3 Doors Down – 2000 – The Better Life
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: 3 Doors Down
Title: The Better Life
Label: Republic / Universal
Released: Feb 8, 2000
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Kryptonite
#Loser
#Duck And Run
#Not Enough
#Be Like That
#Life Of My Own
#Better Life
#Down Poison
#By My Side
#Smack
#So I Need You
Review:
Everyone knows all the songs on this disc, and they were grossly overplayed, but it’s not terrible. Fun to listen to every once in awhile when I don’t want to have to think about what I’m listening to. Their live show was pretty uninspiring around this time too.
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2 Skinnee J’s – 2001 – Super Mercado
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: 2 Skinnee J’s
Title: Super Mercado
Label: Capricorn
Released: Apr 14, 2001
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Pluto
#Wild Kingdom
#The Best
#Ball Point Man
#In The Clutches Of The Diabolical Sgt. Stiletto
#The Whammy
#You’re A Champion
#(718)
#The Good, The Bad & The Skinnee
#Riot Nrrrd
#Organic Machine
#Mind Trick
Review:
I first saw 2SJ’s at one of the Edgefests in Buffalo, and thought they were goofy and funny, so finding the album for $2 was pretty cool. It’s really fun rock-rap type stuff, and the one single, (718), was very catchy. Besides, who else is gonna sing a song about how “Pluto… is a planet!””
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2Pac – 1996 – How Do U Want It
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: 2Pac
Title: How Do U Want It
Label: Death Row / Interscope
Released: Jun 4, 1996
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#How Do U Want It [LP Version]
#California Love [Long Radio Edit]
#2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted [LP Version]
#Hit ‘Em Up
Review:
Bumpin phat beats in the car, yo. A High School staple. Plus it’s got ‘California Love’ on it too!
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137 – 2005 – Force Controlled Culture
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: 137
Title: Force Controlled Culture
Label: Watchmen
Released: Aug 23, 2005
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Wrecking Ball
#Force Controlled Culture (FCC)
#In Vain, Pt. 1: Midnight)
#Slug
Review:
137 is a Rochester-based band that plays a sludgy, very heavy brand of metal (comparisons can be drawn to Type O Negative). I got this CD by way of one of their guitar players, Denise, who used to work at the racetrack. The four songs on the EP definately showcase the band’s talents, and the production is outstanding, I’ve heard nationally released CD’s that aren’t as crisp and clean sounding. While I usually like my metal a bit faster, this is certainly a nice change of pace.
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12 Stones – 2002 – 12 Stones
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: 12 Stones
Title: 12 Stones
Label: Wind-Up
Released: Apr 23, 2002
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Crash
#Broken
#The Way I Feel
#Open Your Eyes
#Home
#Fade Away
#Back Up
#Soulfire
#In My Head
#Running Out of Pain
#My Life
#Eric’s Song
Review:
I got a promo DVD for two of the singles off of this album, and figured I’d check it out. The only claim to fame this band has is that the lead singer Paul McCoy, was ‘the other guy’ on Evenescence’s ‘Bring Me To Life’. Apparently they’re a Christian band. Generic alt-rock, but its catchy enough to get listened to every once in awhile.
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Soundtrack – 1999 – 10 Things I Hate About You
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Soundtrack
Title: 10 Things I Hate About You
Label: Hollywood
Released: Apr 6, 1999
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#I Want You To Want Me
#FNT
#Your Winter
#Even Angels Fall
#I Know
#New World
#Saturday Night
#The Weakness In Me
#Atomic Dog
#Dazz
#War
#Wings Of A Dove
#Cruel To Be Kind
#One More Time
Review:
The movie was okay, one of Tiff’s favorites. The soundtrack has some covers, some originals. Letters To Cleo does Cheap Trick’s ‘I Want You To Want Me, and the Save Ferris and Sister Hazel songs are good.
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12/06/2013 Zach Myers and Zack Mack (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | December 7, 2013 2:02 pm
[Methanol, Eyesalve opened. So did Michele Sestito, Adam Clark, who I missed.]
I didn’t quite know what to expect walking into this one, other than the fact that it was the guitar player from Shinedown, playing acoustically. I had zero realization that Zach had been a blues guitar prodigy as a teenager, and that being from Memphis, country and the blues would feature prominently in the set. Not that I’m complaining in the least! The set was heavy on covers, a couple of Shinedown tunes, and a handful of originals, but fun throughout, and along with partner-in-crime Zack Mack, ZM kept the musicianship and the vocals at a high level.
Zach Myers setlist:
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen / Jeff Buckley)
Tennessee
All I Found
The Crow and the Butterfly (Shinedown)
Around The Bend (Tony Lucca)
Rosie (Jackson Browne)
Everything Falls Apart (Dog’s Eye View)
She’s Alright With Me (???)
She Talks To Angels (Black Crowes) / I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (U2)
Follow You Down (Shinedown)
The Living Years (Mike and the Mechanics)
Your Love (The Outfield) / Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
Shed Some Light (Shinedown)
45 (Shinedown)
Everlong (Foo Fighters)
In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
Pretty Things
Unity (Shinedown)
3am (Matchbox 20)
Forever and Ever Amen (Randy Travis)
Desperado (The Eagles)
Tennessee
Rosie
Everything Falls Apart
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11/05/2013 Chris Cornell (Buffalo, NY @ SUNY Buffalo Center for the Arts)
By Eric | November 18, 2013 3:15 pm
[Bhi Bhiman was the opener, didn’t see him.]
I managed to score front row tickets for this one! A complete throwback and trip down memory lane, as I also got to see CC on the Euphoria Morning tour back in 2000. Obviously, 13 years on, there’s a bunch more material to choose from, and the setlist was well represented by CC solo stuff, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, and a handful of covers (including some Mother Love Bone!). He also did a really cool mash-up of the lyrics from Metallica’s “One” set to the music of U2’s “One”… with very interesting results!
Chris’ voice was in fine shape, he had no issues hitting many of the highest notes in the songs, including on Hunger Strike (for which the opener, Bhi Bhiman guested on).
The vast majority of the show was just Chris and an acoustic guitar, however for a couple of songs, as opposed to computer-based backing tracks, he used vinyl LP’s and a turntable. This made for a humorous anecdote about how he’d played on less-sturdy stages than that of UB’s, and has had the records skip! Chris was actually very engaging and witty all night, providing plenty of banter in-between songs. Before the encore, Chris rode out on an Audioslave-branded bicycle, which you can see in my third picture. Very cool bike! All told, we got an almost two-hour performance that shouldn’t have left anyone disappointed.
Scar on the Sky
Silence the Voices
You Know My Name
Dandelion
Original Fire
Sunshower
Halfway There
Fell on Black Days
Getaway Car
As Hope and Promise Fade
One
Seasons
The Day I Tried to Live
Two Drink Minimum
Can’t Change Me
When I’m Down
Man of Golden Words
Wooden Jesus
Hunger Strike
Encore:
Cleaning My Gun
Doesn’t Remind Me
A Day in the Life (The Beatles cover)
I Am the Highway
Imagine (John Lennon cover)
Black Hole Sun
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10/12/2013 Pearl Jam (Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center)
By Eric | October 31, 2013 9:43 am
It’s a Pearl Jam show, with no opener. How much better could it get? Michaela and I had seats up in the moon (304 to be exact), but we could see and hear perfectly. This was the 2nd show of the first leg of the Lightning Bolt tour, so the band was still feeling out and debuting songs off the new album (My Father’s Son and Swallowed Whole), but they never forget the die-hard fans, with a couple No Code tracks on this night (Sometimes, Present Tense, Off He Goes), I’m partial to Immortality and Indifference, plus we got Low Light and Rats! I was a bit surprised that Yellow Ledbetter wasn’t the closer (or played at all for that matter), but it hardly mattered. The band was in top-notch form, and the crowd was electric from start to finish (and no one sat down the entire night, anywhere). To top it all off, after the show, to “avoid the traffic” (lol) we wandered next door to Buffalo Iron Works to grab a drink, and they had Mookie Blaylock, Buffalo’s Pearl Jam cover band (featuring Joe, Alex and Mario from STEMM) playing! A perfect nightcap!
Setlist:
01. Pendulum
02. Low Light
03. Sometimes
04. Corduroy
05. Lightning Bolt
06. Mind Your Manners
07. Do The Evolution
08. Immortality
09. My Father’s Son
10. Even Flow
11. Swallowed Whole
12. Sirens
13. Once
14. Comatose
15. I Got Shit
16. Infallible
17. Present Tense
18. State Of Love And Trust
19. Porch
Encore 1:
20. Off He Goes
21. Yellow Moon
22. Future Days
23. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
24. Rats
25. Got Some
26. Rearviewmirror
Encore 2:
27. Go
28. Alive
29. Baba O’Riley
30. Indifference
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08/24/2013 Chimaira, The Browning, Threat Signal, Dark Sermon (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | September 1, 2013 2:20 pm
[Vanity Strikes, Beneath Hells Sky and Into the Harbor on the bill, didn’t see them.]
Didn’t really see much of Dark Sermon, however Threat Signal was a pretty worthy opener. I didn’t realize they were from Hamilton either. Essentially metalcore, they held their own for their half-hour or so set. The direct support was The Browning, and to say I was less than impressed would be putting it mildly. Hipster looking kids that play “electronicore”, in other words, what passes for metal, throw in some generic dubstep, crappy screaming, and strobe lights, and you have a loooooong 45 minutes. Leave the kitschy stuff to Andrew WK, okay?
So finally it was time for Chimaira, and now that they’ve completely turned over the lineup, lead singer Mark Hunter is the lone original member left. It doesn’t really matter, as the band sounded fantastic; just as good on the new Crown of Phantoms tracks as on all the old stuff. A good mix for the setlist as well, 3 of the new tracks with a mix of the old. A fun night of metal with one of my old favorites!
Chimaira Setlist
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The Flame
Year of the Snake
The Dehumanizing Process
Power Trip
Pure Hatred
No Mercy
All That’s Left is Blood
The Venom Inside
Everything You Love
Resurrection
Destroy and Dominate
The Disappearing Sun
Severed
(Painting the White to Grey/Rizzo Teaser Intro)
Wrapped in Violence
(Sphere Teaser Outro)
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