08/22/2010 Rockstar Uproar Tour: Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Halestorm, Hellyeah, Airbourne, New Medicine, Hail The Villain (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
Monday, August 30th, 2010[As Summer Dies was the local band on the Jager stage, but we missed them.] This one was a work party of sorts, with Jerry and Pete joining me for the show. We parked on the hill across the street, got our tailgate on, and wandered on into the venue. We missed As Summer Dies, […]
08/07/2010 Tonic, Ryan Star, More Than Me, Thriving Ivory (Niagara Falls, NY @ Hard Rock Cafe)
Friday, August 20th, 2010[Ten Cent Howl was also on the bill but we didn’t catch them.] Tiff and I weren’t going to miss Tonic this close to home, for free, plus our boys in More Than Me opening? Yes please! The concert was actually outside the Hard Rock, and they blocked off a bunch of the surrounding streets […]
08/06/2010 Carnival Of Madness: Shinedown, Chevelle, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust, 10 Years (Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC)
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Because there were five bands on the bill, the show started promptly at 5:30pm, and as such I had to jet out of work early to haul down to CMAC. Thankfully, I took all backroads and ran into absolutely no traffic, got right in, and was walking in just as 10 Years finished their first […]
07/31/2010 KROCKathon 15: Limp Bizkit, Flyleaf, Avenged Sevenfold, Hollywood Undead, Ed Kowalczyk, All That Remains, Halestorm, A Day To Remember, Smile Empty Soul, Crash Kings (Syracuse, NY @ New York State Fairgrounds)
Thursday, August 5th, 2010[New Politics and Hail The Villain were also on the bill, but I didn’t get there early enough to catch them.] Since I knew I wasn’t interested in seeing any of the first couple bands, I made it easier on myself by getting there a little later. Getting in was no problem, I had to […]
07/06/2010 Fuel, Danielle Barbe, Strike The Sky, Minds Open Wide (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I met Greg out front of Water Street on one of the hottest day of the year, and we reluctantly walked inside. I say reluctantly because we figured it’d be nothing less than a sauna inside, and we were right. The first act up was a Rochester band called Minds Open Wide. I’m not quite […]
06/19/2010 Daughtry, Lifehouse, Cavo (Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Yay pop-rock at it’s finest! American Idol or no, Chris Daughtry has proven that he can do mainstream rock with the best of them, and with two albums and a bajilion copies sold, he’s doing something right. The tour for Leave This Town had been going on for quite awhile with all three of these […]
05/22/2010 The Gruesome Twosome Tour: Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper (Lewiston, NY @ Artpark)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010When this show got announced, I felt it was something I ought to see, given that I’ve never seen Rob Zombie, nor Alice Cooper, and the two of them on the same bill? Money. Along with Sara and two of her friends, we found our seats at the back of the center section, about 20 […]
05/14/2010 Sister Hazel (Rochester, NY @ Lilac Festival)
Friday, May 14th, 2010[The Coup De Villes and Shannon Curfman opened, but we didn’t get there in time] Tiff was in heaven! Her band, in her town, for free at the Lilac Festival! I got there a bit later and wandered during most of the set, but Tiff had a fantastic time, a great setlist, they sounded good, […]
05/10/2010 Pearl Jam (Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010[Band Of Horses was the opener, but we didn’t see them.] It had been 7 years, almost to the day (5/2/03), since Pearl Jam had been in Buffalo, and thus, that long since I’d seen them live. After some day-before scrambling for people, Tom and Nikki took my original 300-level tickets, and I joined Dave […]
05/08/2010 Snapcase, Sick Of It All, Cancer Bats, Walter Schreifels (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Monday, May 10th, 2010It goes without saying that Snapcase is one of the most influential hardcore bands ever to come out of the genre, and the fact that they’re from Buffalo allowed a mostly non-hardcore kid such as myself to be exposed to them and appreciate how good they really are. I say that with a bit of […]
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