I'm the zillion dollar sadist: Review: Turbonegro 10/7

#37
October 7 2005
Turbonegro
Sonar
Baltimore MD

It's raining men! would have been a fitting cover for Turbonegro given the torrential downpours we've had over the past couple days. Driving to Baltimore was horrendous: fog, heavy rain, roadspray. Then, parking...oy. There's a metered lot across from Sonar, but I didn't get there early enough to take advantage of it.

As it was I arrived just before Turbonegro took the stage at 10:30. They're using the intro from the new album Party Animals and blasted right into 'All My Friends Are Dead' Hank does a lot of talking between songs but they played for almost two hours, covering 3/4 of the new album and many of the old favorites. Set list included at least: Blow Me (like the wind), City of Satan, Wasted Again, High on the Crime, Final Warning, Sell Your Body (to the night), F*** the world, Sailor Man, Get It On, Don't Say Motherfucker, Motherfucker, Rendezvous with Anus (my personal favorite), Prince of the Rodeo, Back to Dungaree High, and of course the final encore was I Got Erection. During one of the early songs there was a blast of smoke, confetti and zillion dollar bills rained from the ceiling. I managed to grab a Happy Tom (above) and a Chris Summers Prince of Drummers 2 zillion dollar bill. Some of the hardcore Turbojugend had fistfuls of the cash that they snagged before everyone else realized what it was. I looked around for a Hank, but I didn't find one that wasn't all gross from being on the floor. During the first encore (after they'd all changed clothes and came out to the Apocalypse Dudes intro to play Age of Pamparius) big 'Turbonegro: Party Animals' balloons also fell from the ceiling. At lot of these got popped by some of them were grabbed and taken home by fanatical Turbojugend.
Since there are only 10 shows on this whole US 'tour' there were a lot of people from everywhere there: Boston, Philly, etc. Since somebody decided to go have dinner with their best friend in the whole wide world instead of going to the show with me, I hung around my favorite Ottobar staff. I met some nice guys on the way out who were telling me about the suckass crowd at last week's Pixies show. This crowd didn't get too rowdy, but the Sonar bouncers don't fuck around - they threw several people out. In fact according to their website, the dude I met on Thursday at stupid Jaxx probably would have gotten thrown out of Sonar. Also, one of their bouncers looks like a mohawk/goatee version of Jamie from 3IoB. So, um, yeah, Sonar was a pretty cool place.

Now if you're looking for something else to do, go watch this ridiculous video for 'The Suffering' - tell me that's not the set of an old Savatage video...