Anticipating The Hip! (and the rain probably) htt
By Eric | July 25, 2009 12:00 am
Anticipating The Hip! (and the rain probably) http://twitpic.com/bmj3w
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Just got my tickets for the Syracuse Tragically Hi
By Eric | July 25, 2009 12:00 am
Just got my tickets for the Syracuse Tragically Hip show in November. And I get to see them tonight in Rochester!
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07/22/2009 Thriving Ivory, The Stars of Track and Field, Pilot Speed, Streamline (Rochester, NY @ The Club at Water Street)
By Eric | July 23, 2009 10:50 am
I agreed to hit up this show because Christina didn’t have anyone else to go with, and Tiff was playing volleyball on this night. I say agreed because I probably wouldn’t have given this show a second thought on my own. Indie Pop/Rock isn’t really my cup of tea, but a show is a show, plus it was a chance to hang out. We walked in as Streamline was finishing their 2nd to last song, so while we didn’t catch much, what we did hear sounded pretty good. I’m a sucker for organ in a song too, so that helped their cause. I’d say there were about 150-200 people there, and damn was it muggy inside. The upstairs portion was even worse, which is where we ended up for Pilot Speed, who was up next. To me it was the typical jangly, whiny type of indie pop that isn’t terrible, but bores me to death. There was a song or two where the lead singer would really belt it out, and that was kinda cool, but overall, eh. We came back downstairs for the 3rd band on, The Stars of Track and Field, who had two guitarist/singers and a drummer, but a laptop for a bass player (and simulated claps). I thought these guys were a little better than Pilot Speed, but one of the guys behind us summed it up best by saying “They sound like a band that would play a bar scene on an episode of Friends…”. Generic maybe? Having said all that, I’ve seen far worse bands than the first three, so it certainly wasn’t all bad.
The headliners, and the band Christina came to see, were Thriving Ivory. Easily the most polished and tight of the four bands, they were fun to watch. There were a sizable number of people in the crowd that knew the songs, so they had the crowd interaction thing going for them too. The band also looked to be enjoying themselves up on stage, in contrast to the first two bands where I thought they were trying to look disaffected. After a bunch of their own songs, Thriving Ivory busted out a cover of U2’s “Mysterious Ways” that was pretty decent, and in the middle of one of their other songs, did a little insert of the Beatles’ “Let It Be”. They closed with their most familiar song, “Angels On The Moon”, which garnered a big crowd response. All in all, a decent show, a fun night, albeit a warm one. It’s a rare thing for me to go to a concert and know nothing about any of the bands I’m going to see, so I was really trying to be open minded about the whole thing and just appreciate what was going on without any expectations. I tried. I still don’t care for most indie pop/rock 🙂
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Checking out Thriving Ivory and others at Water St
By Eric | July 22, 2009 12:00 am
Checking out Thriving Ivory and others at Water Street with Christina. This isn’t quite my scene, but live music is live music!
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Getting ready to watch @5temm hit the stage!
By Eric | July 19, 2009 12:00 am
Getting ready to watch @5temm hit the stage!
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Started out at Montage, walked to Abilene, got pic
By Eric | July 19, 2009 12:00 am
Started out at Montage, walked to Abilene, got picked up by Pat and Jodi, led them to Tap&Mallet, had a beer, now back at Montage! RAWK! m/
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RT @HNWY TONIGHT! Go support our boys in @5TEMM in
By Eric | July 18, 2009 12:00 am
RT @HNWY TONIGHT! Go support our boys in @5TEMM in Rochester at The Montage! Doors at7! Dont miss out!! A Thousand Shades Of Cold too!
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The Summer Concert Roundup
By Eric | July 13, 2009 10:58 pm
Here’s what I’m going to (or planning to go to) for the balance of this summer and beyond. Can’t say I didn’t tell you!
Sat July 18th – Stemm, A Thousand Shades Of Cold, + Others @ Montage Music Hall, Rochester. This is a “most likely” for the local boys, and I think Adam’s coming up for this one.
Saturday July 25th – The Tragically Hip @ Highland Bowl, Rochester. Have tickets.
Thursday July 30th – Killswitch Engage, Rise Against, Rancid, Billy Talent, All That Remains @ Erie Co. Fairgrounds Agri-Center, Hamburg/Buffalo. Adam and I have tickets.
Friday July 31st – Hatebreed, Chimaira, + Others @ Water Street, Rochester. Have tickets.
Sunday August 9th – Zone 94.1 Bonzai – Sevendust, Street Sweeper Social Club, Tantric, + Others @ Riverside Festival Site, Rochester. Don’t have tickets yet, as its the day after Pat and Jodi’s wedding, but I think we’ll be back in time, at least to see 7D. Planning on going.
Friday August 14th – East End Fest @ The East End, Rochester. Don’t know who’s playing, don’t really care. We’ll be there.
Friday August 21st – Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco @ Darien Lake. Tiff and I got cheap lawn seats.
Friday September 4th – Cake @ Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Don’t know any details yet, but suffice to say we’re going.
Saturday September 5th – Crue Fest: Motley Crue, Godsmack, Theory Of A Deadman + Others @ Darien Lake. Adam and I are on the lawn.
Saturday September 12th – Tonic @ Turning Stone Casino, Verona. Tiff and I scored some sweet seats for this one.
Wednesday September 16th – Down, The Melvins @ Main Street Armory, Rochester. Don’t have tickets yet, but I’ll most likely be going.
Friday September 25th – Sixpin @ The Tralf, Buffalo. The local boys headline, and I’ll most likely be heading to this.
Sunday October 11th – Every Time I Die @ Water Street, Rochester. On the fence, might go, might not.
Tuesday November 3rd – Edwin McCain @ Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica. A Tiff acoustic show.
Tuesday November 10th – Metallica, Lamb Of God @ HSBC Arena, Buffalo. On the floor baby!!
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07/10/2009 Nickelback, Hinder, Papa Roach (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
By Eric | July 13, 2009 10:30 am
Damn Darien Lake and their quick set turnaround times. I got out of work at the normal time, raced home, and we raced to Darien Lake, getting there around 10 to 7. Since the show started at 6, I figured Saving Abel would get a 1/2 hour, then a 1/2 hour set change, and Papa Roach would go on at 7. Not so much. We got to the gates right at 7, just in time to hear Papa Roach’s last two songs. We heard Hollywood Whore as we were walking in, and got to see Last Resort. That was it. BAH! Ah well, plenty of time to stake out a good spot on the lawn, sit down and wait for… Hinder. The biggest cougar band on the planet right now. All the “mature” ladies predictably went nuts for them, with the same campy stage antics as when I saw them last summer with Staind and 3 Doors Down. Fun, but certainly nothing special. Since we were actually sitting on the lawn, we didn’t really *see* much, but there wasn’t really anything to see, so it was pretty much a wash. Hinder setlist: Use Me, Take It To The Limit, Heaven Sent, Lips Of An Angel, How Long, Up All Night, Without You, Get Stoned.
Another set change later, and right at 9, out comes the Nickelback boys. We ended up moving all the way to the back of the lawn, right up against the fence, in the center. This provided a pretty decent, if not distant, vantage point. Pyro to open the show, and we’re off and running. Opened with Something In Your Mouth into Because Of You, so the start was pretty rockin’. The first crowd singalong came with Photograph, and boy was the crowd something to see. Apparently they sold the place out, lawn and all, and the number that kept getting thrown around was 21,000 people in attendance. Looked like it to me, although I don’t know what holes some of them crawled out of! Another crowd pleaser in Figured You Out followed; then came the slow, sappy, radio singles part of the show. Savin’ Me, Far Away, Gotta Be Somebody, If Everyone Cared, and If Today Was Your Last Day, broken up only with a Highway To Hell cover in the middle. The majority of the crowd ate it up. After that, they picked it back up with Rockstar, Burn It To The Ground, and then a drum solo from Daniel Adair. The drum solo was pretty cool, but in at least one instance, it was simply the drum beat from the beginning of Follow You Home (why didn’t you play the song proper??). They brought out some of the road crew with T-shirt cannons, and were firing stuff into the crowd while messing around. They busted out a little Sad But True jam, and while noodling around they also rocked part of the guitar riff to Fight For All The Wrong Reasons (why didn’t you play that song proper either??). At this point they decided they’d finally show Silver Side Up some love with back to back How You Remind Me and Too Bad. This brought us to the encore break. The two song encore was Someday and Animals. Pretty impressive pyro at the end of the show too. Final thoughts? The set was way too heavy on the slower radio singles, they missed a lot of their more rockin’ songs (Shakin’ Hands woulda been cool to hear, and I overheard someone else complaining about the lack of hearing S.E.X., which woulda got the crowd going), and they completely ignored The State. Not even Leader Of Men anymore. If all of this sounds like I’m bitching, I am, however, I still had a really good time sitting listening to the schlock rock show, seeing the schlock rock fans, and taking in the spectacle of it all. As an aside, parking “across the street” on the hill for $10 was a very wise decision, as we were out of the parking lot and on the road in 5 minutes, not the hour and a half hell that Darien’s lot usually is. Yay!
Something In Your Mouth
Nickelback Setlist:
Something in Your Mouth
Because of You
Photograph
Figured You Out
Savin’ Me
Far Away
Highway to Hell (AC/DC cover)
Gotta Be Somebody
If Everyone Cared
If Today Was Your Last Day
Rockstar
Burn It to the Ground
Drum Solo
How You Remind Me
Too Bad
Encore:
Someday
Animals
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I was a little late on this one: Sevendust headlin
By Eric | July 13, 2009 12:00 am
I was a little late on this one: Sevendust headlining 94.1 The Zone’s Bonzai Fest in Rochester, Sun Aug 9th. http://is.gd/1xnsa
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