Glassjaw

The Deftones & Glassjaw  
@ the Palladiumb!!!!!! Aug 10, 2000
Written By Peter Lorre jr.  
Pics By Scott Wulfestieg

When I got to the Palladiumb for the deftones show, I was glad to see a big crowd gathering for the show on this auspicious Thursday. The positive feeling soon left me when I pulled into the Palladiumb parking lot and saw the sign for parking, I was amazed to find that they wanted $12.50 to park for roughly 3 to 4 hours. I only paid $20.00 for the ticket to see the bands pour their hearts out on stage. All the paladliumb was providing was space and ease of parking. Seeing as I get paid in increments of Zero’s, it was a long trek to the show from my free parking place four blocks away. It was buy this beautiful little dumpster with a wino buy it. Ahhh to be in L.A; I’m glad I have an alarm! So after my little four-block nature walk. I started to notice the huge line of people waiting to get in. I wasted no time in getting my ticket and getting into the line to be frisked. Oh joy!  I’ll try to keep this short but I really hate the palladiumbs police state mentality. You literally can’t bring anything into the venue but your ticket and of course paper money. Why is it that after paying a hefty $12.50 to park, they give you .50 cents change in return? But they forbid people from bringing the change in to the club.  So your option throw the change away or take it to the car and back into the huge line to get in. So about 2000 people throw all their change away into trashcans, along with their lipstick, matches, cigarettes, lighters, leather belts with ANY type of studs at all.  The pocket change alone probably amounts to a nice little bonus for the club, no wonder the security are so diligent in their search. Got to keep people from, ahh… hurting people with change? So after being thoroughly frisked and scanned with a metal detector I finally got into the club. I decided t grab a quick drink while the crowd was waiting to get in. So I grab a beer and guess what they give me change?  O. K. that makes sense ?!  We’ll enough of my bitching let’s get to the show.

                There were only two bands tonight so I’m glad I got there early so I could catch roadrunner records artist Glassjaw. I was instantly intrigued by this New York four piece when I read their bio. First and foremost this is a band that actually has a reason to be pissed off. Singer and bearer of huge amounts of angst Daryl Palumbo has a threading stomach illness and after be diagnosed with the illness His girlfriend left him. This provides the backbone of what Glassjaw is about. They assaulted the stage in typical hardcore fashion, backs to the crowd fine tuning their instruments to perfection and then letting lose with a torrent of Eclectic unbridled energy. Dubbing themselves the “ New Post Millennial destroyers of Addidas Rock. Borrowing mostly from their debut release “ everything you ever wanted to know about silence”. They played great songs like “when one eight becomes two zero’s” and “pretty lush”.  I guess all the painful songs were too much for singer Daryl Palumbo. He must have snapped because he started beating himself about the head. I’d say he took a good 25 shots to the head before he retired to the backstage to end the show. I hope he doesn’t do that every show, it looked pretty painful.  And you cant help to like a band that learns all of it’s life lessons from Godzilla. Lets go fuck up the village!!!

                Now for the band everybody was waiting for. The Deftones!  Being one of the founders of the new wave of hardcore bands that are popping up everywhere.   Definitely Has it’s advantages, with few albums under their belt and nothing but fanatical fans at their shows. The tones played to a starlight back drop, and a roar of their fans.  Chino and the band got the crowd going so crazy buy the second song he had to stop mid-song and to tell the crowd to mellow out. Now how many times do you hear that at a show.  So after the crowd was helped back to their feet, like true professionals they started back not missing a beat. Slipping from soft whispers to horse screams of agony, it seems they played almost every great song they have written. I only have one Deftones cd, but after the Paladliumb show I need to get them all.

- Peter Lorre jr.