Doing my concert notification duty: Five Finger De
By Eric | September 2, 2009 12:00 am
Doing my concert notification duty: Five Finger Death Punch / Shadows Fall / Otep in Syracuse October 5th! I got mine! @brianshadfall @FFDP
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And now some cover band at A-pub that actually ain
By Eric | August 30, 2009 12:00 am
And now some cover band at A-pub that actually ain’t half bad,
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08/21/2009 Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, Chester French (Darien, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
By Eric | August 25, 2009 2:00 pm
Had it not been for $10 lawn tickets, I don’t think I would have considered attending this show. But for $10 each, how could we not? Tiff and I rolled in and parked up on the hill again, had our own little tailgate, and wandered down the road to the venue. There was a ridiculous line wrapped all around the VIP parking, made up of sheep that didn’t realize there were 10 other lines to get in. I grabbed our will call tickets, we got in, and we set up shop in the same place as for the Nickelback show, that being dead-center, and as far back as you can possibly get on the lawn. Since it slopes up, its a decent vantage point, and while far away, you can see everything.
Chester French was up first, and they were a pop-rock/hip-hop type of band, and apparently have some major hip-hop producers working with them (Pharrell for one). They were pretty decent, but I swear they only got like 15 minutes. It may have been more, I wasn’t really really paying attention, but it seemed really short. Panic at the Disco was next, and I kinda knew what to expect with them, as they were sort-of proteges of Fall Out Boy. The songs came off a little more generic than I thought they would have, considering I only know one song by them (I Write Sins…). Their half-hour was entertaining enough though, and it held everyone over until the first of the two major bands…
Fall Out Boy got a pretty big crowd pop as they came out, and it didn’t subside when they opened with Sugar, We’re Going Down. They sounded pretty tight, the singing was good, the crowd was up for them throughout their whole performance. Towards the end of the set, Panic’s lead singer joined FOB for a cover of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing, which actually came off pretty well. FOB’s setlist was mostly hits, as they were the support and not headliners, but enjoyable nonetheless. FOB Setlist: “Sugar, We’re Going Down”, “Thriller”, “A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me””, “Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy”, “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”, “I Don’t Care”, “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet”, “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs”, “Don’t Stop Believing”, “Dance, Dance”, Saturday.
Time for the headliners of the night, Blink-182. I’ve never been a huge Blink fan, so I wasn’t dying with anticipation or anything. Having said that, they certainly worked the crowd, the crowd ate it up, and from our far vantage point, everyone seemed to be having a good time. Other than the radio songs, I didn’t know anything else they played, so listening to the set on its own merits, it sounded pretty good for a band that’s taken the last 4 or 5 years off. Apparently they didn’t play anything new, and according to other, more seasoned Blink concert veterans, the jokes and comments were the same as they’ve always been. Since it was all new to me, I was amused enough. I was thankful for the handful of songs I did know, and they were spaced far enough apart to make the rest of the set tolerable. To start the encore, Travis Barker played a drum solo with his kit suspended above the stage, and swinging from side-to-side. The spectacle was impressive (I hope he’s paying royalties to Tommy Lee and Joey Jordison though!), the drum solo itself not so much. No matter. The set closer was Dammit, which the crowd loved, and everyone left on a high note. Through the magic of the intertubes, I have Blink’s setlist as well: Dumpweed, Feeling This, Rock Show, What’s My Age Again?, Obvious, I Miss You, Stay Together For The Kids, Down, Always, Stockholm Syndrome, First Date, Man Overboard, Going Away To College, Not Now, Adam’s Song, All The Small Things, Reckless Abandon, Josie, Anthem Pt. 2. Encore: Drum Solo, Carousel, Dammit.
Overall, not a bad show, but given that none of these bands are really “my bands”, $10 on the lawn was the right price for this. Anything more and I think I would have felt like I paid too much. Which isn’t to say we didn’t have fun, because we certainly did, it was just more of the “being there” vibe than my usual “totally psyched for a concert” vibe.
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Chillin on the hill, then Blink/Fall Out Boy/Panic
By Eric | August 21, 2009 12:00 am
Chillin on the hill, then Blink/Fall Out Boy/Panic at Darien Lake!
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Kudos to @LiveNation CSR’s! My tix for B182/FOB &
By Eric | August 17, 2009 12:00 am
Kudos to @LiveNation CSR’s! My tix for B182/FOB & CrueFest never showed up in the mail, and it was 2 seconds to change em to Will Call. Thx!
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08/12/2009 Framing Hanley, Transmit Now, His Name Was Yesterday, Sixpin (Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf)
By Eric | August 13, 2009 5:35 pm
This night saw me taking a quick trip down the Thruway to see two of my favorite local bands. After I milled around a bit, Adam and Kristen made their appearance, and not soon after that Sixpin took to the stage. I had seen them acoustically before the OLP show in Lockport last month, so this was my first time getting to see them plugged in. As expected, the boys can rock! They ran through a couple of their newer tunes along side some of the tracks from Made To Bleed, including High Fashion, Invisible, Disintegrate, Break The Fall, and a couple others, closing with Burned. It was nice to see as many people in attendance as there was; I wasn’t quite sure what to expect on that front, but there were plenty of people there, and a good number of them there early enough to watch the openers. Good crowd response for the Sixpin guys, and they deserved it. Good show by them.
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His Name Was Yesterday was on next, and unbeknownst to Adam and I, they have a new guitar player and a new bass player. Seamless integration, as if you didn’t know they weren’t originally in the band, you couldn’t have told. They opened with the Fight Club intro into Beneath The Lie, then the new Funeral Song, and I couldn’t tell you the order after that, but one or two more new songs, Ghost Of John Wayne, For What It’s Worth, and the closer was Until You’re Gone. Plenty of crowd response for HNWY too, and a great showing on their part also.
With the two bands drawing my interest over with, we retreated to the back of the venue, chatted up the Sixpin guys for a bit and bought a shirt, and then watched the direct support, a band that until last week no one even knew was on the bill. Transmit Now are a band out of Orlando, with not a lot of bite. They weren’t particularly heavy, and quite frankly, weren’t particularly good. Apparently they’re on Framing Hanley’s label, which is how they got the gig. It wasn’t on their merits, because Sixpin and HNWY both blew them out of the water. After the uninspired set, it was time for Framing Hanley. They came out with some incredibly deep bass, and some decently rockin’ songs. Unfortunately, they’re the type of band that I already like a million different versions of, and unless they bring something unique to the table (and in my opinion, they didn’t), then I’m not making it a million and one bands. Which is to say, they were good, but I wasn’t WOW’ed. So that, combined with the fact that I had a drive back to Rochester, and it was 10:45, caused me to jet after three songs. I had gotten what I paid for with the first two bands, so I left feeling satisfied that I saw a good show!
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Just got to the tralf, ready for some rock!
By Eric | August 12, 2009 12:00 am
Just got to the tralf, ready for some rock!
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Heading out after work to B-Lo to catch @HNWY and
By Eric | August 12, 2009 12:00 am
Heading out after work to B-Lo to catch @HNWY and Sixpin open for Framing Hanley at the Tralf with Adam and Kristen!
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08/09/2009 Sevendust (Rochester, NY @ Riverside Festival Site)
By Eric | August 11, 2009 3:06 pm
[This was a part of The Zone 94.1’s Bonzai festival, which also featured Street Sweeper Social Club, Tantric, Sick Puppies, Framing Hanley, Smile Empty Soul and The Gay blades, none of which we saw.]
After an already full day down in Elmira winding down Pat and Jodi’s wedding, Tiff and I got home around 5:45pm, fairly tired, and promptly went right back out the door, and headed downtown to see if we could catch whatever was left of Bonzai. Why are we this demented? Because Sevendust was headlining! The one heavy band Tiff actually likes! As we’re driving by the site (in the parking lot across from Blue Cross Arena), we hear Lajon getting the crowd pumped up and announce Alpha. We hustle to a parking spot in the ramp, and back down across the bridge to the site as they’re playing Pieces (They started with Inside, and we completely missed Enemy as well). I had bought tickets at Park Ave Fest, but by now they were worthless, as we walked right in and no one said as much as “boo” to us. There didn’t seem to be a whole hell of a lot of people left, but then again, it had rained most of the day, so I’m guessing people punked out. Anyway, everyone that was left looked sufficently into the band, if not super amped up as if it was solely a 7D show. We arrived just in time to hear one of my favorites, Clueless. Tiff and I camped out on the rear edge of the crowd, in the back left. Even I was too tired to venture into the pit, which during Waffle looked pretty formidable. Suffocate and Angel’s Son slowed it down a touch, before they ramped it right back up with a Home 2-fer, Denial and Rumble Fish. The boys were working the crowd as always, probably a little more so than they would have for one of “their” shows. Nonetheless, the singalong was decent for Ugly, and even better for Praise. After a short rest, the encore was Bitch, followed by the always-a-blast closer Face To Face. Even though we missed three songs, and my tickets were pretty much useless, it was worth heading down to see the hour of tunes we saw. It’s kinda funny, because one would think it’d be the other way around, I’ve seen 7D a million times, why bother? Because I/we knew what we’d be missing, and we’d have been right. We would have missed another killer set from the Atlanta boys. Right after the set, some kid standing near us pulled my own trick and got the setlist from the soundboard, and was kind enough to let me grab a picture of it, thus the photo you see below, and how I know what we missed!
Inside
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We actually made it to Bonzai in time to catch Sev
By Eric | August 10, 2009 12:00 am
We actually made it to Bonzai in time to catch Sevendust! Naturally, they rocked the spot. Even Tiff was jammin!
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