The last time Lagwagon performed at the Grog Shop was so long ago, it was at the venue’s old location. After all that time, Lagwagon made its return to Cleveland to find a crowd that was more than eager for their performance. The band, which has recently released a box set of their first five albums stuck to performing songs from that release, including “Discourse,” “Violin,” “After You My Friend,” “Know It All,” “Kids Don’t Like To Share,” and much more. This made the crowd feel as if it traveled back in time to the heyday of Lagwagon. Stage banter between the members of the band and the crowd was very candid, with frontman Joey Cape talking about how he ate at Melt before the show and was full to a point of feeling a bit sick. Guitarist Chris Flippin asked the crowd if anyone had weed, to which many people responded in gleeful shouts; he then told those people to meet him at the merch stand after the show.
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2012.