Mushroomhead Shreds at The Trocadero Theater Jagermeister Freedom For Rock Tour 2005 In Philadelphia, PA
By Steve Trager
Mushroomhead - An unusual eight piece outfit that seems to not only do things their way, such as releasing several self-produced CD's, and or redefining their most eclectic stage production while on tour, Mushroomhead does one thing quite well and that is shred during any given live set. Now with a brand new front man who calls himself Waylon outshines the band's presence during their most recent tour onslaught in Philadelphia Pa at the ever popular Trocadero Theater. The band themselves have been together for more then a decade recording and touring all on their own. To the extent of this bands popularity regardless of the unusual trend setting of the army outfits and or the most seamless clone of the masks worn by all members, it is just all about the music and doing what this team does best rock out live on stage. Ofcourse Mushroomhead is no stranger to Philadelphia, where they have performed a fist full of times, yet everytime they roll into town, Mushroomhead fills the trocadero with fans sporting band parafinalia showing major support from a true band. I myself have grown to love this band with just seeing them perform only twice in my home town of Philadelphia Pa.
Recently, I had a second opportunity to be apart of the tremendous performance with Mushroomhead on the Jagermeister Freedom For Rock Tour along with Dope, Nocturne, and Crossbreed on the opening stage slots. The most unusual part of Mushroomhead isn't about hiding their true identifies, is about be a self proclaimed true pioneer rock band expressing themselves in the creativity within the bounds of the music genre' of Metal that seems to still dominate the world despite the newer types of music scaling the walls of the music industry. Quite hard to really narrow it down to any given selected song to which they performed at the Trocadero, yet the entire show was power packed with music spanning the bands existence over a decade which included "The Sun Doesn't Rise" and two ultimate classic covers " Crazy " and " When Doves Cry ". To much of a nice addition of these covers tossed into their set, Mushroomheads overall performance a perfect ten with no doubt. I myself purely enjoy the works of this band alone, the amazing guitar riffs, the saucy bass lines and the pure strength of their new frontman who's voice makes the outfit of Mushroomhead truly complete.
Although you wont find any stage props or unusual antics added to Mushroomheads live set, you will find each passing moment while the entire stage is filled with eight different memebers keeping the true hardcore metal fans on their feet as only Mushroomhead can purly mezmorize in toe with the ear candy of rock beyound the realms in the genre' known to the rest of the world as Metal.
