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The Californian metal veterans Korn performed at Zagreb’s Salata last night. For nearly half a year, the “warming up” for the concert of Korn promised a huge amount of people, who should have filled Salata to the last seat. However, judging by the “should have” in that sentence – the plan did not work out. It was established that Korn really is not what they once were, and had they visited ten years ago, the location of the concert would have been justified, and more than pleasantly filled. This way, according to some sources, around 2,000 people gathered, and the grandstands were not even open, and Korn had to face a small public. Take a look at the photographs in the PHOTOGALLERY.
It all started with the performance by a band from Pula called Popeye, which gathered a group of wild Istrians led by two vocals. The screaming Gianne and the rapping Fere often changed roles, and attacked the public with the lyrics of the well known hits “Zavezan”, “Eurupa” or “Che Bella Citta”, but it was ‘unforgivable’ that they left out their hit “Jebem ti mater”. Due to the slight delay in the program, father started to gather and carry their equipment whilst Popeye was closing their performance with “Eurupa”.
Father, a band from Rijeka, was the first real warm-up for Korn, who obviously gained a lot of concert experience from playing all around Europe, and now showed how good they sound, and what an energetic performance is. It is unbelievable seeing a Croatian band, who only five years ago were playing in the smallest of local clubs, playing as a direct warm up band for a band like Korn.
Besides playing a decent list of their hits ("Cynosure", "Machina", "Never Come Back", …), they treated the public to a remake of the Beatles, more precisely their “Elanor Rigby”. The main stars, Korn, despite expectations, did not manage to attract enough people to cover the field at Salata, however, that added to the relaxed stay inside the stadium. The first on the stage was Jonathan’s microphone (Nubian Queen), which is a work by Hans Ruedi Giger (maker of Alien), and after them an unexpected hoard of musicians. Instead of one set of drums, there were three, there was an assisting guitarist, and a paramedic, who helped Jonathan “survive” the concert. The night was opened with “Here to Stay”, and they continued to line up old and new hits, returning the public to puberty and throwing them out of tact, whilst all together (when the euphoria wore out) look pretty average. The cast of Korn was striped to that extent that there were only three “real” members – Munky and Fieldy, with the wild Johathan. The sound did not surpass the average framework, and the performance was interrupted by Jonathan constantly leaving the stage, for his need to “fill himself” with oxygen due to his obvious respiratory disease, which did not allow the public to stayin “euphoria” longer than three songs.
The boys presented their new song “Evolution”, which by itself represents a step further in Korn’s stylistic evolution, and will soon be on their new album. After the apparent end of the concert, Korn returned on stage and performed another five songs, and in the end they played their greatest hit “Blind” and dedicated it to the recently deceased Marin Zrilet, also a fan of their.
All in all, the ticket price of 260 kuna was not adapted to the adolescent public they were aiming for, and the fact that Korn is a band who lived their real peak at the end of the 90s, put the seal on the concert, which was planned as a spectacle, but ended up an ordinary concert.
The Californian metal veterans Korn performed at Zagreb’s Salata last night. For nearly half a year, the “warming up” for the concert of Korn promised a huge amount of people, who should have filled Salata to the last seat. However, judging by the “should have” in that sentence – the plan did not work out. It was established that Korn really is not what they once were, and had they visited ten years ago, the location of the concert would have been justified, and more than pleasantly filled. This way, according to some sources, around 2,000 people gathered, and the grandstands were not even open, and Korn had to face a small public. Take a look at the photographs in the PHOTOGALLERY.
It all started with the performance by a band from Pula called Popeye, which gathered a group of wild Istrians led by two vocals. The screaming Gianne and the rapping Fere often changed roles, and attacked the public with the lyrics of the well known hits “Zavezan”, “Eurupa” or “Che Bella Citta”, but it was ‘unforgivable’ that they left out their hit “Jebem ti mater”. Due to the slight delay in the program, father started to gather and carry their equipment whilst Popeye was closing their performance with “Eurupa”.
Father, a band from Rijeka, was the first real warm-up for Korn, who obviously gained a lot of concert experience from playing all around Europe, and now showed how good they sound, and what an energetic performance is. It is unbelievable seeing a Croatian band, who only five years ago were playing in the smallest of local clubs, playing as a direct warm up band for a band like Korn.
Besides playing a decent list of their hits ("Cynosure", "Machina", "Never Come Back", …), they treated the public to a remake of the Beatles, more precisely their “Elanor Rigby”. The main stars, Korn, despite expectations, did not manage to attract enough people to cover the field at Salata, however, that added to the relaxed stay inside the stadium. The first on the stage was Jonathan’s microphone (Nubian Queen), which is a work by Hans Ruedi Giger (maker of Alien), and after them an unexpected hoard of musicians. Instead of one set of drums, there were three, there was an assisting guitarist, and a paramedic, who helped Jonathan “survive” the concert. The night was opened with “Here to Stay”, and they continued to line up old and new hits, returning the public to puberty and throwing them out of tact, whilst all together (when the euphoria wore out) look pretty average. The cast of Korn was striped to that extent that there were only three “real” members – Munky and Fieldy, with the wild Johathan. The sound did not surpass the average framework, and the performance was interrupted by Jonathan constantly leaving the stage, for his need to “fill himself” with oxygen due to his obvious respiratory disease, which did not allow the public to stayin “euphoria” longer than three songs.
The boys presented their new song “Evolution”, which by itself represents a step further in Korn’s stylistic evolution, and will soon be on their new album. After the apparent end of the concert, Korn returned on stage and performed another five songs, and in the end they played their greatest hit “Blind” and dedicated it to the recently deceased Marin Zrilet, also a fan of their.
All in all, the ticket price of 260 kuna was not adapted to the adolescent public they were aiming for, and the fact that Korn is a band who lived their real peak at the end of the 90s, put the seal on the concert, which was planned as a spectacle, but ended up an ordinary concert.
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