09/22/2002 High On Fire, Jucifer (Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar)

By Eric | September 22, 2002 11:59 pm

Adam wanted somebody to go with to this one, so I figured, a small-time metal show? I haven’t really been to one before, why not? We got there as Jucifer was finishing up. Quite interesting, just two people, a girl on the guitar and a guy on the drums. She had her guitar tuned down pretty low, so the sound was bassy and dirty, and the drummer looked like Tommy Lee, and attacked the kit with about the same ferocity. Not to say that musically it was all that redeeming. The 10 minutes we saw of them was plenty enough. High on Fire, on the other hand, was a three-piece that played straightforward metal. The vocals were kinda growling, and the guitar work was a lot of chords and a little soloing here and there, but it was much easier to follow and get into. I don’t think I’ll be buying their CD, but it was an entertaining show nonetheless. A quick word about the Bug Jar too, since it was my first time there. This place is like seeing a band in your apartment, or rather, in a walk-in closet. Its that small. If anyone that you really loves comes to that place, you’ll be in heaven, and right on top of the band 🙂

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RIT moves to Geneseo, a *hit* of a party

By Eric | September 22, 2002 12:32 pm

Weekend Recap time! Friday night we indeed headed down to Geneseo, started out at Amy and Betsy’s house, where we were joined by two of Betsy’s RIT friends, so the 6 of us headed over to the townhouses to supposedly pick someone up, but that didnt happen. We got a tour of the townhouses instead (I’d been in Sara’s, so nothing new here hehe). Walked over to the Vital, and Dear God was there a lot of guys there… every guy at RIT must have had the same idea we did, cuz there were tons of them there. On to the Idle, where it was more of the same. We watched Betsy’s friends play pool, and then broke out of that place too at 2am. Next stop… Mama Mia’s! Ate, walked back to the house, and watched some TV… Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Thus capped off our night at Geneseo.
Saturday morning I was up at 11 (yeah, slept in, amazing!), and after getting some computer stuff together for Kelley to overhaul Karl’s computer, I hit the road for home. Rolled into NT about 2 o’clock, and chilled with the parents for a couple hours, then it was off to Grandma’s for dinner… Pork Roast! yay! So had a nice time at Grandma’s, talking with everyone there. Left at about 8pm to come back to RIT, and find out what was going on… or rather, become a part of what I knew was going on… hehe

Karl’s Car Hit, Friends Throw Party!

I don’t think Karl had any idea what was coming his way when Kelley and Will grabbed him and headed out.. heheh. We decided Karl should have a pity party for his hit and run mishap, and what better place than the scene of the crime, right? hehe. Between Dan and Kelley, they rounded up the Knarr’s, Erin, Ally and Bethy, and then his EE crew, and the 156 regular cast… and Tashi came out! It turned out to be quite the fun night! Dan concocted what he called “Genesee River Water”, which was vodka, fruit, and whatever else he saw fit to put in there hehe. Karl’s senior design buddy Scott did a shot of Everclear…. “Whoaaa……..” heheh. As the night grew longer, it became a singalong… Pearl Jam, GNR, STP… yeah, and just for the record, *I* did not start it this time!! Scott did (*pointing the finger of blame at him!*), and then we had the entire place trying to be Chris Cornell on Hunger Strike… how many dying cats are there in that house? hehe. Kevin was the only one that hit it…. hehe. We broke it up about 1:30, and I gotta thank Kelley for giving me a ride home… as the away message said… I was sleeping safe and sound at 156, and my car was doing the same over at Genny Park 🙂
Football today! I hate NFL TV rules, could I watch the Jets and Dolphins at 1? Nooooooooo… Dallas and Philly… who the hell cares. Blah. Bills – Broncos at 4, should be a good game. And then I think I’m heading with Adam to the Bug Jar tonight for a metal show… High On Fire and Jucifer are the names of the bands… I’m trusting Adam on this one hehehe 🙂

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cds, liquor, more geneseo

By Eric | September 20, 2002 6:20 pm

Well, after work we had quite the interesting time, me and Joe headed out for some DiBella’s, then I showed him the magic that is Record Archive… both locations!! His eyes kinda lit up when I cased the place, knowing exactly where to look and just grabbing CD’s like I’m picking blindly hehe… Scored rather well today, finally got RATM’s Renegades, and 3 Pantera discs I didn’t have (Trendkill, Reinventing the Steel, and Official Live). Then on the way out of the one on East, there were about 7 or 8 CD’s sitting on the top of the trash can, outside the store. Being the nosey thrifty leech that I am, had to check them out, and lo and behold, there were actually CD’s in the cases! There were some really shitty CD’s in there, but I grabbed 3, two of the Mortal Kombat soundtracks (mostly industrial/techno stuff), and the NOFX’s Punk in Drublic, which I’m just gonna give away. I don’t like punk, but I hate to see a CD go to waste, and I’ll make sure it finds a good home 🙂
After the Archives, me and Joe did a liquor run for his friend John. And yeah, 8 bottles later, I think the people at the counter either though we were lushes, or having a huge party. But not a drop of it was for us! We did get a little sampler bottle of Fris Vodka out of the deal though… and it was rather smooth, I must admit…. and I dont really like vodka much at all. Sold us!
So I’ve been sitting here checking out all the CD’s I just bought, shooting the shit with Adam and Karl, and just chilling out. The weekend is about to start hehe. Looks like Adam and I are heading down to Geneseo again tonight, at the behest of Amy and Betsy… sounds like it’ll be a ruckus! Before that though, looks like RIT is attempting to have a fall-fest, so I might check a little of that out… not too sure quite yet…
Current mood: chillin
song: Econoline Crush – All That You Are (remix)

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09/13/2002 Medeski, Martin and Wood (Rochester, NY @ RIT Clark Gym)

By Eric | September 13, 2002 11:59 pm

Karl and I went to this one on the reccomendation of our friend George, who is into more bluesy, jazzy, eclectic kind of stuff. Boy was he right about the eclectisim on this one. MMW are a trio that apparently are the new wave of jazz. I can say I tried, and if you’re into it, great, but it’s definately not for me. Between the drummer, the keyboardist, and the guitarist/bassist, there was a lot of solos, dissonant solos at that, and when they all came back in, and started a groove, I could dig it, but the grooves seemed to be few and far between. Some call it experimentation, I’d just call it playing whatever note for the hell of it. We stayed for about an hour, and when they took a little break, we broke… for the doors.

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winded from ultimate

By Eric | September 11, 2002 9:09 pm

Class went well today, Tech Transfer is going to be like story time, Prof Perry has a story for everything… its awesome! 🙂 State and Local Politics was all about Federalism, which I’ve been over in every other class subsequent to this, so today anyway was a lot of stuff I already knew… Got home, ate dinner, and headed out to Genesee Park to play Ultimate Frisbee with the boys…. Ran my ass ragged once again, I have found out that two days of racquetball dont mean squat, because I’m definately out of shape! I got winded way too early… I’m now back at home and about to retype some notes, due to my impeccable handwriting skills 🙂
I got invited to a party down in Geneseo Saturday night hosted by Sara’s former suitemate Amy and her friend Betsy (who I had went out with over the summer with Danielle and Adrienne), so Sara and Nate I think are coming here first, and then I’m hopefully dragging Adam and maybe Joe with me… should be a good time!
And Kelley has informed me that tickets #1 and #2 for Jerry Cantrell at the Haunt in Ithaca now belong to me and Mary 🙂 Kickass!
Been awhile since Ive done this….
Current mood: tired and sore, but feeling pretty good!
Current song: NIN – The Wretched (live)
Current shirt: Staind / Marroon stripe

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i die, and all they want is the cd’s

By Eric | September 10, 2002 9:41 am

My sister posted this on her blog this morning:
I had this dream two nights ago that i just remembered. I dreamed that Eric (my brother) died suddenly somehow. It was really weird cuz everyone was like “What do you mean Eric died?” and I was like “Eric died.” I dont remember too much I remember that all his friends were arguing over which CDs they wanted from his collection cuz obvisouly he didnt have a will and I was telling them that no one was getting any of them cuz they’re all staying together. Thats about all I can remember…
Damn straight no ones getting any of them…. Im taking them with me! 🙂 heheheh….

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sour stones

By Eric | August 27, 2002 9:20 pm

Just got some of the Stone Sour MP3’s (Corey and Jim from Slipknot’s side project)…. and these songs are great!! It’s not Slipknot-like at all… Corey sings quite a bit, and some of the songs are really really melodic… definately gotta get this CD!
that is all. 🙂

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tully’s tool

By Eric | August 26, 2002 1:01 am

Sunday afternoon started with me just driving around to a couple places, half-assed sneaker shopping (anyone know where I can get my old-school Adidas shell-tops for less than $65? Highway robbery ain’t my thing…) but mainly driving around with the Grand Prix now that Amanda’s at school and not driving it 🙂 hehe… Got Sara about 3:45 and we got lunch/dinner before the Tool show in Hamilton. So we went to Tully’s on the Boulevard. We get seated…. and wait…. and no one comes to take our drink order. 10 minutes roll by, and a server from another section comes over and notices that we never got served. So he takes our drink order… in the meantime, the manager comes over, and apologizes, and says that our beverages and an appetizer are on the house. So the server comes back, and we were just gonna order potato skins. Well, he convinces us to take the most expensive appetizer on the menu, the sampler platter… um ok! So That comes, and its huge ($9.50 worth!). So we’re picking at that, and our orders come, and we’re like, oh man, can’t finish! hehe… lotsa stuff to take home! So the whole deal ended up being $16, not too shabby! And the server we did get, from another section, ended up being really cool…
so we finish there, I switch cars to take the trusty escort, and head to Sara’s house to wait for her friend Muhammed and his girlfriend Jenny. I met Sara’s Aunt Trudy, who had a bunch of stories from being in Europe…. hehe she’s pretty cool 🙂 Muhammed and Jenny show up, and we’re off to Hamilton to see TOOL!!! We decided to take the Rainbow bridge because Sara’s mom said the Queenston was backed up pretty bad. Rainbow was very light, and then we hit Canadian customs…. musta been quota weekend for them, because the car in front of us got pulled into secondary… and then we did! First time for everything I guess… So we pulled off to the side, got out of the car, and two customs agents checked out the car…. no big deal, obviously we’re not bringing anything! So we’re on the road again, and got to Copps Coliseum with no further incident.
The review will come later, but TOOL was awesome, we missed Tomahawk (color me disappointed…. the 10 minutes we did hear werent impressive at all). Our seats were great, we were in row 13, but since our side was infront of the removeable seating… we had first row so to speak! Just off the left side of the stage, a perfect view of the band and the screens…. Glad we werent on the floor, getting crushed to see Maynards back all night wouldn’t have been worth it! hehe! But yeah, Maynard’s still got it, voice-wise… no doubt. Got out of our boxed-in parking space much faster than expected, and we were home by 12:30…. beddy bye time coming real quick, and then work tomorrow…. 4 more days!! 🙂

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08/25/2002 Tool (Hamilton, ONT @ Copps Coliseum)

By Eric | August 25, 2002 11:59 pm

Well, this was certainly worth the drive and price of admission. Tool is still one of the most compelling and talented bands out there. Finally getting to see them on their own bill instead of a festival was a treat indeed. The visuals were stunning, the lighting was amazing, and my seats couldn’t have been better (Thanks Sara!) Row 13, but since the removeable seating had been taken away on our side, there was a railing, and nothing in front of us! We were off to the left of the stage, and had a perfect view of the stage and the screens. We got there about 8pm, and Tomahawk were just leaving the stage. Good thing, I’m not sure what Mike Patton is thinking, but what we did hear was not impressive at all. 9pm rolls around, and the lights go dark, the screens fire up, and after some intro riffs by Adam, Justin hits the opening bass line to Sober, and the place EXPLODES. The crowd was into the show the entire night, and conversely, Maynard stayed in the back by Danny’s drumkit the entire night, his back to the crowd. His voice was as strong as ever, he hit the extended scream during The Grudge, and me and Sara just looked at each other shaking our heads, as in, “how does he do it?!?!” They played for an hour and 45 minutes, and the audience was captivated the entire time. I was transfixed on Danny Carey’s drumming
during Triad and Lateralus, and I now understand why everyone holds him in such high regard. He has a huge kit, but he utilizes it, and utilizes it well. The guy was just all over the place and never missed a beat. And they played H.!!!! The
whole setlist played out as follows: Sober, The Grudge, Stinkfist, (-) Ions, H., Schism, Parabol, Parabola, Aenema, an Intermission (no, not the song, that woulda been cool!), Disposition, Reflection, Triad (w/ Tomahawk), Lateralus. Maynard mentioned that he was apologizing for “our country” (meaning the US) and asked if they could move to Canada… hehe. He didn’t say a whole lot the entire night, and the only time he looked at the crowd was to toss some water bottles at the end of the show. But no matter. A very satisfying show, and I’m glad I waited and went to Hamilton as opposed to Buffalo, because Copps Coliseum is a smaller place, and Canadian fans always seem to be better.

Here’s the whole set – Thanks YouTube!

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jake’s grounded, and has the night of his life

By Eric | August 25, 2002 11:51 am

So yes, Jake had his first concert ever last night, as I dragged him to see the Tea Party at Water Street. We got to the venue about 6:15, naturally, the tickets said doors at 7, so we didnt get in till 7:30… Got a barrier spot, down from Janet, Rick and Joe… the review will be up later, but pertinent to the blog… halfway through Halycon Days, JB breaks a stick, tosses it, and it goes nowhere. Well, the other one wasn’t far behind, and since he was perfectly front and center, Jake caught it! Beginners luck!! First show ever, and he gets a cushy barrier spot, doesn’t get touched, and catches a drumstick!! So after the show, I called up Karl and Kelley, who were hanging out with Sheldon and Matt at Empire… so Jake’s getting another first, a bar! Hehe… we sat around the pool table, I got Jake a beer (yeahyeahyeah, a ROOT BEER!) and then I get informed that there’s more friends in attendance: Karl’s friends Erin and Bethy, and their friends Ally and Jim, and the *other* Kevin, Kevin Rewkowski… (who *gasp* is old enough to be in Empire, legally! As opposed to Jake hehehe)… So we depart Empire for the other fabled hangout, Jay’s diner! We lost Bethy in the process, but the remaining 10 of us managed to create the usual ruckus, and somehow the waitress that put up with us got a $10 tip! (It’s ok, she deserved it, after dealing with us!) Me and Jake didnt get home till 3, the headlights stayed on the whole time, and I think he had a pretty good time hanging out with the *college crowd* heheheh!
Random: I just did a count of the bands I’ve seen the most times, and it sickens me that Velour/The Turnstones ended up ahead of Staind and Cold… blech.
Our Lady Peace – 13
The Tea Party – 12
Econoline Crush – 10
Velour / The Turnstones – 10 (so yeah, Karl, you were almost right!)
Staind – 9
Cold – 9
And everyone else isnt even close… 🙂
Current mood: Just kinda digesting breakfast…
song: Tragically Hip – Ultra Mundane

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