02/16/2012 Shadows Fall, Hate Machine, Order of the Dead, Armed With Valor, Fleshburn (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Friday, February 24th, 2012A rare Thursday night show, this had the Shads doing a short run to warm up for some overseas festivals, sort of a DIY tour. Since they’re based in Boston, they used a van+trailer, and an SUV and drove themselves to Rochester, Syracuse, Albany and back to Mass. Anyway, we got to see ’em! I […]
11/29/2011 Five Finger Death Punch, All That Remains, Hatebreed (Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre)
Friday, January 6th, 2012[Rains was on the bill, but we didn’t get there in time.] Phill and I drove down from Rochester, and got there right before Hatebreed was about to start. Perfect! Met up with Adam, and I was kind of amazed at how the Rapids Theater was packed to the gills, there wasn’t a lot of […]
11/20/2011 Kid Rock, Ty Stone (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Friday, January 6th, 2012Kid Rock did a short tour of clubs (as opposed to the amphitheaters he’s been playing for the last umpteen years) with a bunch of the proceeds going to his CARE foundation, supporting various charities in the various cities the tour hit. Buffalo was one of the cities chosen for the tour, and needless to […]
11/12/2011 Chimaira, Skeletonwitch, Molotov Solution, A Thousand Shades of Cold (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Friday, January 6th, 2012Back to the Montage for a second night, with a hell of a lot more people in attendance this time around. I got there in time to catch the local openers, one of my favorite Rochester bands, A Thousand Shades of Cold. A solid set of stuff from Darkenthedaylight, and a new song as their […]
11/11/2011 Black Tusk, Thou, MonstrO (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Saturday, November 12th, 2011Talk about going on a whim… after the Amerks game it was too early to go home, and from a quick description Black Tusk sounded like a band worth checking out, so I shot over the three blocks or so from Blue Cross Arena to the Montage, paid my $12, and became one of about […]
09/16/2011 Rock Allegiance / Rock The Cans: Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Puddle of Mudd, P.O.D., Red, Crossfade (Rochester, NY @ Genesee Brewery)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011[Drive A was the first band on the bill, but I didn’t get there in time to see them.] Genesee Brewery’s annual Rock The Cans show brought the Rock Allegiance Tour to town with a pretty decent bill. I got in, found Aimee and Dave and found a beer. I also found out that I […]
09/10/2011 Rockstar Uproar Tour: Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Sevendust, Art Of Dying (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011[Black Tide, Hell or Highwater, and Cry To The Blind were also on the bill, but we didn’t see them.] Year two of Uproar for Darien Lake, and also for us! Pete and Jerry met up at my place, and away we went. Tailgated at the place across the street again, which was far emptier […]
09/09/2011 Carnival of Madness: Theory of a Deadman, Alter Bridge (Big Flats, NY @ Tag’s Summer Stage)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Due to the flooding in Binghamton and points north and east, Emphatic, Adelita’s Way, and Black Stone Cherry never made it to Big Flats. I’m betting a good chunk of the crowd didn’t make it either. Thus, it was a bit of a strange night at Tag’s. Essentially, you could turn your ticket in for […]
08/26/2011 B.B. King, Buddy Guy (Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011All these years later and my first real concert with my parents! Dad’s been a blues fan for quite awhile, and I figured this would be the perfect show to hang out with the folks and do it up. I scored 6th row seats, so they got a real nice experience for the show. Buddy […]
08/12/2011 Sponge (Rochester, NY @ East End Music Festival)
Sunday, August 14th, 2011We’ve been coming to the annual East End Fest for about 4 years now, and this was one of the few times a band of national import was playing. It’s usually the best and brightest of Rochester (and Buffalo) spread out over the 5 or 6 stages. On this night, however, the organizers landed Sponge […]
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