Dr. Destructo

DR. DESTRUCTO RECORD RELEASE!!! 
With  Rosemary’s Billygoat
Joe and the Chickenheads
Crustation Nation
@ Chain Reaction, CA March 2nd
Written By: Monika Scherer
Pics By: Monika Scherer

Crustaion Nation, I love this name for some strange reason.  I thought with a name like that, they must be good, since they re supporting a pretty interesting line up.   I had some trouble at the door, and I never made it inside for Crustaion Nation. I did get to somewhat hear the band form outside, and what I heard mostly was growling. Not yelling, more like deep growling sounds, it probably all sounds the same from outside.  

I made it inside just in time for Joe and the Chickendeads. The band has too many people in it, but since they are a ska/punk band, eight is about about average. The punk part of the band outweighed the ska section. You could only hear the keyboard, and two horns in about two of the songs. The rest of the time they just took up space. "Liquid Fat" was the name of the third song; a slow start but it got better. The song that caught my interest was "Mutate" which was the fourth song. The first time I heard the keyboard was in the beginning of the sixth song, "Man without tonsils".  The bass strings broke during the seventh song, so the set got cut short.   The last song was "pest control", and I think it was then that someone dressed in a chuck e. cheese costume ran out into the pit.  That was definitely the highlight of the show.  You could tell that the band was really enthusiastic, and was having a great time, so it's all good.  If they each took turns running in the pit, it would have been a better set.  

Where do I begin with Rosemary's Billy goat? Shit. Musically, they're not the best. But with the show that they put on, who cares about how they sound. The show started with the singer entering the stage with a huge furry gray cross attached to his back, and sang "I plead the 5th". The Third song was "GI Joe raped Barbie" which is what he showed us. There was a little GI Joe doll that was attached to a two foot Barbie and the GI Joe doll spun around. In the middle of the show the singer came out on stilts wearing a huge Buffalo costume and went into the crowd. He just stood there and walked around for about five minutes while the band played a song. Then two guys in roach costumes ran out into the pit and got their ass kicked, it was fucking hilarious. For seventh song, called "6651/2" he lit a sign on fire. During "Voodoo" he brought out a big steel drum about five feet tall and had two hammers that he hit on top of it and fire came out of them. Next was my favorite. A mock electric chair was brought out on stage, he sat in and strapped himself down, and turned it on.  White foam slurred out of his mouth, and he was shaking pretending to be electrocuted. That right there totally kicked ass, and I thought I had seen it all until the last song when he set his guitar on fire! Two poles behind him had fireworks coming out of them and on the floor two plastic frogs has fireworks coming out of them. I don't care if they didn't have words to the songs; the show beats them all.

                Dr. Destructo had a hard act to follow, and I thought it was going to be hard to beat.  Since it was their record release party, the crowd was excited to see them and supported them.  There was Destructo X on the keyboard, Worm MD lead guitar and vocals, Ritalin Boy wearing a blue dress played bass and Dr. Colossus on drums. All of the songs started off with hard-core metal riffs, then went on to a weird cartoon like song. It was an interesting combo that was pretty cool .The keyboard was the heart of this band, and without Destructo X, the band would not be the same. During the second song,"Adaptoid Revolution" Dr. Destructo himself came out and went into the pit. During "Robotic unit 1234" a robot came out and went into the pit and got tore up, literally.  People pulled the arms off the custom and the head. The forth song was announced that it was about the telletubbies called "They freak me out". The last song, which was my favorite, was called "Planetary Dysentery". A dude with a super soaker water gun came out and sprayed the crowd. Since it was there CD release show, I figured what the hell, and spent the six bucks for it. Honestly, I was entertained, and they sounded really good during the show, but they didn't sound the same on the CD, the show was way better. Definitely check out the pictures on this show, there's only so much that I can explain.

- Monika