Strangely enough, the highlight has nothing to do with the band or the song, but with a stoic muscle-bound bouncer with a kick-ass mullet that comes out to toss overzealous stage divers back into the crowd. Perhaps I shouldn’t find him so amusing, but he’s too funny. If you happen to read this, I’m sorry, mullet guy.
Anyhow, back to the task at hand.
Stiv snakes eerily around his microphone stand during “Son of Sam” and the guitarist (who looks like a thin version of Uncle Fester) gets his fifteen minutes with a wailing guitar solo.
When the camera pans back to center stage, Stiv is wearing a large werewolf mask, which, to me, cements him as a total rock star because he doesn’t care if he looks silly. He has the cojones to do what he wants, and for that I salute him.
The band wraps up its set with rockin’ covers of The Rolling Stones’ “Tell Me” and Iggy and the Stooges’ “Search and Destroy,” during which Stiv gets sucked into the crowd (almost irretrievably), and another performance of “Sonic Reducer.”
Stiv leaves you with a little treat a la Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs that you may or may not want to miss.
The special features on the DVD include the “super rare” video for “Sonic Reducer” and a rare 1980 interview with Stiv, musical collaborator Frank Secich and interviewer Gary Cubberly.
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