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Insane Clown Posse – Riddle Box Tour (review)
Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box Tour (review)
by Anthony Bernardi
Tickets $38.00.
Gas and hotel $120.00.
Driving 700 miles round trip to see ICP perform my favorite album in it’s entirety, priceless…
As I was driving east towards Milwaukee on Interstate 90, I felt a stirring that has not been there in many years. There was excitement, happiness, dread, and nervousness building up inside me. I felt as if my whole body was in a vice and being squeezed tighter and tighter. Just as I couldn’t take it anymore the pressure subsided, replacing the pressure and anxiety was a giant grin across my face. It was rush of pure adrenaline and I was gigging like a school girl.
In just a few short hours Insane Clown Posse would be performing the Riddle Box album in it’s entirety in celebration of the album’s 20 year anniversary. This was the first album I have heard from ICP and it was, needless to say, a life altering event. I have seen the dynamic clown duo of Jay and Shaggy perform over 25 times in the past 20 years. I’ve seen them play in front of a few hundred Juggalos at club shows to over 20,000 fans at the Gathering of the Juggalos year after year, but for some reason I was nervous, overly excited, and incredibly anxious to see them preform what I was sure would be a monumental show.
As I arrived at Turner Hall in Milwaukee WI and made my way through the door of the venue, I heard the crowd chanting “WICKED WISCO” as in wicked Wisconsin. That brought a huge smile to my face. It was only a matter of moments before the good ‘ole “FAMILY!… FAMILY!…” chants began, reminding me of how much of a close-knit this community this truly is. The atmosphere brought back memories of the time I saw ICP at this very venue nearly 15 years ago. That show was the precursor to the 2001 Gathering that held so many extraordinary memories for myself and two good buddies of mine. That was the second best show I have ever attended, which only added to the anticipation for this evening and had me fully prepared to get my wig peeled back.
One of the coolest parts of this evening was the local talent they had opening the show. The first group to take the stage was Higher Power, their set was good despite some technical issues. They battled through and the crowd cheered them on.
The second performance was by Bloody Rukkus. All I can say is Wow… I wasn’t expecting such a stellar performance. His stage presence and the way he had the crowd in his hand shows that this cat deserves a good record deal.
The third and final local performance was Damien Quinn. Again I wasn’t expecting his performance to be so amazing. He left me utterly speechless.
Finally the lyrical genius and Psychopathic Records own Young Wicked hit the stage. I have to be honest, previous to this night I had not heard anything by Young Wicked, but dayum! That was a hell of a performance. He had that crowd eating out of his hand and made sure everyone in the the room was ready for the Wicked Clowns!
For those of you that have listened to the Riddle Box album on CD or like some of us old school Juggalos had it on cassette tape you know how diverse, entertaining, and iconic the album is. I honestly had no idea what I was in for and wondered if they could they pull it off live? Don’t get me wrong, I know they never fail to please and entertain, but holy shit! I spent over an hour being drenched in Faygo that actually put me in a state of euphoria. As strange as this sounds this is one of the most exhilarating experience one can have while surrounded with hundreds of perfect strangers and family alike. It was this high that wouldn’t fade. Hundreds and hundreds of gallons of Faygo thrown, a packed house of Juggalos and Juggalettes soaked to the bone and chanting “ICP… ICP…”. They ripped through all sixteen tracks from Riddle Box with ease and perfection, ending the night with the appropriately titled closing track “I’m Coming Home”.
I made my way back to my motel looking like a refugee or a sopping wet hobo. I began to reflect on the evening, and I came to this ultimate conclusion. Over the past 20 years I have traveled all over United States to see my favorite band perform. I’ve been everywhere from Portland to Pittsburgh and have never been let down by their energy, performance or excitement. However I must say that June 8th 2016 I saw my last ICP show.
This show was the golden ring, my crown, or my unicorn as they say. I would have given significant parts of my anatomy to see this go down at Saint Andrews Hall in October of 1995 when it first came out. But here in 2016 I’m quietly packing up the face paint and hanging up my Faygo bottles. This doesn’t mean I do not support them as “I will be down with the clowns till I’m dead in the ground”. I have just come to the crest of that great mountain. This is my Shangrila. Much like a NFL quarterback retiring after winning the Super Bowl, I want to go out on top and let this euphoric feeling last for the rest of my days.
I will have to admit that I would like to attend one more Gathering of the Juggalos. I was thinking the 20th annual will be the perfect time and place for me to paint my face one more time.
Well guys thanks for your time and remember
I’ll catch you on the flip side!!
Anthony
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Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2024) — It is 2024, and W.A.S.P. is celebrating 1984! 40 years ago, the landmark debut album from W.A.S.P. was released on August 17, 1984, and the metal world was knocked on their ass!
The W.A.S.P. “Album ONE Alive” Tour celebrates the debut album by playing the album in its entirety, from start to finish.
To give the fans something every week to celebrate W.A.S.P. is giving away…
• 10 pairs of tickets a week for the length of the US tour.
• Silver Award – Blackie is also giving away each week of the tour two personal meet and greets in his dressing room. In HIS dressing room!
• Gold Award – One lucky fan will win Blackie’s personal certified RIAA award for the debut album.
• Platinum Award – And the Grand Prize, one fan and a guest will be provided airfare and a luxury Hollywood hotel to the final show in Los Angeles, meet the band and stay for the after show, end of tour party.
W.A.S.P. can only celebrate 1984 once and they want to do it big!
To enter all you have to do is visit and enter your email address:
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It was recently announced that Armored Saint will be replacing Death Angel on the tour. W.A.S.P. issued the following statement: “W.A.S.P. is pleased to announce that Armored Saint will now be joining the “Album One Alive” Fall 2024 U.S. Tour. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Death Angel will no longer be able to be a part of this tour. We all wish them the best going forward.”
Tickets and VIP packages available at WASPnation.com/tour
THE ALBUM ONE ALIVE WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:
10/26/24 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater*
10/28/24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/29/24 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
10/30/24 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
11/01/24 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre
11/02/24 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
11/03/24 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
11/04/24 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/05/24 Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
11/07/24 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
11/08/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre
11/09/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre
11/10/24 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/11/24 Toronto, ON @ History
11/13/24 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
11/14/24 Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Capitole
11/15/24 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
11/16/24 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom At Manhattan Center
11/17/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
11/19/24 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theater
11/20/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
11/21/24 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater
11/22/24 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
11/23/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
11/24/24 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live
11/26/24 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
11/27/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
11/29/24 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
11/30/24 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre
12/01/24 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
12/03/24 Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
12/04/24 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion
12/06/24 Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL
12/07/24 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre
12/09/24 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre
12/10/24 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
12/11/24 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
12/12/24 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
12/13/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
12/14/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
* No support acts.
About W.A.S.P.
Few bands in the history of rock n roll have ever incited the love, the hate, and the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles, California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, local city councils, parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.
The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social, and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for 4 decades.
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Them Damn Kings from NJ just released a new single “Shown With a Fist”.
If you like your music in your face with a touch of old school rock and roll this is the band for you. It’s got gritty vocals and pounding drums adding in some killer guitar shreds.
It’s a song that you listen to when you want to get into a bar fight or want to drive your car really fast down the highway.
It’s worth a listen, check out the lyric video below with a little bonus guitar mortal kombat shred off.
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Ashes To Omens are a band from Georgia who’s latest single “Feed Me More” has a great sound to it. It reminds me of bands around the mid to late 2000s. They have a good mixture of sound. The song is a perfect blend of hard rock and metal with the vocals very crisp and delivered with passion.
The song “Feed Me More” has a great melody and works well with the bands style and genre of music. It also is a great title to a song because after listening to it I wanted more of the band.
Some will say that it’s very radio rock/metal and sometimes I do have issues with that but I felt that this song even though it does have that feel to it, isn’t just a radio rock song for the sake of being a radio rock song. I think this single is worth a listen to and could possibly be a track that might make your playlist.
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Tom
June 12, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Good read Tony everything completely on point they were a huge part of our lives for alot of years imma be down imma be down down with the clown til I’m dead in the ground psychopathic family!!!