 Greg’s guitar about caught on fire throughout the sets as he blazed through solos and riffs like a pyromaniac madman. You’ve heard of sympathetic pregnancies, well I could almost feel the blisters form on my fingers as I watched him scorch the frets. Ouch! A really cool part of the show was when the guy from The Worried came out again and played dual leads with Greg on AC/DC’s “Sin City.” Each of them were in the forefront on top of stacked stage monitors in a display of unabashed rock worship that made me proud to be a beer-drinkin’ swine.
Jason Kendall kept the crowd active as usual, and between songs he mentioned everywhere people came in from to see this last show: Texas, Georgia, California, etc. - and of course, our crew of Ohio scumfucks. During “1965 GTO” he grabbed the maracas and shook with the frenzy of Cornholio. He bopped a few kids on the head with them threw them out to the audience. He is known to joke, taunt, and generally incite the crowd to get a little crazy - often even to start a circle pit from time to time - and this was no exception. Someone even made it to the ceiling of the large club and caused a pipe to start leaking water down on the crowd.
At the end of the show, after climaxing with the crowd favorite “Do the Devil,” he proceeded to jump off a speaker stack then kick apart the drum set in true rock-n-roll fashion. The crowd continued to chant for a return until the lights came back on, but I don’t think anyone left Lupo’s that night disappointed. That is, unless they were disappointed that they might never get a chance to see one of the greatest bands in rock-n-roll again.
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