ROCKET SHOW REVIEW: PROJECT STEIGER @Hollywood’s Dragonfly Feb 28th

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This was definitely a night of explosive surprises that I didn’t see walking into a barely filled, dankly lit lower-end club on my coveted Hollywood metal scene that I have been infamously covering now for the better part of three years. The opener was JOY BASU, the self-proclaimed man behind the “Mashups, Remixes and Originals with Live Guitars”. He is extrememly well known around the globe already for the very fact that he is many top pop acts sit-in guitar player when they perform on TV and the such, household names like Jessica Simpson. He has performed on many well known national TV shows like The Late Show and so many countless others.

Next up was a performance by a man that really should need no introduction. But he does, because he’s still pretty much making his way through the red tape of the business on the way to being crowned one of rock’s brightest living guitar talents. The man is Ken Steiger. The band is PROJECT STEIGER. They flatout ripped everyone sitting in the audience a new asshole. I wish I could come up with a more delicate way to put things, I just can’t. It literally took me two songs after the opening song ‘KT Boundary Event’ from his latest instrumental full-length album: Defiance, to realize that I was still on planet earth. His soaring and electrifying crush of one fist-pumping shred-off after the next, became almost too much to handle at one point for me. And the set actually started off with a sinister-like impromptu jam between Steiger and his band, spearheaded by the monster drumming assault of Duayne Howard.

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