GREG PRATO



SHOW REVIEWS

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03-27-1993
Deer Park, NY
Sparks

Opening Bands: Flowerhead, Po Boy Swing Review by: Greg Prato Just 2 days after my first Blind Melon show ever (@ The Wetlands), me and my college friends went to see Blind Melon again, this time closer to where we lived on Long Island - at a tiny, now defunct heavy metal club, Sparks. It was a much younger crowd than the 3/25 show, but still great. What I'll always remember the most about this show was that it was packed (again), and idiots kept crowdsurfing. Shannon asked the 'surfers' to knock it off, but the same idiots kept doing it. Eventually one of the idiots fell on the stage, and Shannon punched him straight in the face before bouncers ejected the dude! I have a memory for some reason of Rogers handing Shannon his Strat during the middle section of "Time" to play the bongos, as Shannon forced feedback out of the guitar. At one point (before the encores?), someone handed Shannon a joint and he handed it back to the people in the front to smoke it. In addition to Flowerhead opening up again, a mega-horrible Long Island funk-metal band called Po Boy Swing opened the show. Just a sampling of how bad they were - the dopey singer announced that they were going to do a cover song from a band that was one of his favorites, and that he owned all their CD's. The band proceeded to play a serious, note-for-note perfect rendition of Ugly Kid Joe's "I Hate Everything About You!" YUCH! BARF! What dildos!