Snazzfest part 2: The Meatmen - Cafe 9, New Haven, CT - July 19,2014 Concert Review and Photos

If you want to read the whole tale of what would become known as Snazzfest or The Night Queen + Adam Lambert opened for The Meatmen, well start by going to view the previous post by clicking here. 

Otherwise I shall give a brief overview or maybe not so brief...we'll see how it plays out...

So I'm in Uncasville, CT at Mohegan Sun Arena and it's about 10:15pm and I'm about two hours deep into Queen + Adam Lambert when during birthday boy Brian May's guitar solo I take a peak at my phone to check the time and check Facebook.

Before heading out on the road earlier in the day I had posted this status:

Evidently while traveling to the casino the following conversation started taking place between my pal Lizzy and Tesco Vee of The Meatmen in the comments section...

I was glad to see Tesco was making sure his art kept pace with the times...and appeared to have enjoyed the show I was currently at.

As stated it was now about 10:15...I know the show is heading into the final run of hits and while I was planning to call Cafe 9 in New Haven as soon as the show ended (before making the hour drive there to find out we were too late,) I figured I'd see if Mr. Vee was still around and asked him what time he was hitting the stage...

I not only got the scoop which appeared that worse case scenario we'd miss some of the set but catch a decent portion of it, but we were definitely going to be seeing the Meatmen on this night.  It was pretty friggin snazzerific news...

Oh and yeah...I'm an awesome friend and so yes, Lizzy did indeed get her shirt (and a sticker too)

Which brings us to hustling out of Mohegan Sun arena as We Are The Champions is still echoing off the walls...

For a rather frustrating 15 minutes, my buddy Kev and his wife decided they had to hit the merch booth (pre-planning and buying their goods BEFORE the show is not quite in their wheelhouse of abilities) but we were in the car at around 11:05 or so...not too damn shabby!  We hit a little bit of concert traffic leaving the parking deck, but thankfully most of the concert goers were drinking and gambling degenerates who were staying for a while.

Let me make it clear I say this with love...had it not been for the New Haven madness to come, I would have been right there along with them.

Sooooooo....it takes just about exactly an hour to get to Cafe 9 and we pull up and it's more or less midnight on the dot and there's a huge ass crowd outside this little ass bar...which we're not sure if that is good or bad as it either means everyone is outside between bands to smoke/get some fresh air before the Meatmen or maybe the damn thing is sold out...

We got a primo parking spot about 40 feet from the door and got in the club no prob and it was indeed the break before the Meatmen...grabbed some beers (in honor of previously mentioned degenerate drinkers at Mohegan Sun), Kev's wife actually got a stool at one of the tables...the place started packing in...

Holy hell it was crowded and hot.  This is a tiny joint and the first time I've ever been.  It's a bit of a drive, but I gotta keep an eye on who they get there because it's a great place to see a show.  It's pretty narrow and not too long and the "stage" is just a tiny alcove by the front window...maybe 8' x 8'...it got hot in a hurry, but again, the beer was a flowin and I wasn't drivin...so life was grand as I was still riding the Lambertian high...

Tesco and the boys hit the stage right around 12:30 and if memory serves me correct, they opened with "Men O' Meat".  Tesko was in his best all American duds and Danny Dirtbag was on bass at his side all night - originally in his very MC5/Rob Tyner-esque tribute wear and afro, but changing and losing attire as the set required.  The band was rounded out by Hindu Kush on guitar and Swarthy "Bun-Length" Franklin on the skins.  Quite the tight rock n roll unit.

Tesco is a hilarious frontman between songs and a raging beast during them.  I didn't write down the setlist so I'm just going to throw out a bunch of the songs I know they played while you ogle the photos...

Well here's "Pope on a Rope"

and "Crippled Children Suck" is a wonderful song to put your hair in a ponytail to...

I know we heard "War of the Super Bikes" and "Tooling for Anus" 

"The Dwarves are the 2nd Greatest Band in the World" and "Triple B" rocked the house

"I Sin For a Living" was the theme song for many in attendance

"Mr. Tapeworm"

They dedicated a song to Jeff Hanneman of Slayer...pretty sure it was "Speed Kills (But It Sure Feels Good)"

A cover of Venom's "In League With Satan" was in there that would have made Cronos proud

"1 Down 3 to Go" now as we all know is "2 Down 2 to Go" was played and I got that on video for Lizzy who started the whole Facebook fun.  Click here to watch.

"Dinosaur".  Danny gets the ladies excited

Of course they ended with the classic "We're The Meatmen (And You Suck)"

There's probably 10 other tunes I'm not remembering.  The show was a blast and a hoot and ended just before 2:00am.  We got to chat a little with Tesco and got some pics with him.  Got some cool shirts and overall, taking into account the opening band for the evening, it was one helluva night.

By the way, The Meatmen's new album is called "Savage Sagas From The Meatmen" and it's killer.  If you read down this far and don't own it, don't be an asshole...go buy it.  And the next time you see The Meatmen are playing some tiny bar or club near you, make sure you let me know so I don't miss it.

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