Speedealer and Mac Sabbath Blew My Mind Saturday at Magic Bag

I have this unverified theory that the band behind Mac Sabbath is a jaded punk band from the 90's. Their story is they got fed up not making money on the punk scene and came up with a gimmick idea as a joke. "Screw punk music. Let's dress up as the Ronald McDonald gang and play only Black Sabbath songs." Well, before they knew it the gimmick was more like a sensation, the kids dug it and even odder the band liked doing it. The next step was to pour massive amounts of money into stage props and better costumes. After that, world domination!

The Mac Sabbath gang brought world domination to the Magic Bag on Saturday night with a night full of stage grilling, metal fast food humor and insane stage antics. Unfortunately I missed Lung but I did catch longtime hard, punk rocker's Speedealer opening the show. Their set was fast, loud and angry. After their set a curtain was put across the stage so no one could see what magic was being weaved on the stage floor. Ronald Osbourne entered in a yellow straightjacket when the Mac Sabbath set began and Slayer McCheese's guitar was blazing. Grimalice was somehow playing bass with his short, little arms and at back the Catburgler played drums.

I could try and tell you about the songs they played, most of them Black Sabbath songs with fast food themes, like "Iron Man" is now "Frying Pan" but the show is more about their stage antics. Ronald making bad metal fast food puns between the songs, squirting ketchup and mustard over the crowd (it was only water) and grilling up McDonald favorites. A lizard came on stage to play harmonica and that cool Moon guy played some piano as Catburglar sang "Bread" set to "Beth" by KISS. They closed the night with a straight cover of the Dead Kennedys "Halloween," which is how I know they used to be a punk band. To simply sum up the crowd's reaction, they were lovin' it.

Mac Sabbath

Speedealer