[ATTENDED: October 1, 2021] Primus [rescheduled from June 19, 2020; and July 10, 2021]
When the Primus A Tribute to Kings tour was announced, there were two opening bands: The Sword and Wolfmother. I was intrigued by both bands. When the show was rescheduled, The Sword was dropped. Actually, they ended their segment of the tour with the how before ours. Interestngly, we were watching the Gilmore Girls season 7 recently and Wolfmother was mentioned with high praise (nit bas since they’d had one album out). But when the show was pushed back again, Wolfmother had visa issues (they are Australian) and had been replaced by Black Mountain.
And I was pretty excited about that because I was already a fan of theirs. Black Mountain is a Canadian band that plays stoner psychedlica that drifts into heavy territories. They were a pretty great opener for Primus. Once again, I don’t know what happened to Primus fans that they became the kind of guys who shout “Primus sucks” during quiet moments of the opening band, but that sucked for them.
Because otherwise they were great.
I was really impressed with the confidence it takes to open a show to a (mildly hostile) audience with the slow droning of the nine minute epic “Mothers of the Sun.”
Main Mountaineer, guitarist and singer Stephen McBean, plays some great slows riffs and lead vocalist Amber Webber, who has a wonderfully unique voice adds such a great presence to these trippy tracks. I was in front of their bassist and keyboardist (I can’t find their names, sorry guys). I enjoyed watching the killer riffs from the bass playing perspective.
They played tracks from all five of their albums. I thought they might focus on their new release Destroyer, but they only played two songs from it. Rather, it was like a great introduction to an underrated band.
I really like the middle three albums (I missed Destroyer when it came out), so I was pretty excited to recognize most of the songs that they played and to hear how good they sounded live. There were a few songs where the drummer (also not sure his name) was just amazing, the way he shifted from quiet to loud and piunded teh hell out of things.
It was a great set. I hope that the Primus fans who bothered to listen were suitably impressed.
- Mothers of the Sun 4
- Stormy High ⇒
- Florian Saucer Attack 4
- Druganaut β
- Tyrants ⇒
- Future Shade ⊗
- Wilderness Heart ϖ
- Horns Arising ⊗
β = Black Mountain (2005)
⇒ = In the Future (2008)
ϖ = Wilderness Heart (2010)
4 = IV (2016)
⊗ = Destroyer (2019)
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