The band played with a fury and power that I don t think they ve had since the early days. They played a ton of old material and Kevin was all over the stage and down on the floor singing with the crowd who were going crazy climbing all over each other and singing along to all the songs. I swear these guys must have somehow tapped into their youth because you d be hard pressed to believe it was guys in their 40 s up on that stage and not a bunch of teenagers.
I was completely blown away by their set as was everyone I talked to. I thought Kevin s constant beckoning for the crowd to move around was a little unnecessary and borderline cheesy because the crowd were pumped up and going crazy thanks to their spot-on performance. I m still in awe of the intensity that came off that stage during their set.
At one point some dude named Toby from the band H20 came out and sang a song with them. The crowd went especially crazy for 99 Red Balloons , and the closer, Walk Together Rock Together . Much like Youth Brigade, when 7 Seconds were done, the crowd wanted more.
They easily could have come up for an encore had time permitted. I popped big time when they played Regress No Way .
At this point in the show, I was quite happy as I had just witnessed a few long-time favorite bands play some great sets and one of the best newer Chicago punk bands who I saw a bunch of times before they broke up in the 1990s was about to take the stage and I couldn t be happier about it.
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