Bloodsimple Concert Review 11.11.2007
November 12, 2007 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Concert Reviews
By David Hopper, FromTheCrowd.com Contributor
The Marquee Theatre played host to Bloodsimple and Hellyeah on November 11. If you’ve never been to the Marquee, it doesn’t appear to be a very big looking venue until you get inside. People were lined up fairly early to get in and see the concert, a show that I was personally was not impressed with. When Bloodsimple finally hit the stage, the crowd was sparse and docile.
They opened with their song “Ride With Me”, a song where the beginning, seems to me, to be an obvious rip off of The Doors song “The End”. It has been changed in a few ways so as not to seem that way but any Doors fan would immediately notice. The lighting accompanying the show was mediocre at best and the bands stage presence was uninspiring. Bloodsimple lived up to the Heavy Metal sound with loud screaming and heavy guitar licks, but in all the band did not seem to act as one. Every member was doing their own thing instead of trying to get the crowd into the music. As the concert continued, more people made there way in a small mosh pit that had formed in the center of the venue, but it never seemed to get very far. Even as they continued their set, the crowd just did not seem to be getting into their performance or the music all that much. It wasn’t all bad news though; a few people I talked to seemed to enjoy themselves. Three friends who had come to the show Brandon, Julio and Dave all said they enjoyed Bloodsimple for putting on a good show but like many others were waiting for Hellyeah to get onstage.
Overall, as I said it was an uninspiring show, nothing jumped out at me as extraordinary. The band just did not seem to be energetic or excited, few words were spoken to the crowd to get them into the performance, and after all was said and done Bloodsimple did not seem to distinguish themselves apart from any other heavy metal band. I feel like I could go to any heavy metal show and see and hear the same thing as I did last night. To anybody who considers themselves an aficionado of heavy metal perhaps you can pick up on something that I did not however, I wouldn’t count on it. Perhaps of I were to go and the lighting was stepped up a notch and the band tried a little harder instrumentally and energetically it could be a good show. However, something tells me not only will that not happen and even if it did, I would not go see it.
