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Events and Reports - Sweden Rock Festival 2003 - Y&T and Anthrax
Y&T
Festival stage
Sunday 16.30
Another classic Hard Rock band Y&T was scheduled to play at Sweden Rock. Dave Meniketti recently released a solo album - therefore I was surprised and anxious to experience Dave Meniketti and his usual sidekick Phil Kennemore.
Dave Meniketti is still an excellent singer and guitarist, which was proven on the excellent ballad I Believe in You. The band seemed grateful to play at the large audience on the largest stage of the festival. The crowd (especially the Swedish girls) and the great weather inspired Y&T to spontaneously play Summertime Girls.
Y&T played a set spanning through their whole career. They played a track off their first album released back in 1976 and we also got the beer-boogie rocker Barroom Boogie.
Dave mentioned from the stage that in a time with lots of re-unions, Y&T was one of the few bands with the most original line-up. Besides Kennemore and Meniketti, original member Leonard Haze played drums and guitar duties was handled by, to me, an unfamiliar guitarist John Nymann. Nymann and Kennemore were a bit recessed, while Meniketti was the center of the show. Personally I am more into the 80's line-up with DeGrasso on drums and Stef Burns on guitar, which was featured on the brilliant album "Ten". Unfortunately Y&T didn't play any songs off "Ten", but we got lots of their earlier classic songs like Mean Streak and Black Tiger.
Overall a great concert marked by the band's obvious joy of playing their material.
ANTHRAX
Sweden stage
Sunday 22.00
How long can you label John Bush as the new lead singer of Anthrax? Maybe John Bush felt like he had to prove something for the audience, since it's been a long time since Anthrax played around here. John Bush was intent on letting everyone forget about Joey Belladonna.
Anthrax was supporting their new album "We've come for you all". I only heard the album one time, but before this live experience I almost forgot how much Anthrax kicks ass. Charlie Benante's double bass drumming nearly gave me a hearing loss. Scott Ian and Frank Bello were sparkling on stage and there was no sign of an older band, which was among the pioneers of both Thrash metal and Rap metal. Scott Ian pointed out the last fact before the band ripped into a great version of Bring the Noize.
The concert was a nice mixture of a new and mostly old material. The band represented their latest album well and also "Sound of White Noise" was well represented with the atmospheric Black Lodge and the excellent Only. Anti Social was introduced as a treat for the ones, who knew their Anthrax history. Among the older songs played was N.F.L., Madhouse and Metal Thrashing Mad.
The program was so closely packed that we had to leave the concert during the encores, because headliners Twisted Sister was scheduled to play 15 minutes later.
Continue to Twisted Sister...
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All pictures taken by Borg | Written by Michael
Sunday, June 29, 2003 |
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