The former Carnegie Steel Factory, Blast Furnace No. 2.
This industrial behemoth, which once spewed flames and molten steel day and night, had been silent for twenty years. Tonight, it roared to life once more with a deafening clamor.
Only this time, it wasn't the noise of blast furnaces that made the air tremble, but the sound waves of heavy metal.
Inside the massive factory building, stage lights now hung from the crane girders once used to transport molten steel.
Beams of light cut through the dust motes floating in the air, landing on a stage welded together from scrap steel plates.
A band called "Iron Lung" was roaring on stage.
The lead singer was a burly-necked truck driver, the guitarist a welder from a construction site in the South District, and the drummer a community college student who had just received a scholarship.
