It did not take more than a minute to realize that the concert of Korn Americans could be recorded in memory for the worst reasons. The group of Jonathan Davis had just arrived at the scene 20 minutes later than planned, and interpreted Blind , the 1994 debut self-titled album, when a sound system failure left him speechless.
the band returned ten minutes later, the adrenaline from the audience came to feel, to the sound fails again exactly the same time of the song. The public is impatient, the group showed frustration, and the organization, after a long silence, said there was a technical problem. And behold, the group returned for the third time, and managed, with songs like Falling away from me , Coming Undone or Shoots and ladders , create yet some uproar in assistance. Before the problems resurface in the recreation of One , Metallica.
Korn no longer returned. “Unfortunately the concert will not continue,” heard of the organization. They played four songs and a half for 25 minutes. The audience whistled, a mixture of disappointment and anger, and after the concert hundreds of people signed the book of complaints in the expectation of being compensated. Others left the room.
In a note published on social networks, the group apologizes to fans saying he had “several problems with the energy on stage.” The organization, in turn, explained in a statement that ” it seems that the problem was the equipment of the band “, and added that collected complaints and that will give them answer in the coming days.
the metal group of fans were in the majority among the 56,000 people who They passed through the room this Friday, so what happened was remarkable. And were not the Hollywood Vampires – the band that was born as a way to honor a bohemian group of the 1970s that joined in a bar in Los Angeles, and which were part known rock musicians, including Alice Cooper – to achieve revive disillusioned
it was Alice Cooper himself the idea last year, joining Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Matt Sorum (ex. Guns N ‘Roses), Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) and actor Johnny Depp to pay tribute to so many missing rock musicians in recent decades – from Jim Morrison to John Lennon, or more recently, David Bowie and Lemmy (Motorhead). In 2015, they released an album of versions and original, and now walk the world on tour
In the front rows, the female audience longed for Johnny Depp. – Which in recent days has been in the news for the death of his mother and the troubled separation of women – but this did not turn out the views, preferring to remain almost always discreet. The exception was when he chose to wander around a bit with his guitar by the side of the stage, or when it approached the microphone to thank, even at the end of time and show a half.
The attention eventually fall more Joe Perry, for example when he tried unsuccessfully from your guitar against the stage of the battery, especially in voice and scenic presence of Alice Cooper, in almost 70 years. It was he who led the public by successive evocations – Who ( My generation ), Doors ( Break on through ), the Beatles ( Come together ) Led Zeppelin ( Whole lottta love ), David Bowie ( Rebel rebel ) or Motorhead ( Ace of spades ) – powerful recreations in a struggling concert , dominated by guitar duels and the doubling of the rock as a cultural matrix. But nothing more than that.
Before had already acted Californians Rival Sons, that although touch originals of their four albums end up not walk very far from what the Vampires have to offer: reiteration of sound and rock attitude of the 1970s, with influences from Led Zeppelin suffused with blues environments and many guitar solos.
in the antipodes of all this were the Metz Canadians, who played on the second stage before a few hundred people, and that gave the best concert day. In his music there are also reminiscences (Nirvana, Jesus Lizard, Public Image Ltd) but it is as if they were wild and frantic projection of that past. The Vampires formalize the rock celebrities; Metz show that the main rock vitality remains the possibility of anyone up to a stage, even without great technical skills, and express themselves without simulacra.
On stage, only three musicians, voice , guitar, bass and drums, to powerful songs, short, dry, fast and punchy. To many, the middle, the singer joked saying that they were like to be there, but at the same time was a little strange for a band like the Metz play at Rock in Rio. You can tell that says, because in earlier stints in Portugal had played in small spaces. But the behavior was the same as always: distorted guitars, rhythmic discharges, shouting into the microphone, furious contortions and the volume to maximum. The rock as catharsis.
In the context of a festival that autocelebra (as noted with the musical that opens the main stage), or seems to be limited to official rock memory, Metz are proof that this can still be burning matter. In a year of very weak poster, the festival continues Saturday with Maroon 5 and Ivete Sangalo or Real Estate, to finish on Sunday with Avicii, Ariana Grande or Hinds.
