Clutch - Town Ballroom - 02-24-2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 11:51PM 
By John Jeffrey
Buffalo, NY - On Thursday night, February 24th, Clutch took a break from supporting Motorhead on their current tour, in order to headline, to a packed house in Buffalo's Town Ballroom. Although the group do not have a new CD out (their most recent release was 2009's "Strange Cousins from the West"), Clutch are tearing up the US (alternating between being Motorhead's support act, and headlining shows of their own) playing their favorites from the Clutch catalog.
Visually, Clutch is perhaps the most pedestrian rock band you can imagine. With Clutch, you basically get the 3 "B"s - Beards, Bellies and Baseball hats. They basically stand in one spot on stage, stare down towards the floor while looking at their instruments, and barely interact with the crowd. And the thing is, they don't seem to care. Clutch seem completely content on just jamming out their brand of stoner rock, and if you like it, you're welcome to come along for the ride.
Their setlist was comprised of jams, solos and songs filled with Sabbath/Zeppelinesque riffs, which the crowd thoroughly ate up. While you can definitely hear the influences in their music, Clutch are certainly not style biters (ie: Wolfmother), as their musical cheeba is all their own.
The show seemed to go off without incident, until during the song, "Electric Worry," an overzealous fan jumped on stage and took his pants off. I guess he had too much of what everyone else in the crowd was smoking.
Setlist:
(Jam)
Open Up the Border
King of Arizona
The Soapmakers
JP solo
Burning Beard
Child of the City
The Incomparable Mr.Flannery
Slow Hole to China
(Jam)
Freakonomics
Pure Rock Fury
50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Struck Down
Texan Book of the Dead
Who's Been Talking
Let A Poor Man Be
Electric Worry
One Eye Dollar
Spacegrass
Profits of Doom
Mob Goes Wild