05/04/2002 The Tea Party, The Turnstones (Velour) (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | May 4, 2002 11:59 pm
Sara came up at about 2, and we headed over at about 3. Rick and Joe got enlisted as temp roadies, hauling in and setting up stuff for the band. Karl, Kelley and Dave showed up about 5:30-6:00, and we got in at 7. All of us set up shop right in front of Jeff’s mic stand, all 9 of us stretched out across the barrier! So Velo… The Turnstones come out, and Karl wastes no time in yelling “VELOUR!!!!” at the top of his lungs, and I did it right after him… The lead singer steps up to the mic and just goes “yeah…”, and that was it! We got a good look at their logo, and lets just say they’re gonna get sued by both Harley-Davidson and the NHL! So yeah, 45 minutes of pointedly ignoring the freaky guitar player later, he whipped a pick at sara and ran off. Hah! Then it was Tea time again! Almost the exact same setlist as Shea’s, only instead of The Badger, Jeff sang Gone by himself, and they didn’t play Soulbreaking. However, instead of Kashmir in the middle of Save Me, we got Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye! It’s interesting going to two shows back to back, because you can compare them. I thought Psychopomp and Temptation were better on this night, but Sister Awake and (so Mary thinks) The Messenger were better at Shea’s. Regardless, the show was great again. Joe got a setlist from the drum tech, and his friend Aaron’s other friends were giving him a hassle about it, and we almost ended up brawling outside. That ran its course and we hung around a bit longer talking to some others outside. The night had a little of everything!
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05/03/2002 The Tea Party, The Full Nine, The Turnstones (Velour) (Buffalo, NY @ Shea’s Performing Arts Center)
By Eric | May 3, 2002 11:59 pm
Mary and I arrived about 6:30, waited in the lobby, and were found by Joe and company. They were told the Tea PArty guys would be coming back to the venue at about 8:00. So we decided to wait outside for awhile, even though the doors opened at 7. Being a seated show, we weren’t worried about fighting for a spot, and since Velour was opening, we didn’t really care. At about 10 to 8, Jeff Burrows walked out, and we got about 2 autographs, and that was it. We were cold, so we went in. Mary and I jumped on tickets really early, so we had 3rd row, in the middle section. Excellent seats! We saw Sara and Danielle about 10 rows behind us, so we sat with them for the first set. Velour comes out, and they changed their name!!! Now dubbed the The Turnstones, they played just as bad as they always have. New name, same crappy band. The thinking is that they changed their name because too many people know how bad they are, so to trick people into showing up, they’re going incognito. Bah. And just when it couldn’t get any worse, The Full Nine comes out. “Hollywood Records Recording Artists”. Caroline’s Spine gets dropped and they signed these guys?? In the same vein as Velour, their singer was worse, the songs were worse, and not a soul in the place was moving. A half-hour later, they’re done and we wait anxiously for the Tea. And we were rewarded handsomely. Opening with Interzone (Samsara insert), Shea’s was captivated from beginning to end. Next was Fire In The Head, Lullaby, Psychopomp with its usual amazing guitar solo, Apathy, and then an instrumental break with The Badger. Keeping with the acoustic, they did Walking Wounded that way, which was a welcome change. Jeff came out with the “Oud” (and said as much!) for Zahira/Favorite Son/Halcyon Days, Angels, Cathartik, Mantra, Save Me (Kashmir insert), and closed the main set with Temptation (The River insert). Jeff came out alone for the beginning of the encore, starting Messenger before the rest of the band joined him. Jeff made a little speech about the white ribbon campaign, and proceeded to play Soulbreaking, then Heaven Coming Down, and finished the night off with Sister Awake (with Paint It Black and Heroes inserts). The crowd was extremely loud, and I believe the place was sold out. They seemed to appreciate the crowd, unfortunately the same couldn’t be said of the 4 old drunk guys in front of us, who ended up getting a drumstick. No knowledge of the songs at all. Whatever. We ran up to the front and the drum tech was handing out sticks, so Mary got one of those. A great show, and left us salivating for more the next night!
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04/22/2002 Nickelback, Default, Injected (Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo State Sports Arena)
By Eric | April 22, 2002 11:59 pm
I acutally got out of Routing and Switching lab at 5:30, and immeadiately hit the road, getting to the arena about 6:45. I figured everyone would have been in already, as the tickets said 6pm. Well, there was still a line, which moved rather quickly thankfully due to the crappy weather. I got in and the place was about half full, so I wandered down on to the floor. I milled around during Injected, only noteable thing about them was that they did the Motely Crue “Live Wire” cover again, and absolutely no one had any clue what that song was at all. There were a whole lot of “beautiful people” (as I like to call them) at this show, being a college show, I was not surprised, and kinda glad, because they’d allow me to get closer to the front with less hassle! So after Injected got done I wormed my way up towards the front, ending up about 5 people back from the barrier, next to Scott from Hollowpoint! I’ve ended up next to him at a couple of shows, its kinda odd, but kinda cool. He was there with his girlfriend and her friend, so the 4 of us kinda ended up stuck together the whole night. Defualt was decent, they were better in Syracuse I think, but knowing the songs this time around was a plus. Most of their set unfortunately was spent fighting off crowd surfers. They played about 8 or 9 songs, including (not in order) Let You Down, By Your Side, Live a Lie, Somewhere, a new song called Break Down Walls, Seize the Day, Sick and Tired, Wasting My Time and closed with Deny. After a bit of a wait, out came Nickelback. The crowd went predictably nuts for most of the Silver Side Up songs, noticably quieter on The State tracks, and the two new ones weren’t too bad either. I cant remember order, but it was rather close to Syracuse’s set list, they opened with Woke Up This Morning again, then Breathe, Too Bad, One Last Run, Hangnail, new song 1, Where Do I Hide, Never Again, Hollywood, new song 2, Leader of Men, and only a one song encore this time, starting out playing How You Remind Me acoustically, and then bringing the full band in. Syracuse’s show was longer, and a bit better in my opinion, but this wasn’t a bad show.
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cornell goes blonde
By Eric | April 21, 2002 7:34 pm
Holy Blonde Hair Batman!
Jerry Cantrell and Chris Cornell at an informal memorial for Layne Staley in Seattle.
Yikes!! Hope that grows out sooner rather than later!!
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Down II damned queens
By Eric | April 20, 2002 4:06 pm
The CD run was pretty fruitful today, not in sheer quantity, but quality. At the Archive on Mt Hope I picked up the Queen of the Damned soundtrack for $5, which was a steal… and then at the Archive on East, I found the new Down CD, II, which only came out on March 26th! Excellent southern rock from members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar and EyeHateGod. Been just chillin for the past couple hours, and then we’re going to Dan’s LEAD conference thingy Most likely a party here tonight… stop over 156 about 9:30 if you’re interested!
Current mood: content
song: Down – The Seed
shirt: AIC / Tour 93 (In tribute to Layne)
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RIP Layne Staley
By Eric | April 20, 2002 11:26 am
Layne Staley 1967-2002
A body was removed last night from the University District residence of Layne Staley, a victim of a drug overdose. Staley was the lead singer and guitarist for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains. KOMO-TV, citing an unidentified source, said the body was that of Staley, 34. .
A King County medical-examiner’s investigator said his office removed a body from the Staley address and planned an autopsy today, but he refused to confirm the identity of the person. He said it appeared the person had been dead for some time and would have to be identified scientifically.
Staley had a history of substance abuse, and in the early 1990s publicly acknowledged an addiction to heroin.
Now, I was and still am a huge Alice In Chains fan. They were the first band I really took a strong liking to, and thanks to a friend in high school, they primarily got me into collectiing CD’s as well. But don’t expect me to be wallowing in a “Sea of Sorrow” over it, ala Kurt Cobain. Everyone had Layne on their dead pool lists, and while no one wants to see anyone else die, unfortunately he had it coming. But I’ll definately throw on some AIC today in rememberance. Looks like I’ll never get to see AIC proper, but now in light of Layne’s death, seeing Jerry Cantrell is going to be that much better.
Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134439958_staley20m.html
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80’s song foods
By Eric | April 18, 2002 6:23 pm
Amanda sent me this:
80’s Foods!
Sundae Bloody Sundae
Banannarama Split
Prince’s Rhaspberry Sorbet
The Milli Vanilli
Hungry Like the Wolf special
Papa Don’t Peach
Meatloaf
“Just Can’t Get Enough” buffet
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” side dishes
Unforgettable Fire (some spicy food)
Take My Breath Away mints
Every Breath You Take mints
Rock the Casbah (register – Sara’s idea…) 🙂
Don’t Dream It’s Over Easy
Never Tear Us Apart sticky buns
Puttin on the Ritz appetizers
“AH HA” surprise platter
“You Can Call Me Al” waiters
Condiment-nation or Condom-nation
Janie’s Got a Bun hamburger
Get Into the Groove hot dog
Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Steak
“Seven” appetizer platter
Wham!, Sledgehammer, and Oh Sherrie (alcoholic drinks)
“I Want Your Sex” – would jest be funny to hear someone say I guess
“Take It On the Run, Baby” – take out menu
Key Limelight Pie
The Sweetest Confection
“Just What I Needed” drink or dessert menu
Sweet Dreams are Made of this – dessert menu
Knead You Tonight bread
Trout (Shout)
Crazy for Stew
Red Red Wine
Salmon (Lemon)
Hanging Tough – term for well done meat
Beat It scrambled eggs
The Grill is Mine – BBQed foods
Culture Club sandwich
A Forest Cake
Dead or Alive burgers
Manic Monday specials
Ladies Night “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” specials
Be My Cherry Pie
Rock Lobster
Everything Counts tip jar
Carmel Chameleon
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rockin the balcony
By Eric | April 16, 2002 12:24 am
Just got back from Sevendust…. awesome show, review will be up later, as I’m tired now and don’t really feel like typing anymore than I have to. I will say that Breaking Point wasn’t much better than when we saw em with Fuel, but they did play RVD’s theme song!! Sevendust played mostly the same set as Buffalo, and it was every bit as good! First row balcony at water street, yay! 🙂
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04/15/2002 Sevendust, Reveille, Breaking Point (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | April 15, 2002 11:59 pm
I took Jason to this one with me, and we got in line about 6:00, the doors opened at 7. Well, 7:20 actually. We got inside, and would have been about 3 rows back from the front if we’d stayed on the floor. Luckily, they opened up the balcony, so we were front and center upstairs, no getting killed, and a great view of everything! Breaking Point started at about 7:45, and again, just as they were with Fuel, were sorta ho-hum. they’re not terrible, but they’re not great either. The only thing that redeemed them was the fact that they played their song off the WWF Forceable Entry CD, Rob Van Dam’s theme “One of a Kind”. That was their closer, and we had about a 20 minute wait before Reveille came on. It was their last night on the tour, and they came out psyched. Lotsa energy, and even though I only knew the three singles, I was into their whole set. They seemed to have a decent amount of people that knew their stuff, so that always helps. The lead singer did a stage dive, although it wasn’t as impressive as Cregg’s (Boy Hits Car) are.
Now it was Sevendust time! The setlist seemed very close to Buffalo, and it was every bit as good! Opening with Black, then into Denial, Redefine, Rumble Fish, Trust, Shine, and Angel’s Son (Lajon talked about Lynn Strait again). They came back hard with Live Again, and then for a switch they did a little medley, starting with Too Close to Hate, melding into Home, Speak, and back into TCTH. They followed this up with Tits On A Boar, Dead Set, and closed the main set with Crucified. After the requisite lull, Clint comes back out and starts playing ZZ Top’s “Tush”, stops, starts playing some Spinal Tap song I didn’t know, and then Pantera’s “Walk”. LJ did some more talking, and they did Praise, Waffle and ripped the place apart at the end with Bitch. Great show, great spot to watch it from, and I didn’t come home destroyed!
Black
Denial
Redefine
Rumble Fish
Trust
Shine
Angel’s Son
Live Again
Too Close to Hate / Home / Speak
T.O.A.B.
Dead Set
Crucified
Encore:
Tush / Spinal Tap / Walk
(Pantera cover)
Praise
Waffle
Bitch
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nice days for cantrell and 7dust
By Eric | April 15, 2002 2:46 pm
Sunday night was lab write up and lounging, watched parts of two hockey games (Isles beat the Flyers, and the beginning of Blues-Red Wings), went to the Woo to take bottles back and pick up a few things. Finished up my Routing and Switching lab, and sat talking to Dan and Jeff for a while last night also. this morning was beautiful, the sun was shining, and it was WARM!! My weatherbug says 74 currently… very nice. SysAdmin was about Periodic processing, and scheduling tasks. We had a nice hour break before routing and switching, so we hit the SAU, the boys got some grub, and we oversaw the passerby that were on the quarter mile. Routing and switching brought the return of our midterms. I got an 87, not too shabby! I come home to find out that Mary jumped the gun on everyone and got us 4th row at Darien Lake for Nickelback / Jerry Cantrell…. YES!!! I never got to see Alice In Chains, so seeing their guitar player is the next best thing, and he’s been doing AIC tunes during his other tours, hopefully the trend will continue. The show isnt till the middle of june, so we got these waaaaaaaaaay early! So the mail comes, and dad sent me the ticket for Nickelback at Buff State! Plus, after the Routing and Switching practical, its SEVENDUST TIME!!!! I’m picking up Jason and we’re heading to get rocked at water street! 🙂
current mood: waiting to get R+S practical over with
song: BoyHitsCar – Lovefurypassionenergy
shirt: Sevendust – animosity tour (no, I’m not wearing it tonight….)
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