Labor Day weekend launched with some deliciously scary heavy music across the state, but also featured a celebrated jam band and a tribute to a late Kalamazoo musician.
‘The Triumph of King Freak’: Rob Zombie rocking Pine Knob. (Photo/Michael Mastre)
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At Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, it was a shock-rock Friday night of “Feed My Frankenstein,” “I Love the Dead,” “Demon Speeding,” “Superbeast” and “Dragula,” courtesy of those “Freaks on Parade,” Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie (with special guests Ministry and Filter).
In Grand Rapids on the same night, it was the scary heavy assault of those masked metal marauders Mudvayne at GLC Live at 20 Monroe, unleashing “Death Blooms,” “Internal Primates Forever” and “World So Cold” for headbangers who also cheered opener All That Remains.
‘Determined’: Mudvayne in Grand Rapids. (Photo/Jamie Geysbeek)
The long Labor Day weekend kicked off with a special, very emotional Thursday night at Kalamazoo’s Old Dog Tavern, with friends and bands (Drew Phoria, Funk Vendetta, Branden Mann & The Reprimand, Pleasant Drive) paying tribute to the late Evan Kincaid, a bass guitarist, singer-songwriter and chef who passed away unexpectedly last year at age 35. People gathered early outside then headed indoors for a full evening of slam poetry and music in remembrance of Kincaid.
And in Grand Rapids, the Wednesday leading up to the holiday weekend got the party started courtesy of Philadelphia jam band Disco Biscuits, who brought their singular trance-meets-rock vibe to The Intersection.
The free-admission Harmony Fest heated up Sunday, meanwhile, with performances in downtown Three Rivers by Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish, The Kennedy Affair, Cabildo, Desmond Jones and Faux Beamage.
Browse photos from all of these Michigan shows below.
PHOTO GALLERY: Freaks on Parade at Pine Knob Music Theatre
Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Ministry, Filter
Photos by Michael Mastre
PHOTO GALLERY: Mudvayne, All That Remains at GLC Live at 20 Monroe
Photos by Jamie Geysbeek
PHOTO GALLERY: Celebrating Evan Kincaid at Old Dog Tavern
Pleasant Drive, Funk Vendetta, Drew Phoria, Branden Mann & The Reprimand
Photos by Derek Ketchum
