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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We’re, um, as far back as one can possibly get. ht
By Eric | July 11, 2009 12:00 am
We’re, um, as far back as one can possibly get. http://twitpic.com/9y7xk
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Anticipating the musical juggernaut that is Nickel
By Eric | July 11, 2009 12:00 am
Anticipating the musical juggernaut that is Nickelback. Taking the stage momentarily. Rawk?!
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Bring out the Haterade… tonight @ Darien is Nick
By Eric | July 10, 2009 12:00 am
Bring out the Haterade… tonight @ Darien is Nickelback, Hinder, P Roach. Anyone got an extra lawn ticket? A buddy got stiffed on his tix.
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07/03/2009 Our Lady Peace, Sixpin (Lockport, NY @ Ulrich City Centre)
By Eric | July 6, 2009 11:10 am
I took Friday off and headed back to Lockport, where I had spent two years of my high school life, and it doesn’t look like much has changed. After a couple shopping detours, I rolled into downtown Lockport around 4:30pm, found a parking spot, and wandered down to Daily Grind, where Sixpin was doing a full-band acoustic set outside. They’ve been around for awhile, but only now was I finally able to see them. Their frontman, Andy Mitchell, was an old acquaintance of mine back when he was in Hollowpoint, around 2000 or so. This really wasn’t part of the Canal Concert Series, but it was a block away, and led right into the show, and hey, it’s my review! The band played a bunch of cuts off of their Made To Bleed album, a couple new tracks, and a cover or two also over their hour set. One can tell they’ve been doing the acoustic sets for awhile, because everything meshed very well, and the improvisation between the normal electric version and these acoustic versions really stood out. Aside from the PA cutting out every once in awhile, they sounded great, and definitely had people stopping to listen as they’d walk by towards the big venue. Adam joined me towards the end of their set, I chatted with Andy for a second and bought a CD, and then we were in search of food.
After grabbing some grub, we walked the one block down to the Ulrich City Centre, which could better be described as a parking lot enclosed by buildings, albeit a big lot. There was plenty of room for plenty of people, and on this night they used all of it. We met up with Mary just inside the gate, grabbed some beers and proceeded to completely ignore the two openers. (Neither Inland Eyes nor The Incurables made any sort of impression, so I can’t even really list them in the heading.) Adam’s friend, also named Mary, found us later along with her boyfriend Tom, so we had a good group going on for awhile. We were nowhere near the front, so we had prime people-watching spots, easier beer access, breathing room, and could actually hear ourselves think and talk. While waiting through the openers, among others, I ran into Christine from the high school co-op, which was only fitting due to the fact that the first time I ever saw OLP was with her, twelve years and fourteen OLP shows ago! Which brings me to the fact that yes, I wore the eclipse shirt. All 15 OLP shows wearing the same, now fairly ratty, shirt that I bought at the first show! (Should I be proud? I’m not sure.)
So all this build up to see what used to be my all-time favorite band. 15th time seeing them, but first show since February 2003 at RIT. Six years. What have I missed in the meantime? Well, not a whole hell of a lot. The show opened with a lot of promise, starting with Naveed and Superman’s Dead, getting two classics out of the way early. Raine sounded pretty good, the band sounded really good, and the crowd was into it right away. Angels Losing Sleep was next, followed by a new song, which I determined from the new track listing is called Never Get Over You. The new stuff just doesn’t have any punch, nothing that hooks me into want to really listen to it. Perhaps the album versions will change my mind, but live I’m not sold. Innocent was followed by Clumsy for two nice big singalongs. Another new one (Paper Moon), then Not Enough, and another new one called The End Is Where We Begin (Pumpkins much? The begninning is the end is the beginning? (is the end?). Neither of those new tracks did much for me either. Raine started selling out notes around this point too. He simply can’t hit some of the notes live. It kinda sucks compared to what I personally saw/heard him do years ago, when they’d play Car Crash and he’d nail everything. Next was 4am, and in a nice surprise, Denied. Again, there were notes in Denied where if you listen to Live in 1995, Raine is just *on*. Here, not so much. The main set closer was the new single, All You Did Was Save My Life, which again, sounds okay, but nothing special. To this point, we were surprised that they’d completely neglected songs from both Happiness and Spiritual Machines. That was remedied in the encore, as the first two songs were One Man Army and In Repair. They ended the night with Starseed, which whipped the crowd into a frenzy, most of whom were feeling pretty good by this point.
It’s kinda sad in a way (Are You Sad? Yes, yes I am) that I just don’t care as much about OLP as I used to. I know things change, band members change, can’t do the same thing forever, etc, etc; but still, I can’t help feeling that they were better back when Mike was in the band, back when Bob Rock didn’t produce an album, back when they didn’t try to crack the American mainstream and “dumb down” their sound, back when I was probably a bit more naive to the whole concert-going thing. On the flipside, this show was certainly a little bit of nostalgia, and reminded me of waiting outside all day in line to be up front, racing to Delaware Park with frozen turkeys in the trunk for tickets, scribbling the CC/TH on our hands, and all that good stuff.
Monkey Brains
Setlist:
Naveed
Superman’s Dead
Angels Losing Sleep
Never Get Over You
Monkey Brains
Innocent
Clumsy
Paper Moon
Not Enough
The End Is Where We Begin
Somewhere Out There
4am
Denied
All You Did Was Save My Life
Encore:
One Man Army
In Repair
Starseed
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Had a really good time at OLP up in Lockport; Saw
By Eric | July 4, 2009 12:00 am
Had a really good time at OLP up in Lockport; Saw and hung out with some old friends, reminisced about all the OLP shows back in the day!
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Off to Lockport for Sixpin @ Daily Grind and then
By Eric | July 3, 2009 12:00 am
Off to Lockport for Sixpin @ Daily Grind and then Our Lady Peace! (and yes, I’m wearing *the* shirt.)
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