First of all I’m pretty happy b/c I sold my Dallas tickets on Craigslist. I had to sell them discounted so I lost some money, but at least I unloaded them. Then my friend won 2 tickets on the radio for the show. Hell yeah, I’m going for free.
We get there right as Meshuggah was starting. They were tight and played well, but the other time I saw them it was their show and they had lots of smoke, lights,…none of that for them. They played “Bleed” from Obzen which was good live. People were rocking but everyone was there for Ministry, you could tell.
After Meshuggah I’m walking around and all I can hear is people talking about which songs they hope they’ll hear and what they think they’ll play. Songs I was hearing tossed around were: Psalm 69, LORAH, Filth Pig, JBMHR… I felt kinda bad for all the people who were about to be let down.
So then there is this industrial sounding intro that went on for about 5 minutes. Ministry comes out and truly had presence on stage. It lookes like Static MiniProng Factory, but it felt like Ministry. They tore right into it.
Let’s Go, Watch Yourself, No W, Rio Grande Blood, and Senor Peligro were all fucking killer live. I was really impressed.
Everyone was moshing hard, getting into it for about 5 or 6 songs and then you could tell everyone was just waiting for the old stuff. People looked confused.
The band ends on Khyber Pass which sucked live and came back out for the first encore. Al absolutely killed So What, it was better than when I saw them play it in '99. I swear to god. NWO was good but not great. Burton didn’t feel right singing on that one. JoF was great and Burton did feel right singing that one. Not sure why one and not the other. Then Thieves was both of them and it was pretty awesome. Right when they wrapped up thieves me and my friends took off. No need to stay for the cover band.
Overall it was fucking great. Way better than they were in '06 at the same venue. I was surprised how good some of the Last Sucker and RGB songs were live. I’m glad I knew what to expect because I had pretty low expectations going in and that saved the show for me.
By the way the audio levels were loud but not painful like masterbatour.