plus, as a metalhead, it just really irks me how Larry Lalonde persists in acting like Possessed never happened.

As far as PE goes, I've never seen them live, but I imagine that seeing them at an actual hip-hop show would be far superior to seeing them with Primus and Anthrax.

Anthrax is pretty great live. I saw them in Omaha back in '91 on the Clash of the Titans tour with Slayer and Megadeth and they stole the show that night. AiC were the openers and I think I might've been the only guy in the building who actually owned Facelift and was into their set. They pretty much got SLAYERed right off the stage...

[King Crimson]

First of all, I wholeheartedly agree on Primus. They are one of the most overrated bands of the '90s and Claypool in particular is an extremely overrated bassist. I remember being pissed when they headlined Lollapalooza over Alice in Chains, at least until after AiC's set was over and I realize we were going to beat about 80% of the crowd out of there. Plus, as a metalhead, it just really irks me how Larry Lalonde persists in acting like Possessed never happened.

As far as PE goes, I've never seen them live, but I imagine that seeing them at an actual hip-hop show would be far superior to seeing them with Primus and Anthrax.

Anthrax is pretty great live. I saw them in Omaha back in '91 on the Clash of the Titans tour with Slayer and Megadeth and they stole the show that night. AiC were the openers and I think I might've been the only guy in the building who actually owned Facelift and was into their set. They pretty much got SLAYERed right off the stage...

that PE show at McNichols was pretty sick. pardon the phrase. 89 or 90.

now, i saw AiC open for Iggy Pop at Boulder Theater about a month after Man in the Box hit...about the same time, and they were really good. Iggy was really good too, with the Sales brothers who play on Zombie Birdhouse. and that Bowie Tin Machine LP.

[MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan]

That Clash of the Titans show was before "Man in the Box" had even come out. I had seen the video for "We Die Young" on Headbanger's Ball and was intrigued enough to pick up the album. Nobody was calling it "grunge" yet, so the best way I could describe it at the time was that they reminded me of a heavier Jane's Addiction. I was pretty stoked to see them, and they sounded pretty good, at least when they weren't being drowned out by "Slay-er!" chants. They took it in stride though, flipping off the crowd and chanting along with them: "Slay-er! Slay-er! Slay-er! Nel-son! Slaugh-ter! Fuck you!!"

I imagine the Iggy Pop crowd was a little more respectful...

Best hip-hop show I ever saw was the Roots at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix in the early aughts. It's a cool venue with a rotating stage and in-the-round seating, so there's really not a bad seat in the house. An old George Carlin HBO special from the late '70s was filmed there. Anyway, rather than have an opening act, the Roots came out right away and played for a good 2.5 hours. They had a few guest MCs drop in, like Guru and the guys in Dead Prez, but I was all about the straight-up Roots jams. Black Thought is one of the most underrated MCs of all-time, IMO. That dude can spit.

One of the first rap shows I ever saw was Cypress Hill on the Black Sunday tour when I was a freshman at UC-Riverside. They had Funkdoobiest and the Pharcyde opening for them. Pretty stellar lineup. I started getting into rap in HS in the late '80s/early '90s -- stuff like PE, NWA, Poor Righteous Teachers, Geto Boys, Compton's Most Wanted, etc. -- but there weren't too many opportunities to see live hip-hop in Nebraska. Go figure...