There are some benefits to being an old geezer. One of them is that you have offsping who have grown up, and can stop you getting older(If you get the tautology of that!)
At the Ozzy concert last year, James kept talking about the guitarist, Gus G. I didn’t really get what he was on about until Ozzy did “Mr Crowley”, and a bloke with long hair(How unusual), did an amazing solo. The person was Gus G, a greek guitarist who, as well as having his own band-Firewind-was also Ozzys lead guitarist on the Ozfest tour.
Anyway, time passes, and James told me that Prinitai were the intro act, supporting , Breed 77, and Firewind at the Relentless Garage gig in London. WOuld I like to go-of course.
The Relentless Garage is a really good venue-great lights and sound, professionally organised, and relatively large – 700 people.
Primitai were good, and did a great job of getting the audience energised.
The act that followed thm, to some degree, is difficult to explain. Let me try…
Try taking Spanish music, add some middle eastern influences, now dollop on a huge amount of shred and metal-and you have Breed 77. They were really good, but I wish I’d done my homework beforehand, as it would have enabled me to “Geddit” a bit earlier on.
The headline act was Firewind. Driven by Gus G’s stunning solos, the band metaled their way through some great numbers to a very enthusiastic audience. Really really good, I just don’t get why Gus isn’t better known than he is. he is really amazing.
The fans doing the “Metal Salute”
Gus G looking every bit a star that he is
Gus, and Firewind are Greek, and a number of the fans knew that
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