Kind of always a bit under appreciated and never ever really breaking out of their niche (except with the MTV support of Negasonic Teenage Warhead and brief flash of broad appeal that followed), Monster Magnet (previously) have kept on keeping on since 89. As is the case with cult bands that keep pluggin away for long enough, their fanbase keeps growing with them until they get to the point where they’re playing venues the size of Huxleys, playing to an absurdly devoted audience and getting the kind of attention that they always would have had the stars aligned themselves properly early on.
Playing in it’s entirety their super amazing ’95 hit Dopes To Infinity, Monster Magnet hit Huxleys for a night hard-rock astral travel through worlds of the psychedelic and the cosmic. While not a new concept, front man Dave Wyndorf had this to say about the potential of playing the whole album live from start to end:
“I’m really into this trend of playing complete works,” Wyndorf says. “Lots of people I know, like Josh from Queens of the Stone Age, the Mudhoney guys, Buzz from the Melvins, they all say they love doing it. So I thought, ‘Wow, I have to do that too’.”
Wyndorf relishes the opportunity to step outside the expectations of a typical gig. “In a lot of ways it allows me to do stuff that I never thought i could do before,” he says. “When you play a record that’s been out for a long time there are no expectations and there are no question marks around whether it’s going to be a hit or not. It already came out and whatever it was going to do, it has done.
