03/24/2002 Injected, Greenwheel, Velour (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | March 24, 2002 11:59 pm
This was a free show, most likely put on by Island Records (both Injected and Greenwheel are on Island), that was advertised on the radio and on the WBER website. I actually first saw it in the Rochester City magazine show listings. Anyway, I went with Dan, Jason and Michael, and we got there about 7:15 or so, the show didn’t start till 8. At least we got to listen to Badmotorfinger while we waited. So Velour starts up at 8, and they sucked just like they’ve sucked every other time I’ve seen them. Nothing new there. Greenwheel was up next, and I was quite impressed with this band. A typical straight up rock band, very reminicent of the new Live album, Fuel-ish, Nickelback-ish, Creed-ish, almost sounds like Rob Thomas. I liked them a lot, and even though on stage the singer looked like a cross between Brett Scallions and Brandon Boyd, the stage prescence and energ was definately there. After a short wait, Injected came out, and the first couple songs, including the single, “Faithless”, sound exactly like Splender to me, but then about halfway through the set, it turned to crappy radio rock, as im American Hi-Fi kidna stuff. They did some covers in the middle of the set, some Ramones song, Motley Crue’s Live Wire, and something else I didn’t know. When the dust settled, Greenwheel was definately the more talented of the two bands. But for free, what do ya want?
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slime dogs for v-ice
By Eric | March 4, 2002 5:33 pm
Fox Trot today:
Got me a pair of jeans today… woohoo! Did a little shopping for dad too, setting up dinner for tomorrow… SLIME DOGS! 🙂
Current mood: hungry, waiting for dinner, waiting for my damn OS scripting grade to be posted
song: no song, watching the news
shirt: Staind / Hotel room
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Gone Away
By Eric | February 27, 2002 6:45 pm
Do you pray in the night
Can you appreciate the wind
I won’t care, I won’t fight
I need you close to sing
Its the same beginning
Gone away
Its the same old, same old song
Gone away
Its my whole life in words
I can’t breathe when you cry
but I’ll be there to hold you tight
I would kill, I would fight
To keep you close
I keep singing the same way
I won’t live, if you died
If I can feel you in the wind
This is me, it’s my life
I need you close to sing
It’s the same beginning
Gone away
Its the same old, same old song
Gone away
Its my whole life in words
Gone away
Its the same old, same old song
Gone away
Its my whole life
I can’t say, I don’t know, why I fall, why I go
I can’t say, I don’t know, why I fall, why I go
Gone away
Its the same old, same old song
Gone away
Its my whole life in words
Gone away
Its the same old, same old song
Gone away
Its my whole life
“Gone Away” – Cold
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coma white
By Eric | February 26, 2002 11:42 pm
Which Marilyn Manson Song Are You Most Like?
[http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=MarilynManson]
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pretty hate trent
By Eric | February 24, 2002 2:57 am
What era of Trent Reznor are you?
[http://www.venesection.com/tquiz.html]
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the olp-lb connection
By Eric | February 19, 2002 5:34 pm
I just got this in an email:
The members of Our Lady Peace are launching a national search for a new
guitarist. If you think you have what it takes to join the ranks of one of
Canada’s top rock bands, please send in a 3-4 minute video tape featuring at
most two minutes of your best guitar work and one minute containing a brief
interview and/or description of yourself to: Our Lady Peace – Guitar Search 1121
Leslie Street, Toronto ON M3C 2J9. Submissions must be received by March 31,
2002 for consideration.
Are they turning into Canada’s version of Limp Bizkit? I’m not understanding this trend of doing tours or accepting solicitatations for joining high-profile groups like this… I mean, have they no networking skills? 🙂
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top five music survey
By Eric | February 17, 2002 11:08 pm
Stole this from Sara…. High Fidelity was a pretty cool movie, I liked it 🙂
stole this from a blog who stole it from another blog who stole it from the movie “high fidelity” which i haven’t seen.
All-Time Top Five Recording Artists
NIN
Tool
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jeff Buckley
not Nirvana
Top Five Records To Play On A Monday Morning
Moist – Creature
Tea Party – Splendor Solis
NIN – the Fragile
Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies
Slipknot – Slipknot
Top Five Side One, Track Ones
Tea Party – Fire in the Head (Edges of Twilight) / Temptation (Tx) (it’s a tie!)
Sevendust – Black (Sevendust)
Pearl Jam – Once (Ten)
NIN – Head Like A Hole (Pretty Hate Machine)
Deftones – My Own Summer (Around The Fur)
Top Five Songs About Death
Dope – Die MF Die (Life)
Filter – Hey Man Nice Shot (Short Bus)
Caroline’s Spine – Sullivan (Monsoon)
Guns N Roses – November Rain (not so much the song but the video) (UYI 1)
Offspring – Gone Away (Ixnay on the Hombre)
Songs To Play At My Funeral
Temple of the Dog – Reach Down / Say Hello To Heaven (Temple of the Dog)
Jeff Buckley – Eternal Life (Grace)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Sky Is Crying (The Sky is Crying)
Sevendust – Angel’s Son (Strait Up)
NIN – Hurt (Downward spiral)
All-Time Top Five Favorite Records
Tea Party – Tangents
Pearl Jam – Ten
Alice in Chains – Dirt or Facelift
Stevie Ray Vaughan – In Step
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
Top Five Dream Jobs
Rock Star – hehe no explanation
IT guy for some awesome concert promotion company
professional music critic
professional lottery winner
one of those “experts” on TV 🙂
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no longer stabbing
By Eric | February 10, 2002 9:54 pm
Sara gave me word, and a fansite confirmed it, that Stabbing Westward has broken up. Christopher Hall will no longer have an outlet to whine about his chick anymore… what’s he gonna do? 🙂
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sanford gets a stereo
By Eric | February 10, 2002 6:53 pm
From the “Just Call Me Sanford” department:
I took out the garbage to the dumpster in our parking lot, when lo and behold, under the dumpster overhang, sat a small shelf-systen stereo! It’s a Garrard, a real POS, but its a CD/Tape/Radio, and it all works! It’s even got this little remote that also works! My guess is that someone deliberately placed it there, out of the rain, by someone, who either bought a new one, or because they thought it was broken (the selector switch takes a little playing with). not like I even needed another CD player, but the more electronic equipment, the merrier! 🙂
(If you’re wondering what I mean by Sanford, go here [http://www.classictvshop.com/shopping/sanford_and_son].)
Current mood: hungry, going to mary’s
song: Pearl Jam – Sleight of Hand
shirt: EVERYTHING SUCKS!
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hey mister, mtv really likes your song
By Eric | February 7, 2002 4:13 pm
Custom’s ‘Hey, Mister’ Makes Its Move, But Not On MTV
February 7, 2 p.m. ET, Launch
New York modern rock artist Custom continues to make a name for himself with his single, “Hey Mister,” an edgy, graphic rock tune detailing a sexual relationship as described by the man to the woman’s father.
The song debuted on both the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts in late December and has climbed to Number 26 (Modern) and 28 (Mainstream) on the current listings.
However, one outlet that has turned its nose up at the song is MTV. “We took a pass on the video due to lyrical content,” a spokesperson for the cable network tells LAUNCH. Lyrics include “God gave her a perfect body, now I’m all up in it” and “hey mister, on your way to work in your Volvo, suit, and tie, we’ll be crawling in your bed soon messing around, maybe getting high.”
Custom tells LAUNCH that the idea for the song came to him while he was in a New York club. “I looked over and there was some guy picking up on my little sister, she was 17, and you have that immediate knee-jerk reaction as a big brother, like, ‘I’m gonna go crush that guy, I think that’s wrong. That’s bad.’ And then I look over and my other sister’s getting picked up on. Then I kind of look at myself and I’m picking up on someone. And I’m like, ‘Oh, this is bad. I’m the same as those guys, I’m just trying to get into someone’s pants. I don’t really like them necessarily, I don’t really necessarily want to talk to them, I just want to get laid, and this is bad,” he says.
Oh, like that’s any worse than any of the rap videos they normally play on MTV…. suddenly MTV gets a conscience? since when??? (BTW, I think the song is hilarious, especially the radio edit, where one of the lines is changed from “tell your wife you’ll be home late cuz you’re at the titty bars” to “… bitty tars” BITTY TARS!!! I dunno, cracks me up 🙂
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