05/07/2011 Stone Temple Pilots, Rose Hill Drive (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Monday, May 9th, 2011It had been just about 10 years since I’d seen STP (Family Values 2001 in Buffalo), and when this show was announced, I think we all were of the impression that as long as the band was touring, we ought to go see them again before either Weiland falls off the wagon or they start […]
05/04/2011 Psychostick, Blue Felix, Pollock, Tastes Like Burning, Zazz Blammyatazz (Buffalo, NY @ Broadway Joe’s)
Friday, May 6th, 2011I started off this Buffalo jaunt correctly by grabbing dinner at Jim’s Steak-Out across the street! Got into Joe’s just as “Zazz Blammyatazz” started. A three-piece that played some fun covers (as I think they’re all in “real” bands as well) and just had fun up there for a half-hour. Tastes Like Burning was up […]
04/29/2011 Edwin McCain (Niagara Falls, NY @ Seneca Niagara Casino)
Friday, May 6th, 2011Our second time seeing Edwin McCain in just over a month found Tiff and I at the Bear’s Den inside Seneca Niagara Casino. I got these tickets as a delayed birthday present for Tiff, if for no other reason than when one of her favorite artists comes around twice in a short span, we go! […]
03/24/2011 Edwin McCain, Tommy Connors (Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theater)
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Tiffany and I shot down the 90 to take in one of her favorite artists, whom we hadn’t seen in quite awhile. Seven years to the day, to be exact! Needless to say, Tiff was pretty excited, and I was too. Our opener was a local Syracuse musician named Tommy Connors, whom at various times […]
02/17/2011 The Damned Things, His Name Was Yesterday (Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place)
Thursday, February 17th, 2011[Vanity Strikes was the first band on, but I didn’t get there in time to catch them.] I rolled into Mohawk just as the His Name Was Yesterday crew was setting up. I’ve seen these guys a lot over the last couple years, so it was cool to see them opening for a national act. […]
01/19/2011 Music As A Weapon V: Disturbed, Korn, Sevendust, In This Moment (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Friday, January 28th, 2011Another Armory show, another unecessarily long line to get into the venue. I arrived shortly after 6pm and waited in line for approximately 50 minutes. I got inside just as In This Moment was starting. I saw this band back in November of 2008 opening for Five Finger Death Punch, and wasn’t terribly impressed back […]
08/28/2010 More Than Me, Hey Monea, Free Henry, Strike The Sky (Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf)
Monday, September 6th, 2010We made the trek up the 90 for a fun night of local music, but not before a stop at Cabaret for dinner to celebrate Tracey’s birthday! We wandered over to the Tralf, got everyone in, found a table off to the left of the stage behind the rail, and set up shop. Soon after […]
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 […]
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