Matt Good @ Water Street! http://t.co/zEgVQLrF
By Eric | March 3, 2012 10:02 pm
Matt Good @ Water Street! http://t.co/zEgVQLrF
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99% of us is failure. In other words, 99% of this
By Eric | March 3, 2012 8:36 pm
99% of us is failure. In other words, 99% of this crowd is too cool for the room. Holy crap do I feel old and out of place. Damn.
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02/24/2012 Mike Doughty, Angelo Rose (Rochester, NY @ The German House)
By Eric | March 1, 2012 4:08 pm
I met Matt down in the South Wedge, grabbed some John’s Tex-Mex, then wandered over to the Tap&Mallet for some pre-gaming! We were informed by our bar neighbors that even though it was a GA show, there were seats on the floor. Huh? Sadly, yes, we arrived to find rows of folding chairs on the floor. Blah. Matt and I got some pretty decent seats, and settled in for the opener, Angelo Rose. Apparently he’s a lawyer that got the music bug and does solo acoustic stuff. It was okay, nothing special, the songs were sort of long-winded to me. After his half-hour, it was Doughty time. Just Mike, his guitar, and his book, The Book of Drugs. Interspersed with the songs, Mike would read passages from his book, mostly about his Soul Coughing bandmates. At one point, Mike called out these two girls in the front row for talking while he was, and pretty much publicly embarrassed them. “They paid to see me!” A good mix on the setlist across all of his solo albums, and the book selections were mostly humorous as well. I think Matt and I were the least hipster-ish people in the place by far, so the people-watching was fairly decent also!
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Mike Doughty setlist:
American Car
I Hear the Bells
Na Na Nothing
Madeline and Nine
Day By Day By
Sunken-Eyed Girl
Grey Ghost
Looks
Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me the F Train
Rising Sign
Shunned + Falsified
Real Love
Tremendous Brunettes
Like a Luminous Girl
I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing
Busting Up a Starbucks
Russell
Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
Encore:
White Lexus
27 Jennifers
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02/16/2012 Shadows Fall, Hate Machine, Order of the Dead, Armed With Valor, Fleshburn (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | February 24, 2012 4:11 pm
A 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 didn’t catch too much of the first two bands on, but the direct support was a treat. For whatever reason, I never got to see Hate Machine (or even Omniblank, for that matter) during their nu-metal heyday around the late 90’s and early 2000’s, even though they were a Rochester band. What’s 12 years? I can see why they had some popularity, I felt like I was at practically any nu-metal show from that era, and these guys sounded GOOD. Big local following for them, and that made for a great show. Makes me nostalgic for that stuff haha. So after Hate Machine, the Shads were up, and one may as well have called it a greatest hits set, which was just fine with everyone there. We even got to hear one new song, the title track from the new album “Fire From The Sky”, and that went back-to-back with my favorite, King of Nothing. The guys sounded great, had a ton of fun up on stage, looked like they were happy to be out playing again, and the crowd was into it all night as well. Good times.
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Shadows Fall Setlist:
My Demise
Thoughts Without Words
Enlightened by the Cold
Burning the Lives
Stepping Outside the Circle
Still I Rise
The Power of I and I
Fire From the Sky (New Song)
King of Nothing
What Drives the Weak
Inspiration on Demand
Destroyer of Senses
The Light That Blinds
Redemption
Still I Rise
Fire From The Sky
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RT @brianshadfall: Rochester you fucking killed it
By Eric | February 17, 2012 1:19 am
RT @brianshadfall: Rochester you fucking killed it. Our first show since July! What a blast. See you tomorrow in Syracuse. #Party
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Shadows Fall at Montage! http://t.co/PzysvXCt
By Eric | February 17, 2012 1:13 am
Shadows Fall at Montage! http://t.co/PzysvXCt
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Metal night! (@ Montage Music Hall for Shadows Fal
By Eric | February 16, 2012 8:41 pm
Metal night! (@ Montage Music Hall for Shadows Fall w/ 2 others) http://t.co/PzrgbmJZ
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11/29/2011 Five Finger Death Punch, All That Remains, Hatebreed (Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre)
By Eric | January 6, 2012 10:12 am
[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 room to move at all. Popular show or something… Anyway, we got the standard balls-to-the-wall Hatebreed opening set, running through the favorites, a couple old classics, and all with full energy from Jamey and the boys. Always a good time, tons of singalongs, fist pumping, moshing, and everything else you’d expect from a Hatebreed show. They never disappoint!
Hatebreed
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To the Threshold
Never Let It Die
This Is Now
Everyone Bleeds Now
In Ashes They Shall Reap
Live for This
Proven
Destroy Everything
Smash Your Enemies
As Diehard as They Come
Last Breath
Empty Promises
I Will Be Heard
Everyone Bleeds Now
All That Remains was up next. I really like this band, however I feel like the last couple times I’ve seen them its been more of the lighter songs, and less of the heavy. I’ll still complain any time a band completely disavows their first album, but for this show, Hold On, Forever in your Hands, The Last Time, and Two Weeks? Ugh. You’re with Hatebreed and 5FDP, bring the pain!
All That Remains
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Hold On
This Calling
Forever In Your Hands
Dead Wrong
The Air That I Breathe
Now Let Them Tremble
Six
The Last Time
Some Of The People, All Of The Time
Won’t Go Quietly
Aggressive Opposition
Two Weeks
And now, it was Death Punch time. The crowd popped huge as they started with Under and Over It, worked in Salvation, and then American Capitalist. And that was it for the new songs. Kind of surprising, I thought they’d play a couple more considering the album had just come out. A decent mix of stuff from the first two though, and the crowd ate it up. But this bring me to my other 5FDP complaint, SET IS TOO SHORT! 13 songs and an encore, for three albums? MORE MUSIC! They have a ton of songs that bring it live, and yet they don’t play them. It’s too bad, because they’re a really tight live band, and fun to watch.
Five Finger Death Punch
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Under and Over It
Salvation
American Capitalist
Hard to See
The Way of the Fist
No One Gets Left Behind
Bad Company
(Bad Company cover)
White Knuckles
Far From Home
Bulletproof
Never Enough
Burn it Down
Encore:
The Bleeding
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11/20/2011 Kid Rock, Ty Stone (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
By Eric | January 6, 2012 9:55 am
Kid 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 say, it wasn’t the easiest ticket to get, but get one I did. While I’ve always loosely remained a Kid Rock fan, I hadn’t seen him since before he really blew up, that being Warped Tour 1998 and then at Water Street in March of 1999, right before Bawitdaba was released as a single. Anyway, fandom came full circle seeing him in a little place again! Opener Ty Stone was just a dude and an acoustic guitar, but he sounded pretty good. After much crowd anticipation, Kid Rock and the band came out, and started old-school with Devil Without a Cause. There was a decent mix between old and new songs throughout the set, and it was pretty easy to see that the crowd was singing along with everything. They were into it all night, not surprising considering that only the diehards would go through the trouble to get the tickets. Made for a fun night, and I think Kid Rock himself had a blast on this tour in general, let alone our stop, being able to actually see everyone in the crowd and interact with them. I certainly came away with a newfound appreciation for him and his band after this one.
Kid Rock Setlist
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Devil Without a Cause
Rock Bottom Blues
Forever
Cocky
All Summer Long
Purple Sky
I Got One for Ya’
Midnight Train to Memphis
Wasting Time
Slow My Roll
Cowboy
Lay It On Me
God Bless Saturday
Care
Roving Gangster (Rollin’)
Fuckin’ Forty
So Hott
Bawitdaba
Encore:
Rock N Roll Jesus
Only God Knows Why
Born Free
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11/12/2011 Chimaira, Skeletonwitch, Molotov Solution, A Thousand Shades of Cold (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | January 6, 2012 9:53 am
Back 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 closer. I have to admit I only half paid attention to Molotov Solution and Skeletonwitch, as I was talking at the bar with some various people. But I was right back down front and center for Chimaira! This was the 9th time I’d seen them, and would be the last tour with Matt and Rob playing guitar, as both would be leaving the band at the end of the year. As always, a Chimaira show is a fun show, and this was no exception. The new songs sounded great live (lead singer of Molotov Solution came out to do the guest vocals on Born in Blood), the older songs still rip, and honestly, considering they played Power Trip, Pure Hatred, and Resurrection, everything else was gravy.
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ATSOC setlist
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Bullet Train to Tokyo
Suddenly
Sweet In November
Flatline
It’s A Goddamn Suicide
New Song (The Fall of Rome?)
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Chimaira Setlist
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The Age of hell
Clockwork
Losing my mind
Power trip
Nothing remains
The Flame
Pure hatred
Destroy & Dominate
Severed
The Sun disappears
year of the snake
Born in blood
The Venom inside
Secrets of the dead
Resurrection
Resurrection
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