08/12/2018 Boy Hits Car (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018The Rebirth Move With Me As I Watch The Sun F### The Ocean Lovecore (Welcome To) Erifsievol One Kiss Away The Extremist (Do You Feel Me on This?) Man Without skin Lovefurypassionenergy 3, 2, 1, Time I’m a Cloud Injustice Fatigue Going to India Escape The World
08/03/2018 Slayer, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, Testament, Napalm Death (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
Sunday, August 5th, 2018SLAYER!!!! I’d never seen Slayer, even if its not *the* last tour it’s gotta be close to it, and the rest of the bill was a metal whos-who, so this one was a no-brainer for me. I got first row of seats behind the pit, so a picture-perfect spot too. I got there right on […]
07/24/2018 Godsmack, Shinedown, Like A Storm (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018I had initially gotten $10 lawn tickets for both this show and the Breaking Benjamin/FFDP show later in August at the same time, just as a “if I can get in the door for $10, why not” sort of idea. Both Shinedown and Godsmack had new albums out, and I’d seen them both on their […]
07/21/2018 Adelita’s Way, Dead Girls Academy, Zero Theorem, Small Town Titans (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Monday, July 23rd, 2018This was my typical “eh, if the kids bedtime goes smoothly I’ll go check it out” type of show. It did, so I did. I’d seen Adelita’s Way as openers twice, once with Fozzy and Buckcherry, and then with Theory of a Deadman. I like them well enough, its standard Octane-type fare, and they put […]
07/07/2018 Vanilla Ice, Dwayne Gretzky (Buffalo, NY @ Canalside)
Monday, July 9th, 2018Vanilla Ice is one artist I didn’t think I’d ever see in person again, but when it was announced he’d be at Canalside in Buffalo on a Saturday, I figured why the hell not. Nothing was going to live up to the legendary April Fools Day show in 1999, but I figured it could be […]
06/23/2018 ZZ Top, John Fogerty, Ryan Kinder (Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC)
Monday, June 25th, 2018ZZ Top is the band I have the earliest memories of, as I can clearly recall Dad spinning Eliminator (on vinyl!) at our old house when I was about four years old. Seeing the videos for all those singles over the years on MTV didn’t hurt either, let alone the fact that the band is […]
06/02/2018 Samantha Fish, White Woods (Rochester, NY @ Flour City Station)
Sunday, June 3rd, 2018Samantha Fish is one of Dad’s favorite blues artists, so when she announced a show in Rochester, and especially in as small of a place as Flour City Station, it didn’t take much convincing to get Dad to come up. We got “reserved” tickets, which meant they set up tables in the main part of […]
05/22/2018 Butcher Babies, Nonpoint (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Friday, May 25th, 2018I’ll usually always make the effort to go see Nonpoint if they come to town – I’ve been a fan since Statement, and they always put on a good show. This one was no exception. This was a dual headlining run with Butcher Babies, with both bands switching off closing the show. Rochester had Nonpoint […]
05/09/2018 Stone Temple Pilots, Camp Howard (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Friday, May 11th, 2018It had been seven years just about to the day (+2 days, but who’s counting?) since I’d last seen STP, and armed with a new album and yet another new singer (RIP Weiland and Chester) the band did some club dates interspersed with their big festival appearances. I got there in time to catch the […]
04/18/2018 Papa Roach, Nothing More, Escape The Fate (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Thursday, April 19th, 2018I had been looking forward to this one for a little bit, as I had missed a couple of opportunities to see Nothing More in the past few years, and I really like the new Papa Roach album as well. I hadn’t seen either band since early 2015 (PRoach with Godsmack, Nothing More (barely) with […]
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