At
12:15am, the bomb was dropped at the Rex's Tavern, but I don't know if most
of the people really felt it. The reason I'm saying this is because most of the
people were totally "frozen" and not into the head-banging, all-out
dancing spirit that possessed a few rockheads near the stage!! It was a far
different atmosphere than the Wetlands in New York City, which is now
unfortunately some condo space in the Tribeca neighborhood!! "Original
Sin" was as hard-edge, lethal rock as the first one I heard it at the
Wetlands! "Sermon" was some nasty, wicked rock shit with some
pulverizing bass riffs by Booker King, power drumming by Skoota Warner, and hot
guitar licks by Michael Ciro!! Corey Glover's vocals were very strong!!!!!! (of
course, Corey never seems to have a bad day!) "Last
Temptation" was good because the fiery guitar solo, but "One"
sounded better with some super-tight drumming!! Michael did a long guitar solo
as the intro to "Rose", another heavy-duty rock song......the
heavy drum breakdown at the end was the icing on the fuckin' cake!!!!!!!!
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