Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings January 12, 1965) is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He rose to prominence as a founding member of the band White Zombie which formed in the mid-1980s and rose to fame in the early 1990s. The horror-inspired visual spectacle of Rob Zombie had the headlining honors. Zombie's band is tight, wickedly skilled unit. He's backed up by former Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish, Piggy D. on bass and the amazingly talented John 5 on guitar. Amidst the litany of White Zombie and solo career classics "Superbeast," "Living Dead Girl," "Never Gonna Stop" and "Thunder Kiss '65," the band stood upon and in front of a series of a gigantic video screens, all nonstop displaying found and created imagery from horror and science fiction movies. At one point Zombie rode a giant dragon car of sorts, a 15-foot robot danced behind the band and later an even larger cartoonish devil strode around the stage. It was appropriately colorful given Zombie's material, but it's hard not to remember another tour from way back in 1996. Called the War of the Gargantuas, it featured Pantera, White Zombie and the Deftones. Hard to transport back in time, but that performance was something special to behold. Fans were elated to see White Zombie and Pantera. Heavy music seemed raw, vital and a window into a world far more interesting than the button-down, conservative world at the time. This event, while fun and worthy of existence, seemed far from the driven brilliance of those times. It's hard to imagine any metal band in 1996 covering Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band" with red, white and blue flags streaming behind them. It certainly happened here though. Rob Zombie @ San Manuel Amphitheater, San Bernardino, CA, USA 6-29-2013 Theme For the Rat Vendor (Intro) 1. Teenage Nosferatu Pussy 2. Superbeast @ 5:30 3. Meet the Creeper @ 9:23 4. Living Dead Girl @ 16:00 5. More Human Than Human @ 19:49 (White Zombie song) 6. Theme for an Angry Red Planet @ 24:09 7. Ging Gang Gong De Do Gong De Laga Raga @ 25:39 Drum Solo @ 28:53 8. Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy) @ 30:12 9. Sick Bubble-Gum @ 36:10 10. Lords of Salem @ 39:52 11 .Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown 44:50 12. Thunder Kiss '65 Play @ 49:06 (White Zombie song) (w/Guitar solo) @ 54:19 13. We're an American Band @ 59:32 (Grand Funk Railroad cover) Encore: 14. Dragula @ 1:05:05

• published: 03 Jul 2013
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