Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 3:21 p.m.
Trooper Plays Hooterville ************************** Fossil Rockers 70's band " Trooper " played outside in a lovingly restored British Empire era Military fort in my tiny town last night $30 to get in there was no way I would pay that kind of money to see balding guys pushing 60 playing B music from 35 years ago. I hung out in the dark parking lot with the drunken sons of peach farmers and bored graceless daughters of the gift shop merchants who knew enough to drink in the base metal vibes without spending money for the nebulous honour of standing in front of the plywood stage and watching ankles I talked to several of the rented off duty uniformed gun weieding city Police working as bouncers at the gates and they let slide in an unguarded comment the show operators had no idea at all what they were doing the youngish cops played laser sword at each other with their official flash lites the promoters lost their shirts and most of their laundry on that show in spite of the mild pleasant weekend weather that followed on the heels of an oppressive heat wave that hammered at us all last week the sharpened wooden palisades that had kept marauding Americans out for the last 200 years could not contain the lack lustre falsetto satanic screams of the band you could hear the show all over town if you liked 70s hits and i don't and were not overwhelmed with the AC fan which i wasn't it would have been somewhat fun but it wasn't the band frontman chatted meaningless showbiz trashtalk to the gathered rock pleebs waaaaaay too long way way waaaaaaay too long it was just annoying nobody recognized long dead obscure guitar players he mentioned as if they were topping options for a large pizza you were never gonna taste at a party you were not invited to after that disjointed intro the band sipped from their canteen of tapwater hits.. none of which i recognised some solid silver a lot of bronze all aluminum towards the end pretty much an audience malfunction who resisted every prompt to get involved when the band called out " all right !! " - and then no response followed none at all that was somewhat discouraging even enthusiastically referring to Hooterville here as their favourite tour date got no response- and good reason too that band had never played here before so they were obviously lying it's one thing to forget something and quite another to remember something that never happened the fans who came to see a band who peaked 35 years ago a full two decades before the internet reminded me of the kinds of audience who still loved Elvis after he got fat and redundant or still attended Grateful Dead shows many years after Jerry Garcia had passed away old school rockers who's microwave clocks have blinked 12:00 since the 90's waiting for the Rolling Stones to tour again but they can't fit into their beloved classic rock T shirts no matter how hard they try
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