Photos and review by: Alan Ralph @ConcertGoingPro
Spinning Platters has had the pleasure of seeing Mac Sabbath seven times since 2016 yet it’s hard to believe that there’s only one other written review here on the inventors and self-appointed kings of Drive Thru Metal! This latest appearance at Great American Music Hall was part of a short West Coast tour called ‘This One Goes To 11‘.
Aside from different support acts and one major change to the setlist, it was basically the same show as last year at DNA Lounge.
For the uninitiated, Mac Sabbath has an incredibly entertaining take on food via Black Sabbath songs like ‘Organic Funeral’ (Electric Funeral), ‘Sweet Beef’ (Sweet Leaf), ‘GMO blind’ (Snowblind), ‘Frying Pan’ (Iron Man) and ‘Pair-a-Buns’ (Paranoid). They may have run out of Black Sabbath songs to parody, as they also added an Iron Maiden song ‘The Grouper’ (The Trooper) and three snippets of The Distance by Cake to the set (which was actually very funny every time they introduced it!).
The between-song banter between drummer Peter Criss Cut Fries and singer and bandleader Ronald Osbourne did eat up quite a bit of the clock, but it was downright hilarious and was a great part of the set. This included more fun with food (and band names) such as CinnaBon Jovi, Spinal TApplebees, Iggy Popeye’s Chicken, Dairy Queensrÿche, Burger King Diamond, Almond Joy Division, Bauhaus of Pancakes, Agent Orange Julius, and Dead Kenne Denny’s, just to name a bunch (there were more).
The biggest change of course was the final song of the night. Due to the recent unexpected passing of Ozzy Osbourne, for the first time ever, Ronald uncharacteristically dropped the clown routine, and they performed Paranoid by Black Sabbath as it was originally written and recorded. Mac Sabbath’s dedication to Ozzy was very moving; it was said that they have always dedicated their music and performances to Black Sabbath but this time it was verbalized before playing the song… and this is likely to be their final song of the night for every subsequent tour that they ever do.
