{"id":502795,"date":"2026-10-21T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502795\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:56:08","slug":"w-a-s-p-in-san-jose-metro-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502795\/","title":{"rendered":"W.A.S.P. in San Jose | Metro Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subtlety was never likely to pay W.A.S.P.\u2019s lighting bill. Blackie Lawless brings the \u201c1984 to Headless\u201d tour to San Jose Civic, revisiting the band\u2019s first four albums with a stage production designed to bring their cover art to life. That stretch runs from the self-titled debut through The Headless Children, tracing a band whose theatrical excess could occasionally obscure just how sturdy the songs were underneath it. Special guest KK\u2019s Priest adds another substantial helping of heavy metal to the evening. Four decades later, the catalog still offers plenty of evidence that restraint would have been a terrible career move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjose.org\/theaters\/events\/wasp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">W.A.S.P.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tue, Oct 27, 8pm, $50-$99<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Civic, San Jose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subtlety was never likely to pay W.A.S.P.\u2019s lighting bill. Blackie Lawless brings the \u201c1984 to Headless\u201d tour to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4924,190405,660,88,80773,90,89,2280,16328,420,194611],"class_list":["post-502795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-metal","tag-metroactive3","tag-rock","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-civic","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-silicon-valley","tag-sunset-strip","tag-things-to-do","tag-w-a-s-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}