CREEPAZOID
SLACK BABBATH
at The Coconut Teaszer

By Barfly

Hell night at The Teaszer began with the Halloweenish CREEPAZOID and their Tales From The Crypt intro that blistered into their heavy groovin' set. The tribal sounding "Down In The Head" had the singer pullin' out his old Tower Records name tag with numbers in place of his name, around his neck it went and as the song started he shouted out, "TOWER PRISONER 65 DOUBLE THREE 21 (Clockwork Orange), I SENTENCE YOU TO A LIFE OF CORPORATE HELL! HA! HA! HA!" Later in the set the singer leered out that the next song was about good ol' Tinsel Town, you know he said, "home of all the PLASTIC! SHALLOW! FAKES! and FLAKES! The BACKSTABBING! TWO-FACED! JUNKIES! and WHORES! The TREND JUMPERS! and BANDWAGON MOTHERFUCKERS! THIS IS HOLLYWOOD!" This song was a direct stab at the tame local scene - "drinkin' booze and smokin' weed/freak flag flyin' on the strip we dwelled/remember how wild it use to be/Wake up this town and Raise Some Hell - WAKE UP!" For the next song the singer announced, "Love Is...INSANITY!!!" Then came the gloomy intro of "Deteriorate," which crashed into a world of sheer darkness. Then came CREEPAZOID's most horrible song of them all! - "Melting Pot," which is about dead serial killer Jeffery Dahmer. I found they lyrical perspective to be quite unique in regard to the following passages - "unhappy childhood, parents SCREAMIN' DAY AND NIGHT/ always so lonely and left far behind/UNTIL THE DEMONS CAME WHISPERIN' LOUD WITHIN/KILL TO THE GROOVE OF THE SNAKEBITE RHYTHM - KILL 'EM ALL!" A definite nod to the REAL Metallica at the end there. Towards the locomotive ending, a manic strobe light flashed on and the singer jumped up on the front railing of the stage in a drunken rage yelling - "INSTINCT OVER REASON, CHAOS OVER ORDER! AHH HA! HA! HA! HAAA!" He then jumped down and grabbed two maracas and jumped around like a crazed Indian in a peyote trance. Before the lasts song the singer declared alternative music DEAD! HARD ROCK HOLLYWOOD '98 TO THE YEAR 2000 AND BEYOND!!! He then dedicated the last song to all those right wing Christian motherfuckers and their rock and roll witch hunts on bands like White Zombie and Marilyn Manson and that the last time that he had checked, this was AMERICA the Land of the FREE and not the land of Jesus, said "if those right wingers wanna start a war, then we'll give 'em HELL!" Then came the heavenward look and a, "Hey god of all right wingers, if you are really up there and you can really hear me like they say you can, well then I got two words for ya. FUCK YOU!!" In came the bass line for Black Sabbath's "N.I.B." from Creepazoid's new female bass player. The singer slipped into a black hood with a face of blackness and a pitchfork in hand as "N.I.B." kicked into full throttle! When the singer sang "my name is Lucifer please take my hand," he threw out his hand which jettisoned glittery devil dust that came from his red pouch of voodoo. "N.I.B." ended with the singer and his big red foam 666 devil hand cheering on Mephistopheles which he pulled out later to join others with the same devilish foam hands to hail SLACK BABBATH!!! The singer announced, "We are CREEPAZOID," and from out of the club's sound system came - Look I know the supernatural is something that isn't suppose to happen but it does happen, then out roared White Zombie's "Super-Charger Heaven" which was a killer ending for a killer show!!! I talked with Creepazoid after the show and the gist of their thoughts were that you have all these other bands that suck because they are still milking the faded alternative scene to the last drop when it is clear as day that HARD ROCK is taking over this town and that tonight's line-up is proof of that! Amen to that brother! In closing - In such a shallow entertainment industry that feeds on money and over-done formulas, it doesn't seem like there is room for REAL MAGIC in Hollywood anymore. People need REAL MAGIC! THEY NEED ECSTATIC EXPERIENCES, TO BE ELEVATED ABOVE THE MUNDANE GRIND OF EVERYDAY!!! CREEPAZOID offers that, a chance to step through he looking glass into another realm, to reach out and touch the infinite!
The midget ran off drunk, the devil girl dancers didn't strip, no one who sang really sounded like Ozzy, and it didn't even matter because SLACK BABBATH ROCKED!!! Today with all these bands jumpin' on the industrial/techno bandwagon, it was a relief to hear the good ol' simple heavy riff rockin' grooves of Black Sabbath being played live to a wild and drunk rip roarin' crowd of Sabbath fans! They played the early classic favorites like "Fairies Wear Booth" and "N.I.B." with devil hands, devil girls, shooting fire, a light-bright pentagram and more. Not only did this show rock, it was FUN!!! There is no doubt in my mind that early Black Sabbath is definitely fueling the future HARD ROCK HOLLYWOOD SCENE, thank god, uh, I mean, thank SATAN! AHH HA! HA! HA! HAAA!