STONE SOUR

04/06/07, Roseland Ballroom
239 west 52nd street

The Roseland was quite full Friday night to welcome the Jagermeister Tour. Most of the audience was there for Corey Taylor's new band, Stone Sour, which was headlining (Scott Ian from Anthrax was spotted in the VIP corner), with bands Til December, Lacuna Coil and Shadows Fall opening . It was Stone Sour's first gig in NYC since the release of their second album, "Come what (ever) may". And it looked like a Slipknot show (for those who don't know, Slipknot is that metal band with nine members that wear masks, and the frontman is no one else than... Corey), stage-diving, crowd-surfing and headbanging like mad (believe your humble journalist, who was in the pit all night long, hardly standing up on her own two feet), even though the sound of SS is much more mellow. The band opened with the two first tracks of their new cd, "30/30-150" and the song that gave its title to the album, getting the crowd going. The musicians played pretty sharply, with no pretention, standing a little bit in the background : no guitar heroes here, even though there was a lot of solos ! A pretty fit and newly bald Corey was controlling the stage, and had his fifteen minutes of fame when he picked up a guitar and played alone Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game", Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet home Alabama", "Bother" (from their first album, that got the crowd chant "Corey" for 2 good minutes), then launched the band into their hit "Through Glass". A hit that gave them a gold record this very same day , that he brought on stage. It was also their drummer's birthday, and the audience chanted some more, a "Happy birthday" version punctuated by fart noises by Corey. They alternated songs from their first album with some new songs for a little less than one hour and a half. Very good show, though a little short. But great energy, by both the audience and the band. If you didn't get a ticket, they promise they would come back !!