WCS 32: Friday Night Nu Metal in Orange County

The Garden Amp might crack my top 5 Cali amphitheaters

My talk session with Oregon artist, writer, and circus performer Zeloszelos Marchandt is the latest Sojourn podcast. No cost this week.

The Florida band Nonpoint wasn’t familiar to me until a little more than a week ago. A friend invited me down to see them rock the Garden Amphitheater on Friday night.

Whoa.

After the Garden Amp, my friend and I caught the above mid cover band at Anaheim’s Bobby V’s, which I’ve read has a punk karaoke night.

Swear to Jah, Friday night was so much fun. I came of age in metal circles, attending keggers and getting arrested in Middle America’s 1980s. Raw 20th-century youth. When I traded up from the likes of Motley Crue and Judas Priest for more sophisticated college radio content? I lost something.

Being around so many Nonpoint fans, who seem to have that thing intact, had me slightly reeling.

All hail nu metal?

No. Hail my 10 stories.

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