street teaming!
By Eric | July 11, 2003 12:42 am
From a rock/metal parody page on Roadrunner’s page… really funny if you’ve ever done street team stuff, even funnier if you know who most of the bands are… 🙂
Nation Rocked by Turf Wars Among Street Teams
A bit too much of it hit close to home… where do you think I get all them stickers from? 🙂
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someone finally got it right
By Eric | July 10, 2003 9:57 am
Illegal Downloading of Internet Tracks Boosting Sales of Albums
Well DUH!! And the biggest thing that the record companies seem to forget that if they would LOWER THEIR PRICES to a more reasonable level, they’d more than make it up on volume. And the article is absoultely right, the singles market would dry up, and with good reason. Who’s gonna pay $5 for two songs? That’s just stupid. (Don’t get me started on the imports market, that’s another rant for another time).
Anyway, last night I went out shopping with Mom for Matt and Lisa’s wedding gift, and then I went out with Danielle and Adrienne, and let me tell ya, Chippewa is DEAD on Wednesday nights. Hot Damn. The Crocodile Bar had bike night or something, all I know is I got two free BBQ sandwiches out of the deal. Other than that it was kinda bunk, so we headed to Wild Wings, and closed that place down… at 1. They close at 1!!! All the better for getting to sleep at a decent hour.
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just because I want to
By Eric | July 9, 2003 1:24 am
Two more tidbits before bed:
1. Britney (FINALLY!) admits that she let Justin hit it… – DUH! Who did she think she was fooling?
2. Spike Lee drops his suit against TNN/SpikeTV – I’m changing my name to “Word”(tm), and then I’m gonna sue anyone that uses any type of “Word”(tm) for fun and profit.
That’s all folks.
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Theory Rocked!
By Eric | July 2, 2003 12:57 am
I’m back from the show tonight (well, after being on the phone with Tiff and taking a shower!)… as always, the review is forthcoming, but suffice to say that all 3 bands were great, despite there only being 50 people (at most!) in the place… Theory of a Deadman was of course excellent, and I got my souviniers like always (signed cd cover and setlist, and a couple picks!). But both 40 Foot Echo and 3 Days Grace rocked it pretty hard as well. Adrienne and Danielle enjoyed themselves, and I think were more into the openers!
Sleepy time round these parts, gotta wash the garage with the new powerwasher to make it squeaky clean for all those attending on saturday!
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07/01/2003 Theory of a Deadman, Three Days Grace, Forty Foot Echo (Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theater)
By Eric | July 1, 2003 11:59 pm
Adrienne and Danielle accompanied me to this show. We got there at the supposed doors opening time at 7. Hah! 7:30 we made it into the place, and sat around for about an hour till they started. And we literally sat around, in the few seats, because there wasn’t more than 30 people there at that time, and I think its a safe bet that there was only 50 by show’s end. No matter, it was like a personal concert for us! Before the show started I had gotten Tim’s (the drummer) and Tyler’s (lead singer) autographs on the Theory CD cover, so I was 2 for 4 before it even started! So Forty Foot Echo was up first, and they’re a Default-ish kinda band, they had a couple slower songs, but a couple rockin ones too. Not too bad for an opener. Three Days Grace were up next, and before they were, we got approached by some kids on their street team to pose for a picture with the postcards and stickers, so they get credit for the show. So maybe we’ll end up on their site somewhere 🙂 They were much harder, and sounded good as well. The guitar player has a wicked mohawk too 🙂 They also got about a half hour to play, and it was a pleasant surprise that both openers were as good as they were. Then it was time for Theory! Opening with Invisible Man into What You Deserve, they came out rockin. They also commented on only the die-hards coming out, and the fact that 3 Canadian bands were playing in Buffalo on Canada Day. Next up were Confession, Nothing Could Come Between Us, Say I’m Sorry, Point To Prove, Last Song, and then a “new” one, Inside, which according to David (guitarist) is another b-side from the album sessions that hasn’t seen release yet. After this was Any Other Way, a cover of the Allman Brothers’ Midnight Rider, and then the NCCBU b-side (and my new personal favorite!), Above This. They skipped the encore schtick since there was hardly anyone there, and dove right into Make Up Your Mind. After this song, these three girls in the front promptly left, leaving a gaping hole at the barrier. In talking to David afterwards, he mentioned that he could tell that that’s what they were waiting for, and looked bored the rest of the time. Ouch! Why be in front and look bored, especially when there’s NO ONE ELSE THERE and they can see you?! In any event, they closed with Leg To Stand On, and after the set, came down and greeted everyone that was there (all 50 of us), and signed stuff. The guys in the other two bands were most gracious in signing stuff as well. So it was a nice small show with a non-existant crowd that made enough noise for everyone else 🙂
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Currently Listening To…
By Eric | June 30, 2003 1:43 pm
the sound of my butt firmly planted in this chair…
But seriously, in the ever-relentless pursuit of doing less typing, I found a neat winamp plugin (and javascript) that will automatically update the webpage with whatever I’m listening to at the moment (providing CDDB and the ID3 tags all say what they’re supposed to!). BlogAmp is the neat little thing thats allowing me to do this. I played with putting the script in the moveable type template header, and then having the script called from each individual post, but that doesn’t seem to want to work quite yet… something else to play with 🙂
Now all of you can make fun of me for what I’m listening to at any given moment. In addition, I found out that if I’m not listening to anything in winamp, it displays whatever the last song played was. So now you can also see what song is driving me absolutely nuts because it’s the last thing I heard!
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doubleDriving to the landmarks
By Eric | June 27, 2003 11:48 am
Well, since there was no food in the house, it was off to DiBella’s for lunch on Thursday, and then just a bit of driving around. The mail was the most exciting part of my day up to that point, because my doubleDrive demos came in!
In a nutshell, after dD put out 1000 Yard Stare on MCA Records, six months of touring later, the label told the band they couldn’t push the record anymore, and to go back and record a new one. So they did, finished a record, and then MCA dropped them all together. Roadrunner finally picked them up, and half of this newly recorded album made it onto Blue In The Face, along with some brand new stuff. The songs that got left off are whats on this disc that I got, and let me tell you, every one of them could have been on an album, they’re that good. It was like getting another dD album altogether!!
So that aside, I hung out at Sara’s house (not the apartment!) for a bit in the afternoon, we wandered over to Mercer’s house because his truck was in the driveway. Turns out he was in North Carolina on a job interview! Mike gave me his cellphone number though, so now I can get ahold of him! We headed to the apartment, where Adrienne and her friend from work, Sarah, were waiting for us to head to Thursday in the Square. Sarah was visiting from PA, and was an intern of sorts at Adr’s place, and since she’s a big finger eleven fan, she came with us to the show. We got there just as they started, and they played a pretty long set for being the openers! Never seen garbage cans used as beach balls before!!We didn’t stay for Default, instead got a nice cold drink, and after dropping Sarah off, went to go take more pictures with Sara. First stop was the Central Terminal, and then the old Buffalo Psych Center. Fun stuff! (See Sara’s site for all the pictures and stuff)
We came back to my house for a minute to pick up Amanda, and then headed to the apartment for a little drinky 🙂 Danielle came over, as did Sara’s friend from work Tony. We had a pretty good time, including a walk to Denny’s at 3am… and Amanda drove home 🙂 heheheh.
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06/26/2003 Finger Eleven (Buffalo, NY @ Lafayette Square)
By Eric | June 26, 2003 11:59 pm
I ventured to this with Sara, Adrienne, and Adrienne’s friend Sarah from work. We got there just as F11 was starting, and there was a ton of people there already. Sara and Adrienne were content to just watch from the side, and since Sarah was a big F11 fan and had never seen them before, we wandered into what I would guess to be the exact middle of the crowd, and dead center in front of the stage. A great view actually! So they were opening with Above by the time we got there, and then continued on with Absent Elements, Sad Exchange, Complicated Questions, Suffocate, Quicksand, For The Ocean, Conversations, Obvious Heart, Thousand Mile Wish, Tip, Good Times, One Thing, and closed up with First Time. This set was much heavier on the new self titled disc than the Showplace show was, and they played the mellower songs off that album as well, with James Black playing a funky looking electric/acoustic guitar. They sounded great though, and looked to be having fun up on the stage. There were a couple mosh pits, some miserable attempts at crowdsurfing, two fights, and instead of batting a beach ball around, kids took to batting garbage cans!! Sean even commented on it, calling Buffalo fans “hardcore” cuz they don’t mess around with beachballs 🙂 We didn’t stick around for Default, so a great show ended at a decent hour for us too.
The band themselves posted the full set bootleg to YouTube!
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New CD Storage
By Eric | June 15, 2003 8:22 pm
So I ended up going with my parents to Allentown again today… same stuff, we seemed to cover it a lot faster this time. *shrug* Dunno. But after we got home, I took off for a little bit, and went to Target… lo and behold, a Case Logic 208 Capacity CD binder, on clearance for $5!! Rock on! Now *ALL* of my burned CD’s can go in the car 🙂
Heading to Sara’s soon to try and fix the router problem once and for all… funny, it always works while I’m there, but never after I leave 🙂 hehe…
“I TOLD YOU LAST TIME, ROUTERS IS MAGIC!!!”
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Mid-Weekend Update
By Eric | June 15, 2003 11:11 am
Tiff has gone and departed back to Newfield… We had a pretty good time here this weekend 🙂 Thursday night she arrived, Friday we did some shopping, a CD run (Tiff completed her New Found Glory discography, she’s got em all now!) and then hit up Rock’N’Roll Heaven in West Seneca to see That 80’s Hair Band with Danielle and Adrienne. Saturday was the Allentown Art Festival with Sara, and then we had Jake’s birthday party here with the family. We’re all a bunch of screwballs… we have fun at our parties 🙂 hehe. Jake even brought his girlfriend around and subjected her to the inquisition that usually ensues 🙂
I think I’m probably going to go with my parents to the Art festival again, just for something to do, plus its Father’s Day, so family time is always good 🙂 Chip and Cathy invited me to go with them, but family’s gotta win out somewhere 🙂 hehe.
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