At the Drive In not only was the band that received the most energy from the crowd, but they were furiously energetic themselves, showing age on their faces but never in their performance. At first, it seemed like typical rock bravado but it did eventually cross a little into mocking the audience’s constitution in the rain and cold but eventually came around to a more crowd-pleasing tone. They played hits like “One Armed Scissor” and “Napoleon Solo” to great fanfare, but not before heckling the audience over their seeming lack of energy. They were the first band to make use of the screens littered about the stage sides and behind the band itself. They came out hot to a roaring crowd and a much more thoroughly fleshed out pit and seated section. Having only reunited last year with the decently well-received Interalia, their fans have been hungry to catch them live at every single date and this show provided, by far, the highest-profile stage that they had played since their reunion and may be the largest non-festival audience they ever play. Outside of System of a Down, At the Drive In was by far the most interesting group to take the stage. Glen Helen mainstays (Clutch opened for Tool here in 2017) Clutch seemed to have the love of about half the venue as they played crowd-pleasing songs like “Psychic Warfare.” All in all, they did a solid job as an opening band before making way for the recently reunited At the Drive In. This venue itself is gorgeous, sounds good and has excellent staging, but every part from parking to organization was proving to hold back the positive moods of the nearly 45,000 in attendance. In general, the quality of the show was again hampered by the venue logistics. The crowd, for the most part, seemed to be fairly into it, though the sold-out pit and orchestra/loge seated sections were sparsely populated, with attendees likely scrambling to get a few drinks in them before the major acts took the stage.
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While not full to the back wall, the crowd spanned the entirety of the venues massive perimeter as Clutch played their odd Margaritaville-Metal mash-up. As rumors of infighting surround the band, and the current administration continues to support policies that fly in the face of SOAD’s politics, their show at the remote Glen Helen Amphitheater felt more urgent than ever.īy the time Clutch took the stage the venue was already in complete chaos. Rock music and its numerous offshoots are no different, for an excellent example one need look no farther than System of a Down, the seminal alt-Metal (in truth they defy classification) hasn’t released an album since 2005’s Hypnotize/Mesmerize yet they still enjoy huge crowds no matter where they land on the touring schedule. Past work can buy artists a lot of favors artists like Nas and Eminem are still coasting off of albums that are more than old enough to rent a car without issue.