OK, so I know it took me forever, but finally, here are a few of the pictures from last weeks Doro show at Jaxx.
First let me say that there was an opening band, Scarz Within, that recently acquired a female vocalist and they blew me out of the water. I don't think they have anything with the new singers vocals recorded yet (they mentioned they would be going back into the studio soon), but you can check them out
here (website) or
here (MySpace). Unfortunately I didn't get any photos of them.
Fatal Smile (
www.myspace.com/fatalsmile1), the opener that Doro brought along with them on this US tour, was also amazing. Some of you may have seen them before as I think they opened for WASP on their last tour. Very high-energy hard rock/glam metal type stuff. Think Motely Crue from Sweden.
(I will take this opportunity to apologize in advance, as I am no good at resizing photos.)
After Fatal Smile, Doro hit the stage. The show was absolutely amazing. They played a lot of older stuff from the Warlock days, as well as a good mixture of other hits. There's a set list picture posted below, although they didn't play everything on there since they were short on time. (I don't think Jaxx realized Fatal Smile was being added to the bill. The day before the show they were not listed on Jaxx website and I noticed that the door time had been pushed back, which ultimately lead to the shortening of the headliner's (Doro's) set - but I don't really think that her or her bandmates minded.)
Just in case you weren't sure of how close I was ...
I hope I didn't blind the poor lady with the camera's flash.
Mad respect and thanks to Johnny Dee (Doro's drummer) who invited Nick and I in for the sound check even though we got there too late to take the band to dinner like we originally wanted to. (There just wasn't enough time because of how things works out with the soundcheck. Oh well, next time we'll get there way early and take them to lunch instead.
) Johnny ranks up there as one of the coolest people in metal I've ever met.
If you are interested in checking out more photos from the show, visit my myspace photo gallery
here.
On a sidenote, Nick proposed to me that night right after the show. I don't want to hijack this thread, so please feel free to leave any well wishes or comments in regards to that
here in the Lounge or
here on my MySpace.
