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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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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