What it was like
The guitarist is dressed as Arcee. The drummer is Bumblebee. Every member performs in full Transformer armor, and the genuinely surprising part of the whole spectacle is that the playing is unreasonably good. This is a touring band that plays the entire 1986 Transformers: The Movie soundtrack live. The one with The Touch by Stan Bush. The one with Dare and the Weird Al track and the Vince DiCola score that wrecked you when Optimus Prime died. They do all of it, in full robot regalia, with the attack of a metal band that happens to love Saturday morning cartoons. Brick by Brick is the correct room for this, a two-hundred-capacity grimy little jewel box San Diego keeps for loud music and weird bills. It falls midweek. You will have to explain to your boss why you are wrecked the next morning, and the explanation will be worth it. If you ever rewound that VHS tape, or air-guitared to The Touch alone in your car, somebody needs to send you this.