I played this gig last night opening for one of the worst piece of shit cheese bands of all time. I won't even mention them. But....what happened is what I always like to happen - these 80s/90s nostalgia acts draw no one, and us local guys out-draw the "headliner". We played to a pretty crowded house of our own folk, and then the bigshots came out to crickets. But anyway, that's not what this is about.
The very fist band were these kids, I say kids, they were under 21 but old enough to play a gig by themselves, probably 19-20. Anyway, they were a Megadeth cover band. Lol. Lots of hair, really pointy guitars, the works. Bless their hearts, they were playing through some of the tiniest micro-practice amps I'd ever seen on an actual stage. Like Spinal Tap's Stonehenge, these amps were in danger....of being crushed....by a dwarf. But they were mic'd up, so of course we could all hear the glory of these electric shoeboxes. Needless to say it sounded like fucking dogshit. But these kids could play their asses off. They were actually very good at what they were doing, even if it was someone else's shitty songs. They were double-bassing and wank shredding all over the place and doing it very well. Man, if those kids had better amps....and wrote their own songs... they'd be pretty good.
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I sort of recognise the riff. It's not Little Devil by the Cult, is it?