Doyle Bros! http://twitpic.com/2tufjq
By Eric | October 2, 2010 12:00 am
Doyle Bros! http://twitpic.com/2tufjq
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I favorited a YouTube video — Muppets sing Jim Cr
By Eric | September 28, 2010 12:00 am
I favorited a YouTube video — Muppets sing Jim Croce’s “Working at the Carwash Blues” http://youtu.be/J8Gw5e1AnMc?a
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Hearing Black Rain inspired me, it’s a Soundgarden
By Eric | September 27, 2010 12:00 am
Hearing Black Rain inspired me, it’s a Soundgarden B-Side Monday morning. All 45 of them. (There might be more, but that’s all I have.)
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Awesome shirt at the Archive! http://twitpic.com/2
By Eric | September 25, 2010 12:00 am
Awesome shirt at the Archive! http://twitpic.com/2rw6fv
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Total nu-metal mood tonight: Kilgore, Factory81, N
By Eric | September 21, 2010 12:00 am
Total nu-metal mood tonight: Kilgore, Factory81, Nothingface, Hollowpoint, Pressure 4-5, From Zero, Ultraspank, etc. Ah, ’98-’01 memories…
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I think I’m finally at coffee/morning equilibrium.
By Eric | September 20, 2010 12:00 am
I think I’m finally at coffee/morning equilibrium. Also, the new Linkin Park is awful, just like the last one. One sorta-decent song, kinda.
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08/28/2010 More Than Me, Hey Monea, Free Henry, Strike The Sky (Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf)
By Eric | September 6, 2010 3:30 pm
We 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 the music started with our Rochester buddies in Strike The Sky. They mixed in a couple of newer tunes with cuts off of their EP, and sounded pretty good in the process! The guys ran through their half-hour set and got a good response, although most everyone stayed seated at their tables (which held true for the other two openers as well).
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Buffalo’s Free Henry were up next, and the pop/rock/jam band gave us a good half-hour set to keep our interest, and despite my usual aversion to jam bands, these guys were pretty good!
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Direct support was Ohio’s Hey Monea!, who are good friends with the More Than Me boys and brought them to town for the show. Playing a similar style to MTM, the trio played a high-energy set of tunes, with Ryan and Joey joining them for two songs. A lot of fun during their set for sure.
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Finally, the men of the hour, More Than Me were up. We got a quick tease of the Hard Rock Calling DVD the boys recorded over in London, and then they made their appearance on stage. This show was billed as their 10th Anniversary show, for 10 years of being together as a band. Fittingly, mixed in with their newer tunes were a lot of much older material, a lot of which we’d never heard. Pretty cool of them to give the die-hards something to get excited about! The floor right in front of the stage quickly filled in, and we were off and running. The guys sounded fantastic, and it was nice to see a “headlining” set from them with all of their own stuff, and for more than 35-40 minutes! They told some anecdotes from back in the days, thanked a lot of people, and I think made a lot of their friends and family happy by acknowledging their contributions. Hell, even our Rochester contingent got a shout out! Just about everyone in attendance was singing along, dancing, and had a great time. Tons of fun all the way around, and we finally scored some MTM merch this time around!
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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)
By Eric | August 30, 2010 4:18 pm
[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, and most of Hail The Villain on the side stage. We meandered around, checked out the grounds, waded amongst everyone else for New Medicine’s set, which wasn’t that interesting. Once it was time for Hellyeah, I left the guys in the back and drilled my way up to the front, right in front of guitarist Tom Maxwell. That suited me just fine, seeing as I’d worn an old Nothingface shirt on this day, and Tom noticed, even pointing it out to one of the crew! Needless to say, the short set was a lot of fun, Hellyeah ripped into the title/band name track, and then choice cuts from both albums. The crowd seemed into it from where I was at the front, the band was into it, pointing people out in the crowd, looking like they were having a “Hell Of A Time” up there also! I even managed to snag a drum stick from the legendary Vinnie Paul! I was pretty close to the left-side speaker stack, so I have no clue how good it sounded, as all I got was the wall of sound. For this performance, the nuances of the sound weren’t particularly important to me anyway, I was way more concerned with having fun!
Hellyeah setlist: Hellyeah, Goddamn, Matter of Time, Cowboy Way, Hell Of A Time, You Wouldn’t Know, Stampede, Alcohaulin’ Ass.
Hellyeah
Cowboy Way
By the time Hellyeah was over, we hightailed it over to the pavilion, got to our seats in the 200’s, and missed the first couple songs of Halestorm’s set over on the mainstage. Given what got posted on Setlist.fm, it looks like it was largely the same set I saw at KRock a few weeks prior, so no harm no foul. We did manage to catch the end of “Familiar Taste of Poison” through to the end, including the drum solo, and of course “I Get Off”. They sounded excellent, and Lizzy was hitting the notes. Good times.
Halestorm setlist: It’s Not You, What Were You Expecting, Dirty Work, Familiar Taste of Poison, Drum Solo/Circle, Nothing to Do with Love, I Get Off.
At this point, I ran back out to the side stage area, and got in line for the Hellyeah signing, where I got autographs from all the guys in the band (Chad mentioned he saw me down front, Tom said he loved the old-school Nothingface shirt!), and I got Vinnie Paul to sign the drumstick I caught! Worth waiting in the line, for sure! As I got back to the main pavilion, Stone Sour had started, and they sounded great. They played a handful of new tunes (Mission Statement, Say You’ll Haunt Me, Digital) interspersed with the old standards. It’s still weird to see Corey and Jim without the coveralls and masks on! I hope they come back around and headline on the new album, I think its much more fun seeing them in a smaller place, however, no complaints about peformance here at all.
Setlist: Mission Statement, Reborn, Made Of Scars, Say You’ll Haunt Me, Come What(ever) May, Your God, Through Glass, Digital, Hell & Consequences, 30/30-150.
Avenged Sevenfold was next, and although I just saw them at KRock, this time they had their own stage setup, and it was quite impressive. Right before they started, they had a guy jump from the light rig at the top of the stage and “hang” himself, before they launched into “Nightmare”, and he hung there for the whole song! The rest of the set, music-wise, was very similar to KRock, but more running around, no stopping for hurt people in the crowd, and a much more reponsive crowd. There were a ton of A7X fans in attendance, and you could tell. Very cool for them, I don’t think they left disappointed at all.
Avenged Sevenfold setlist: Nightmare, Critical Acclaim, Welcome to the Family, Beast and the Harlot, Buried Alive, So Far Away, Afterlife, God Hates Us, Unholy Confessions, Almost Easy.
Finally, the band I know we all were waiting for took to the stage. Disturbed came out to the instrumental that leads off the new album, and launched into the title track, Asylum. From there, it was a no-nonsense hit parade, with track after track that everyone knew, everyone rocked out to, and everyone sang along with. There was very little talking in-between tracks, and I have a feeling that’s because they had a hard 11pm curfew, and had to get everything in. Visually, the large video screens behind the band were pretty cool, alternately showing video and random patterns of light. The band sounded very good, David Draiman’s voice was in fine shape, and when he did talk to the crowd between songs, it was to appreciate us being there. One cool thing they did this time around that I haven’t seen before was a medley of songs off The Sickness, but only the “cool” parts, ala what Korn did on Family Values with the “Shot Liver Medley”. On this night, Disturbed threw together parts of Fear, Meaning of Life, Numb, and Voices to great effect. Overall, their set was a lot of fun, and we had a great time. And the rain stopped just as it was time to leave, so no drenching for us!
Disturbed setlist: Remnants, Asylum, The Game, Prayer, Liberate, Land of Confusion (Genesis cover), Inside the Fire, Stricken, Fear / Meaning of Life / Numb / Voices, Another Way to Die, Stupify, Ten Thousand Fists, Indestructible. Encore: Down With The Sickness.
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More Than Me at the Tralf! http://twitpic.com/2j7
By Eric | August 29, 2010 12:00 am
More Than Me at the Tralf! http://twitpic.com/2j70fk
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Hey Monea! At the tralf with Ryan and Joey… http
By Eric | August 29, 2010 12:00 am
Hey Monea! At the tralf with Ryan and Joey… http://twitpic.com/2j6w9b
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