took this picture at the RATT concert at the hard rock pool last weekend. there's not much to say about a RATT concert in 2009...(or the hard rock pool)...that you can't already imagine. When you live in Vegas, this kind of stuff is free (thank you spyonvegas.com)
Another free metal show this month:
The Mentors at Fire Fox Lounge...
I whipped out my Zoom H4 and got a pretty good sounding recording of their set. Here's the opening number..
Some guy was running around with a video camera and said he was going to put the whole thing up on youtube. I suppose if you are a diehard mentors fan, you should keep checking for it. If you're out there and you want the whole show, i can post it for you. Hopefully, you got something to trade...I caught them in 2007 and they were a lot more abusive and obnoxious. This time around it was late and the crowd was thin...
The H4 is a pretty sweet piece of recorder...I took it to see the Donnas at wasted space, however, and the auto gain didn't compensate for the volume and all I got was distortion...A lot of bands come through vegas and play video poker bars for free, I catch about 3 a week on average...I thought about getting into the habit of having the recorder handy and posting a song or two of whomever I stumble on, but it probably won't happen...
As far as vegas-located bands go, I made this decent recording of one of the better ones, a garage pop raw vocaled trio, the tinglerz
