06/06/2009 The Tragically Hip (Lewiston, NY @ Artpark)
By Eric | June 9, 2009 2:30 pm
This was the last night of a four night stand by The Hip at Artpark, and if the reviews from the first three shows were any indication, we were in for a treat. I arrived at the park around 6:30, and since the doors didn’t open until 7, I tailgated with Tom and his friends for awhile. We shuffled into the venue, and then I detoured off by myself, as I was fortunate enough to navigate the ticket website and score a first-row center orchestra pit seat! They had three or four rows of seats in what is normally the orchestra pit, and they were letting anyone in those seats stand right up next to the stage. Reach out and touch someone indeed!
The boys walked out on stage, and started out with a number off the new album, The Last Recluse. To me, the set didn’t really get kicking until three songs later, with Twist My Arm, then later again with It Can’t Be Nashville… and going 7 for 7 with New Orleans Is Sinking. (As in, this was my 7th Hip show, and NOIS is one of two songs I’ve seen at every show.) It’s always such a fun song though! Later still was one of my favorites off of the new album, that being Queen of the Furrows, followed by my other 7 for 7 song, At The Hundredth Meridian. Meridian is always a great song in the WNY region, due to the entire crowd singing along with the “I remember, I remember Buffalo…” portion of the song! Actually, the crowd was singing loudly the entire night, and it sounded amazing. They ended the first set with a song I hadn’t seen since 2000, and something it sounds like was rarely played until just recently, Tiger The Lion. Very cool. Gord had the hankie dance in full effect, throwing them into the crowd at various points, and then just as quickly getting a new one from the roadie. Seeing the dancing and facial expressions up that close was awesome. As was really being able to see the rest of the band! I was stationed more dead-center for the first set, but as people milled around during the break, I moved over a bit.
Tiger The Lion
After a brief intermission, an acoustic setup appeared, and I shifted over to be right in front of bass player Gord Sinclair. The guys started out with another Music@Work deep cut, The Bear. Fireworks sounded really great acoustically (“loosening my grip on Gilbert Perreault”), and the final acoustic song was Wheat Kings. At the conclusion of the acoustic mini-set, Gordie mentioned that the lyrics during fireworks should have been “loosening my grip on Jay McKee”, who was in attendance. Back to the electric stuff, and a few songs later, a real departure, with back to back deep cuts off of Day For Night! Yawning Or Snarling, followed by Inevitability of Death! Neither of which I’d ever seen live before, so I thoroughly enjoyed those two! Another favorite off of the new one, Now The Struggle Has A Name, and the main set closed with a raucous take on Little Bones. Tons of fun! They came back out for a two song encore of Frozen in My Tracks, and then brought the house down with Blow At High Dough. An absolutely fantastic show from an incredible vantage point, and I just reconfirmed my gushing about this show two days after the fact when the recording was made available by the fan community. Holy awesome.
The Bear
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First Set:
01: The Last Recluse
02: In View
03: Coffee Girl
04: Twist My Arm
05: Morning Moon
06: It Can’t Be Nashville Every Night
07: New Orleans is Sinking
08: Bobcaygeon
09: Queen of the Furrows
10: At The Hundredth Meridian
11: Love Is a First
12: Tiger The Lion
Second Set:
13: The Bear (A)
14: Fireworks (A)
15: Wheat Kings (A)
16: The Depression Suite
17: Springtime in Vienna
18: Fully Completely
19: Yawning or Snarling
20: Inevitability of Death
21: Now The Struggle Has a Name
22: Nautical Disaster
23: Little Bones
Encore:
24: Frozen in My Tracks
25: Blow at High Dough
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The recording of Saturday’s Tragically Hip show is
By Eric | June 9, 2009 12:00 am
The recording of Saturday’s Tragically Hip show is out and being seeded, and it sounds FANTASTIC!
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I put the rest of my Tragically Hip @ Artpark pics
By Eric | June 7, 2009 12:00 am
I put the rest of my Tragically Hip @ Artpark pics up on Flickr: http://snipr.com/jncf3
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The Tragically Hip! http://twitpic.com/6smgw
By Eric | June 7, 2009 12:00 am
The Tragically Hip! http://twitpic.com/6smgw
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After a fun day cruising in the Vette with Dad, no
By Eric | June 6, 2009 12:00 am
After a fun day cruising in the Vette with Dad, now I’m off to my FRONT ROW seat at Artpark for The Tragically Hip!
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This is how after-work should …
By Eric | May 20, 2009 6:31 pm
This is how after-work should be done: Blast some Hatebreed on the way home, order up some Chinese, and then off to Hot Shots with Tiff!
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This is how after-work should be done: Blast some
By Eric | May 20, 2009 12:00 am
This is how after-work should be done: Blast some Hatebreed on the way home, order up some Chinese, and then off to Hot Shots with Tiff!
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05/18/2009 Korn, Burn Halo, Caustic, His Name Was Yesterday (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
By Eric | May 19, 2009 11:22 am
I wasn’t sure how to feel about this show. Have I “outgrown” Korn? Up until a week before the show I didn’t even know who the openers were, until the local boys in His Name Was Yesterday announced that they were on the bill. I got into the venue and got myself a HNWY shirt, a beer, and wandered up to the stage area.
Being the local band, His Name Was Yesterday was on first. Not that they necessarily deserved that slot, as they have more chops and stage presence than a lot of “national” openers I’ve seen. Anyway, they ran through the songs from their “Witness To A Dying World” EP, and sounded pretty damn good doing it. They got a pretty good pop from the crowd as well, which was fairly sizable by this point, so hopefully they pick up a bunch of new fans. There were quite a few HNWY shirts in the crowd both before the show started and afterwards, so they certainly weren’t complete strangers
HNWY – Funeral Song
Caustic was on next, and they didn’t sound as good as they did with Disturbed a couple of months prior. I did get to hear the full set this time around as opposed to just two songs, and they came off as more nu-metal to me this time. They had quite a few people sporting their shirts as well, so their crowd pop was quite good also.
Direct support was Burn Halo, who I’d just seen with Static-X about a month ago, and they played pretty much the exact same set. For whatever reason, the crowd seemed less receptive to them this time around than at Static-X, which I found sort of odd because I figured there would be some Static/Korn fan overlap. Apparently not the case. In any event, their set came and went, they sounded good, but didn’t get the same sort of reaction the first two bands did.
Now it was time for Korn. It was a bit unusual to see them with a stripped-down (or complete lack of) stage set-up. I hadn’t seen them since Buffalo in March of 2000, so in the 9 years between shows, some things were due to be different. Neither Head nor David Silvera are playing with them anymore, and besides their two fill-ins, they also had a guy doing keyboards and effects. None of this hampered the performance any, as they sounded great, Jon Davis can still belt the songs out, Munky and Fieldy can still play, and it all came off very well. The evening’s great surprise? Practically all old songs! Interestingly, while the set was well spread over the back catalog, it was heavy on self-titled stuff. Five tracks! The rest of it broke down like this: self-titled – 5, Life Is Peachy – 2, Follow The Leader – 2, Issues – 2, Untouchables – 2, Take A Look… – 3, See You… – 1, Untitled – 0. Save for “Coming Undone”, the set was devoid of anything off of the last two albums. Not that I was complaining in the least. I also proved my own theory to myself, that I have a much better time when I’m around people that are into it. I spent most of the main set towards the back of the mass of people with those that were just standing around, maybe a couple of them moving or bouncing around. When I heard the opening strains of “Blind” to start the encore, I broke for the front, right in the middle of everyone, and proceeded to have a blast for the last three songs. Probably shoulda been up there the whole time. On the whole, Korn sounded good, the crowd was thrilled to be there, I know as an older fan I was really happy with the song selection, and its cool to see these guys still rocking the spot after 16 years. I guess I still haven’t “outgrown” them quite yet!
Clown
Korn Setlist: Right Now, Good God, Did My Time, Thoughtless, Falling Away From Me, Clown, Ball Tongue, Bagpipes Solo (Shoots and Ladders), Helmet In The Bush, Twist, Fake, Y’All Want A Single, Coming Undone (We Will Rock You insert), Somebody Someone, Freak On A Leash. Encore: Blind, Here To Stay, Got The Life
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KORN!
By Eric | May 18, 2009 7:23 pm
KORN!
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KORN!
By Eric | May 18, 2009 12:00 am
KORN!
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