Obviously everybody gets old, but it’s really tough to watch a favorite band do so. Clutch has fallen under the spell of the blues, and that %$%$# harmonica player friend of theirs, and some sort of precision jam-hippie clean tone nonsense. Checked them out opening for Motorhead in Detroit the other night, figured the peer pressure would bring them back to the hard stuff. And they did play some of those songs, and they still play great, but it’s just set wrong. I wanna mess with the guitar amp settings so badly, maybe try and piss them all off a bit more before the show. Granted they can probably each kick my ass, but I’d take the beating if it got an old-school Clutch show.

Check out ‘Pure Rock Fury’ from 2002:

Now here’s a fan video from the same tour I saw. Now granted, the sound quality’s better on the other one, which helps my point. But can you hear how clean and polite everything is. The song is called ‘Pure Rock Fury,’ so shouldn’t you let loose a little bit?

Come on, Clutch, come back to us. We already lost Primus.