Metal Sludge Rolls through Toronto....Funny

[Sandy-Hazard]

LIVE: Metal Sludge Tour featuring Faster Pussycat, Enuff Z?nuff, Pretty Boy Floyd and Crash Kelly
Friday July 04, 2003 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

The 360
Toronto, Ontario
June 28, 2003
by Keith Carman


We should have known it would have bombed. When you take bands that had a mild heyday before the now-retro Nirvana broke, it?s gonna be trouble. Especially when you consider that it?s a bunch of glory-seeking hair metal bands who don?t realize that spandex, drug abuse and the "rock n? roll attitude" aren?t cool anymore.

You also know there?s trouble when the most rousing set of the night is performed by the local talent. Rewarded with some of the most sincere applause all evening, openers Crash Kelly may have only had about 25 minutes to shine before the gathering crowd, but they made the most of it and came off smelling like two dozen roses. Full of energy, this Toronto quartet was probably the only group of musicians to show genuine care for the craft anymore, relying on silly tactics like "talent" and "enthusiasm" to win everyone over. Jerks.

Proving that their prompt dismissal from a record label after one disappointing album was no fluke, Pretty Boy Floyd stank up the 360 faster than you could say "VO5." Delivering limp songs about booze and chicks, this band was sloppy, boring and just plain goofy. One almost couldn?t wait for the guitar player from the Killer Dwarves (the night?s MC) to come back out and ask his stupid metal-questions-for-free-stuff again so that these clowns would shut up. Back to the high school Battle Of The Bands for this collection of amateurs. It?s no wonder they?re still "shopping for a record deal" after 15 years.

Surprisingly enough, Enuff Z?nuff was the tightest big band of the evening. It?s just too bad that they couldn?t shake the bar band feel they had wafting around them. One could barely imagine how this power trio once blasted out "Fly High Michelle" from a 20-foot high stage for thousands, ?cause on this night, they seemed more like they should be playing a cover of "Mustang Sally" in some shitty blues bar.

And who the hell made Taime Down of Faster Pussycat such an arrogant prick? The guy did little more than mumble his way through between-song patter, make horrible drug jokes and half-whine through FP?s hits. While they did play quite well despite having a darker, more gothic-driven sound and image as compared to their trashy rock vibe of years ago, one would be hard-pressed to prove that any of the bodies on stage were FP, they were so shrouded in smoke. The angry jokes flew fast and hard at the band?s expense ("It?s probably to cover up their pot bellies." "No, more like Down?s cocaine complexion") as people quickly became frustrated after paying through the nose to see little more than shadows and red lights. At least their curiosity at reliving the past was sated? enough that it?s tough to imagine anyone creating enough desire for these has-beens to darken the Canadian border again.

[NO.1 BADD KATT]

Hmmmm?...someone seems pretty angered that US Pretty Boy Floyd was 100 times better than the Canadian PBF.
and as for Crash Kelly...I've heard their stuff and didn't hear anything new nor special.

[NO.1 BADD KATT]

My opinion....lots of jealousy that bands as PBF, ENZ and FP are still around with a loyal following.
Those bands who no longer have fans just posters and CD's that you can find for 50cents at a used CD store always seem to knock the bands that have lasted and are still playing out to their asses off to their fans.

[NO.1 BADD KATT]

and Hmmmm?
Let me pull out the Canadian PBF cd and look at the song titles...Hmmmm....A booze song...chicks....a sogn about Rockin'g the place...Well what have we here....
Oh yeah how goofy they were.

[Sandy-Hazard]

Oh, Katt go buy another CD with the same songs in a different order. LOL....Last time Bullets N' Lipstik was on ebay the sealed vinyl went for $58 US and the CD went for $120.....Fact is the US PBF doesn't hold a candle to newer bands like Robin Black or Crystal Pistol.

PBF lasted????....they disappeared 10 years ago and resurfaced because Steve's probably having a hard time making rent. Go ahead and buy into PBF...I mean Steve Sommers....it's not even the original line-up. As far as I can see the reviewer is calling it as it is.

Don't get me wrong on EN and Faster Pussycat...I think those bands in there day were great and a buddy of mine saw them the last time they rolled round here a few months back and said they were cool. Nostalgia is great but if you can deliver the goods in the present why bother.

It's funny Katt....you show your immaturity by dissing my old band when all I posted was someone elses review on a band you are obviously in love with.

[Cotton Candy Lover]

1) I saw FP just last year. It was a great show. They delivered the goods.

2) I find it interesting and question the legitimacy of their comments on this show when the reviewer didn't know that EZ traditionally is not a power trio. Just an observation with that one. (credentials are again shown in a questionable light when the reviewer doesn't even know the name of the guitarist of the Killer Dwarves.....a canadian band, btw)

3) The writer mentions "talent" when discussing Crash Kelly.....this is an ambiguous assessment as one listeners gold is another listeners dogshit. Perhaps if he innumerated but, alas, he did not.

4) His attack on PBF is, too, weak. He describes them as being "sloppy" and "goofy", undoubtedly characteristics he would be praising a band like the Ramones, the Melvins, or a myriad of other bands for employing. If they're music is, as he points out and claims, silly, then shouldn't their show match? Which does he want to be entertaining him?

Just my two cents.

[Sandy-Hazard]

I see you have the CD.....Thank you for supporting Pretty Boy Floyd.

My favorite lyric "Down on the floor, be my bad apple, let me rotten your core"

[Cotton Candy Lover]

btw, imo, price and rarity of cd means very little. I've heard Bullets and Lipstick and have to say that I place it up with the Black and Blue library and Swingin' Thing for being some of the most overpriced discs out there. Nothing personal, Sandy, just my opinion.

[Sandy-Hazard]

No worries CCL, I know that is true about rarities and pricing although the LP isn't that rare and still fetches a high price. I want everyone to know, don't take too much offense on my PBF US comments. I take the piss out of them because they fucked me over in the past. I'm a huge glam fan but I never liked there music, not because of my own personal bias, I just didn't think the writing was that good or cool. I took the piss out of you Katt as you got ragey on my post that wasn't my words but someone elses.

As Johnny once said...Hey Chatterbox ya' you squawk alot, c'mon gimme some lip...hey Chatterbox..

[Cotton Candy Lover]

First, Marcus (aka Katt, Raggz, etc) is an alright guy. He was just giving you some shit for seemingly obsessing about PBF US. He wasn't making any personal attacks. Don't take it that way.