KING'S X
At Avalon - NYC (11/3/05)
KING'S X: Jerry Gaskill, Doug Pinnick and Ty Tabor!!
At
12:40am, the Houston, Texas rock trio KING'S X began their set with a lot of
songs from the new album OGRE TONES, including "Stay" and
"Hurricane". Some of the songs had the standard King's X style of
rock guitar fullness (Ty Tabor), heavy bass (Doug Pinnick) and tight drumming
(Jerry Gaskill), but personally a lot of that stuff did not really do much for
me. Following that was some classic King's X, like "She's Gone Away"
and the uptempo "Looking For Love", featuring Ty's fiery lead guitar
solo! The slower-tempo, melodic "Mr. Wilson" featured Ty and Doug
doing the "children choruses". "A Box" sounded good, with
the rap from the LIVE ALL OVER THE PLACE album. The new tune,
"Bebop", was funk-rock at the best....funky rhythm with Doug and Ty
borrowing Little Richard's favorite chant from "Tutti Fruitti". An
old track (but on the new album) "Freedom", was followed by
"Visions", a nasty rock tune with a couple of gospel-like rock
breakdowns.
Doug Pinnick and Ty
Tabor!
The encore featured the hardcore funk-rock energy of "Over My Head".
"Dogman" was another smokin' hardrocker, thanks to the hardcore
guitar riffing of Ty. Along the same vein was the song "We Were Born to Be
Loved"....the last five minutes was an excellent exercise in random pauses
and stops....the group played the main melody repeatedly, strategically
stopping in random places and throwing in pauses. (THE CROWD WAS REALLY, REALLY
FEELIN' IT.....AND EVERYTHING ELSE!!) The show was over at 2:20am.
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