{"id":47465,"date":"2006-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/moline-gets-godsmacked\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:59:07","slug":"moline-gets-godsmacked","status":"publish","type":"feature","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/moline-gets-godsmacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Moline Gets Godsmacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question asked by thousands of bands in thousands of arenas for many years was asked first by Hour Cast\u2019s Patrick McBride. The lead vocalist wanted to know \u201cHow are you feeling?\u201d The crowd in the Mark in Moline, IL answered with a respectable roar, but it didn\u2019t satisfy McBride. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not going to cut it,\u201d he told the crowd, continuing a night where his band had to get a crowd riled up that was there to see fellow Bostonians Godsmack. Judging by the riffs by David Henriquez, the band\u2019s dreadlocked-hair guitarist, and the pounding of Jerry Clews, the band\u2019s drummer, Hour Cast has a strong future in front of them. <\/p>\n

But before Godsmack came out, Breaking Benjamin took the stage and kicked off with \u201cPolyamorous,\u201d the current single \u201cThe Diary of Jane\u201d and previous radio single \u201cSo Cold,\u201d which got the loudest response. The band was clearly having a good time, and when they asked to see cell phones the crowd responded by waving them, lighting the arena with a glow. We sang along to \u201cSooner or Later\u201d and enjoyed the upcoming single\u00a0 \u201cBreathe,\u201d which contains a strong guitar riff and catchy vocal melody. Look for it on the radio soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, the house lights went out for Godsmack — which any rock fan knows is named after an Alice in Chains song on Dirt<\/i>. The opening strains of AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cFor Those About to Rock\u201d began through the PA. The giant video screen on stage suddenly showed the band backstage and a video montage of different elements of their career, such as concert footage and their crazy antics on tour, as the song progressed. As the song ended, the band arrived to the stage and the screen went dark before showing military helicopters as the intro to \u201cStraight Out of Line\u201d began, prompting a \u201cUSA! USA!\u201d chant from the audience. Drummer Shannon Larkin\u2019s tribal intro patterns launched the band\u2019s set list, which sprinkled their recent material from their current IV<\/i> release among standards like \u201cWhatever\u201d and \u201cGo Away.\u201d<\/td>\n\n

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The inspirational \u201cRealign\u201d was the highlight of the show, which was followed with the anthem \u201cAwake.\u201d The mystical \u201cVoodoo\u201d prompted cell phones to be removed from pockets and to illuminate the arena. Similar to their last tour, the epic drum solo \u2018battle\u2019 between vocalist Sully Erna and drummer Shannon Larkin commenced after \u201cVoodoo.\u201d A door behind Larkin opened as his drum riser moved to stage left and Erna\u2019s drum riser was positioned at stage right. Following the same basic flow of what they did last tour, the band quoted the great drum songs \u201cBack in Black\u201d and \u201cWar Pigs,\u201d with lyrics to the latter song onscreen so that the younger generation could read along to a classic Sabbath song. <\/p>\n

Guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and Erna paced the stage throughout the band\u2019s intense set, which was often enhanced with video images on the screen and good old-fashioned pyro. The groove in \u201cSpeak\u201d was loaded with Merrill\u2019s bass line and Larkin\u2019s impeccable timekeeping. To showcase the musical talent of the band, at one point, Erna left the stage and the remaining members played an interesting instrumental. Another high point in the show was the audience singing the chorus of \u201cWhatever.\u201d By the time they launched into the closer \u201cGo Away,\u201d there was not an ass in any seat in the arena. Erna promised to return soon and with that, the lights came back on. <\/p>\n

It was a great show and checking it out at a town near you is recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moline, IL, USA; November 5, 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51007,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"feature_type":[11242],"class_list":["post-47465","feature","type-feature","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","feature_type-concert-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature\/47465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/feature"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature\/47465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47465"},{"taxonomy":"feature_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature_type?post=47465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}