Who Says “I Do” To A Party More Than Me?
By Eric | June 9, 2008 1:45 pm
Another whirlwind weekend has passed…
Friday night right after work we hauled down to East End Fest to meet some peeps, watch some bands, drink some beer, etc. Had a great time, even though it was muggy as hell, and it was wall-to-wall people. Greg and Mindy are friends with the guys in More Than Me, so they were our attraction for the night, so to speak. East End veterans Uncle Plum were on the stage opposite MTM once they were done, so we turned our attention to them afterwards. They both sounded great, and the assembled masses were into the music. Good times, good times.
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06/01/2008 Ashes Divide (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | June 4, 2008 11:46 am
I raced over to Water Street after my roller hockey game, and completely missed Inner Party System, the opener. Sara said they were pretty decent. Anyway, I got there as they were doing the final prep for Ashes Divide’s set, and I really only had to wait about 10 minutes. The band came out, and launched into Sword. Billy Howerdel didn’t really talk much, only pausing between songs to say thanks, and at one point he mentioned that they’d be back in the area as part of the main stage of Projekt Revolution. They ran through the entire album, plus a wild cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” that neither Sara nor I recognized until they got to the chorus. Easily one of the most rockin’ Fleetwood Mac covers I’ve ever heard. Maybe they’ll release that somewhere! Anyway, the band sounded terrific, the songs were true to the album versions without being carbon copies, and despite not talking much, Billy seemed to be happy playing his songs for the 100 or so people that were there. After the set was finished, Billy came to the back merch table and signed everybody’s stuff. I snagged a setlist from the soundboard, so I had him sign that along with the CD cover. Sara mentioned to him that it had been 8 years since we first saw him (as a member of APC, at the 4/28/2000 NIN Toronto show) and that we couldn’t believe it had been that long. He was pretty gracious about the whole thing, and I came away liking the album that much more after seeing it performed live. A great Sunday night show. Setlist: Sword, Enemies, Too Late, Ritual, Stripped Away, A Wish, Forever Can Be, The Prey, Defamed, Denial Waits, The Chain (Fleetwood Mac cover), The Stone.
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Back In Business
By Eric | May 30, 2008 4:13 pm
After about a month of power problems, I finally got around to ordering and installing a new DC jack on my jukebox, as the old one decided to give up the ghost. It’s not like I can’t recharge batteries, but when I use it in the car, it’s really nice to have it turn on and turn off along with the car (read: I’m lazy). I also picked up a nifty little device that converts the 5v USB out of the computer into a 9V line suitable for powering the archos. No more wall wart necessary! It’s a nice workaround for the fact that the Archos was manufactured before the time of powering/charging stuff via USB.
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Jamey Gets It, Why Can’t Everyone Else?
By Eric | May 28, 2008 10:48 am
From an interview in Miami, Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta hits the nail on the head, in reference to heavy music:
It’s all aggressive music, you know? It’s people that overthink it on the Internet and stuff who make that there’s all this separation. But there really isn’t. But once you get out to the show and see kids in a shirt and talk to the kids, you realize that just because there’s four guys posting ten times each, it’s not reality, you know? There’s not as much separation as everyone thinks.
Jamey, you are soooooooooo not metal/hardcore/extreme. Way to sell out. Or something. 🙂
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How many more concerts this summer? Just got ticke
By Eric | May 28, 2008 12:00 am
How many more concerts this summer? Just got tickets for Godsmack-7Dust-Alter Bridge @ Darien Lake on 7/26. That’ll be 3 shows in 3 days!
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Best news I’ve heard in a long time… Nothingface
By Eric | May 26, 2008 12:00 am
Best news I’ve heard in a long time… Nothingface is back in the studio… with Gaal and Houck back in the fold!
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I always loved this riff… this was one of my fav
By Eric | May 15, 2008 12:00 am
I always loved this riff… this was one of my favorites off of the Black Album http://blip.fm/4518
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I have the magic touch today, just scored a GA tic
By Eric | May 9, 2008 12:00 am
I have the magic touch today, just scored a GA ticket for NIN Toronto for Sara… lots of others couldn’t apparently!
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Is This Even English? You Decide.
By Eric | May 8, 2008 11:21 pm
from: Zach Dennis
to: woopop@woopop.com
date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM
subject: Slipknot
Yea i was there at the esl concert 1st time i’ve seen them and was wondering if u had ne video’s or pics or where i can go find a place for that. I wanna see the videos. thnx
Zach
Zach, I’m really sorry that normal typing and grammar skills escape you. Due to your unintelligible prose, I’m going to have to deny your request, and stamp it with the Carlo “English Fail” seal-of-approval.
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I managed to get one GA ticket for NIN in Toronto!
By Eric | May 7, 2008 12:00 am
I managed to get one GA ticket for NIN in Toronto!!!
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