a night out with the parents

By Eric | November 28, 2002 12:01 pm

So yes, the night out on the town with the parents…. rather interesting…. We picked up Adrienne, and we met Sara and Nate at Hard Rock about 10ish, and the first band went on about quarter to 11 or so… The DollyTramps or something stupid like that. Imagine the worst punk band you’ve ever seen, combined with a singer that makes Courtney Love look like a virtuoso, and you’d have this band. Just absolutely shitty chord and a half “riot-grrl” garbage. And they threw tampons at us during a song titled “On The Rag”. “Excuse me, can I go see ICP now? I think they’d be more entertaining.” Anyway, we got our relief after a half hour when the main attraction “That 80’s Hair Band” came on. These guys are awesome! It’s just 80’s hair metal covers, but its so damn cool!!! While we were there, they played 18 and Life, Talk Dirty to Me, Bringin on the Heartbreak, Bang Your Head, and the last song before we left was Tesla’s “Modern Day Cowboy”. Ever see me when I can’t stop grinning, as in, uncontrollably? That’s what these guys do to me…. its hysterical! So we figured we’d check out the Casino and maybe the Hard Rock “club” thats on the Canadian side. Well, if we’d been able to get over the bridge in a timely fashion. The bridge was backed up all the way back over to the American side, so we said screw it, and went to Denny’s instead! It was funny being there like we always are, but with the parents there too! We didnt quite make it home till about 2:15 or so, so it really was a typical night out for us. hehehe.
When did my parents get so cool? 🙂
so Grandmas house for turkey this afternoon, gonna get stuffed!
current mood: I’m hungry now dammit!
song: Audioslave – Light My Way
shirt: AIC / Queen of Hearts

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encore medley

By Eric | November 22, 2002 12:18 am

The review is forthcoming, but suffice to say Sevendust was every bit as good tonight as they were Saturday…. AND, they did a little medley of covers during the encore!!! Walk (Pantera), Master of Puppets (Metallica), Sweet Child O Mine (GNR), and We Die Young (AIC)…. it was sweet as hell!! It was the same setlist as Saturday’s show, actually for all the bands, but it really seemed like Sevendust had more fun tonight…. if thats possible, cuz they always have fun up there!!!
So now I’m home and its time to hit the sack, cuz tomorrow morning isnt coming early enough, driving to Rochacha to meet Tiff and bring her back here for two days… should be a blast!

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11/21/2002 Sevendust, 30 Seconds To Mars, Cinder, Closure (Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theater)

By Eric | November 21, 2002 11:59 pm

Sevendust twice in one week!! I flew this one solo, the sets were the same by all 4 bands, but the sound was simply much better this time around than at Water Street. The low end was mixed correctly this time for Cinder and 30 Seconds, and you could hear the vocals better. So yeah, same sets as the Rochester show, BUT…. during the encore, Sevendust busted out a medley of covers! Clint just started jamming all this stuff, it was pretty wild 🙂 They started with Walk (Pantera), Master of Puppets (Metallica), Sweet Child O Mine (GNR), and We Die Young (AIC)…. it was sweet as hell!! The guys seemed to be (if this is even possible) having more fun up there on this night than they did at Water Street as well. Twas a great show!!

Black
Denial
Redefine
Trust
Shine
Xmas Day
Rumble Fish
Crucified
Angel’s Son
Praise

Encore:
Waffle
Walk / Master Of Puppets / Sweet Child O Mine / We Die Young (Covers Medley)
Bitch

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60 watts in geneseo

By Eric | November 18, 2002 12:54 am

So as it turns out, Geneseo was a chorus/orchestra concert, and they performed Hadyn’s “The Creation”. So why were we there? Tiff’s parents are friends with a couple, Carol and Gary, and their daughter Lisa was a part of the chorus that was singing in this concert. So Tiff’s mother came down to see the concert, as did Carol and Gary, as did Lisa’s boyfriend and his mother as well. Tiff’s best friend Becca joined us also. So we all took in the concert, which lasted for the better part of two hours, and was a wonderful performance. After that we headed to see Lisa’s dorm room (if you’ve seen one Geneseo dorm room, you’ve seen them all! hehe), and then we went out to dinner. It seems that one of the best restaurants in Geneseo, the Big Tree Inn on Main Street, takes Geneseo food debit, and since Lisa had tons of debit to burn, she was going to take us all out. Dinner was quite enjoyable, if not long. The steak I got was excellent however! Since there were so many of us, Becca graciously paid for Tiff and I with her copious amounts of food debit. Twas a nice treat indeed! It was pretty cool to hang out with that many new people at once, a little nerve-wracking trying to keep the names all straight, but I did okay 🙂
We got back about 8:30 from that excursion, Tiff dropped me off at home, and I headed right back out the door with Adam to the Bug Jar for some more metal! Sixty Watt Shaman and Alabama ThunderPussy!! hehe (WHAT A NAME!!) Sixty Watt was really impressive, reminding me of a Corrosion of Conformity type of band. ATP was much in the same vein, just straight up hard rock. The review will be forthcoming!! Now its time to hit the sack. 🙂
Current mood: strangely still awake
song: Corrosion of Conformity – Senor Limpio
shirt: Tragically Hip / www.thehip.com

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11/17/2002 Alabama Thunderpussy, Sixty Watt Shaman, Low Ton (Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar)

By Eric | November 17, 2002 11:59 pm

Adam was hot for this show, and for $7 I was more than willing to oblige him. We got there as Low Ton was halfway through their set, they weren’t too bad, but I could hardly hear the singer, and the guitar playing wasn’t terribly imaginative. Next up was the main band Adam wanted to see, Sixty Watt Shaman. These guys impressed the hell out of me! They reminded me of Corrosion of Conformity, just real straight up rock, a singer that could actually sing, and some damn cool riffs. It’s hard to write a lot because I wasnt familiar with the songs at all, but their 45 minutes went pretty fast, and I was pretty well captivated. 🙂 And then it was time for one of the coolest band names in rock, Alabama Thunderpussy!! (Too bad they’re from Virginia!) More just straight up rock, they reminded me a whole lot of Jackyl, which isnt a bad thing. Just good heavy music with good riffs. Shows at the Bug Jar are usually all the diehards, there couldnt have been more than 150 people there, but everyone rocked out 🙂

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a battle scar to impress the parents with

By Eric | November 17, 2002 11:54 am

So much for the car last night… I’da tried, but no WD40!!! Dammit I’m so unprepared! So Tiff came over with her car (Thank You!) and I actually made dinner again (ok ok, it was frozen fish in the oven, nothing special!!). I dropped Tiff off at her place, picked up Jason, and went to the show… got in line out in the freezing cold about 6:30, and realized that neither of us brought our earplugs.. DOH! I refuse to do shows without earplugs anymore if I can absolutely help it. So what did we do? Came all the way back to RIT of course! Gathered up our earplugs, and drove back to Water Street, got an even BETTER spot on the bridge somehow, and walked right into the place, seeing that it was now 20 after 7… the review will be up shortly, but for the rundown, we got in while Closure was playing, by the time Cinder got up there we were 3 back from the barrier, and after 30 Seconds To Mars we got barrier! Had it for all of Sevendust’s set! Halfway through the encore during Waffle, I got my BEST.CONCERT.BATTLESCAR.EVER. 🙂 Crowdsurfer went over, and while he was flailing around, I got kicked in the face, so I’m now sporting a nice two inch red mark below my right eye… it’ll prolly bruise eventually, but it still looks cool! 🙂 hehehe… (my eye is fine, I had it closed, do not worry!!) I still hate crowdsurfers though… BUT THATS NOT ALL!!! So Sevendust is usually pretty liberal with giving out picks, Morgan throws a couple of sticks…. on this night though, seeing as he went through two of them, I also got BEST.CONCERT.SOUVENIER.EVER!! Long arms come in handy when they throw out a DRUM HEAD like a frisbee!!! I GOT A DRUM HEAD!!! Sweet!! (Oh, yeah, and the show was great too!) Jason didn’t go away empty handed, he got a Sevendust setlist 🙂 hehe. So after I dropped him off, I came back to Tiff’s to give her the car, and iced down my eye/cheek, and then we came back to 156.
Today is another Geneseo choral concert, but this time Tiff’s parents are also going, as the person we’re going to see is the daughter of Tiff’s parent’s best friends, and supposedly we’re getting dinner down there as well… So I get to meet Tiff’s parents for real this time, as opposed to the brief introduction a couple of weeks ago.. so that should be cool, and then after that, me and Adam are going to the Bug Jar for another metal show, this time, its the 60 Watt Shamen, and Alabama ThunderPussy….. how can you pass up the opportunity to see a band called Alabama ThunderPussy??? For $5!!!! hehe…
Current mood: still giddy from last night!!!
song: Orgy – Beautiful Disgrace

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11/16/2002 Sevendust, 30 Seconds To Mars, Cinder, Closure (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)

By Eric | November 16, 2002 11:59 pm

I picked up Jason and we headed down to Water Street in some crappy cold weather. We froze outside in line for like 5 minutes when we realized that neither of us had brought our earplugs!! DAMMIT! So we figured we’d do okay inside no matter what time we got there, and as such, came all the way back to RIT to pick up earplugs. We got back to Water Street, and practically walked right in without waiting, and stood off to the side during Closure. This band wasn’t all that bad, but it was the wrong kind of band to be opening for Sevendust methinks. They were more of a Creed-ish kinda sounding band. By the time they finished, Jason and I had moved up to 3 people deep from the barrier. For whatever reason they put up a 2nd barrier in front of the nice padded one that is usually there… maybe the wood one can’t withstand the crowd… weird though, since it wasn’t in for Soulfly. Anyway, Cinder was up next, and they sounded like a typical post-grunge band that you’ll hear on the radio, they weren’t awful, but nothing special. And insane amounts of low end, as in, the bass was up way too much. Thank God we went back for our plugs.

30 Seconds To Mars was up next, and there were quite a few girls in the crowd to see them, since the lead singer (Jared Leto of “My So-Called Life” fame) is a so-called “hottie”. Blah. They reminded me of Orgy in some respects, but didn’t sound as good. The drummer had a really elaborate setup, and hardly used half of it! They played their set, and they kinda grew on me by the end of it, but I’m not excited to see these two bands again at Showplace. Blah.

Anyway, a bunch of people left after they got done, so me and Jason got barrier!! Sevendust came out to “Something I Can Never Have” (yes, NIN!) and I still can’t figure out why!! They ripped into Black to start it off, and kept up the tempo with Denial and Redefine. Trust was next, and then the set kinda took a bit darker turn, with Shine and then X-mas Day, which I haven’t heard live before. Back with the up-tempo with Rumble Fish and Crucified, and then it was time for Angel’s Son. This time however, instead of talking about Lynn Strait, LJ spoke about his younger brother who had just been killed a week or two earlier, and he dedicated the song to him. Quite emotional indeed. They ended the main set with Praise. The obligatory encore was next, first with Waffle, during which I got kicked by a crowdsurfer and got my most impressive concert battle scar to date, a nice two inch mark under my right eye. 🙂 The finale was the entire place singing Bitch at the top of their lungs. We hung around the barrier for a couple minutes, and like the pro frisbee player that I really am not, I caught a DRUM HEAD that got launched from the stage! Holy Awesome!! Jason got a Sevendust setlist and a 30 Seconds to Mars pick, so we both went home happy!! The show was awesome as all get out, one of the better ones I’ve been to in awhile!

Black
Denial
Redefine
Trust
Shine
Xmas Day
Rumble Fish
Crucified
Angel’s Son
Praise

Encore:
Waffle
Bitch

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coasting to the nonpoint

By Eric | November 12, 2002 7:30 pm

Just kinda coasted through tuesday during the day… Our Needs Assessment presentation went off without a hitch, then came work, then Network Programming, which we really didnt have, so I just went home. Got an email for a Tenure review for one of my IT professors, so I filled out the student questionnaire and took that into building 1… drove around Rochester for a bit.. came back home in time for my 5:30 tech transfer group meeting that really wasnt a meeting, so home again, dinner, and then reading for State and Local Politics… and now this… yeah, not the most exciting day ever…. until I checked the mail and found that not only did I get the Nonpoint indie CD I ordered, but I got my Audioslave street team stuff as well!! One of those nice 8×10 record company publicity photos, and far too few stickers and an even lesser amount of CDs… the CD is only a 1 track of Cochise, so its not like its the coolest thing ever…. 🙂 But still exciting nonetheless!
current mood: break from HW
song: Pearl Jam – Can’t Keep
shirt: Staind / Cracked Doll Heads

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Cantrell in Ithaca

By Eric | November 4, 2002 1:27 pm

Ithaca, NY…. wonderful place to visit, and probably wouldn’t mind living there! hehe…. Anyway, me and Adam headed out of Rochester about 11:30, and got into Ithaca at about 1:30… Found Kelley’s apartment with no problems, and we were greeted by Karl, Matt and Lisa as well…. so as soon as we got there, it was off to downtown Ithaca for lunch, to Rulloff’s, where they had a sunday brunch menu… kinda interesting, sandwiches, and then omelettes and other breakfast stuff as well… lunch broke up around 3, and Karl took us on a mini whirlwind tour on the way back to Kelley’s place. Karl, Matt and Lisa left for Rochester soon after, and after a bit of lounging, Kelley showed us some more of downtown, the “Commons” area…. all kinds of little shops and boutiques and things like that… while we were out, Tiffany got ahold of us, as she had to head home as well for the next couple days, so we ventured out of Ithaca proper to go see her house and pick her up… I got to meet her mother, who was very nice, and offered us cookies! 🙂 We checked out (according to Tiff) Newfield’s lone attraction, a wooden covered bridge, which provided seconds of fun during the time we were in it!! (I’m kidding! It was pretty cool!) So around 5:45 dinner was onto Franco’s, a local italian restaurant proclaimed by Tiff to be her favorite, and Kelley had heard glowing reviews as well, so we decided that would be the place to go… yes, yes it was the place to go indeed! The portions were fairly big, and the fact that we’d just eaten at 2 didn’t help matters either, so I only ate half of what I ordered, boxed the rest up, and promptly left it in Kelley’s fridge! DOH! But the food was excellent, and we practically had the place to ourselves for a little while, we seemed to have beaten the dinner crowd for a sunday night, because rumor has it that the place is almost always packed. After dinner we came back to Kelley’s place and hung out a bit longer… and since I had forgotten earplugs, it was off to the new Target to get some… aka a timewaster, as we spent a good chunk of time in there just browsing… It was about 8:30 by this point, so we took Tiffany back home, and stopped back into her house for a couple minutes, as I had the pleasure of meeting her father as well. Back on the road to the show right? Nope, Adam left his ticket in the apartment! hehe… so back to Kelley’s one more time, and then onto the Haunt, which was only 5 minutes away… JERRY!! JERRY!! The doors were at 9, so the ticket said, we got there at 9:15 and Comes With The Fall was just finishing up…. I’ll post the full-on review later, but Mad at Gravity was decent, they seem to be another Incubus/Audiovent/Hoobastank sort of band… Udora was next, from Brasil so it was said, they weren’t too bad, actually got better as they went on… and Jerry was Jerry… first half was all his solo stuff, 2nd half was all Alice stuff….. it rocked! We got out of there about 1, shot back to Kelley’s for a bit, thanked her profusely, and hit the road… rolled into Rochacha exactly at 3am… zzzzzzz!! Thankfully I have class starting at 2pm today!!! It’s off to Tech Transfer and State and Local right now… So stay tuned for the Jerry Cantrell review hopefully later tonight!!
Current mood: blah, dont wanna go to class
song: Theory of a Deadman – The Last Song
shirt: Korn / Sick and Twisted bootleg

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11/03/2002 Jerry Cantrell, Udora, Mad At Gravity, Comes With The Fall (Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt)

By Eric | November 3, 2002 11:59 pm

After much driving around in and around Ithaca during the day, Kelley, Adam and I decended upon the Haunt about 9pm, and Comes With The Fall was just finishing up their set. We caught the last two songs, and they sounded pretty decent. Mad At Gravity was up next, and while the first three or so songs were impressive, the second half kinda reverted to the Incubus/Hoobastank/Audiovent type of California stuff… they weren’t bad, but they weren’t exceptional either. Udora was up next, from Brazil they said. The music wasn’t the most original stuff ever, but they put a ton of feeling and emotion into it, and it made the show entertaining, especially their bass player, he was a maniac! Time for Jerry!!! I felt like I was at a taping of the Jerry Springer show with the chanting! hehe… He came out and started playing Castaway, then into Bargain Basement Howard Hughes and Psychotic Break. It was sort of a slow way to open the set, but if the crowd wasn’t into it yet, they were by the time he played Anger Rising and Cut You In!! That really got the little place rocking, and he followed that up with Hellbound and Devil By His Side… I could see the setlist, and it said No Excuses was supposed to be next, but someone yelled out “IT AIN’T LIKE THAT!!” to which Jerry replied… “Good Choice!” and proceeded to play it!! Freakin awesome!! After that, he said “Okay, we played one of yours, now it’s my pick…” as they started up Angry Chair!! Mildy amusing was the fact that Jerry always wanted to sing different words than what was normally in the song at that point, which was totally screwing up his guitar player / other singer… quite comical!! Next up was Man In The Box, which the crowd sang a lot of, to close the main set… after a bit, they came back and started up Down In A Hole, and finished the night out with Them Bones. It was a great show in a wicked small place, about half of what Showplace is, and they crammed about 600 people into this place!! Jerry mentioned during the set that the owner of the club used to be Sean Kinney’s drum tech back in the day, and that’s why he played Ithaca. Kinda explains things, since one would think Jerry would be playing a bit bigger place around here, such as Showplace or Water Street, or even one of the clubs in Syracuse. No matter, better for us!!! After the show we milled around for a minute or two, and Kelley scored me a Jerry pick, and a Comes With The Fall setlist. Thanks Kel!!
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