JACKYL - The Chance, Poughkeepsie NY - March 10, 2019 Review with Video and Photos

I'm playing catch up on posting videos and photos and here's some from when Jackyl returned to The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY on March 10, 2019 for the first time since 1993!

 

The fans came out and had a great time with the band and I think this will likely become a regular stop going forward for Jesse James Dupree and the boys.

I've seen Jackyl many times over the years (first time being Woodstock '94, the 25th anniversary of which is coming up soon) and you always know you're going to get a fun kick in the ass live rock n roll show when they hit the stage and this night was no different.

Whenever Jackyl comes around, me and my crew are there - I highly suggestion you do the same when they come to your town.

Here was the setlist for the night.  Links to the videos I shot for four of the songs are below as well

Blast Off

My Moonshine Kicks Your Cocaine's Ass

Mental Masturbation

Encore (It Makes My Bic Dig Her)

Screwdriver

Down On Me (video below)

Push Comes To Shove

Just Because I'm Drunk

Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers cover) - video below

Secret of the Bottle

I Stand Alone

When Will It Rain

Dirty Little Mind (video below)

Redneck Punk

She Loves My Cock

The Lumberjack (video below which starts at the chainsaw solo and plays through to the end)

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Last In Line - The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY - May 4, 2019 - Setlist and HD Video

Saw Last In Line on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY.  

Last In Line features Vivian Campbell and Vinny Appice of Dio's classic line-up along with bassist Phil Soussan who took over upon Jimmy Bain's passing. Andrew Freeman, a local to the area, is a powerhouse on vocals.

The band started out paying tribute to Ronnie James Dio by performing sets made up of classic Dio songs (just songs by the band Dio, unlike Dio Disciples who include Black Sabbath and Rainbow era RJD songs in their sets as well).  This soon led to the release of an album of original material, Heavy Crown, which first brought the band to the Chance in March of 2017 - and now they've returned supporting their 2nd album, "II"

I thought the band were fantastic in 2017 and I would say they were even better this time around.  I originally went to hear the classic DIO tracks performed by these original members; and even now with two albums of original material, they still dedicate nine of the 16 songs played this night to those classic tracks - but their original material is hard driving kick ass hard rock/metal which easily stands tall with the Dio classics.  Lesser bands would see constant beer and bathroom runs when the oft dreaded "we're gonna play you a new one" is said, but these tracks instead make you want to do a merch booth run at the end of the show to pick up the albums.

I didn't take any photos at this show and just one video of the band performing the Dio track from which they took their name.  See them when they come around.  

Here's the video and the full set they played that night.

Setlist:

Landslide

Stand Up and Shout (Dio)

Straight Through The Heart (Dio)

Year of the Gun

Holy Diver (Dio)

Give Up The Ghost

The Last In Line (Dio)

Martyr

Black Out The Sun

Starmaker

Evil Eyes (Dio)

Egypt (The Chains Are On) (Dio)

Rainbow In The Dark (Dio)

Encore:

Don't Talk To Strangers (Dio)

Devil In Me

We Rock (Dio)

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LYNCH MOB Poughkeepsie, NY - April 19, 2019

On Friday, April 19, the current version of Lynch Mob made a return trip to The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY.

The band's line up has changed a bit since their stop last year.  Of course George Lynch is on guitar and the great Sean McNabb remains on bass.  Filling out the rhythm section was Matt Starr on drums and vocal duties were by Nathan Utz.  The band was tight and the vocals were strong.

Here's a video I shot of the band doing an excellent version of Dokken's "When Heaven Comes Down" so you can give them a listen.

As always the band played some Dokken tunes, but this was the fewest I've ever seen them do.

They opened with four straight Lynch Mob tunes - Street Fighting Man, She's Evil but She's Mine, River of Love, and Tangled in The Web - before the above "When Heaven Comes Down" - a nice deeper cut.

Sweet Sister Mercy was next followed by the Lynch classic from the Dokken era "Mr. Scary" and then one of Dokken's biggest hits "It's Not Love".

The band ended the main set with three more Mob tunes - Testify, Believers of the Day, and No Good before leaving the stage for a short encore break.

The band returned to the stage with a bit of a puzzling encore of "Wicked Sensation." Playing "Wicked Sensation" was obvious, we knew that was coming, but about 2/3 of the way through the song, Utz left the stage and the band went into a very long 10 to 15 minute jam which started with a funk feel and then went into an almost standard jazz jam. It really showed off the playing of not just Lynch, but Starr and McNabb's chops as well before eventually coming back around and Utz returning to the stage for another chorus or two of Wicked Sensation to end the night.

It was interesting, but it would have been much better placed earlier in the set.  It was a very odd way to end the show.

The other odd thing about the show was that for much of it, George played standing back by the drum riser more or less facing away from the audience.  Eventually George gave the audience more face time towards the middle to end of the set.  George came out after the show and hung and chatted for a good hour or so and my buddy said George said the stage monitors were problematic and he had much better sound back there, but when he saw the audience was digging it and was not experiencing the sound issues he was he just rolled with it and went out front more.

As always a solid rockin' show and I'll be sure to be there next tour when they come back to town.

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Live Tape Project #2: Princess Pang - Poughkeepsie, NY - December 5, 1989 Full Concert Audio

The Live Tape Project #2 - Princess Pang at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY on December 5, 1989 

Info: Princess Pang were opening for Mr. Big.  Eric Martin of Mr. Big introduces the band.

Setlist:

• Stage announcements including Eric Martin introduction
• Scream & Shout
• Too Much, Too Soon
• Any Way You Want It
• South St. Kids
• Find My Heart A Home
• No Reason To Cry
• Baby Blue
• Trouble In Paradise
• I'm Not Playin'
• Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw (Rose Tattoo cover)
• Sympathy

Sound Quality: I believe I recorded this with a mono Realistic recorder with built in microphone.  Pretty loud and clear. 

Length: 45 minutes 

What is the Live Tape Project? 

Well back in the day for a few years I audio taped a lot of the shows I went to.  I have all my master tapes (probably about 80 to 100 shows) and have always wanted to transfer and upload them.  They are all the different bands I saw at the time, not just the band in this post.

Finally getting around to doing it.  I recently purchased a TEAC LP-R550USB stereo which includes among other things a cassette player and CD Recorder.  I'm recording the cassettes direct to CD, then importing them as .wav files and then uploading to YouTube.  I'll then post the link to the shows here and in the Facebook group as I upload each one.

Quality wise, most were recorded on a mono Realistic recorder with built in microphone which in some cases (and based on the recording conditions) captured a great recording you'll listen to over and over and in other cases it might be barely listenable and something you'll only listen to if you were there and need to remember if they played a particular song that night.  Later on I upgraded to a stereo recorder and some of those sound great.  It's a mixed bag and you never know what the next installment will bring.

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Metal Allegiance - The Chance, Poughkeepsie NY - April 4, 2016

Evidently not many of the Poughkeepsie area metal heads felt like venturing out in the cold and leftover snow to The Chance this past Monday, but for the few of us that did (I'd say 70 in attendance at this show), we got a hell of a show for twenty bucks.



Metal Allegiance were supposed to hit the stage around 10pm and my buddy Anthony and I had some stuff to do before hand so we met inside the Chance at about 9:30 and the first opening band (of three) was still on.  Ugh...it was going to be rough getting up for work the next day.



The opener (I didn't catch their name) played a very short set and there was a quick turn around between bands and Chains Over Razors were up next.  Good straight ahead metal three piece with just drums, guitar and a vocalist.  Hell, who needs bass?  They played to the small crowd like they were playing to a packed house really working to get everyone involved.  Good stuff, they did about a half hour.



Next to None was next and again very quick breakdown/setup between bands mainly because all they had to do for the drums was uncover Mike Portnoy's set because his son Max is the drummer in this band and played on his dad's kit.



I bet these kids (well, to mid 40's me they're kids) destroy on say the warped tour - super energetic, all obviously good musicians, just not the genre of metal I like - although their Slipknot cover was good and the insane running leap keyboardist/vocalist Thomas Cuce took off his keyboard stand down into the pit was one of the craziest things I've seen at at the Chance in quite some time.  He had to have been easily 12 feet in the air and must have just missed hitting the back of the pit barricade when he landed.  Definitely kept you watching.  I will say as well that even though this crowd was small, Next to None definitely had a contingent of fans there to see them instead of the headliners.  Just seemed an odd fit but has to be cool for the Portnoy's to tour together so rock on.  I think they played about 35 minutes. (one note, the mix for them was HORRIBLE.  The bass kept overblowing the rest of the band and the drums had the sounded like he was hitting the plastic lids of garbage cans.  There were no issues with the mix for the rest of the bands, so not sure why they suffered)



So finally at probably around 11:30 Metal Allegiance hit the stage and oh man...all I can say is if you're a fan of classic metal you NEED to see this band.  



If you look on their website, you'll see they list 25 artists as part of the Allegiance and you never know who is going to show up at a particular show.  At the Chance there were no "Special Guests" just the core band touring at this time which is:

Mike Portnoy on Drums
Mark Menghi on Bass
Alex Skolnick on Guitar
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on Guitar
Mark Osegueda on vocals
Chuck Billy on vocals



Mark sings I'd say about 60% of the songs and Chuck does the rest with a couple of tunes where they trade off.  Alex does a bit more lead work (including Van Halen's "Eruption") but Bumblefoot has plenty of time to shine throughout on his doubleneck guitar.



While they have an album and would play three originals, all of which were great, especially the unbelievable showstopper "Pledge of Allegiance", what they really are is the greatest metal cover/tribute band you will ever see.  Check out this amazing setlist:

The Hellion (pre-recorded intro)
Electric Eye (Judas Priest)
The Ides of March (Iron Maiden)
Wrathchild (Iron Maiden)
Can't Kill The Devil
Balls to the Wall (Accept)
Heaven & Hell (Black Sabbath)
Creeping Death (Metallica)
Territory (Sepultura)
Dying Song
Pledge of Allegiance
Into the Void (Black Sabbath - video below)

Iron Fist (Motorhead)
Runnin' With the Devil (Van Halen)
Eruption (Van Halen)
Whole Lotta Rosie (AC/DC)
Encore:
Seek & Destroy (Metallica - video below)

I believe it was after "Pledge of Allegiance" that Mike Portnoy took the mic to address the crowd and said how the band had discussed backstage that at this point they would decide if they would do the whole set or not or end it early.  Hell maybe this is the standard rap at every show, but it didn't seem like it and I think the cheers of those of us who came out, along with the fact that these guys don't get to tour and play together a whole lot gave us the full deal.



So there you have it.  I have no clue why this show wasn't packed.  Testament sells this place out when they play here and this was almost like "hey Chuck and Alex from Testament are coming to town and bringing their incredible musician fans to play all of your favorite tunes."  How this was not packed out boggles the mind...maybe word just isn't out yet on who/what Metal Allegiance is.  I know those of us who were there will be spreading the gospel and hopefully Metal Allegiance will give us another shot on their next tour.



Bonus, at one point Chuck Billy came over and grabbed one of Alex Skolnick's Guitar picks and threw it to me.  Nice!  Thanks Chuck!



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