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Squeezing the Shine out of the Theory
By Eric | February 21, 2005 10:42 pm
Last night was the trip to the ‘Cuse for the Shinedown / Theory of a Deadman show. I’ll have a review up shortly, but in the meantime I’ll give a quick synopsis:
The ride to Syracuse, good.
Standing in line in the freezing cold, bad.
Only being in line for 15 minutes, good.
Venue being small, good.
Venue having two levels, the smaller of which was closer to the stage, kinda bad.
Sight lines if not right up front, bad.
No Address, the opener, okay.
Theory of a Deadman, awesome.
Shinedown, huge disappointment.
The singer missed practically every high note in the 5 songs I stayed for. Either “let the crowd sing”, or took everything down the octave. The band sounded great, however, the singer burned whatever points that got them. They were much better last time. The crap vocals, combined with the snow, convinced me to leave early. The roads weren’t quite plowed yet, 690 to 90 was marginal through Waterloo, where it was fine all the way to Farmington, until it got crappy again, and stayed that way all the way home. I left at 10:30, didn’t get home till 12:30. It wasn’t that adventurous, just slow going.
A small part of this extended time was getting out of my parking spot. Everyone parked in and around an abandoned gas station, which was fine. I was under the canopy, which was even better. What sucked was trying to navigate around all the other parked cars. I had to squeeze out between two vehicles with about 2 inches on each side. No scratches!! A fine piece of driving if I do say so myself.
Amidst all this, Tiff handed in her final exam for class today, so she’s done for the quarter… yay for her!
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