Lorn form YouTellConcerts.com met up with fans after Damage Inc. Metallica Tribute at The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands on AXS TV to get their opinions on the show.
Category: Concerts
DSB at The Canyon Club 5/17/2013
DSB:
Juan Del Castillo – Lead Vocals
Roger Cain- Guitar
Scotty Kormos- Drums
Henry O’Neill- Keyboards
Tony Love- Bass
with special guest Mike McManus from Queen Nation on guitar
Fresh off their national TV appearance on AXS TV’s The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands, DSB came back to rock The Canyon Club.
This is one of their main places to play shows and they’ve been doing so for almost 4 1/2 years now (their first gig here was in January, 2009).
DSB kicked off their set with a rocking version of “Wheel In The Sky”. They rocked the crowd from the onset and never let up.
The next song was “Any Way You Want It” and it was hard not to associate this song with the State Farm commercial where the guy saw Journey back in ‘83 (and the place was crawling with chicks). It was definitely a “Journey moment”.
DSB was then joined onstage early on by special guest Mike McManus, guitarist of Queen Nation and local guitar hero, who just played an incredible show with Queen Nation on The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands 4 days ago. They performed a rocking version of “Stone In Love” , which was easily one of the biggest highlights of the show.
After Mike left the stage, the slowed it down a bit with “Lights”, “Still They Ride”, “Only The Young” and
You could tell the band was really enjoying playing, as they had audience participation, acknowledged birthdays in the crowd, recognized fans and the such.
The sound and lighting were really good. Their logo was behind the drum kit and on the screen on the stage and all over the venue. There was no question about who was playing…
One of the highlights of the set was the underappreciated song “Escape” (every song on that album is a good one and this one kind of got overlooked as a result). It was rocking.
It was even more impressive a few feet from the band, where there was an undeniable intensity in their performance.
They clearly love what they do and that carries right over into their performance.
Although they’re all smiles during the show, they are playing so hard and this isn’t easy music to “nail” by any stretch of the imagination. They nailed it.
Just before they played “Open Arms”, there was video footage being shown of Steve Perry, which served as a great intro to the song.
One of the nicest surprises was “Oh Sherrie”, which is actually a Steve Perry solo tune. Talk about a trip down memory lane. The crowd was loving it.
They finished out their set with three of Journey’s most popular songs ever.
Seeing the fans reactions from the band’s perspective was a site to behold. The crowd swayed back and forth to “Faithfully”. There was a young lady in the front that was singing along to every word of every song. People were holding up DSB posters as they danced and sang. I recognized a few of their “super fans” that were also front and center during their live TV performance. What a fun scene and display of dedication. Loyal fans are cool.
The band completely jammed out to “Separate Ways”, and, yes, Scotty Kormos once again nailed every drum part.
They finished strong with the classic, staple Journey song, which simply read “DSB” on their set list.
Check out the ending of “Separate Ways”– talk about bringing it home… The drum parts resembled some sort of cross-fit training. I was exhausted just watching this:
The crowd digging the encore:
After the conclusion of the show, the band hung out and took pictures with fans and friends. Truly nice guys and great players as well. More bands should be like DSB.
These guys are real pros. Other bands should take notice of their professionalism and dedication to their performance.
Juan is a phenomenal singer with a great vocal range and a pure, clean tone to his voice. Roger Cain is a shredding guitar player and does a great job playing all of Neal Schon’s guitar parts.
Tony Love is a great bass player. And he’s funny. Henry O’Neill does a great job on keyboard duties and Scotty Kormos is a hard-hitting champion on the drums.
They played with a “happy intensity” throughout the show. It’s nice to see guys smiling during every song while delivering a shredding performance throughout. Nothing beats that.
One of the best parts of the show was when Tony jokingly yelled at someone backstage for “Facebooking” during the performance. While playing, he ran over to the side of the stage with a big smile and yelled “Get off the phone!” and then strolled back to the front on the stage without missing a beat. It was truly classic.
BAND INTRODUCTION:
COMPLETE SET LIST:
WHEEL IN THE SKY
ANYWAY YOU WANT IT
STONE IN LOVE
LIGHTS/ STILL THEY RIDE
ONLY THE YOUNG
WHI’S CRYING NOW
ASK THE LONELY
LOVIN, TOCUHIN’ SQUEEZIN’
LA DO DA
ESCAPE
OPEN ARMS
OH SHERRIE
PARTY’S OVER
FAITHFULLY
SEPARATE WAYS
DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’
DSB ON FACEBOOK DSB ON TWITTER
QUEEN NATION Fan Reactions From AXS TV’s THE WORLD’S GREATEST TRIBUTE BANDS HOSTED BY KATIE DARYL via YOUTELLCONCERTS
QUEEN NATION THE WORLD’S GREATEST TRIBUTE BANDS HOSTED BY KATIE DARYL AXS.TV 5/13/2013
Queen Nation just paid tribute to one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands ever on AXS.TV via a stunning live performance.
The band has been around for quite a while and has deservedly earned its reputation as the premiere Queen tribute.
The Roxy was packed when Katie Daryl introduced the band to start off the program.
They were able to cover quite a few songs in the vast Queen catalog, including “Killer Queen”, “Tie Your Mother Down”, “Fat Bottomed Girls” and a super-charged version of “Don’t Stop Me Now” .
The attendees were blown away by how accurately they were able to recreate their live concert and transport the audience back to a Queen show in the 80s. It was amazing.
The Roxy was hopping with the bass-driven “Another One Bites The Dust” and “Under Pressure”.
One of the highlights is when they handed a pair of handlebars with bicycle bells for a little audience participation during “Bicycle Race”.
The bass and drums were spot-on. The guitar solos, piano and vocals were so accurate, it was almost surreal. Mission accomplished for being The World’s Best Tribute Band for Queen!
They did an outstanding (although, due to television time limits, a somewhat condensed) version of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, everyone was dancing around to “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and they did a very high energy version of “Stone Cold Crazy”, which was covered by Metallica years ago and really impressed the guys from Damage Inc., who were in attendance in anticipation for next week’s performance on AXS.TV’s THE WORLD’S GREATEST TRIBUTE BANDS.
The encore included “We Will Rock You”, “We Are The Champions” and ended with a remarkable version of “Hammer To Fall”.
The BAND/ the incredible musicians that make up Queen Nation:
MIKE McMANUS – GUITAR / VOCALS as Brian May
GREG FINSLEY – VOCALS / PIANO as Freddie Mercury
PARKER COMBS – BASS as John Deacon
PETER BURKE – DRUMS / VOCALS as Roger Taylor
YOUTELLCONCERTS was on hand to capture the reaction of fans in attendance for the show, including performers from upcoming and recent episodes of The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands.
Interviews with DSB’s Scotty and Roger with pictures and a preview of the things to come from the band
I met up with my buddies Raquel and Lorn at The Roxy, where DSB was the featured act a few weeks ago for The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands on AXS.TV.
After an incredible performance of DSB’s Journey tribute that was broadcast to 40 million homes, they showed, without a shadow of a doubt, why they are considered the best and most authentic Journey tribute band out there.
We wanted to find out how things have been going for them since and what we can look forward to for the show this Friday Night at The Canyon Club, as well as what their summer plans look like in terms of them touring the country.
Drummer Scotty Kormos and Guitarist Roger Cain took time both before and after the show to talk with Lon and Raquel to speak of their experience after having the chance of a lifetime, where they gave more insight into the band, spoke of their upcoming plans and what it meant to play a live concert for 40 million viewers on national TV.
Not only are they great musicians, they are also very intelligent, down to earth guys.
Check out all the great songs they rocked!
SET LIST:
Wheel in the Sky
Anyway You Want It
Stone In Love
Lights
Who’s Cryin’ Now
Ask The Lonely
Open Arms
Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’
Faithfully
Separate Ways
Don’t Stop Believin’
Since the show at The Canyon Club isn’t limited to 50 minutes of music (per television time restrictions), you can expect them to play even more hits and classics this Friday at 9:30PM!
Preview of AXS TV show (with more information about the band):
KATIE DARYL AND DEAN CAIN TO HOST “DSB” LIVE on AXS.TV’s “THE WORLD GREATEST TRIBUTE BANDS” April 22
Fan recaps of the band for their televised live show:
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