The Truant Tales

What better band to follow the Boney M concert last week than Megadeth and Machine head. They performed as part of the 'Rock In India' festival (It should have been called 'headache inducing metal fest'. I wouldn't have normally gone to a fest with only heavy metal bands performing, but one of dad's friends offered us free passes. And the word 'free' can make any student drool.

The festival started at 2:00 and until 7:15 the Indian metal bands performed. That included Casino blues, Junkyard groove, Thermal and a quarter, Motherjane, Millennium, Pentagram, etc etc.

At 7:30, Machine Head came on stage. They played till 8:15. Not being a fan ,all the songs sounded the same - like an Ogre with hemorrhoids sitting on hot coal. In between the songs, they praised the 20 odd thousand crowd present, with repeatedly proclaiming "Bangalore Rocks" (Flattery Works).

At 8:45, Megadeth (Dave Mustaine in the lead) came on stage to a thundering roar. Played all their major hits (all the songs sounded the same again).

All in all, the concert was a lot of fun. My neck was paining (with headbanging and all), legs were aching (8 hours of standing and jumping like there were fire ants in my pants), hands paining (from overdoing the devils horns ) and my head was paining (8 hrs of heavy metal).

- My classic Rock led Zep T-shirt (sorry Deke) was overwhelmed by 'Pantera', 'Sepultura', 'Lamb of God', 'Opeth' T's.
- Being a rock festival, food costed twice as much as usual.
- I was surrounded by people who were either stoned or hammered or both. Whats the point of attending a concert if you're not going to remember it tomorrow.
- Even though metal is not my type of music (Infact, I have doubts whether its music at all), I really enjoyed the concert. Maybe it was the clouds of weed smoke blown towards me.

'If this is the devils music, he's in for a lot of headaches'