What a bill - these two great bands on a co-headlining tour! 🤘😈 Needless to say I have been really looking forward to this gig. 😁 I'm not the only one - this is one of those shows when it seems like everyone is there. Well nearly.
The
Warner E Hodges Band always put on a great show, but maybe on this tour even
they may be having to raise their game to keep pace with the Lemmy approved ♠ Supersuckers. 🤘
But as ever, Warner & Co hit the ground running.
The (p)ace is high straight from the start, and so is the bass player - in a literal rather than chemically enhanced state!
Yes, I finally managed to do the (nearly) impossible and capture the elusive Jason 'jump shot' that only the terrific
Trudi Knight can normally get!
As this is a 'duel headline' tour and both bands have a 'country' side to their rock/punk thing it is probably inevitable that there will be some overlap resulting in 'guest' appearances in each others sets...
...and this is exactly what happens as Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti joins Warner & Co.
And he is joined by Supersuckers guitarist 'Metal' Marty. 🤘
It really doesn't get much more rock 'n' roll than this. 😎🎸
Although the Warner E Hodges Band are classed as a 'Country-rock' band the emphasis is
very much on the
ROCK and Warner will tell you that his favourite ever band are AC🗲DC. And this is very much reflected in the music his band plays tonight - including one or two particularly good AC🗲DC covers. They have also been known to do a
stunningly good version of Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs, but we don't get this tonight.
But that's not to say the band don't rock very hard indeed tonight because they do.
And if that wasn't enough rock 'n roll for you in one night (and to be fair that was worth the ticket price alone) then we next get "the greatest rock-n-roll band in the world, The Supersuckers". I think our Rolling Stones might take issue with that, but that's another story...
...However, I'm pretty sure the Stones have for many years not been capable of putting on a high powered performance like this. And the Rolling Stones might have the classic and very dark (dark enough to have been
covered by Motorhead) 'Sympathy For The Devil' their brilliant
Born With A Tail is right up there with the best ever 'Devil' songs. 😈 And with a twist of humour that Lemmy must have liked. 😉
As with their fellow country influenced co-headliners there are more guest appearances.
Warner, Jason Knight, and Ben Marsden from tonight's previous act return to join Supersuckers on the stage
Naturally as well as 'Born With A Tail' (their 'Ace Of Spades') we also get the 'hits' like 'The Evil Powers Of Rock 'N' Roll', 'Rock 'n' Roll Records (Ain't selling this year)' , and 'Pretty Fucked Up' (which although a fan favourite I never liked has more resonance for me now) and some newer songs which ain't bad - there's nothing not to like here.
All in all a top night both musically and socially. 😎😁😈
Great review Dom, just wish I had been there.
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