ZZ Top & Cardboard Vampires Then Soulfly & El Nino
Mid-August 2004 was stacked.First up, ZZ Top at the Zoo. The opener? Cardboard Vampires, a project fronted by Jerry Cantrell. That wasn’t a long-running act. Limited appearances. That night, they opened for ZZ Top and that was the band assigned to work with. Not a bad shift.Then August 19.Soulfly and El Niño at Diamond Ballroom.486 tickets.$23.Heavy package. Solid bill. But 486 in that room feels light. That’s the gamble with metal tours. Some nights explode. Some nights grind.The very next day, August 20, Robert Earl Keen rolls into Bricktown Events Center. Different crowd. Different…
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