SHOW
REVIEWS
Troops
of Doom / Human Waste Project / Tura Satana / Spineshank
In: Los Angeles, CA @
The House of Blues
Date: July 8, 1998
By: Joshua Sindell
Rating: 5/5
As Human Waste Project take the stage, a large group of LA musicians gathers.
Members of Tura Satana, Spineshank, Fear Factory, White Zombie and Anthrax
watch as the band whip setopener "Shine" into a frenzy. Singer Aimee
Echo is dressed glamourously, in a short skirt and platinum blonde hair. But
bassist Jeff Schartoff, guitarist Mike Tempesta and drummer Scott Ellis play
with a sloppy relentlessness. There's a spark missing. No one plays in synch
with anyone else.
And maybe that's because it's Human Waste Project's last show. Ever. Having
performed so well at the Ozzfest in Milton Keynes, is seems preposterous that
they'd snuff it at this time, but that is indeed the case. "It's been
a long, beautiful and tragic four and a half years" Aimee says, "and
I dedicate this last song to ... us".
And so she sings the words to "One Night in Spain" and the sad chorus
wafts out "we are always losing/Let's go home/It's over." Farewell
to the band that never even got a break.
Low Point: The end of Human Waste Project
Verdict: A night of beginings and endings