Jul 13, 2024
Oh goodness
thats Ideal thats The Bitch
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Oh goodness
thats Ideal thats The Bitch
The Black Angels (Hanni El Khatib, and Wall of Death not reviewed) at Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
Overall
• Wednesday night show. House was packed.
• Awesome crowd doing awesome things.
• Seemed like the majority of the people there were on a lot of drugs.
The Black Angels
• Chick drummer. I’m not talking Meg White keeping a back beat bullshit. This chick shreds.
• Two lefty guitarists?? What? Serious. Good ones too.
• Face melting visuals. I feel like I barely watched the band. I just watched the pretty pictures. This band totally gets their shit. Just imagine staring at the covers of “Passover”, “Directions to See a Ghost” and “Phosphene Dream” on a retarded amount of 'shrooms.
• Another thing that distracted me from watching the band was the performance of an amazing fan. This dude pretended to conduct an entire song. Maybe even the whole fucking show. And he fucking nailed it.
• There was a guy in front of me that was playing with his hair in a really weird sexual way. Or at least that’s what I thought until I realized he was having a HARDCORE make out session to the tune of “Black Grease”. They left when the song ended. Presumably to bone.
• On a more serious note, I’m concerned that there might be something seriously wrong with the top of the lead singers face. I’ve seen these guys a few times, and I’ve seen photos, but never the top half of his face. I have two theories.
1.) Face Scales.
2.) Maybe his eyes are extra sensitive to the stage lights so he pulls his hat way down.
• Option 1 is the lead theory at the moment.
In Conclusion
I give this show 8 stars. One star for the awesome make out couple. One star for having a stoner conductor in the audience. One star for never revealing your face above the nose. Two stars for having a female drummer and two lefty guitarists. And two stars for completely understanding your sound and translating that to a live show both visually and sonically. I wish I was TRIPPING MAJOR BALLSACK like everyone else.
xoxo Guest Contributor, Steve Sprinkel