{"id":1944,"date":"2017-03-16T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:27:07","slug":"covering-the-90s-at-dingbatz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"Covering the 90s at Dingbatz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dingbatz March 3 hosted a sensational celebration to the 90s with three spectacular tribute bands playing covers of the three giant bands that represented the musical highpoint of that decade. <\/p>\n

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Nine Inch Nails cover band SIN<\/p><\/div>\n

SIN<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Starting early, but well-prepared, lead vocalist Byron led NIN cover band, SIN in a ten-song set starting with \u201cSomewhat Damaged\u201d which Trent Reznor co-wrote with Lennie Lohner, off their third album, the double-disc opus, \u201cThe Fragile.\u201d \u201cMarch of the Pigs\u201d from \u201cDownward Spiral\u201d followed, then a welcome turn to \u201cSin\u201d off the debut album, \u201cPretty Hate Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

NIN music videos played silently on the backdrop screen as SIN ran through masterful renditions of select representatives of the most loved tracks on all the major disc releases. \u201dBurn,\u201d the single from the movie, \u201cNatural Born Killers,\u201d enters the discography in the 2004 Deluxe 10th Anniversary re-release of \u201cDownard Spiral,\u201d but it doesn\u2019t appear in the original (1994) album. When SIN performed a really accurate rendition of \u201cCloser,\u201d it caused those in the audience to recall not only its ground-breaking video, influenced by the eerie animations of the Brothers Quay, but also went a long way toward opening mass media to the daytime use of the \u201cf-word.\u201d
\nOther faithful covers included \u201cWish,\u201d from both \u201cBroken\u201d and \u201cFixed,\u201d \u201cOnly\u201d from \u201c\u201dWith Teeth\u201d (2005) and two more from the first album, \u201cTerrible Lie\u201d and ending with the all-time most influential industrial-to-mainstream-crossover piece, \u201cHead Like a Hole.\u201d NIN fans were satisfied with the meticulously accurate and utterly sincere re-creation of their idol band.<\/p>\n

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Rage Against the Machine cover band Battle of Los Angeles<\/p><\/div>\n

Battle of Las Angeles<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Founded in 2007, The Battle of Los Angeles takes its name from Rage Against the Machine\u2019s third album. Opening with a mild, but rapid riff of single guitar notes, the opening song, \u201cBombtrack\u201d released its sudden explosion on stage and lead singer Christian Alcantara leaped half his height in imitation of Rage\u2019s Zach de la Rocha as he rhythmically screamed political leftist complaints against patriotism and capitalism. Next, \u201cPeople of the Sun,\u201d gave voice to the rage of indigenous tribes. Alcantara has effectively captured the original timbre of the Zack de la Rocha voice, just as he has mastered his athletic stage promenade. <\/p>\n

Battle of Los Angeles (one of two RATM cover bands with that name) pulled no punches lyrically or artistically in delivering Rage\u2019s defiant, pointed critique of American society with \u201cSleep Now in the Fire;\u201d \u201cKnow Your Enemy;\u201d \u201cBullet in the Head,\u201d which Alcantara specifically dedicated to Jeff Sessions; the anti-war \u201cBulls on Parade\u201d;\u201d \u201cTestify;\u201d \u201cFreedom\u201d and their most memorable single, \u201cKilling in the Name Of,\u201d the popular anti-authority screed, which some call Rage\u2019s \u201csignature song.\u201d At the conclusion of their set, we spectators were for a moment considering to head out in order to burn the system down, but we stayed to hear the next band.<\/p>\n

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Tool cover band Schism<\/p><\/div>\n

SCHISM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having already mastered the complex and experimental instrumental style and arrangements of Tool\u2019s oeuvre, Schism took it to another level when in 2005, the man behind Schism, Keith Williams, recruited singer Angelo Rivera, whose vocal virtuosity is a match for that of Tool\u2019s Maynard James Keenan, as nuanced and as finely tuned. Rivera\u2019s transcendent singing is supported by Schism\u2019s mastermind and guitar virtuoso, Keith; by the guitar-style techniques of Sean Patrick Murray on bass which closely mimic those of Tool\u2019s bassist, Justin Chancellor; and by the infallibly accurate reproduction of Tool drummer\/percussionist Danny Carey\u2019s unusual time signatures and shifting rhythms.<\/p>\n

Starting with \u201cAenema\u201d off the similarly named \u201cAenima\u201d album, Rivera imbued this viciously cynical damnation of L.A. culture with keen articulation. In fact, he did so with each of the exquisitely rendered pieces that Schism performed that night which included: \u201c46 & 2,\u201d \u201cPrison Sex,\u201d \u201cParabola,\u201d \u201cStinkfist,\u201d \u201cSchism,\u201d \u201cHooker with a Penis,\u201d \u201cVicarious,\u201d \u201cJambi\u201d and finally ended with the spectacular – and spectacularly performed – \u201cLateralus,\u201d one of Tool\u2019s great treatises on philosophy and spirituality.<\/p>\n

Not only is Schism the premier Tool cover band, but it is very near the top of all cover bands in any genre. Now at it 16 years, Keith Williams\u2019 national touring band Schism is unique in that it is endorsed on the Tool website. They will be performing \u201cApril Tool Day\u201d at artist Alex Grey\u2019s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappingers Falls NY and at the Gramercy in NYC on May 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dingbatz March 3 hosted a sensational celebration to the 90s with three spectacular tribute bands playing covers of the three giant bands that represented the musical highpoint of that decade. SIN Starting early, but well-prepared, lead vocalist Byron led NIN cover band, SIN in a ten-song set starting with \u201cSomewhat Damaged\u201d which Trent Reznor co-wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}