At least they admit it…

By Eric | February 17, 2003 1:39 pm

Just heard on a 94.1 The Zone promo:

“We take your favorite bands… and make you hate them.”

No truer words have ever been spoken. Maybe if you wouldn’t PLAY THE HELL OUT OF THE SAME FIVE SONGS, that wouldn’t happen!!!

(Pete, I know you’re gonna get a kick out of this one… as I’m writing this, Taproot’s “Poem” comes on!! AAAAHHHH!)

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A great weekend so far…

By Eric | February 16, 2003 12:05 pm

Thus far, its been going even better than I thought it would 🙂 Friday night Tiff got out of class, and after exchaning our Valentine’s pleasantries (thank you kiddo!!), we hit the mall for some grub, and got to the arena about 6:30… The place ended up being packed as usual, and RIT defeated Elmira 5-3 in a fairly exciting game, lots of rough stuff, fan taunting, the usual 🙂 hehe.. After that we joined Karl, Kelley, Chip, Cathy and Joanie at Empire for some post game festivities…

Saturday during the day was my time to wrap up the Computer Crime paper, all thats left is to whip up a presentation… yay powerpoint 🙂 hehe. Once that was done, Tiff came back from the labs, and we left for our belated Valentine’s dinner, to DaVinci’s on West Henrietta… a very nice place, and the food was good too! After that we chilled at Tiff’s place for a little bit, and then it was time to rock!!!

We got to the Penny Arcade about 8:30 or so, just as Noise Therapy was starting… got in (got a ticket stub, how about that?!) and rocked out. The review is up here, but as a synopsis, Ra was up next, and I have not been so impressed with an opening band (that I didn’t know beforehand) in a long time!! They have a middle eastern tinge to them (not as blatant as the Tea Party, but in the same vein…) These guys rocked!! No one seemed particularly interested in the setlist for some reason, so I grabbed it, and got it signed… then it was Seether time… and they were every bit as good… they put on a great show… and I got a setlist from them also!! AND got it signed by the guys… a TWO SETLIST NIGHT!! 🙂 *PLUS* a drumstick from Nick from Seether!! (Ra is on the left, Seether is on the right):




I have to give a quick shout out now to the two girls in front of us, one of which takes pictures for StaticNoise.net, the site has pics from the Greenwheel/Hoobastank show at RIT, and eventually will have pics from the OLP show and this one…

So the parents are coming up today with Jake, Tiff’s parents are coming up also, and we’re all heading to Beale Street for dinner.. should be a fun time!!

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02/15/2003 Seether, Ra, Noise Therapy (Rochester, NY @ The Penny Arcade)

By Eric | February 15, 2003 11:59 pm

What a great place to see bands… its one of the smallest places, and since its so out of the way, everyone thats there generally wants to be there… save for the fence/barrier that’s kinda ghetto, but whatever. We rolled in about 8:30, and after a little confusion on the part of the guys taking the money, we got in, got ticket stubs (don’t know how, not complaining!), and wandered into the place. Noise Therapy was just starting, and save for one or two songs, it was the same downtuned 7-string sludge stuff that Korn made famous and everyone tries to copy. Nothing too original, but they weren’t horrible; their singer actually could sing. They were off in a half hour, and even though the tickets said Socialburn was supposed to be playing, they cancelled for some unknown reason. so up next was Ra. I’d heard a little bit, grabbed the mp3 for the single, but only listened to it like once. But then we saw them live. Oh my!! These guys are the most impressive band I hadn’t known about beforehand in a long time!! They rock hard, but the songs have melody and structure, and the singer can actually sing… they have a slight middle eastern tinge, not as pronounced as the Tea Party, but its there. And its good! For the last song they did, Skorn, they brought out Shaun from Seether, and broke into part of a cover of Korn’s Blind, which was really cool. There were quite a few people there that knew the stuff too… After their set, everyone ran to the merch booth where they were signing stuff, so me and Tiff moved up to the front, to be there for Seether… and Ra’s setlist was just sitting there, in full reach, but no takers!! Except me, of course! I headed to the back, and got all 4 of the guys to sign it… fun wow!

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So I got back to Tiff at the front, and Seether came out and rocked the place… they played everything off the album save for Sympathetic, Fine Again was dedicated to Dave Williams, and Your Bore was for “everyone that didn’t get a valentine on Friday” hehe. They a new song called Burrito (don’t let the name fool you, it rocked!), and the song from the Daredevil soundtrack, Hang On. They came back for a one song encore, the bass player came out with an acoustic guitar, and Ra’s lead singer came out with Shaun to do Broken acoustically… When it was over, I managed to snag a Seether setlist, got it signed by all the guys, and then the drummer was handing out drumsticks, so I got one of those too!! The show was a great time, and since the tickets were only $12, well worth it!!
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Headstrong

By Eric | February 12, 2003 11:32 am

…the name of that song that was driving us all nuts in the crew room on Tuesday… Trapt got in Pete’s head, and then the rest of ours… so we’re singing it all day. Yep. Gotta love overplayed radio.

Tuesday was a long one, just like every other tuesday, I did get stuff done though, however, especially on the Routing and Switching project, which is coming very nicely… 3-Tier Hierarchical Model anyone? 🙂 I got to set up the NAT router, and did it right this time!!

I trudged home afterward, and after cranking out some slides for our Network Design presentation, Tiff came over and we got some quality Scrabble time in 🙂

1:30 will be the usual lunch time with Tiff, then after I drop her off I’m meeting the guys back in the netlab for more Routing and Switching fun 🙂

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02/07/2003 Our Lady Peace, Greenwheel (Rochester, NY @ RIT Clark Gym)

By Eric | February 7, 2003 11:59 pm

I waited 5 years for OLP to come to RIT, hoping and dreaming, and then when it finally happened, it wasn’t as good as it could have been. Not the show itself, and I’m impressed as hell that RIT got OLP to begin with. However, The doors were supposed to open at 7, so we got there about 6:45 thinking we wouldnt have to freeze so much. Nope, first 7:30, then it was 8 before we got in!!! Frozen! (Shades of OLP @ water street in 2001!) Rumor has it that the soundcheck wasn’t to OLP’s liking, and also that they were goofing around for a while beforehand… Finally got in and huddled together getting warm, and Greenwheel came out about 8:20 I believe, very quickly 🙂 They didn’t disappoint at all, and I think they had a lot more support this time around since everyone saw them with Hoobastank when they came here. They got a bit longer set this time, opening with Shelter, and then into Faces, Identity, Flood, Everything, Radiance (which we didn’t get last time), Breathe, Dim Halo, Strong, and closed with The End (which we also didn’t get last time!) OLP actually came out a short time afterwards, the set change wasn’t that long. This turned out to be the roughest RIT show I’ve ever been to, and naturally, we get behind the one jackass on the barrier that thinks he’s gonna push everyone back… so he slams his ass backwards, right into Tiff’s stomach. She kinda got the wind knocked out of her, so we got out of the crowd and found everyone on the bleachers. OLP’s set sounded good, but Raine can’t hit anything anymore… also, the setlist selection left a little to be desired for me, there was only 1 song off of Happiness, and only 1 off of Spiritual Machines… I don’t remember the order, but they opened with Naveed, into Superman’s Dead, then the order gets fuzzy, but we got All For You, Do You Like It, Not Enough, Birdman, Clumsy, Is Anybody Home, Innocent, Are You Sad, a new song called Our Time is Fading, Whatever, then closed the main set with Starseed. For the encore, they did a song I’ve never seen them do, a cover of The Cars’ Drive, followed by Somewhere Out There, and closed it out with 4am. As I said with the Water Street show over the summer, the show itself was good, but its just not like it was when Mike was with them. I was also surprised at the shortness of the set, they played a bit longer at Water Street, and I still would have liked to have seen maybe Right Behind You, Life, One Man Army, more stuff from Happiness and Naveed. It’s still one of the best RIT shows I’ve seen, so it wasn’t a total bummer, thankfully Greenwheel redeemed the show 🙂

Greenwheel – Breathe

Greenwheel – Dim Halo

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You’re Seeing Them AGAIN??

By Eric | February 7, 2003 10:09 am

Yes, again. Our Lady Peace before my very eyes for the 14th time. Yes, the 14th. No, I’m not sick. (Okay, I am, but that’s besides the point.) I’ve been going to see this band for six years now, starting on June 11, 1997. They’re finally coming to RIT for a show, something I’ve always sorta dreamed of since I got here. And now that it’s happened, its almost bittersweet, like it took them too long, like they’re not in their prime anymore. I’m still excited, I’m still looking forward to the show, and I know I’m gonna have a good time. It’s just that the last two albums to me haven’t quite matched what Naveed, Clumsy and Happiness did for me. Mike Turner isn’t playing guitar anymore, and he was always the one that was the most “fan-friendly”, and the one always willing to talk. And now that he’s gone, it’s just not the same anymore.

Having said all that, I’m still expecting a fun show, as OLP has always sounded great live, (Raine’s voice sometimes notwithstanding), and tonight should be no different. I’ll still be wearing my trusted, faded, holes-here-and-there, why-the-hell-are-you-wearing-that-again OLP shirt from that first show back in 97. Why? Because I have to. Because its tradition. Because I’m “that guy”, that wears the shirt of the band I’m going to see… FROM 4 TOURS AGO! Which means I was there way before any of you snot nosed “Somewhere Out There” teenybopper wannabes. [/RANT]

So anyway, if you’re going tonight, look for me and Tiff, and the rest of our crew near the front, the patented white RIT concert hat will be atop my head, rockin out as per usual. And lest we forget, Greenwheel is opening!!

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RIT does a concert right?

By Eric | January 29, 2003 10:04 am

It’s amazing… OLP is playing here on Feb 7th, and who did they get to open, well, straight off of their own site…. GREENWHEEL!!!! This is awesome!! …at least if the spring concert sucks, we’ll always have this one 🙂

Other shows coming up for the uninformed:

1/31 Henry Rollins @ Harro East
2/06 Greenwheel @ Bridge Street (Syracuse)
2/07 OLP and Greenwheel @ RIT
2/15 Seether @ Penny Arcade
2/20 Quiet Riot @ Penny Arcade < -- c'mon this deserves to be on here! 2/22 TrustCompany @ Showplace 2/25 TrustCompany @ Water Street 3/01 Audioslave @ Kool Haus (Toronto)
3/01 The Watchmen @ Dome Theater (Niagara Falls)
3/12 Tonic @ Nietzsche’s (Buffalo)
3/12 Whitesnake/Scorpions @ Syracuse ONCenter
3/18 SnoCore @ Water Street
3/24 Disturbed/Chevelle/Taproot @ Blue Cross
4/22 ICP/2 Live Crew @ Water Street
5/02 Pearl Jam @ HSBC

Those in Bold I’ll more than likely being attending… OLP, Audioslave and Tonic are definates… got tickets for those 🙂

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01/20/2003 3 Doors Down, Theory of a Deadman (Rochester, NY @ Harro East Ballroom)

By Eric | January 20, 2003 11:59 pm

I hadn’t been to Harro East since Chris Cornell 3 years ago, and I forgot how nice of a place it is. Me and Tiff got there about 5:50, because the doors were opening at 6:30. They even let us wait in the lobby area instead of freezing our asses off. They pushed us back outside when they were about to let people in, and thankfully we were in the middle, because the side doors got closed. We got in right away and got barrier. Waited an hour for Theory to come out, and when they did, they rocked the place HARD. They opened with Invisible Man, and I was immediately rockin out… Their lead singer, Tyler, noticed me right away, and proceeded to try for the rest of the night to throw a pick to me… none of them even coming close hehehe…. Next was What You Deserve, Point to Prove, and The Last Song. Then came my favorite, Any Other Way, and Nothing Could Come Between Us (which everyone knew, so that one was especially cool). Make Up Your Mind was next, and they closed the set with Leg To Stand On. They sounded really good, had a lot of energy, and looked like they were having fun up on the stage. I managed to snag a setlist after begging and pleading hehee. We only had to wait about 20 minutes or so for 3DD to come out, and opened with Not Enough… I can’t remember the exact order, but after that, there were a couple more from the first album, including Duck and Run, Better Life, and then switching to The Road I’m On, When I’m Gone, and Away From the Sun from the new album. They also played Kryptonite, Be Like That, By My Side, Down Poison, and then from the new one, Here Without You, and then they played Going Down in Flames, although I’d swear it wasn’t on the setlist, and it kinda sounded like it. All the other songs sounded great to that point, but I think they need to work on this one a bit more, the changes weren’t smooth and Brad wasn’t comfortable singing in the key he was in I don’t think. After that they did Changes and closed the main set with Sara Yellin’ which for me was their best song of the night. They came back for a one-song encore of Loser. 3dd sounded much better, and were more exciting to watch this time around then they had been before. I’m thinking this may be due to the fact that the new album isn’t played out yet (for me anyway), and they’re not headling over someone way more deserving, like they have before. So the show was a lot of fun, worth going to, and the best part of all, we were done by 10!! It’s about time they started getting us out at a decent hour… 🙂
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RIoT Rich!!

By Eric | January 9, 2003 1:47 am

Quick indeed, out by 10, in by 1… shot home to NT to pick up some of the miscellaneous crap I left, like a jacket, all the DVD’s I got for Xmas, another CD rack, etc. Found out we got a new dishwasher… go figure! Hit the auto parts store to replace my taillight bulb, which lit up, but wouldn’t let my turn signal flash. So that’s fixed. Back up in Rochester, picked up Tiff from work and caught lunch. She had to work again at 3:30, so I went with her, and then went to the Syslab to get some more NetAdmin done. Got some stuff done, headed to ETC to chill for a bit, then got Tiff at the end of her shift and went to her place for dinner (mmm deep fried french fries!!) and put in her new burner. Came back home and studied Computer Crime for a bit, half paying attention to my Nickelback DVD…

I came into my room to find 4 IM’s about this song by some dudes called Logic X, turns out “RIoT Rich” is all about our RIT “culture”. So I fire up good ol DC, and sure enough, the welcome message is pushin the song, and they were smart enough to put up a RAR with lyrics in it!! Not throwing them all up here, but here’s a taste:

got a new tackle box and a photoshop server
hair cut lookin like rainbow sherbert
I wear, sandals in the winter (it’s true)
I don’t buy books, just glitter and glue
have second year standing til I’m 24
raise a family at the art house, second floor
out of all programs, yeah, art’s the hardest
I’m not lazy, I’m a starving artist
even if you think my art is garbage
you’ll love how dope my shopping cart is
drop art? maybe when I’m not retarded
my portfolio’s still hot regardless
friends hit the weed til they choke and they faint
all I need? dry macaroni and spray paint
drawing every day, wow, I’m amazin
probably co-op in the tunnels, working on a painting

It’s only funny because here, its so damn true…
Ok. Ok. Here’s a link to the song! (7.9MB)

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12/04/2002 Saves The Day, Ash, Circle and Square, Plain White T’s (Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theater)

By Eric | December 4, 2002 11:59 pm

This show was Tiff’s show, but she had no one to go with, and I figured it couldn’t be all bad, right? Well, it really wasn’t bad at all! Plain White T’s were pretty cool, your standard poppy-punk kinda band, but they were pretty good, and when the lead singer broke two strings on his guitar, they just kept playing, with him just singing. Circle and Square was next, and put us to sleep. Whiny dork-rock emo at its finest. Snooze. And just for irony, what were they selling as merch? Pillowcases!! You figure it out. 🙂 Ash was up next, back to more regular punk, and they were decent as well. There seemed to be a lot of people there for them. Then it was Saves The Day time. They were better than I thought they’d be, and I recognized a couple of the songs, so that always helps. They sounded pretty good, and not as whiny as on the CD. It was kinda weird though, they ripped through song after song with hardly a pause in between, and not a word from the singer at all. Very interesting. The crowd was interesting too, about 75% were there because they were Saves The Day fans, and sang every word, and the other 25% just tried to dress the part. Entertaining, just like all the other shows, its just a different poser crowd. hehehe. The show was sold out, and there were about 50 kids outside trying to score non-existant tickets. So on the whole, it was a decent night, and best of all, we were out of there by 10:30!! Gotta love when you have 4 bands and still get out at a decent hour!

Another goodie from @liz_rinard #savestheday #ash #kindoflikespitting #circleandsquare #buffalo

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