[ATTENDED: April 18, 2023] Skinny Puppy
I saw Skinny Puppy with my friend Garry back in 1988–on Halloween. Thirty-four and a half years later and I saw them again on their Final Tour. It would have been great to see them with him, but he was in Florida at the time, so that made it tough. He did see the a few weeks ago though, so it’s almost like we saw the show together (except that his setlist was so much better than ours).
Turns out lead singer Oghr had been ill the night before and had to miss the Pittsburgh show. He was fine for our show, although I assume ours was several songs shorter because of it.
So I admit to being something of a “fake fan” as my daughter says. I liked them a lot back in the day, but haven’t really listened to them in twenty-five years. I haven’t listened to much of any of their newer stuff at all. But Garry told me that this was something of a greatest hits show.
The show didn’t really go very well for me in large part because of the audience.
The guy in front of me who had been into Lead Into Gold, suddenly turned into a full-on dancing arms in the air lunatic, making it impossible to stand behind him. About half way in, some guy decided he was going to start slam dancing and managed to smash as hard as he could into everyone (including me) around him. I thought a fight might break out. There were several girls who were talking at full volume and late in the show a very drunk guy started talking to me about how Oghr had been throwing up in Pittsburgh the night before. (more…)
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