Sorry everyone, had the Sevendust on just a bit to
By Eric | August 23, 2011 2:31 pm
Sorry everyone, had the Sevendust on just a bit too loud. I’ll turn it down now. #BetterEarthquakesThroughMetal
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08/12/2011 Sponge (Rochester, NY @ East End Music Festival)
By Eric | August 14, 2011 8:11 am
We’ve been coming to the annual East End Fest for about 4 years now, and this was one of the few times a band of national import was playing. It’s usually the best and brightest of Rochester (and Buffalo) spread out over the 5 or 6 stages. On this night, however, the organizers landed Sponge for the “main stage”, they of mid-90’s radio fame. It was kind of funny at first, since Sponge played at 7:30, there was the usual milling about from most of the crowd as they opened with Wax Ecstatic. By the time they got into Molly (16 Candles) with the next song, the crowd filled in with the requisite “Hey I know this song!”. While the band, save for lead singer Vinny Dombrowski, has completely turned over since the Rotting Pinata days, they sounded great on the old and the new songs, of which they played a few. Glue was a rocker and a half, and then the crowd-participation enhanced Party Till You Drop sounded like it would be at home on a Buckcherry disc. Have You Seen Mary slowed it down a touch, but then the fun side took over, as one of the better cuts off of the Saturday Morning Cartoons compilation got dusted off: Go Speedracer Go! Bringing it back to 1994, with Vinny commenting that he knew they played Water Street back then, but couldn’t remember anyone for sure because he was bombed out of his mind, Rotting Pinata and Plowed were next, and predictably got the biggest response of the night. The time honored tradition of bringing the ladies up on stage was upheld for the closer, Planet Girls, before we Partied Till We Dropped one more time to end the set. A fun bit of nostalgia for everyone who probably couldn’t escape these songs on the radio back in the day!
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Setlist:
Wax Ecstatic
Molly
Glue
Party Till We Drop
Have You Seen Mary
Go Speedracer Go
Rotting Piñata
Plowed
Planet Girls
Party Till We Drop (Reprise)
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Sponge at East End Fest http://t.co/YnGNwlj
By Eric | August 13, 2011 11:00 am
Sponge at East End Fest http://t.co/YnGNwlj
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Goddamn kids these days… wouldn’t know a good sh
By Eric | August 8, 2011 4:07 pm
Goddamn kids these days… wouldn’t know a good show if you spat the fake blood from it all over them.
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Sadly it’s not coming around here, but Every Time
By Eric | August 8, 2011 4:07 pm
Sadly it’s not coming around here, but Every Time I Die is doing a run with GWAR… and a large number of ETID “fans” are complaining. WHA??
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Shamelessly stolen: If a tree falls in the woods,
By Eric | August 4, 2011 2:35 pm
Shamelessly stolen: If a tree falls in the woods, and no one’s around to hear it, a hipster will buy the soundtrack.
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Finally threw on some MTV30, just in time for Onyx
By Eric | July 31, 2011 8:49 pm
Finally threw on some MTV30, just in time for Onyx doing “Slam” live on Yo! MTV Raps from back in ’91! LET THE BOYS BE BOYS!
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In anticipation of seeing them with Cold, I checke
By Eric | July 25, 2011 9:50 am
In anticipation of seeing them with Cold, I checked out Volbeat again. His voice just makes me want to listen to Kilgore instead.
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07/22/2011 The Tea Party, The Etchings, Son of the Son (Lockport, NY @ Ulrich City Centre)
By Eric | July 23, 2011 7:46 am
Ah, the Lockport Canal Concert Series, which saw the return of Our Lady Peace to the area (for me anyway) in 2009, and this year brought back another all-time Canadian favorite, The Tea Party. I came straight from work, so I arrived just as The Etchings were starting. I confess I really wasn’t paying too much attention, as I was conversing with Sara, Joe, and everyone else that eventually filled in, but what I did catch was your standard jangly indie-rock. Same deal with the much-heralded Son of the Son, I was much to into being social to really pay attention.
But after all that was the band we came to see! Jeff Martin, Jeff Burrows, and Stuart Chatwood walked out to a thunderous ovation, and ripped into Writing’s On The Wall. Once they followed that up with The Baazar, it was like they’d never left. The band itself sounded fantastic, and even though the set proved to be mostly a re-hash of every show we’d seen since about 2003 onward, after six years away it didn’t really matter. One highlight that I know I hadn’t seen too often was Sun Going Down, so that was pretty cool. It was about that time that Jeff Martin started to lose his voice, which I’m guessing is what led to Correspondences and The River getting axed (they’d been playing those in Canada a couple of days prior). It didn’t *really* matter though, because I think everyone was just happy to have the band back and playing again. The last three songs (Save Me, then the Temptation and Sister Awake encore) were practically sing-a-longs anyway, so it’s not like Jeff’s lack of voice ruined the moment or anything! Save Me was especially nice as we got Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye as the insert for a chance (it’s usually Kashmir), and the usual extended Sister Awake was a stellar note to go out on. As I said, just having the band back and playing together again is a treat, and for them to pick Buffalo/Lockport as one of the first stops on the reunion tour (and to draw 10,000 people!) was pretty special.
Sun Going Down
Temptation
Setlist:
Writing’s on the Wall
The Bazaar
Lullaby
Psychopomp
The Messenger
Fire in the Head
Heaven Coming Down
Sun Going Down
Zahira / The Halcyon Days
Save Me / Last Goodbye
Temptation
Winter Solstice / Sister Awake / Paint It Black
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Getting excited for The Tea Party in Lockport toni
By Eric | July 22, 2011 1:46 pm
Getting excited for The Tea Party in Lockport tonight, especially after seeing videos from Toronto last night!!
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