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...second song, "Radio," tells the story of a teen falling in love with music. "Radio" is one of the best songs on Let's Go, and Rancid's performance more than did it justice. While it's not the most original theme for a song, the band pulled it off with a kind of potent excess, as Armstrong snarled, "Here it is/ Here I am/ Turn it up fucking loud/ When I got the music I got a place to go." Their next song, the speedy "Nihilism," was performed equally successfully. Armstrong announced the song as being about Frederiksen...
...songs which Rancid played from their self-titled debut album were on the whole less successful and less memorable. One of the best tunes of the evening, however, was "I Wanna Riot" which is currently only available on an Epitaph compilation CD, and as the b-side to "Roots Radical." A slow ska tune, "I Wanna Riot" came as a welcome relief to the slamming intensity of the rest of the show. The amazing thing was that the audience seemed to need it more than the band, which exhibited no signs of fatigue, even after racing through song after song...
Toward the final third of the set, Rancid started to slump. They hit rock bottom with a song about a kid punker who is misunderstood by his parents. It was slow, boring and trite. Fortunately, the slump was short-lived. The crowd needed something pretty exciting to re-ignite it, and got it in the form of the hit single "Salvation." The song generated a furious energy, which was carried through to the end of the set with songs like the oh-so-touching love ballad "Gunshot," and one of the evening's best, "Sidekick." "Sidekick" describes sheer male fantasy...
...Overall Rancid's performance was an overwhelming success. In future shows, the group will certainly benefit from more material to fill in some of the gaps. Rancid is a band of unparalleled energy and spirit...
...dream I was a vigilante's sidekick/ My name is Tim/ I am a lesser known character," Armstrong screams in "Sidekick." If Rancid continues performing as well as they did at Avalon, they won't be lesser known for very long...