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HELLION Live In Houston, Texas With Photos! By Larry Petro, News Monkey Saturday, November 15, 2014 @ 12:56 AM
The concert got off to an early start, with doors opening at 5 pm and bands starting shortly thereafter. I myself didn't make it to the show until well after 7 so unfortunately I missed everything prior to KNOCTURNAL MADNESS. I did manage to catch their set and had actually seen most of the bands missed at previous shows and if their sets were anything like what I saw with KNOCTURNAL MADNESS then I have no doubt that they got things off to a roaring start.
In an unfortunate note, ROTTING CORPSE, a band from the Dallas/Fort Worth area that reforms on occasion to play, was unable to perform at this show due to a family emergency with one of the band members, something that occurred after the band had already made the 3 hour drive from North Texas.
As part of this tour, and as near as I can tell, this was the only date with HELLION, Tony and company performed his iconic 1987 opus, Maximum Security, in its entirety. The guy can flat out play and is certainly to be included in discussion about some of the instrumental guitar greats like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and even Yngwie Malmsteen. His set was straightforward guitar rock, no bullshit and no banter even between songs! IT was nice to finally catch this legend in a live setting. HELLION guitarist Maxxxwell Carlisle was even seen front and center observing and (most likely) taking notes from the master.
In between sets and after meeting Tony and his band, I perused over to the HELLION merchandise table. My God, they had just about every kind of merchandise known to man on sale! Everything from CDs to T-shirts, koozies, key chains, necklaces, hats, posters was for sale. There was more merch there than most bands carry at large shows and most definitely more than I had ever seen at the Concert Pub North for a show. As manager Brenda Starr would tell me, "It puts gas in the bus". Since bands these days make most of their money from touring it's a wonder why more don't have the merchandise available like HELLION did. Hell, some bands that have played Concert Pub have had NO merch for sale, a case of pure insanity!
The entire show was a nice cut of the entire HELLION catalog, with tracks "Stormrider", "Run For Your Life", "Bad Attitude" and "Rockin' Til The End" among those selected for this tour. The band finished the night with a blistering, raucous cover of "The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown". Almost immediately following their stage exit the band headed to the merch area to hang with the fans, take pictures and sign autographs. IF you missed this tour hen you most certainly missed out on one of the best club shows this year!
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