The Big 4 !

So I took the long trip to Indio,California to see the big 4 this past weekend......


First off..I must say the organizers had this shit right !.......Parking was easy (Surprisingly)...All the Metal Heads were cool and doing their thing...Drinking,Smoking.....Even Chimay in the parking lot!...Bet you don't see that at a Dave Mathews Concert. People outfitted in every fucken t-shirt from Danzig to Black Dahlia Murder......Even a Hand written Anthrax shirt !......Ghetto for sure..But whatever at least they were representing !


Once I got past the gates I was shown the giant merch tent.....T-shirts,beanies,Hats for $35 !.....I quickly passed that nonsense and am looking for the vaunted Beer gardens....Which once found were teaming with chalk boards announcing the beers that were sold....Now people I must say I was completely blown away by the selection!!......$8 is a bit steep..But at least you could get a 'Dead Guy' or 'Alaskan Amber' or any number of cool microbrews.


Beer !


Bout then Anthrax came on.....Now its been about 20 years since I last saw them and was not blown away but nevertheless a good sound and they were doin their thing to a loud crowd approval.


Next up?....More Beer !.....Followed by More BEER !


Then Megadeth came on to a rousing applause.....Now if I was going to pick out one band I would rather see than the other it would be MegaDave.....I dragged all my bro's who were saying Megadeth sucks !.....Up near the front and watched them blaze away. This was too much for my brothers as 'Peace Sells' kicked in...My nephew yelled at me "Megadeath does kick ass..I was Wrong"...To which I said..."No shit sherlock"......'Symphony'...'Wake up dead'....Oh yeah Here we go! (To cop the budlight quip) Megaband gets it done in their own way and Dave seems genuinely into it...snarling his way through all the classics....'Hangar 18'....'Holy Wars'....Awesome if I must say !


Now.................More Beer !


Then.......More Beer !


Now understand I was hearing Slayer fucken Slayer yelled all day during every band at the beer garden...People luvs them some Slayer........So we got another Beer and went to check out Slayer...


This time we pushed our way up to the front and layed out our property...Some space to get it going.......Jihad comes blaring out and Slayer in is full flight. At this point my youngest bro who has never seen Slayer is going full apeshit...And Slayer ripped with a clinical precision I was not used to seeing from them...Could it be that Gary Holt (Exodus) was keeping them in shape and his solos were simply better than anything Kerry could ever play.........Just when I thought I was Slayered out.....'South of Heaven'...And Jeff Hanneman walks out and rips thru this and 'Angel of Death' all sounding so good.......I think the crowd truly was Drunk...Tired....Necksore.....at this point but happy !


Next More Beer......But slowing down.....I had my first water at this point !........


Then Metallica............Aww fuck it !........6 or 7 in we bailed to the truck and went to the liquor store to get more Beer.....


Lifelesson #1 - Never eat a giant Carne Asada Burrito the morning of the gig !


Lifelesson #2 - Never get too old for a good Metal Concert !


Lifelesson #3 - ahhhhhhhhh......Fear no Beer !


D.D.