"keep rock n roll evil"

the missus and i went to the family values show friday night. actually, we caught the last half of it, since it started at 2. we arrived in time enough to hear the last part of stone sour's set and see the deftones and korn, which was all we really wanted to see anyway. it was nice to have a night out, just her and i. however, even though tickets were only $10+ apiece, i think for the first time i learned firsthand the phrase "time is money". the $10 tickets we bought were lawn seats. we hadn't planned on going to this show, just deciding spur-of-the-moment last week to go. i think next time, i want to be closer to the stage.

speaking of music, this week slayer releases christ illusion. no one rocks like they do. who is a cooler vocalist than tom araya and who, outside of possibly ac/dc, has stayed truer to form, or even improved, since their first record?? i caught them performing on the henry rollins show last week at my sister's house (my brother in law is a fan, too, much to my sister's consternation, heh). i've been a fan of theirs since 88s south of heaven. i remember the first time i listened to that cassette (i'm dating myself here), a teammate of mine on our high school football team let me borrow it on the way back home from a road game. the breaks were so very brief between songs (with it being virtually nonexistent between tracks 1 and 2, south of heaven and silent scream) that i thought there were only a few songs on the 10-song record. even though i backfilled my collection with reign in blood and hell awaits, my fandom grew in the 90s, the time during which original drummer dave lombardo left and was replaced by paul bostaph. at the time, i still naive enough to think that the only drummers who could play like that were already in major bands, like lars ulrich, louie clemente, charlie benante, nick menza, etc. the more i heard, the more i thought 'ok, bostaph can do the job well'. then he left and eventually lombardo came back to "the only band he should ever play in" according to a dude from mtv. i didn't think much of it because it was obvious either could do the job. then i saw them perform on rollins' show, and watched the exclusive online clip of them performing disciple from their last album god hates us all. wow! lombardo made it look so effortless playing cult.

i've also heard jihad, a cover of born to be wild (heh, a little bit different from, say, the cult's version) and another song, the title of which i forget, from the record on sirius' heavy metal channel, hard attack. i'm anxious to hear the rest of it!