Sick Of It All – 2016 – When the Smoke Clears
By Eric | August 1, 2017 6:00 pm
Artist: Sick Of It All
Title: When the Smoke Clears
Label: Century Media
Released: Nov 4, 2016
Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#When the Smoke Clears
#Black Venom
#Doomed Campaign
#Blood & Steel
#Fortress
Review:
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Save Ferris – 2017 – Checkered Past
By Eric | August 1, 2017 6:00 pm
Artist: Save Ferris
Title: Checkered Past
Label: Withyn
Released: Mar 3, 2017
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Anything
#New Sound
#Golden Silence
#Do I Even Like You?
#Goodbye Brother
Review:
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John Prine – 1976 – Prime Prine – The Best of John Prine
By Eric | August 1, 2017 6:00 pm
Artist: John Prine
Title: Prime Prine – The Best of John Prine
Label: Atlantic
Released: Jan 2, 1976
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Sam Stone
#Saddle In The Rain
#Please Don’t Bury Me
#The Great Compromise
#Grandpa Was A Carpenter
#Donald And Lydia
#Illegal Smile
#Sweet Revenge
#Dear Abby
#Souvenirs
#Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard
#Hello In There
Review:
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07/21/2017 Primus, Clutch (Rochester, NY @ Dome Arena)
By Eric | July 22, 2017 10:11 am
Clutch Setlist:
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Crucial Velocity
Cyborg Bette
Earth Rocker
Promoter (Of Earthbound Causes)
Firebirds!
Vision Quest (new song)
Sucker for the Witch
A Quick Death in Texas
Immortal
Bubonic Blues (New song, live premiere)
The House That Peterbilt
Spacegrass
D.C. Sound Attack!
We Love a Good Fire (new song)
Electric Worry
X-Ray Visions
Primus setlist:
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Seas of Cheese
Spegetti Western
Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Sgt. Baker
Too Many Puppies / Hello Skinny
(The Residents cover)
American Life
Over the Falls
Lee Van Cleef
Candy Man (Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley cover)
Mr. Krinkle
Drum Introduction / Eleven
On the Tweek Again
My Name Is Mud
Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
Seven
Southbound Pachyderm
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07/13/2017 Warped Tour – GWAR, Hatebreed, Sick Of It All, The Acacia Strain, blessthefall, Candiria, Beartooth, Emmure, CKY, Watsky, Hawthorne Heights, Alestorm, Anti-Flag, Save Ferris, Separations, After The Burial, Feeki, Silent Planet (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
By Eric | July 14, 2017 10:48 am
Plus a whole bunch more bands I didn’t see…
Hatebreed setlist
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Last Breath
Looking Down the Barrel of Today
In Ashes They Shall Reap
Perseverance
Everyone Bleeds Now
As Diehard as They Come
Driven by Suffering
Destroy Everything
I Will Be Heard
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07/08/2017 Fuel, Unwill (Rochester, NY @ The German House)
By Eric | July 9, 2017 10:29 am
[American Acid was first band on, didn’t see them.]
Untitled
Jesus or a Gun
Empty Spaces
Mary Pretends
Bad Day
Sunburn
Fly Like An Eagle (Steve Miller Band cover)
Shimmer
Bittersweet
Mary Jane’s Last Dance (Tom Petty cover)
Puppet Strings
Hemmorhage
[Innocent was on the setlist but didn’t get played]
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06/29/2017 Our Lady Peace, Collective Soul, Tonic (Buffalo, NY @ Albright Knox Art Gallery)
By Eric | June 30, 2017 10:33 am
Tonic
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Open Up Your Eyes
Liar
Top Falls Down
You Wanted More
Sugar
Mountain
If You Could Only See
You Wanted More
Collective Soul
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Simple
Heavy
Better Now
Shine
December
The World I Know
Contagious
Right as Rain
Where the River Flows
Run
Our Lady Peace
————–
Innocent
Is Anybody Home?
Superman’s Dead
One Man Army
Paper Moon / Life
Somewhere Out There
Drop Me In The Water
Not Enough
In Repair
Clumsy
Heavyweight
4am
Starseed
Starseed
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Papa Roach – 2017 – Crooked Teeth (Deluxe)
By Eric | June 12, 2017 6:00 pm
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Artist: Papa Roach
Title: Crooked Teeth
Label: Eleven Seven
Released: May 19, 2017
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Deluxe Edition
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Break The Fall
#Crooked Teeth
#My Medication
#Born For Greatness
#American Dreams
#Periscope (featuring Skylar Grey)
#Help
#Sunrise Trailer Park (featuring MGK)
#Traumatic
#None Of The Above
#Ricochet
#Nothing
#Bleeding Through
#Intro (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Face Everything And Rise (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Getting Away With Murder (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Between Angels and Insects (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Where Did The Angels Go? (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Broken Home (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Burn (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Forever (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Scars (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Lifeline (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Infest (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Kick in the Teeth (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Broken As Me (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Still Swingin (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#To Be Loved (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
#Last Resort (Live at Fillmore, Detroit)
Review:
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Chris Cornell – 2011 – Songbook
By Eric | June 12, 2017 6:00 pm
Artist: Chris Cornell
Title: Songbook
Label: Universal
Released: Nov 21, 2011
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#As Hope and Promise Fade
#Scar On The Sky
#Call Me A Dog
#Ground Zero
#Can’t Change Me
#I Am The Highway
#Thank You
#Cleaning My Gun
#Wide Awake
#Fell On Black Days
#All Night Thing
#Doesn’t Remind Me
#Like A Stone
#Black Hole Sun
#Imagine
#The Keeper
Review:
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20 Years Of Concerts
By Eric | June 11, 2017 8:00 am
June 11th, 2017 – 20 years since my first concert. Where does the time go? It was only yesterday that… No. No it wasn’t. It was 20 years go. You’re old, Eric. Get over it.
Anyway, since I’m a dork I thought it would be fun to run the numbers on the Concert Chronology and look at some basic stats:
* 355 shows over 20 years. It works out to an average of 17.75 shows a year, or a shade under one and a half per month. This doesn’t include the countless local bands / bar bands either, just the major stuff. I’m not even hazarding a guess as to dollars spent. I don’t wanna know,
* 2001 was the banner year – 37 shows, and 2009 was right behind that at 33. 1997 only had 4 (I was just starting!) and 2006 had a lowly 3, all in March (Thanks to the year of weddings and bachelor parties. Literally, they all happened that year.)
* 587 different artists at 101 different venues, in only 3 different states/provinces (PA got a handful). I even accounted for name changes! (Same building = same venue. Looking at you Marine Midland / HSBC / First Niagara, and also Milestones / High Fidelity / Flour City.)
* Bands most often seen: The Tea Party and Sevendust are tied for first at 17 shows apiece, Our Lady Peace is right behind at 16, Staind at 12, Theory of a Deadman and Cold at 11 each, and Econoline Crush and The Tragically Hip are at 10 each. Inexplicably, I’ve suffered through Velour (even when they tried to disguise themselves as the Turnstones) 10 times as well.
* “Weirdest” artists seen would probably have to be Wang Chung and/or Vanilla Ice (during his nu-metal phase). Can’t think of any others that are that LOL-worthy.
* Venues most visited: Water Street Music Hall (RIP) runs away with this one – 48 shows, with another 6 on the club side. Montage is next at 21, Darien Lake had 20, Town Ballroom had 19, Showplace Theater had 18.
* Rochester beat Buffalo 141 to 109. Darien was a distant third with 20.
* There’s no way in hell I could do any kind of ranking, not even of just “memorable” shows. There’s simply too many.
I wrote a little piece for 10 years worth of shows, and while most of those sentiments still hold true, however, with age supposedly comes a little bit of wisdom. I no longer wait in lines if I can help it. I now will gladly pay for a VIP meet and greet instead of waiting outside for hours by the bus, mainly because my time is more valuable, but also because that money goes directly to the artist that I’m there supporting in the first place. I’m forced to be a bit more judicious in which shows to go to, so I try to wring a bit more experience out of each one.
Finally, I hope I’m still doing this for another 20 years, hopefully with the boys! Nothing like being the old guy in the back complaining about the “kids these days” and how much better these shows used to be!
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