September 2, 2017
The Vanguard Tulsa
Oklahoma
Edge Of Zephyr opened the show with some excellent heavy
melodic music. The set list was
Memories, Living With the Beast, What Have I Become, Desperation, and ending
with Tidal Wave. This was an excellent
band to start off the show with and the crowd was really into them.
Hard Truth was next. Unfortunately
I didn’t get a set list from them but they did play some amazing covers from
Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and many other bands of that genre. Another band that the crowd seemed to really
enjoy.
Next Up was Bobaflex. This might be one of my favorite bands that
I’m just getting into. They really
rocked the crowd with lots of audience participation. The set list was I am a Nightmare, I’m Glad
Your Dead, Chemical
Valley, Mama Don’t Take
My Drugs Away, Never Coming Back, Long Time Coming, Hey You an excellent rockin'
Pink Floyd cover that had the band singing along to, and Bury With My Guns On. What an amazing show with awesome musicianship
and some great guys. I took my kids to
this show. It was their first rock
concert. After Bobaflex played Marty
from the band gave my kids a cd each which was really cool of him. What a really nice guy.
Dead By Wednesday was next. The set list was Self-Medicate, Shipwrecked,
Live Again,
Power Troopers, Break When I'm Dead, Pawns and Domination. These guys were fast, mean, heavy and straight
on power with deep growly vocals.
Now it was time for the headliner Raven. It had been 17 years since I had seen my
friends in Raven play and they did not disappoint. They were every bit as fast, heavy and on the
spot with every musical note. The set
list was Destroy All Monsters off the new cd Extermination. Any fan of Raven must have this cd. Hell Patrol, All For One, Hung Drawn and
Quartered, Rock Till You Drop, an awesome Guitar Solo, Battle March Tank
Treads, Stay Hard, Firepower, Faster Than The Speed Of Light, On And On, an
amazing Bass Solo, and ending with Break the Chains, Born To Be Wild and Crash
Bang Wallop. These guys gave every ounce of energy that they had from the first
till last note and the crowd left completely satisfied.
-Xroadie
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