Saliva with Blackheart Saints
Haute Spot, Cedar Park, TX
July 23, 2021
Photography by Michael Mullenix
Friday night at the Haute Spot, Hard Rock veterans Saliva brought their down-tuned, fist-pumping performance to Cedar Park for a night of their greatest hits. The house lights dimmed as the band built anticipation before reaching the stage and launching into their classic fan-favorite Black Sheep. Saliva packed in an hour’s worth of solid material, grabbing recognizable gems from across their career, but their performance was… rough. Technical difficulties such as a microphone failing to pick up the first syllable of every line during the later songs like Your Disease was noticeable. Plus the band’s usual extravagant light show was for this run cast in a barely visible, dim glow. This gave it more the feeling that they would break out acoustic guitars rather than slam into the full-throttled banger like Superstar. Looking past that, you saw a band that came with the best they had to offer. Looking at songs like Musta Been Wrong or Ladies and Gentlemen, Saliva is able to slowly build tension during verses only to erupt in a cathartic frenzy from the crowd once the chorus kicks in. At the end of the night, the band got everyone jumping around to the rebellious anthem, Click Click Boom.
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