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Backstage @ Roskilde Festival (Mastodon fans)
With 130,000 people on the other side of the stages (many of whom have been camping for days), sometimes it’s nice to sneak back to the better smelling, less-crowded area reserved for those with connections. While sitting in a hammock seat I snuck this photo of these Mastodon fans before the Mastodon set.
Mastodon @ Oakland’s Fox Theater (April 27, 2012)
Troy Sanders of Mastodon
This seems like too much fun to pass up. If they were playing with two bands I hated I could probably skip this, but I really want to see Gojira, and even though I’m not familiar with Kverlertak, they can’t be bad coming from Norway, right? So next week I may be making the trek to Portland (4/29/14) to hang out with the Mastodon boys and experience their amazingness yet again.
Bill Kelliher of Mastodon with his Gibson Les Paul guitar
Today’s photo is of Brent Hinds of Mastodon moments before the band took the stage in front of tens of thousands of people at the Roskilde Festival in 2011.
Mastodon’s new album should be out in the next few months. I can’t wait.
Metal Rock Bar in Nagoya, Japan (Scum)
Since the first time I heard Outrage in 1989 I always wanted to visit Nagoya. Despite living in Japan for three years, the opportunity never presented itself (despite having passed Nagoya on the train several times) until 2013. I asked Shinya Tange, Outrage’s drummer, if there were any metal bars or clubs he could recommend. He recommended Scum. The place was much nicer than the name suggests. The owner is super nice and can speak English having lived in California for a while. We spoke in Japanese though. He hands you his iPad and let’s you pick the music. The cover of the album of the currently playing song is projected on the wall. As you can see, I must have picked something off of Mastodon’s “Crack the Skye.”
The other customers were wonderful too. I chatted with a young local who had never even heard of Outrage. I found it rather ironic that I, a foreigner, was able to introduce a native from Nagoya to Outrage.