September 18th, 2000

WARSTARS @ Satyricon
The Best Venue
In Portland, OR
Thankyou Satyricon!

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This was to be the final Warstars show with Adam Ion. There had been "creative differences" building up for quite a while. Andy Warstar was quoted as saying "You can't play punk rock with people that aren't 'punk rock'."

Regardless of the inner tension within the band, the show was great anyway. Some of the greatest punk bands of all time have played the Satyricon, and that really helped bring out the best in the Warstars...

The Warstars set flowed pretty well, except for Bolenbaugh interupting Andy's introductions of each song with loud drunken outbursts in faux germanic. It was as funny as it was annoying. The Warstars all got pretty soused, including the sound guy who did a bang up job. He also really enjoyed the music.

The Warstars rocked "BBOM" which is available on Warstars.net downloads page. Warstars performed "The Wasp" for the sound check and that also kicked butt. Overall, it was a good, wholesome way to spend a monday evening.

See the original Satyricon ad HERE.