This was a crazy night and show. Lots of metal people in Denver stoked to see Joey Belladonna live at a small club. Then the power goes out on almost the entire block. Show looks in doubt.
We notice that the bar across the street still has power somehow so we go hang out there for a bit trying to decide what to do. After quite a while the power comes back on and the show is a go.
Right before Belladonna's set someone gets assaulted out in front of the venue. They are hurt pretty badly and a ton of cops, firetrucks, and ambulances show up right out front.
Do to the power outage and the show being on a weekday night it was pretty sparsely attended but everyone that was there either knew each other personally or recognized each other.
About midway though Joey's set these muscle heads dressed in polo shirts and khakis roll in and decide that they are going to mosh. To them that meant knocking people to the ground and acting like tough guys. Totally stupid and not in the metal spirit of how moshing works.
A friend of mine tried to tell one of the dudes that kind of shit wasn't cool and got pushed to the ground. That's when about 10 of the metal crowd pilled on that goon. Right in the middle of Caught In A Mosh ironically.
The ridiculous fracas resulted in these dudes being dragged out of the club. One of them wouldn't stop choking another friend of mine (RIP Haney) until they got by the door and saw at the police outside. Then the shitheads started saying "we're cops we're cops".
Turns out they were jail guards or private security or some bullshit. The cops pulled them to the side and told them to hit the road. One of them dropped his phone in the mayhem and had the balls to come back and try and get it. 3 Kings owner told him to get the fuck out of his bar and don't come back.
Joey never stopped playing and at the end of the song while all this shit is going down.
He says "Oh man your fucking crazy man!!"
In a google search for a flyer or picture from this show I found this flickr post with a bunch or photos a Stephanie Cabral took. Pretty cool.
Flickr page with Belladonna photos.
Figured this one needed to see the light of day. Had to believe that was 12 yeas ago. Enjoy.
Belladonna
3 Kings Tavern
Denver CO (USA)
2008-04-09
Taped and Transferred by SxPxDxCx
Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > JB3
Transfer: JB3 > USB > Cooledit > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (66:27.50)
01 Hard Life
02 Can't Erase It
03 Live Up To You
04 - interlude -
05 Madhouse
06 Medusa *
07 Anti-Social (Trust)
08 Caught In A Mosh
09 Got The Time (Joe Jackson)
10 - band intro -
11 Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)
12 - interlude -
13 I Am The Law
14 Indians
15 Metal Thrashing Mad
* Joey's mic goes out for most of this song
