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THE DEAD DAISIES IN CONCERT:
Australian-American hard rock outfit The Dead Daisies has been a touring juggernaut ever since forming in 2012, and their blitz continued in 2016 when KISS tapped them for their Freedom to Rock Tour. It's easy to see why KISS wanted the talented rockers along for the ride—every time The Dead Daisies take the stage, they conjure up arena rock's heyday with lighters-in-the-air performances that put powerful musicianship front and center. The band's rotating lineup features members of legendary hard rock groups like Mötley Crüe, Thin Lizzy, and Whitesnake, and the skilled showmanship The Dead Daises bring to the stage makes every performance crackle with live-wire energy. Ticket buyers looking to "Lock 'N' Load" with these hard rock vets can expect plenty of head-banging fun any time they kick out their anthemic tunes in concert.
BACKGROUND SNAPSHOT:
The Dead Daisies was formed in 2012 by a group of seasoned hard rock players living in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. They recorded their self-titled debut in a mere two weeks and garnered critical acclaim almost immediately with the song "Lock 'N' Load", which was co-written with—and featured an epic guitar solo by—legendary Guns N' Roses axeman Slash. The band spent most of 2013 touring in support of big acts like ZZ Top, Aerosmith, and Jane's Addiction, and in early 2014 they embarked on their first headlining tour of Australia. By year's end they had added two successful US tours to their resume—one with Bad Company/Lynyrd Skynyrd and one with KISS/Def Leppard—and in 2015 they became the first western rock band to perform in Cuba since the Obama Administration reopened trade ties with the island nation (the band chronicled their Cuban adventures with the 2015 album and documentary film Revolución). With their aptly titled third album Make Some Noise generating big buzz in 2016, The Dead Daisies have fans everywhere ready to rock out to the new tunes at one of their hard-hitting live shows.
I had never seen them live before and now I can't wait to see them again! Not a big crowd, but the audience was very into the show. Great drum solo, fabulous guitar riffs and a singer that controls the stage. What a great night!
The Dead Daisies and The Dives brought their Dirty Dozen US tour through our town on a balmy Saturday night and I was not going to miss this one. The whole basis of the Growin’ Up Rock Podcast is connecting emotionally with people and rock n roll music through stories and memories both past and present, so we can escape each week if only for an hour and relive awesome times while listening to some kick ass rock and roll. So continuing that legacy and creating new memories with up and coming bands in a live setting while connecting with new friends is always going to be a positive experience. As someone who left his youthful days a very long time ago, I will never have that emotional connection to bands like experiencing my first rock show, or buying my first rock album. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy concerts or listening to new albums, it just means my experience is much different than those of my youth, as I would expect from anyone. The great thing about supporting new bands you believe in that are doing it old school, is in the hope that they will have that emotional connection with the youth of today. I got to witness this very thing Saturday night at the Dead Daisies show, but I’ll get to that in time. I went to the show, because I was there to do an interview for the Growin’ Up Rock Podcast with Marco Mendoza the Dead Daisies bass player extraordinaire, but I would have been at that show either way, because simply put, I dig the Daisies. The Dives opened the show after a local warm up. They are a solid up and coming rock band. They lean more to the power pop side of things than the hard rock side, but solid songs delivered with swagger and energy that can’t be dismissed. The band is fronted by Evan Stanley, who of course is the son of frontman Paul Stanley, but deserves to be seen in his own right, since he and his band's music has absolutely nothing to do with Kiss or their sound. It's a hard shadow to step out of, but I think the kid deserves the right to be seen and heard on his own merit before you the listener decides if it is your thing or not. They reminded me a bit of the Wallflowers sound. Just straight power pop rock music. Good songs. The Daisies hit the stage with all the power and execution you would expect from this band of killer veteran musicians. When you can assemble a band that includes John Corabi on vocals, Doug Aldrich on guitar, Marco Mendoza on bass, Brian Tichy banging out the drums and include your band's founder David Lowy on guitar, you know they are going to come correct with the music. The opening song of choice much like the Live & Louder record was “Long Way To Go”. The band moved and grooved through “Mexico”, “Make Some Noise”, Song & A Prayer”, and several other choice cuts including some classic covers like “Helter Skelter” and “We’re An American Band” before closing out what was about a 1.5 hour sweat filled set. So as I said in the beginning, Growin’ Up Rock is about those rock n roll memories. In attendance at the concert there was a small child I would say about 8 years old, whose parents brought him to his first Rock N Roll concert and I am pretty sure 30 years from now he will remember this concert and hopefully share his Rock N Roll story with someone. He was hoisted on his Dad’s shoulders for pretty much the entire night holding a sign that read “This is My First Concert”. Damn, I wish my parents were that cool when I was growing up. Midway through the nights set, John Corabi, sees the sign and acknowledges it, along with the rest of the guys in the band who all spend time for the rest of the set making it a point to give the kid guitar picks, and drumsticks, ending with them bringing the kid up on stage during the encore to help Brian Tichy play the cowbell and smash the cymbals on the final song of the night one of my faves “Midnight Moses”. If during your daily and weekly grind, in between paying bills and taking care of your kids you want to feel alive, get up off your asses and go see a Dead Daisies show and for that matter get up and go out and see whatever rock n roll band you feel like supporting. Its invigorating !! Subscribe to Growin’ Up Rock Podcast and check out the full interview I did with Marco Mendoza from the Dead Daisies.
One of the best bands around and they did not disappoint live cannot wait to go see them again. One of the tightest bands I have seen live John Corabi is still one of the best singer/frontman in the business
