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Precious metal
I never thought I'd be disappointed when "only" 11 people on a took the Double Door stage.
Bryn Bennett and Alex Necochea--the founders of heavy metal choir Bang Camaro--told us the band usually performs with 12 to 20 singers (read our interview here), so I was hoping to see at least a dozen dudes on stage Friday.
To my surprise, there were only, like, six or seven singers, plus a couple guitarists and a whole lot of fist-pumping. No matter: This serious-yet-silly metal act totally, fully rocked, despite playing for only about 52 minutes and cranking out a roster of songs that pretty much all sounded the same.
Driven by chugging hooks and vocals done completely in unison, their performance was full of "Yeah!"s and "Hey!"s and, more importantly, just plain fun. The hard-rocking took people back to the late '80s without motivating anyone to start a mosh pit. (Yes, that's harder to do than it sounds.)
Plus, the two-thirds-full crowd was only about 65 percent men, lower than the predicted, uh, 90 percent. For anyone who doesn't feel like shelling out the cash to see washed-up versions of actual '80s metal bands like Motley Crue churn out their hits, Bang Camaro makes something old look new again. And it's certainly the rockin'-est 10 bucks I've spent in weeks.
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