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Oasis, Cornershop

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Continental Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    my ticket stub from the show

Monster Magnet

Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ Here's an external review from the web: New Jersey's resident retro-psychedelic-metal-troglodyte-hot-rodding space-cadets Monster Magnet put in an impressive live set last weekend at this "home town" show. Visuals included rising sun back-drop projections, rapid-fire stills of newsreel war footage, strobe lights, and clouds of dry ice. The boys came out in fine, de-tuned, sludgy form, with frontman Dave Wyndorf repeatedly leaning into the wall of moshers in front of the stage. Ed Mundell put in some fantastic lead-work all night long, with his usual wah-wah drenched sound coming thru 2 full Marshall stacks. (He used a lovely black Les Paul in addition to his usual Strat... Dave also used an SG in addition to his usual battered old Strats.) Joe Calandra's bass-work was great, and was FELT as much as heard. Jon Kleiman drummed brilliantly, & managed to smoke entire cigarettes while drumming, a la Cheap Trick's Ben E. Carlos.... At...