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Filter took their updated industrial rock to the Chameleon Club on August 14th, 2008 but it took me back to August of 1995 when their debut album, Short Bus, came out.  The lead singer, Richard Patrick, was was the guitar player in Nine Inch Nails from its beginnings right up to Downward Spiral.  There were reports that Richard did not mesh well with the reportedly overly controlling Trent Reznor so he split off and made his own band, Filter.  They made two huge commercial splashes with “Hey Man, Nice Shot” and “Take A Picture”.

The setlist was fully of angry hard rock and industrial songs that pleased the at times rowdy crowd.  The songs hit all the albums pretty evenly and included their major hits.  Richard Patrick is still hitting the stage like it was 1995 and watching the drummer pound his large set of drums was exciting.  Their new material has translated well in the live setting a lot has to to with the energy of the band and Richard standing, jumping and running on his bolted down monitors while hovering over the crowd screaming the chorus lines.

The setlist for the evening was:

Welcome To The  Fold
American Cliche
What’s Next?
Dose
The Take
Trip Like I Do
It’s Gonna Kill Me
Soldiers Of Misfortune
So I Quit (Fast)
Jurassitol
Hey Man, Nice Shot

Encore:
Kill The Day
Take A Picture
Skinny