Since W.A.S.P. has so many great songs, it was inevitable that they would have to give us a medley,  They threw together “Hellion”, “I Don’t Need No Doctor” and “Scream Until You Like It” into a nice medley, giving us enough of the song without having to play the whole thing.  The next part of the show was my favorite, not necessarily because The Crimson Idol is my all time favorite W.A.S.P. album, but because the band played the material so well that it just stood out from the rest of the concert.  In particular, Doug Blair put on a great performance on guitar.  He has been a member since 2006 and he has played on the last 2 CDs.  It was just a pleasure to watch him solo during the “Crimson…” mini set.  W.A.S.P. performed “Arena Of Pleasure”, “Chainsaw Charlie(Murders In The New Morgue)”, and “The Idol” and those three tracks were worth the price of admission alone.  Before closing the set with “I Wanna Be Somebody”, the band pulled out “Take Me Up” from their penultimate CD Dominator. 

The encore of “Blind In Texas” was kind of a given but the first song played during the encore “Heaven’s Hung In Black” was a great curveball.  It was especially moving with the video screen depicting the horrors of war.  I guess it must be hard to pick a set list because there are so many great tunes and I was surprised that W.A.S.P. didn’t perform any material that was recorded between 1994 and 2006 but the crowd walked away happy and that is the main point.  For an hour and a half, Lawless and the guys made us forget about work, home, politics, wars, money, etc and they just gave us a good old-fashioned fun metal show.