IRT Magazine

Irving Plaza
NYC
4/23/06

I haven’t hung out with my man Cameron, the artist formerly known as MC Cheese reincarnated in the new millenium as King Catalyst, in about two years due to some silly beef that was squashed at the top of 2006. On my last night in Arizona this past week, I get a call from the guy, who the last I heard was neck deep in the grimiest, most underground hip-hop Long Island has to offer with the now sadly-defunct Antisocial crew, stating he’s got a pair of tickets to see the Eagles of Death Metal at Irving. Now, I’ve known this kid for what’s coming on 16 years, and he’s notoriously known for this dangerously eclectic taste in music. But I never expected him to come through with tix to the Eagles. I took him up on his offer and fought the jet lag of what seemed like an eternal flight back from AZ to Newark to catch former video store clerk Jesse “The Devil” Hughes’ premiere cock rock revue live and in effect. I always found the concept of EODM to be a bit corny. Why would I wanna hear some guy posin’ to the oldies when I have perfectly good copies of Mountain’s Climbing! and Deep Purple’s Fireball to rock out to at home? But Hughes and co. play it like they mean it, and their show Sunday night was no exception. Yeah, I could’nt help but roll my eyes at all the corny ass hipsters wavingthe metal horns in the air in fits of ironically good fun. However, when they started pelting the audience with classic cuts from their first album, Peace Love Death Metal, particularly their wild version of Stealer’s Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You”, you couldn’t help but get lost in the flavor. They even broke out with a pretty faithful version of the Stones’ timeless ode to young black women, “Brown Sugar”, which was pretty cool. Even stuff on their otherwise boring new album, Death By Sexy, sounded pretty good in the live setting. Josh Homme was a no-show on the drums, but in his place was former Hole and Motley Crue drummer Samantha Maloney, looking hotter than ever and hitting harder than she ever has in her entire career. Opening act Rye Coalition sucked, by the way. -Ed.

Last Modified : November 20th, 2006
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