03/14/2001 Our Lady Peace (Buffalo, NY at the Tralf)
By Eric | March 14, 2001 11:59 pm
The Edge hoarded most of the tickets until the day of the show, so a friend of ours managed to score us tickets. We got inside and were the first people at the barrier. Waited about an hour, during which we got entertained by this video reminicent of MTV’s Jackass, then OLP came out and kicked into Middle of Yesterday, Right Behind You and Automatic Flowers without missing a beat. By now I had fully gotten into the show, and had a great time. Duncan was home resting after an operation on his pancreas, so Rob Higgins filled in for him, and did a great job. Anyway, back to the show, they played about 20 songs total, a healthy mix over 3 of the 4 albums, with only 2 from Happiness (OMA and IAH?), but THEY PLAYED JULIA!! This was the highlight of the night for me, as I havent heard it since Summersault! During One Man Army, Raine climbed up on the speakers and stayed up there for the whole song. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Raine happier on stage than tonight. For the encore, Raine turned the mic towards the crowd, and proceeded to have the crowd sing 4am while he strummed the guitar, then the usual crowd-pleaser closing song, Starseed. This was one of the best times I’ve seen them, even though Mike seemed a little more distant than usual.
Middle Of Yesterday
Right Behind You
Automatic Flowers
Superman’s Dead
Naveed
Car Crash
If You Believe
Are You Sad?
In Repair
Is Anybody Home?
Clumsy
One Man Army
The Birdman
Julia
Everyone’s A Junkie
Life
4am
Starseed
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03/12/2001 A Perfect Circle, Snake River Conspiracy (Buffalo, NY at Burt Flickenger Center)
By Eric | March 12, 2001 11:59 pm
We grabbed Sara and Danielle from Geneseo and trucked to downtown Buffalo. Snake River Conspiracy was up first and were nothing super special. I hate their cover of “How Soon is Now?” even more after seeing it live. Anyway, after about a half hour, APC came out. Paz was up on a pedestal playing violin, and the rest of the band came out and started Renholder. Theyt played everything off the album, and also the Massive Attack remix of 3 Libras before kicking into the real version. Orestes was the highlight for me, as Billy ripped into this amazing guitar solo that he shoulda put on the album. Every song had a marked improvisation from the album, and it made it that much better. Another highlight was their version of a song that is going to end up on Trent Reznor’s project Tapeworm, called Vacant. They closed with Judith, a cover of David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes, and finished with The Hollow. Great use of the lighting effects and backdrop. A totally great concert!
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03/03/2001 Godsmack, Staind, Cold, Systematic (Utica, NY at Utica Memorial Auditorium)
By Eric | March 3, 2001 11:59 pm
It only took us two hours to get there, and we found a parking spot on the street (didnt have to pay!) and hung out by the buses for a little bit, met the guys in Cold again, Jeremy was showing us how he and Kelly are in the new ESP guitar catalog. Got in line, KROCK had a Cold poster contest (doh!) so we were mildly entertained…. got inside, and Systematic was up first. They were okay, everything sounded the same. Then Cold came out. Opened with Give this time, then the rest was 13 Ways songs… played End of the World, Confession, Witch, No One, Send in the Clowns (No Aaron 🙁 ) and then the place went predicably nuts for Just Got Wicked. They sounded just as good as in Kitchener! Next was Staind. They sounded just as good as I remember them! Opened with Mudshovel, and Aaron was roaming all over the place. Then they played a new song (sounded awesome!) then Suffocate and Just Go. Aaron came out with an acoustic guitar and did Outside. I have NEVER cried at a concert before this moment, but he sounded so good that it couldnt be helped. He kept the acoustic as the rest of the band came back for another new one called “It’s Been Awhile” which is gonna be the first single. Finished up with Raw, Crawl and Spleen. We got pulled out of the pit, got a drink and sat in the seats for Godsmack, who were entertaining, but really didnt make me any more of a fan than I already am (which isnt that big of a fan). They opened with Awake, ran through most of the second album, and some of the first, the encore was Voodoo and Whatever. Since Mary lost her hat at some point on the floor, we went back down at the end of the show to find it, to no avail. (We did get some other stuff though!) This show was hella awesome, and I cant wait for the Rochester date!
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03/02/2001 Variety Rocks: Matthew Good Band, Push Stars, Grand Theft Audio, Kurth and Taylor (Buffalo, NY at the Sideshow)
By Eric | March 2, 2001 11:59 pm
This only cost us 6 dollars! It was supposed to be at the Pearl Street Grill, but they moved it to the Sideshow and it STILL sold out! Met my old friend Katie from the OLP board at the show as well! 🙂 We got there just as Kurth and Taylor were starting. One of the two is on General Hospital, so you can imagine what this was like… 97 Rock rejects. Anyway, they got off stage, and Grand Theft Audio was up next. These guys were decent, I’d never heard anything by them, but they were cool. Heavy British accents, and the lead singer said some funny stuff, they were mildly entertaining. The Push Stars were boring, everything sounded the same, see way above with Moxy Fruvous. Then finally at 12:15 we got Matt Good, and it was worth the wait! Opened with Giant, then they did a little bit of South Park’s “Uncle F*cka” for guitarist Dave Genn’s birthday! (We got to sing to him later too!) During “Load Me Up” Matt brought out a stuffed animal which he proceded to torch (see pic below) while singing Talking Heads “Same as it Ever Was”… I yelled out for “Symbolistic White Walls”, to which Matt replied “Not a chance in hell! That’s why you make a first album, so you never have to play it again. Your second album however…” as they ripped into “Everything is Automatic”… Brought up girls from the audience to dance for Daves B-Day during “The Future is X-Rated”… Came back out for an encore, played “Jenni’s Song” and a cover of Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy The Silence”. Matt had a girl hold up a lyrics sheet, and she couldnt even hold it straight! It was actually quite comical… The show finally ended at like 2:00, so the drive home was pretty excruciating, but we made it!
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03/01/2001 Matthew Sweet, Gregory Paul (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | March 1, 2001 11:59 pm
Gregory Paul and “The Bald Guy on the Drums” were up first. Just a guy with an acoustic guitar and a drummer, and they sounded pretty damn good! Reminicent of Jeff Buckley at times, same type of feeling. Then Matthew Sweet came out, and his band, including himself, had THREE guitar players! The band sounded very good, and considering I really only know the three songs he’s had on the radio, I had a really good time. It was a much older crowd, but he’s been around for about 15 years or so. Seemed like a good spread of songs over his career. Mary, who is the Matthew Sweet fan, said that the show was not what she expected, that it was much louder and harder than she thought it would be, and she liked it!
Beware My Love
Time Capsule
Divine Intervention
We’re the Same
Where You Get Love
Untitled
I’ve Been Waiting
Devil With the Green Eyes
Someone to Pull the Trigger
If Time Permits
Come to California
You Don’t Love Me
The Ugly Truth
So Far
Girlfriend
Sick of Myself
What Matters
Winona
Ready
Faith in You
Evangeline
Thunderstorm / Superdeformed
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02/21/2001 Fuel, Jennifer Listen (Brockport, NY @ SUNY Brockport Union Ballroom)
By Eric | February 21, 2001 11:59 pm
Unbelieveable! We met Carl and Brett before the show, got autographs, Mary got pics. We woulda talked longer, but it was damn cold! Got inside and warmed up, got barrier spots. Jennifer Listen was up first. The band wasnt too bad, but their singer sucked, way too much playing with vocal effects. Anyway, after a brief delay, FUEL!!!! Opened up with Last Time, and sounded awesome! Got lots of eye contact from Carl and Brett all night, we had the best spot in the house right in front of Carl. They played Mary Pretends next, and Mary went predictably nuts… not too sure of the order after that, but they did Knives, Bittersweet, Jesus or a Gun, Empty Spaces, Prove, Scar, Innocent, Sunburn, and then Brett let Mary sing for a bit of Ozone! Then for the Encore, we got Breed (Nirvana Cover), Down (totally rocked!) and Hemorrhage. Mary even got the setlist after the show… The crowd was awesome, no crowdsurfers to speak of! Ranks up there with one of the best shows I’ve been to!
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01/13/2001 Finger Eleven, Cold (Kitchener, ONT @ The Lyric)
By Eric | January 13, 2001 11:59 pm
First off, after various stops, it took us FOUR HOURS to get there… anyway, we got to the venue about 4pm, and stake out the buses. Soon after, Scooter from Cold comes off the bus, and we get an autograph and chat for a little… then their roadie comes out and gives me a Just Got Wicked video! We wander over to the door of the building, and catch Jeremy, who we proceed to talk to for more than half an hour about all kinds of stuff… in the meantime the rest of the Cold gang come out, and we chat and get autographs with Sam, Kelly and Terry as well… Mary catches Sean from F11 for an autograph also… We let Jeremy go soundcheck, and we head to the front of the building to scope it out… theres no line yet, so we hit a record store, and Mary makes a killing on two Soundgarden posters and a postcard…we get in line, have some kids hold our spot, and run to the pizza place, where we meet… MORE COLD ROADIES! We chat it up with them as well, then run to get back in line… we get in at 8pm, and wait an HOUR AND A HALF before Cold went on. When they finally did get out there… THEY RIPPED SHIT UP. Opened with End of the World, and trucked on through Go Away, Outerspace, Confession, Witch, No One, Send in the Clowns, It’s All Good and Just Got Wicked. We had barrier right in front of Jeremy and Terry (who had a Jason mask on for the first song!) Scooter had this plexiglass platform that he stood on and they lit him up in green light… mad cool effect! After Cold’s set was F11… Launching into First Time, the place went nuts! Crowdsurfers everywhere, and due to the design of the security pit, they pushed the crowd surfers back into the crowd. After getting sat on, we got out and moved back. The Lyric has 3 levels, plus a mini balcony, so we moved to the edge of the 3rd level and could see perfectly…. Finger Eleven ran though a great mix of songs from both albums, including Tip, Thin Spirits, Quicksand, Stay and Drown, Sick of it All, For The Ocean, and closing with Above and Drag You Down. We hauled back outside to the buses, where we got to talk to Sam, Kelly and Jeremy for a littlw while longer, and the roadies hooked us up with long sleeve COLD shirts!! We finally got out of there at 1:30 and made it home by 4:30am! ha! What a night!
F11 Setlist
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First Time
For The Ocean
Suffocate
Thin Spirits
Sick Of It All
Shudder
My Carousel
Walking In My Shoes
Tip
Temporary Arms
Quicksand
Condenser
Costume For A Gutterball
Above
Stay and Drown
Drag You Down
Sean Anderson (F11) autographed ticket stub, The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Mary and I with Sam from Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Me with Kelly from Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Mary with Kelly from Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Mary and I with Jeremy from Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Me with Scooter from Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Finger Eleven @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Finger Eleven @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
Cold @ The Lyric, Kitchener, ONT, 01/13/2001
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12/31/2000 The Tea Party, Treble Charger, Velour, Oui73 (Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo Convention Center)
By Eric | December 31, 2000 11:59 pm
I don’t think they finalized the openers until right before they went on, because there were a million bands being thrown around as openers… that being said, they shoulda picked someone else. Oui73 was very boring, and the lead singer coulda got thrown out of a thrift store, he was dressed so badly. Velour, though marginally better, still sucked. (How do these guys keep getting gigs?)
There’s a clip of Velour’s first song on Youtube:
Treble Charger was much better compared to the other two, though still nothing special.
Then came the Tea Party. This was one of the most amazing shows I’ve ever seen, period. Jeff Martin walks out, rips into some guitar riff, and the band kicked into The River, and never looked back. Martin appeared to be having a ball up on stage, and he sounded incredible. They played all the favorites, including Fire In The Head, Sister Awake (Heroes insert) Heaven Coming Down and Psychopomp. Jeff brought out a double guitar for Walking Wounded… Then for the encore, they played Save Me (Hurt insert) and closed with the best take on Temptation I’ve ever heard! The band just could not have sounded better! Mary managed to get a copy of the Tea Party’s setlist as well!
I’ve had this bootleg forever, but someone else posted it to youtube, so here’s the whole Tea Party set in all it’s glory!
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12/05/2000 Orgy, Lifehouse, Dust For Life (Buffalo, NY @ Sideshow Music Hall)
By Eric | December 5, 2000 11:59 pm
I almost didnt go, but some last minute scrambling ensured that Sara and Danielle would have a ride there and back and I would have a ticket… Dust For Life was much better this time around, I thought they sounded better and it wasn’t quite as boring as the Geneseo show. They started the first song without their guitarist, Jason, as he was told to be on stage at 8:30, but they started early, so he was still getting a beer at the bar! Lifehouse came out and were very dull… No real stage prescence, the songs were boring, and the crowd was equally unresponsive. We had a little bit of a wait for Orgy, but it was worth it! The stage show was very exciting, and they sounded good too… Good set distribution between Candyass and Vapor Transmission, the crowd predictably went nuts for Stitches, Fiction, and the obvious closer, Blue Monday (with the “You Spin Me” insert).
Pics thanks to 103.3 The Edge and Sara.
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11/18/2000 3 Doors Down, Shades Apart, Dust For Life (Geneseo, NY @ Kuhl Gym)
By Eric | November 18, 2000 11:59 pm
I got disappointed before the show even started, because COLD was also supposed to be on the bill, but canceled because of “bus trouble”, a.k.a. they were told to practice for the upcoming Marilyn Manson tour. In any event, I was soured on the show before it even started. Dust For Life was okay, a Creed-like band but not very exciting. The crowd was okay, some kid in a wheelchair made it all the way up front… not too bright. Shades Apart came out and had some energy, and all the idiots in the crowd showed up… lots of crowdsurfers getting beat down in the front rows… Shades Apart sounded decent, saved the one everyone knew (Stranger By The Day) for last. Me, Mary and Sara left for the bleachers for 3DD, cuz we didnt feel like putting up with more crowdsurfers for a band we really dont love. Their set was good, they sounded good, but there was no movement on the stage… the guys kinda just played the songs and that was it. Half the people left after Kryptonite… The show was decent, but I couldnt get into it not having COLD there.
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