Ride for Dime w/ Corrosion of Conformity, Prong & more – August 20th – Gas Monkey Live – Dallas,TX
For the uniniatinted, what Ride for Dime means is a motorcycle ride to honor the late great Darryl “Dimebag” Abbot, legendary guitarist for local outlaws Pantera who was mythic when he was alive and immortal after he’s passed.
Ride For Dime has become a full fledged charity event benefiting ????
This year boasted an impressive lineup of bands rotating all day & MC’d by ???
Due to a travel snafu I was only able to catch the final two acts.
Prong
My first time seeing Prong in maybe over 20 years & ironically I believe it was opening for Pantera in the Summer of 1994.
Great to see Tommy Victor & company rock the house for a great cause – it has been too long and they were in fine form.
Corrosion of Conformity
One of my all-time favorite bands and (in my opinion) one of the greatest bands to ever exist the mighty C.O.C headlined this amazing event.
They have existed in many forms (all awesome) over the years & while I saw them as a three piece a few years ago, I haven’t seen the Pepper Keenan fronted lineup, besides a waaaaaay-too short opening set for Clutch at this very venue this time last year (& which thanks to some severe misscommunication among staff in terms of time of door opening, their were more people OUTSIDE the venue waiting to get in than inside enjoying the show) in over 12 years and with the welcomed return of a healthy Reed Mullen I haven’t seen this classic lineup in perhaps longer than I’ve seen Prong.
All of these factors added to an already special evening and just completed the night with a crushing performance that included so many from my fave C.O.C. LP – 1994’s landmark Deliverance – Felt like not a day has a gone by – they were that good.
Setlist –
Bottom Feeder (El que come abajo)
Broken Man
Seven Days
Senor Limpio
The Door
Vote With a Bullet
Paranoid Opioid
Who’s Got The Fire
Albatross
Clean My Wounds
Spend a Night with Alice Cooper – August 24th – Verizon Theater – Grand Prarire, TX
That Alice Cooper, at 68, can sing I’m Eighteen like he’s 25 stands as living proof that golfing is indeed better than partying.
The shock-rock legend and Hall of Famer welcomed us back into his nightmare with yet another killer tour dubbed Spend a Night with Alice Cooper armed with serious artillery in the three-guitar attack of Nita Strauss, Ryan Roxie and Tommy Henriksen.
They were backed by longtime bassist Chuck Garric and drummer Glen Sobel, all generating enough volume to obliterate.
Alice hit the stage in his black-and-white-striped carnival suit to a Vincent Price voiceover and a shower of fireworks on The Black Widow & from there, he proceeded to reach into his old bag of dirty tricks.
Pic here
They only toned things down once, for smash power ballad “Only Women Bleed,” that had Alice tussling with a woman dressed as a wind-up doll. She became a nurse putting him in the straitjacket and setting him up for the guillotine.
With gravestone banners hanging for Keith Moon, Lemmy & David Bowie, they ripped through faithful covers including Motorhead’s Ace of Spades that KILLED.
Amazing as always and felt as much like a celebration of Alice’s own longevity and youthful vigor. “School’s Out,” on which he changed the line from “we got no innocence” to “we got no intelligence” and also inserted “Another Brick in the Wall,” was like New Year’s Eve at midnight with bubbles and Alice slicing big confetti-filled balloons with his sword.
For the encore, he couldn’t resist having his actors dressed as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, slapping each other around but also engaging in a swooning kiss on Elected.
After the shower of red, white and blue streamers, fans on the way out could pick up a red, white and blue tour T-shirt that said “Make America Sick Again.” For half a century, Alice Cooper has been there, doing his part for that campaign.
Setlist –
The Black Widow
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Under My Wheels
Public Animal #9
Billion Dollar Babies
Long Way to Go
Is It My Body
The World Needs Guts
Woman of Mass Distraction
Poison
Halo of Flies
Feed My Frankenstein
Cold Ethyl
Only Women Bleed
Guilty
Ballad of Dwight Fry/Killer/I Love the Dead
Under the Bed
Tribute Set –
Pinball Wizard (The Who)
Suffragette City (David Bowie)
Ace of Spades (Motörhead)
I’m Eighteen
School’s Out
Encore:
Elected