Party Like Pirates

Heading to the mountains to take in Corrosion of Conformity with Clutch and JD Pinkus at The Signal in Chattanooga, TN, a pitstop at Ruby Falls was dire to stretch the legs with some ziplining, then hike unground in a cave to a hidden waterfall, just to make the blood flow a bit before the show.  Pinkus had my curiousity piqued the most, as I had heard him in Butthole Surfers, knew he was talented, but I had never just seen him strumming a banjo on stage before and didn't really know what to expect.  Whatever it was I thought I might have expected got blown out of the water by sounds that made me scratch my head, like I didn't know a banjo sounded that way, until I spotted his setup of distortion pedals, and was he running that thing barefoot to add to that mushroom mountain music sort of appeal for the area? Rumbo a las montañas para ver a Corrosion of Conformity junto a Clutch y JD Pinkus en The Signal (Chattanooga, TN), resultaba imprescindible hacer una parada en Ruby Fall...

In yet another evening of Tampa's metal music at The Orpheum, Cattle Decapitation was featured with 200 Stab Wounds, Blackbraid and Dark Funeral.  With 30 years of Swedish dark metal, fans of Dark Funeral and Blackbraid were easy to spot, donning black and white face makeup.  Meanwhile, people see names like 200 Stab Wounds and Cattle Decapitation with Dark Funeral, thinking it's some sort of animal sacrifice to a dark entity, leaving me to explain that they are bands, not live animal slaughtering. En otra noche de música metal de Tampa en The Orpheum, Cattle Decapitation se presentó con 200 Stab Wounds, Blackbraid y Dark Funeral.  Con 30 años de dark metal sueco, los fanáticos de Dark Funeral y Blackbraid fueron fáciles de detectar, vistiendo maquillaje facial en blanco y negro.  Mientras tanto, la gente ve nombres como 200 Stab Wounds y Cattle Decapitation con Dark Funeral, pensando que es una especie de sacrificio de animales a una entidad oscura, dejándome explic...

It's always a delight to go up to Tampa for a metal night.  Wanting to show my support for Sacred Reich, as on Ozzfest 2002, Jason and I found some common ground like.  Even though I put in to cover that band, it seemed as if someone else had planned. Siempre es una delicia ir a Tampa para una noche de metal.  Queriendo mostrar mi apoyo al Sagrado Reich, como en el Ozzfest 2002, Jason y yo encontramos algunos puntos en común.  A pesar de que puse para cubrir esa banda, parecía como si alguien más lo hubiera planeado. Confirmed through another band on the bill, I'd find out later that I must have given a band member a thrill.  Florida is known as a home to big cats, and was someone out to hunt cougars in their natural habitats?  Kudos to style, making the show worthwhile, being respectful, not vile, and an after-show escort for like a half mile, as every once in a while, the exception rolls through the turnstile, even if it's that reflex that's tactile, as i...