Concert Reflections, vol. 2

Second night: better than the first. Fewer asinine guys in irono-mullets, more rock. It was all-ages, which I think improved the energy basically because the people on the floor were less fucking drunk. Akimbo was good, A Storm of Light was good, Converge was good, but Neurosis was less a band than a force of nature.



At the end of the first show, Scott Kelly, after screaming the last line of "The Doorway" headbanged into the mic three, four times, and on the final hit the microphone broke off and flew into the crowd and blood was streaming down his face and it mingled with sweat and dripped onto the guitar and he crouched above it and ripped its strings off as a huge dissonant primeval interval of feedback rose to a profound roar.