I just got back from the 2017 Monsters of Rock Cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean Brilliance of the Seas. I'll be writing a full review but first want to upload all the videos and I'll link to them in the full review. I'll do a quick separate post for each band I shot video of. Here's 5 videos (6 songs) I took of D.A.D. Like last year, they were the highlight of the cruise for me. Click here for the write up with plenty of videos and photos from last year. First up here's four videos from the cruise pre-party at Ferg's Live in Tampa, FL on February 1, 2017. Most of the videos from this night I streamed via Facebook Live, so the video quality isn't hi-def, but it's okay as long as you're not watching it on a big screen and the sound is great. I did shoot one non-live stream video in HD that night and I'll start with that. Here's "Grow or Pay":
They also played "Jihad":
and "Reconstrucdead":
and ended their set with "I Want What She's Got" into "Sleeping My Day Away":
D.A.D. also did a gig on the Pool Stage on the boat on Saturday, February 4, 2017. Here's "Girl Nation" from that set. This one is also in HD.
More videos coming very soon!
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We all slept well after getting back to the hotel and the last of us was up and ready to go by around the crack of noon on Sunday. Two things were on our mind before we started thinking about that night's Monster of Rock Cruise party at the Magic City Casino - food and Iron Maiden.
Iron Maiden's airplane, "Ed Force One", was all over the local news as it had landed at the Fort Lauderdale airport a day or two before as Maiden arrived to kick off their World Tour in Florida. Would it be cool to see the plane in person? Hell yeah..but where to go to eat first?
Well Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain happens to have a restaurant about 40 minutes away in Coconut Creek called Rock n Roll Ribs. We piled in the car and got on our way.
We arrived to find we had just missed Nicko by about 10 minutes, he headed off to play some golf. We also found out that the previous day the whole band stopped in (with the exception of Bruce Dickinson). Man it would have been cool to meet Nicko, but what can you do. Let's head inside.
Rock n Roll Ribs is a small restaurant but jam packed with an amazing array of Iron Maiden memorabilia including one of Nicko's drum kits.
The staff was super friendly and the food...wow! This is a place that could draw every metal head around no matter what the food tastes like, but man...I've had some delicious barbeque around the country and I'm going to say it. These were the best BBQ ribs I've ever had. Just thinking about it now has my mouth watering and the sides were fantastic too. I can't recommend it enough.
Here's some photos of the memorabilia:
Filled up and feeling like continuing the adventure, we headed to the Fort Lauderdale airport. As we approached we wondered how in the hell we were going to put eyes on the plane, but as we approached the exit we saw it far in the distance in a private parking area.
There was no where to stop on the highway and it was all the way on the other side of the airport, so we got off the exit and just started heading around the side of the airport. We suddenly caught another glimpse of it through some trees and we were about as close as we could get without being on the grounds and luckily, the airport has a long narrow park / running path along that side with a small parking lot.
We parked, got out, walked about a half mile down the path back the way we came to our best vantage point and with the help of my zoom lens I got these shots. Pretty damn cool!
Who knew this would probably end up being a relatively rare site on this tour as it was just announced how the plane was badly damaged in South America a couple of days ago. Luckily Maiden said they worked out a contingency plan and the tour will continue with no cancelled shows. I'll be seeing them at Madison Square Garden in about two weeks and yes, I'll have photos and a review of the show.
We had a couple of hours to kill before that night's party was to begin with doors opening at 4:30pm, so we used the Vinyl District app and found a good local used record store. I didn't find anything, but my buddies each got a few things. It was a great day checking out Florida and now it was time to head back to Magic City Casino in time to catch opening act Paradise Kitty.
Paradise Kitty, a Guns n Roses tribute band, was a great way to start the night and they put on a fantastic show. They are made up of vocalist Jenna Syde, guitarist Priscila Barr, guest guitarist Courtney Cox, bassist Nichole McCumsey and drummer Rachael Rine.
They played a kick ass set of GnR (and one Aerosmith) tunes:
Night Train
It's So Easy
Outta Get Me
Mr. Brownstone
Welcome to the Jungle
Mama Kin (although Think About You was on the setlist)
Rocket Queen
Paradise City (video below)
Awesome band doing great renditions of these tunes that had everyone singing along throughout the whole set. As you can see in the video, they invited all the female rockers in the audience that wanted to join them up on stage for the finale.
Their humorous setlist:
After a short break where once again beer runs went on, the amazing D-A-D took the stage. You can find that full review, photos and video by clicking here. Part 2 of Day 2 continues by clicking here.
When we booked the Monsters of Rock Cruise East 2016 and we discussed the must see bands, my buddy Jimmy told me there were really only two bands that automatically would trump all others when the schedule came out, D-A-D (Disneyland After Dark) and Michael Monroe.
Well goddamn if Jimmy wasn't right.
We'll talk about Michael Monroe in one of the next posts coming soon, but this is all about D-A-D.
D-A-D would play the Sunday night pre-sail party at Magic City Casino in Miami, FL as well as one show in the very intimate Spinnaker Lounge on the Norwegian Pearl on February 24. After seeing them at the party, I knew I wasn't going to miss them on the boat either.
It's odd when you've always heard of a band, maybe even knew a song or two by them from back in the day and then over 25 years into their career you see them live and realize you've been missing out on so much.
D-A-D were not just good, they were blow me away awesome! Everything you want in a live band...engaging, entertaining, exciting, humorous, sonically powerful and for lack of a better term - ass kicking!
It turns out other bands on the boat feel the same way, with many in attendance at the shows. At one point at the show in the lounge I turned around and saw John Nymann (guitarist of Y&T) joyously rocking out right behind me. Check out the smile on his face (and he then sported one of their Shirts during Y&T's set the next day on the Pool Deck the next day).
Merchandise actually was the only bummer...they were one of the few bands to have none for sale. Gotta get me a D-A-D shirt now.
But what they do have are some of the coolest guitar picks ever! Check out these souvenirs.
I also nabbed this setlist, but gave it to Jimmy for turning me onto this band.
I know they don't get to tour here much, but fingers crossed they come back soon and just like these two shows, I'll be front row.
Below you'll find the setlists for the shows as well as photos and video I took at booth.
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February 24, 2016 - Spinnaker Lounge - Norwegian Pearl:
Jihad
Evil Twin
Girl Nation (video below)
A New Age Moving In
Riding With Sue
Grow or Pay
Reconstrucdead (Video below is this and Monster Philosophy)
Monster Philosophy (Video below starts with Reconstrucdead)
I Want What She's Got
Sleeping My Day Away
February 21, 2016 - Miami, FL - Magic City Casino:
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