I’ve been to Ozzfest, Slayer & Slipknot concerts and I’ve never had any problem lasting the whole show, or at least a whole set in the front, buried among the many sweaty, swaying bodies. However, at the Beetroots performance in San Diego, House Of Blues..I found myself for the first time ever having to TAP OUT! The crowd was so horny for the roots…and with their Deathcrew 77 LIVE set…who couldn’t be.
That night we were all victim to the energy each song carried and when every song echoed throughout the venue, we were all puppets on a string, forced to jump, chant and repeat. Warp 1977; 1 , 2, 3 MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!!
The Bloody Beetroots - Warp 1977
Bob Rifo is a spider. There is no other way to describe him. Skinny body, 1977 etched into his chest..arms outstretched across the keys playing the song, with the guitar on his back…he swings the guitar around and plays along to the song, then he begins to sing into the microphone. While Tommy Tea up at the controls playing along, jumping off the stage and providing the dying fans with bottles of water. And lets not forget the drummer, who kept up with all the electronic madness playing on a real borrowed House of Blues set.
If one was ever curious what it is like to be in the recording studio with the roots when they make their music..all of us got just a taste and feeling that night at the House of Blues and it was mind NUMBING! And thank god San Diego had the balls to respond to it *(the last show I had watched in San Diego was more commercial than a fucking superbowl sunday…people standing around with champagne glasses looking pretty and snorting coke behind the scenes)..give me a break…this place had literally had BLOOD and when I exited the venue there were cops…girls in handcuffs and more than enough noise to make me more satisfied than an electric pig plugged into the biggest power outlet! I felt like the audience in Rome exiting the Collesium, and I hope those Italian Basterds, the mother fucking Bloody Beetroots, felt like glorified gladiators causing a great bloodbath of music….and it was only Friday for the roots, they still went on to play two more shows back to back in Los Angeles at HARD with great success!
*Deth Hertz, what a pleasure it was to finally meet the two men behind the music. More than awesome set and glad to see the boys got a fair amount of time up on stage. Opening up with the doors to the venue and wrapping up right before the start of Shark Attack’s LIVE set. Which opened with ‘Second in Line at the Used Needle Exchange’ followed by ‘Northern City Riot’ two songs I’ve only heard digitally and never seen physically strewn out before me with live instruments.
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