Concert: Bad Religion at House of Blues Hollywood

Bad Religion plays for a packed crowd at the House of Blues, Sunset Strip, in Hollywood, California, June 18th, 2005.

Street Dogs (a Boston punk band) opened for them. I enjoyed this band's performance a lot, even though I had never heard one of their songs before. The audience obviously has heard it - they had some friends in the audience they kept connecting with.

The singer kept jumping down and standing on the rail the bouncers use to keep the crowd a few feet from the stage. He would reach out into the crowd while singing and grab their hands.

Bad Religion is vital and poignant, and rocks like crazy. Their performance is excellent as always!I've seen the band in plenty of places larger than this, and must say - it's such a treat to watch them pour the same amount of energy into this small venue. The crowd really reflects their energy in a major way!

They are from the same places I live in (Chatsworth / San Fernando valley area) and rocking in Hollywood (20 minutes away) is a very local venue to them. The audience is massively loyal, and Greg plays up to that.

They DID play: Sorrow, 21st Century Digital Boy, Atomic Garden, Better Off Dead, Stranger than Fiction, Los Angeles is Burning, and a variety of others.

The only songs they did not play that I really wanted to hear were: A Walk, Struck A Nerve, and Punk Rock Song.

This performance gets 9 Smitty Points out of 10.