Rockabilly concert with Reverend Horton Heat at Spicolis

This was an exciting day for me i like work like this. My first rockabilly concert in the US and I can blog about it. Thanks to my professor that he told me that their is one so I didn't missed it.

The concert was on September 18th 2012 at Spicolis Grill in Waterloo. Admission fee was about 15 bucks and you got a yellow band and if you were earlier at Spicolis than we you also got a blue ticket. We (me and Tara) arrived at Spicolis at 9 pm. The doors open at 7 pm so we missed the first two bands. It starts with My Life for Change goes on with Whiskey & Woe and we were right there when The Goddamn Gallows starts to make their tests for the show.

The first exciting impression for me were the cars right in front of Spicolis Grill. There was a row full of Hotrods and old cars. I have to say I love old american cars.

Inside at Spicolis Grill were a lot of people but noch much in the typical rockabilly style as I know that. It was also surprising for me to see two girls with pink hair because here at the UNI most of the people have natural haircolors I guess I saw only one with a freaky haircolor at UNI.

We stand right in front of the stage so that I can make good pictures and videos. But it was pretty hard to get good pictures and videos with my camera because I don't have a professional one but I tried my best.

The Goddamn Gallows were pretty awesome. They have a style which sounds for me like a combination of pirate music and rockabilly and also they looked like that. I really liked it and the other people in front of the stage too. It was a good atmosphere, everybody was dancing and the band made jokes during their show and had also a really good interaction with the audience. During two songs two or three members of the band jumped down to the audience and played there. It was really exciting. They really take themselfs not seriously and that made them really sympathic.

All in all it was for me a little bit short but I guess they had a specific timeframe so they weren't able to play longer. But they used the time they had really good. The show was really powerful.

After this band we had a break and I was looking for some merchandising stuff. There was a small section where you could get some stuff. I grabed two stickers for my laptop from Reverend Horton Heat. After that we talked a little bit about the band who played.

Then the show from Reverend Horton Heat started and the audience was even bigger then before. The people really freaked out during the show. They were dancing and screaming all the time, it was a really exciting show and I enjoyed it much. What I really liked was that they played radio like back in the 50's during short breaks. The band itself was really professional and powerful I would describe their style as a mixture of rockabilly and country.

They have this year their 25 anniversary and another important information was that the drummer Scott is back. He was their drummer before for 11 years and then he was gone but after the new drummer quit he went back to the band and I have to say he is a really good drummer. On Youtube I have a drum solo which you have to watch ;-).

Tara was so nice and gave me a gift it was the playlist of Reverend Horton Heat and so I can also provide you with the playlist of Reverend Horton Heat. Additional they also performed five coversongs what according to vocalist Jim Heat not their normal approach is because they aren't a coverband. They also played four encore songs and the whole show lasted till 0:20 am.

Psychobilly Freakout
400 Bucks
Baddest of the Bad
It's Martini Time
Jimbo song
The Party in Your Head
Galaxy 500
Indigo Friends
Run Rudolph, Run
Death Metal Guys
Requests
Devil's Chasing' Me
Big Red Rocket of Love

I hope you enjoyed my first blog about a rockabilly show. I would appreciate it if you write some comments positive as negative so that I can improve myself. And if you don't know the bands really good i provide you with their links and I also made some pictures and videos which I wanted to share with you. Along this lines stay rockabilly :-)