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Wino Wednesday: Saint Vitus, “The War Starter” Live in Houston, May 2014

The West Coast leg of Saint Vitus‘ 35th anniversary tour wrapped up this past weekend in Texas with three shows in a row. They did Austin, Houston and Dallas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to round out the run of gigs playing the entirety of 1986’s Born too Late as well as other selections from their hugely influential discography. It’s a show they’ll take to Europe and the UK in October/November alongside Orange Goblin (dates here), and presumably onward from there. However eager I might be to hear another batch of new material from them, 35 years of Vitus is an occasion worth marking, and they’re doing so in righteous fashion. They were here last fall, but I’ve still got my hopes up they do another East Coast leg before the touring cycle ends.

Whether or not that comes to pass remains to be seen, and I suppose you could say the same of another album, but it’s hard not to get greedy looking at the clip below for “The War Starter,” the closing track from Born too Late which was the first Vitus record fronted by Scott “Wino” Weinrich and in many ways the band’s most landmark release — rivaled, perhaps, by their 1984 self-titled debut, on which Scott Reagers sang. I had to laugh when I watched it for the first time and saw the camera, which is set up on bassist Mark Adams‘ side of the stage, vibrating from the band’s waves of low end. Yeah, that’s about right for Saint Vitus‘ tones. There are a bunch of videos shot in HD from the same night, but the dark vibes of “The War Starter” and foreboding atmosphere seemed to lock in really well in Houston, and it’s not a song they play at every stop on tour.

Enjoy and have an excellent Wino Wednesday:

Saint Vitus, “The War Starter,” Live in Houston, TX, May 24, 2014

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