05/13/2009 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (Rochester, NY @ Lilac Festival Stage)
By Eric | May 14, 2009 10:39 am
Since I know virtually nothing about them, this is going to be a review at a 3rd grade reading level.
I saw Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Lilac Festival. It was fun. There were a lot of people there. I sat on the ground on a blanket and talked with my friends. The band was good. They played for about an hour and a half. They played the one song everyone knew about 3 bottles or something*. They also played the “hidey-hidey-hidey-hi” song#. Everyone sang along and it was fun. I had a good time.
*Yes, this would be “You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three”.
#BBVD did a mini-tribute to Cab Calloway, and one of the songs was “Minnie The Moocher”
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Hatebreed and Chimaira, Friday July 31 @ Water Str
By Eric | April 29, 2009 12:00 am
Hatebreed and Chimaira, Friday July 31 @ Water Street!!
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04/27/2009 Gavin Rossdale, Endless Hallway (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | April 28, 2009 3:43 pm
This show had kinda been on my radar for awhile, but I thought $25 was too much to spend, plus it was on a Monday night. Then I get an email offer for 2-for-1 tickets, but couldn’t find anyone else that wanted to go. Then I find out Tiff had a dinner function at RIT this same night. And *then* I get an email offer to go for FREE. Okay, I’m not passing up free. I could tell when I got there that the tickets didn’t sell all that well, as they had tables and chairs set up in front of the soundboard. Never seen that before at Water Street. Anyway, the first band on was a pop/rock band called Endless Hallway. They were pretty good, nothing spectacular, but not bad either. They kinda grew on me as the set went along. After their set, I ran into Matt’s sister-in-law Aimee, so I hung out with her and her friend Christina for the rest of the night. I always find someone I know! We settled right in the middle of the place and waited for the main attraction.
Gavin Rossdale and his band walked out to wild screams from the female contingent. He didn’t do a whole lot of talking between songs, mainly just playing and then saying thanks. But the crowd that was there was certainly into the set, and there were quite a few people there familiar with his solo work (and that of his other former band, Institute), in addition to those that were hoping to hear some Bush tunes. No one was disappointed on that front either, as out of 17 songs, six were Bush tunes, two were Institute tracks, Gavin played his song Adrenaline from the xXx Soundtrack, and a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”, in addition to seven of the thirteen from his Wanderlust album. He sounded good, seemed excited to be there, the band sounded tight, and the Bush sing-a-longs were a lot of fun. There didn’t seem to be any problems transitioning between solo songs and Bush songs either, they were mixed in quite well.
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I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention their roadie. A balding, portly man, wearing overalls, with a dour look on his face the whole night, never moving while peeking out from behind the left-side stack. All he needed was a meat cleaver, and he could be a creepy butcher in some horror flick! A fun show, better because it was free, but good times nevertheless.
Landslide
Glycerine
Gavin Rossdale Setlist: This Place Is On Fire (Intro), Can’t Stop The World, Frontline, Machinehead, Boombox, Everything Zen, The Trouble I’m In, Forever May You Run, Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover), Love Remains the Same, Fugitive, Adrenaline, The People That We Love. Encore: Bulletproof Skin, This Is Happiness, Glycerine, Comedown.
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Gavin Rossdale and band put on a good show… shou
By Eric | April 28, 2009 12:00 am
Gavin Rossdale and band put on a good show… shoulda been more people there to see it!
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You know they didn’t sell a whole lot of tix when
By Eric | April 27, 2009 12:00 am
You know they didn’t sell a whole lot of tix when A) they’re giving them away, and B) there’s tables & chairs in front of the soundboard.
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I wish work was *outside* today. On the bright sid
By Eric | April 27, 2009 12:00 am
I wish work was *outside* today. On the bright side though, because I dragged my feet, I’m gonna see Gavin Rossdale FOR FREE tonight 🙂
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Just got a 2-for-1 offer for Gavvin Rossdale ticke
By Eric | April 25, 2009 12:00 am
Just got a 2-for-1 offer for Gavvin Rossdale tickets at Water Street on Monday. Anyone wanna see Mrs. Gwen Stefani for $12.50?
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04/23/2009 Static-X, Burn Halo, The Flood (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
By Eric | April 24, 2009 10:30 am
[Saliva was originally part of this bill, but due to a Josey Scott medical situation, dropped off the tour]
Adam and I rolled in just as The Flood were getting started. We could have waited longer. They were just a bland alt-metal type band, like a poor-man’s Tool. They kind of reminded me of Atomship, only Atomship was better. Not much to say about these guys really. Burn Halo was next up, and these guys were much more entertaining. More of a straight up rock band (in the vein of GNR, Buckcherry, etc.), they had stage prescence, could play, and the singer did a decent job of getting the crowd into it. For having never heard of them, I was pleasantly surprised with their ability to get me nodding along and continue to pay attention throughout the set. Not too shabby.
But the real reason everyone was there was Static-X. Personally, I hadn’t seen them since May of 2002, so it had been quite a while! Four (five if you count Beneath, Between, Beyond) albums later, I finally got to see them again. This show turned out to be even more fun than I thought it was going to be, because the crowd was great. There was a decent pit (which I didn’t get into, but everyone was cool, no fights, etc.), and the rest of the crowd was jumping, bouncing, and yes, even dancing along the entire night. And Static-X seems to have die-hard fans, because most people seemed to know the new songs as well as the old ones, and they always struck me as a band where most people would only know the old stuff (Death Trip and Machine especially). And we got a b-side! They played “Down”! The rest of the set was a good mix between new stuff and old stuff, and they know what side their bread is buttered on, because there were five tracks from Death Trip alone! Wayne, Tony, and Koichi were interacting with the crowd all night, pausing every couple of songs so “Mrs. Static” could bring them shots. All in all, a great show, a good crowd, and tons of fun with Wayne, his awesome hair, and his awesome songs.
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Stingwray
Static-X setlist: Lunatic, Dirthouse, I’m With Stupid, Down, Stem, Black and White, Stingwray, Destroyer, Cold, Bled For Days, Behemoth, Z28, Destroy All, Cannibal, Love Dump. Encore: This Is Not, Push It.
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Cold, We’re So Cold
By Eric | April 24, 2009 1:02 am
Wayne and Tony do their thing at the Town Ballroom, Buffalo NY, 4-23-09
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Static-X was fantastic! The Sharks, on the other h
By Eric | April 24, 2009 12:00 am
Static-X was fantastic! The Sharks, on the other hand, were not. It’s far too late for me, good night!
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