Devin Townsend Kills It At Best Buy In Times Square
Posted by Chris Harris on July 17, 2011 in Rad, Reviews
Devin throws the horns
I was in heaven, and it all ended too quickly for me. And I did not meet any chicks. Every girl at Best Buy was with some heavily tattooed dude, who looks like he stopped listening to hip-hop three days ago. I feel like metal has jumped the shark, in a sense. If you could have seen this audience last night…I felt like I was at a New Found Glory show. I mean, Devin played “Supercrush” off of Addicted and there was a fucking circle pit. Really? I can’t stand fucking amateurs. It was also interesting to see how few people were psyched when he started playing “Kingdom.” I nearly lost my shit, but these people were just waiting for Bodom, who I didn’t stick around for.
It was a weird bill for Devin to be on — something he sort of noted during his set. But some observations from the evening: I love watching fat dudes who’ve never even held a drumstick playing air kit during a set — always makes me crack up; industry dudes LOVE talking about themselves; and I also detected a metal blogger at the back of the venue, smoking dope — and there’s nothing wrong with that: I just watched him freak out when a security guard came waltzing by.
I haven’t seen someone get that paranoid and freeze like a deer in the headlights like that since high school.
By the way, Obscura were fucking great, even if you could barely hear the guitars. Septicflesh said “motherfucker” way too much, and sounded awful to me. Thankfully, someone pulled the fire alarm, and the sound was cut in the middle of their set and ten minutes later, they were setting up for Devin. It was as if the metal gods were like, “I can’t listen to these guys use the word ‘motherfucker’ again. It comes across as insulting when said in a Greek accent, for some reason.”
Oh, and on my way home, I picked up some bum pizza, which ended up giving me food poisoning. All in all, it was a good night. This morning on the other hand? Not so great.
