This is my second time seeing Dropkick Murphy, the first time was actually my first concert nearly 3 years ago! Dropkick isn't my favorite band but they put on a crazy good show! Dropkicks openers for this show were Larry and His Flask and The Adolescents (which I didn't find out about until the show started because I didn't read who was gonna play with DKM).
As always every time I visit a venue I haven't been to before, I'll review it. Reno, Nevada's Grand Theater inside the Grand Sierra resort is just impressive. It has the largest indoor stage in the west coast, and something crazy like the 8th largest in the US! It is a massive small venue, it has a lot of seating and there isn't a bad seat in the house except in the bottom row on the far right of left. The floor is a little tight, I think they should have made it it a little bigger that way people can have a little breathing room. Security was the best and nicest I have ever seen, they talked to us guys in the front row of the mosh about music and stuff, they didn't choke-slam anyone for smoking they just told them to smoke outside, and when the time came for them to step in and remove a guy from the pit they did. Its a really cool venue, and I will definitely go there again.
The first band up was Larry And His Flask a band I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT. These guy's are some of the best in the genre of bluseycelticbluegrassfolkjazzpunk. It is hard to compare these guys to any other band, but their set was amazing. With amazing stage presence and a stand up bass player who was running across the stage with his bass spinning it around nearly chucking it in the crowd at a few points, a drummer who stood up and played, and a band that was floating around the stage like crazy, it was just awesome I WOULD SO SEE THESE GUYS SOLO LIVE!
The second opener was the Adolescents, aka one of the best Hardcore Punk bands of the 80s! Seeing these guys live was a trip because I saw footage of them live on youtube, it was amazing I was like "I want to be there". Fast forward to the show, and I was there. With no false expectations of it being like the videos of the old days of punk, it was still so cool! The set they played was awesome I believe it was either a 45 minute or hour long set and it was good. The mosh got crazy, people were having fun! One of the two guitarists Joe Harrison was awesome he is like in his 20's I think but he looks like he is 12 and he is just an spectacular guitarist! 3 members including the bassist drummer and lead singer were all from the original lineup! All looked it to, still I am glad I got to see these guys live I would love to again!
Then there was Dropkick, just a stellar live band, the first time I saw them I was to young to really get up in the pit, but this time I was at the very front, when Foggy Dew (their intro music) started playing I just felt like six 20 year old girls start pushing on my back to get up front(didn't work) I even had this one chick who had her arms around me at one point (again thinking that it'd make me let go), then the pit started and she stopped that fast. Dropkick played an average length 1 hour 45 minute show which is their standard, and wow did they just TEAR UP the Grand Theater, people going nuts stage diving everywhere, and only one prick got removed from the concert (for tackling security) .
It was an all around FANTASTIC performance, with a crazy pit! They had Stephanie sing "Dirty Glass", which was awesome because she doesn't normally tour with Dropkick! Also as tradition at Dropkick concerts they invited close to 100 women on stage to sing "Kiss Me I'm Shit Faced" with the band, but some dumb bimbo messed up the "It Was Tiny" part. At the end of the show they played "Shipping out to Boston" and "Bar Room Hero" where they allowed what had to of been 200 people up on stage from the crowd (including me) it was insane and so much fun! If Dropkick comes to your town BUY TICKETS, I don't care what you say BUY TICKETS, just go see them its a lot of fun!
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