Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 21
Sign: Cancer
City: Michigan
State: Montana
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/18/2005
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Current mood:  awake Category: Music
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So here we go! St. Paddys Day Tour 2009!
My very first Punk Show! Jesse and I left from IGA about 6 P.m. and arrived at the Shrine Auditorium not even a half hour later. A real Punk Crowd. I did not see one Fall Out Boy or Simple Plan T-shirts worn by anyone. People wearing The Exploited, Discharge, Sick Of It All, The Germs, Black Flag, DRI etc.
Immediately upon starting the pits opened up and covered the entire floor! The floor was Punk Rocker Moshpit paradise! All female Punk act Civet tore it up! I told Jesse to go with the flow and we jumped right in. After their set, we got to meet 3 of the members and got their autographs. We didn't meet the vocalist till after the show.
H20 was really fun! I would describe them very similar to Pennywise. They did some trivia by playing a few seconds of music from different decades and ask people from the crowd to answer who it was they were playing. Going into Black Sabbath, The Clash, Bouncing Souls, and even Metallica. They asked for a circle pit, but the Montana seemed to not know what hell it a circle pit was and just started a normal push pit. H20 stopped playing and had instruct the audience properly to form a circle pit. I busted out laughing, because I never seen a crowd not know how to do a circle pit. It became really dangerous and people were swepted into the circle like quickly, like a black hole swallowing an entire universe.
The bass player I guess doens't really like to talk to the the crowd at shows, because of his shyness. The vocalist of H20 tried getting him to talk a few times and finally randomly the bass player shouted out "Who's Going Chicken Hunting", to which a few Juggalos shouted out "We're going chicken hunting, which that lead to the vocalist shouting out "Holy shit we have Juggalo's here", just to say, "Lets get back to the Punk
Dropkick Murphy's were a real blast! Had the most pits and everyone song word for word! Jesse and I got the chance to be on stage with the band and it was like a pit on the stage. I almost was knocked right through the speaker lmao! Dropkicks were really fun, energetic and very interactive with everyone. If you never been to a punk show, Do So! It's a fucking blast! I had the time of my life :)
First of all, a big thanks to Jesse from work for inviting me. It took place at the shrine in Billings, Montana. The show was sponsored by 107.5 and it was As I Lay Dying's first time playing at the venue. It was in the basement of the place and maybe a little bigger than the Wesley Foundation in Mt. Pleasant, Mi. I don't really listen to these bands all that much, so I'm not to familiar with them. I tend to prefer pure Metal these days. The only Metalcore I listen to anymore is All That Remains and Bleeding through.
I was really craving another concert and had to go!
Opening the show was Metalcore act My Children My Bride. The crowd went crazy for them as the floor immediately busted into a giant pit. They asked for Two-Stepping, but the push pit kept going. The poles holding up the foundation were deadly, as people were hitting them by accident, because of the pits. Overall I found the band to be a little boring, but everyone else loved them.
Epic! is the only way I can describe The Human Abstract. They increased the level of danger in the pits and majority sang a long. The vocalist staged dive a lot.
The guitarist can shred for sure! Loved every second of the stage performance!
Canada's Protest The Hero were hilarious. The vocalist Rody Walker mentioned he hasn't changed his underwear in over a week and didn't give a shit. A kid was holding up an As I Lay dying sign and Rody ripped it as a joke. He felt a little bad, apologized later and taped it back up for the kid. He also mentioned that a person at Taco Bell gave him a ride to the venue.
(Yes I finally found a taco bell here!) The vocals are really corny, but you can't deny the guitar shredding!
I don't really listen to them, but As I Lay Dying Tore it up and Billings loved them! Floor was pretty much an entire pit and Tim Lambesis very full of energy, interacting with the audience 100 percent of the time. The sound started screwing up for them ended up cutting out during one of the songs, but they just ignored it and kept going with the song. The sound came back and Tim thanked the crowd for being patient.
The first time I saw the band was back in 2005 at Ozzfest and they have greatly improved!
The Setlist
1. 999,999
2. 1,000,000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. March of the Pigs
6. Head Down
7. The Frail
8. Closer
9. Gave Up
10. The Warning
11. Vessel
12. Ghosts 21
13. Ghosts 28
14. Ghosts 19
15. Piggy
16. The Greater Good
17. Wish
18. Terrible Lie
19. Survivalism
20. Ghosts 31
21. Only
22. The Hand That Feeds
23. Head Like a Hole
Encore
24. Echoplex
25. The Good Soldier
26. God Given
27. Hurt
28. In This Twilight
First concert I have ever been to outside of Michigan. I never have witnessed in my life so much chaos, just to stay up front row. My dad and I left about 5 P.M., two and half hours before the show started (7:30 P.M.), to make sure we would get a good spot right up front. Of course people who bought VIP and pre-sale tickets were let in first and were already on there way to the stage. Technically Dad and I were the first ones in line with regular tickets. A security guard told us we could stay inside and be the first in line for regular tickets, then the other security tried telling us we had to go outside. Of course, my dad argued and we stayed inside. We were right behind the people, right in Front with their bodies pinned to the barricade. Had a perfect view the entire set! And I had a phone this time, to take pics and video :P
Opening the show was group from the UK called "The Bug" fusing raving techno and Jamaican music. A DJ and an African female vocalist. The DJ owned, but the female vocalist I just couldn't stand. She sung in English, but I couldn't really tell what she was saying most of the time. On stage she was groping herself and the whole time I thought she has really hair, it turned out to be a wig she pulled off while shouting she was crazy. At the end of the set, my mind immediately said, WTF did I just watch!? They played over a half hour.
People started chanting Nine Inch Nails to get on stage right after The Bug ended. Finally what everyone was waiting for, Industrial Rock at it's best: Nine Inch Nails! The light show was breath taking, just jaw dropping! Very trippy stuff!
I’ve been to plenty of concerts where what passed for a light show was a couple of weak strobes under a puff of stage fog.
Not Nine Inch Nails Saturday night in the Rimrock Auto Arena. I can guarantee it was the loudest concert I've been too!!!
It must have taken an army of MIT engineers to create the show and a small nuclear power plant to keep it running. There were layers of screens, walls behind walls, curtains 15 feet tall and stretching 50 feet across the stage. The screens projected images and patterns, smoke, falling water, dead trees, a post-apocalyptic city on fire, a pistol morphed into a cross. Sometimes the band played behind the screens, sometimes just in front. The colors pulsed and shimmered and exploded, often timed to the music with its loud, deep throb pounding your chest like a defibrillator. One visual made it look like it was raining inside the venue!!!!
Everyone was going insane smashing into each other just to reach the barricade, by shoving there way through or crowd surfing by landing on people.I was practically smothered the entire time. Just bodies upon bodies all bunched up together. I was drenched in Sweat and I also had a cute little blonde behind me scratching the hell out of my back so she didn't fall over and she eventually disappeared with all the pushing and shoving going on (Never got the chance to really ask her name or number) A whole entire row of people fell back like the Domino effect. While taking pictures, I dropped my phone and went down a brown hair girls shirt. She handed it back to me, and just gave me a big smile. I also lost my left shoe for a long time, but my foot magically slid back into it. I also witnessed a kid getting his glasses smashed onto the barricade from all the pushing from everyone. My dad was getting nauseated and kept fighting to stay up front. Finally the security started pouring bottled waters into our mouths to cool us down a little. It literally felt like I dropped 30 degree's from just drinking a little water.
Trent just had so much energy. You could see his veins bulging out and the sweat just pouring onto the stage floor! And of course, Josh Freese tweaked the drumming of the songs and made them sound more Epic! Especially during March Of The Pigs and Piggy! My favorite part would have to be of been the Instrumental Version of the set with Ghosts. Josh was so sweet on the drums. It was just so amazing, with the visuals surrounding the band.
After "Head Like A Hole", the entire screen formed in giant letters, NIN. Then the encore started. During "God Given", a pistol attached with the cross appeared on top of the screen. Everyone held up the lighters for "Hurt". The set ended with Twilight!
Next time NIN comes around be sure to see them. Trent Reznor is the best live act I have seen. Some of you are probably thinking WTF! You seen Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Gwar, etc and your going to say NIN?! Well Trent just had so much energy and the visuals/lighting were the best I have ever seen and I don't think nothing will ever top Nine Inch Nails ( except maybe if Pink Floyd will re-unite and do the wall album live again). I am very thankful I was able to see Trent. I missed the band 4 times in Michigan from 2005-2008. NiN will be the only band I will probably watch live over and over again!
More than 20 years into his NIN, with its ever-changing line-up, Trent Reznor has been written off by some as past his prime, and maybe that had something to do with the sadly only third-filled arena Saturday night. But, Reznor proved he’s still the real deal, stomping around on the huge stage, switching easily from guitar to keyboards, even vibraphone, and still screaming at full force. And, he’s managed to remain hip and relevant, blending his old songs with new technology in a way that made you think you were hearing songs like “March of the Pigs” and “Hurt” for the first time. Too many bands can’t get the music vs. spectacle ratio right.
12th concert and counting!
So last night (Tuesday, August 26th), Wes and I went to the Strange Noize tour @ The Orbit Room in Grand Rapids. First time the tour stopped in at Grand Rapids and it was off the hook. Wes and I headed out about noonish and on the way there missed our exit and had to back track a little bit. Big thanks to the lady at the Gas station for better directions back, tho she won't be reading this of course lol. And a giant thanks to Wes!
So I'm going to skip the opener Dirtball and Brother J of X-Clan and go straight to the artists I really like.
Prozak set was pretty short (maybe 20 minuets at the most), but still was kick ass. Pit broke out during the set and quite a few people singing a long to his horror Rap. Prozak's hype man was animating the lyrics like a mime to the horrorcore and getting the crowd riled up. Him and Prozak were competing against each other to see which of there side of the crowd could be louder and of course Prozak's side won. All tracks from "Tales From The Sick".
Next to dominate the stage were, California Do it yourself Punk's Hed Planet Earth, leaders of the Truth movement. Brought on the pits for sure! Jahred is a kick ass front man. He interacted the whole time by jumping in the crowd and surfed, made fun of Nickleback and Hinder being a pawn to the radio, gave a shout out to Dimebag Darrel, and making fun of emo kids. The band put the motto Keep Sublime Alive into action by covering Sublime's track "Garden Grove".
He also gave a shot out to the crowd being diverse, getting a long and putting our differences aside for the music and nodded towards Wes and I and said "We even have a couple of Metalheads in the crowd". Taxman of the Kottonmouth Kings jumped on stage during hed p.e.'s set with a giant Megaphone to give a shouted speech on how the government lies, how we been lied to since we were born, and to not trust them. Jahred was rad after the set and walked around the venue. Wes and I got the chance to meet him and we discussed about the album Insomnia and the band already working on a new record"New World Orphans". He Signed my ticket stub and gave each other knucks. "This chick in front of me is thinking WTF! I thought I was going to a rap show"- Jahred.
Kottonmouth Kings: "Psychedelic hip-hop punk rock" KMK was supposed to be headlining the show, but didn't play last strangely. The Kottonmouth Kings set was very fun. Visual Assassin Pakelika up on stage doing all kind of weird random dancing motions.You had no idea what he was going to do next. Taxman kept running out with the Megaphone and chanting. The crowd was very energetic and crazy. Moshing and crowd surfing all the way through the set. You don't have to be a stoner or like pot at all to enjoy KMK. There just a very fun act to watch live and even better, they combine Punk. "We're The Kottonmouth Kings and we don't give a fuck".
Tech N9ne finished the night up. He came upon stage wrapped up in a straight jacket and tore out of it. He pretty much stole the show and was very entertaining. Tech was wearing white face paint and the background was flashing Tech N9ne whenever someone said his name. Krizz was up on stage with him pretty much the the whole time. It was rad stuff. Girls jumped up on stage and danced and at the end of the set the Kottonmouth Kings jumped on stage with him and closed out the concert. The show ended way past the sound curfew. :)
It was the most Punk show I have been to in my life. After seeing this, I really need to see Rancid and hope the Sex Pistols do another tour around the states. I may have to wait until I can go with my Friend Jarred, for he is the one that got me into true Punk. In the mean time I'm in the mood to listen to some Bob Dylan and I need to find my Black Flag "Damaged" album.
A big shout out to everyone who went, and that would be: The Phenix siblings, Wes, Aaron, Jennifer, Franki, Kim, Tom, and last, but not least, Jessica.
First time ever going to an Electronica/Industrial show! And first time ever going to the Orbit Room inGrand Rapids. The floor was like vacuumed packed and the crowd was really diverse and amazing. People raving, moshing, and I even saw some hardcore dancing. Metalheads, Punks, Hardcore kids, and the Gothic crowd all getting a long and rocking out, even seeing a guy in a Winnie The Pooh outfit in the pit! The first of us headed out around ....noon.... taking two vehicles and when we arrived Aaron and Tom checked into the hotel, where we all hung out for a few hours, and walked to the Orbit Room right before the show started. I was running on 3 hours of sleep lmao.
Julien-K was the first to jump on stage. I wasn't sure if I was going to like them at first, but they put on a really good show. The best way I could describe there music, is a combination of Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and constant techno rave music. The drummer was constantly throwing out drum sticks, as if he had an infinite amount and the band as a whole interacted with the crowd a lot. Julien-K even gave away free cd's throwing them out to everyone and then giving them away at the merch. RAD STUFF! Lots of people were jumping and clapping a long during the set. They played about 40 min!
I just found out about The Birthday Massacre last week and wow there fan base is huge. People were going crazy for them, especially when the distortion of the Guitars kicked in. I was in the pit with Josh, Justin, and Wes most of the set. The floor was really slippery with spilled drinks all over, making it very hard to keep balance in the pit. Justin even ended up falling lol. It was a very interesting type of music to mosh to, definitely different. They played a very good hour!
The Mindless Self Indulgence performance was very energetic, and the most random frontman I have ever seen for a band, Jimmy Urine, doing all kinds of unpredictable behavior. Opening with "Shut Me Up", and playing an equal amount of new and old tracks. Whenever Jimmy wanted everyone to sing, he waved his arms around like a conductor before hand. Also on stage, he threw cookies out to the crowd, ran around with a tiger mask on for awhile, did a little hand puppet show and wrestling around with the puppet, using the speaker as the puppet stand, crawling on his stomach all over the stage, always jumping from speaker to speaker, and constantly yelling out random obnoxious things, making fun of the crowd and himself. Lyn Z, kept showing off her flexible skills bending her body in crazy positions, while jamming out the bass. Jimmy decided to hold the audience hostage, grabbing a sheet to make himself look like a gangster and wanted 20$ to continue playing. He was joking around of course, but people were still crowd surfing handing him money. "Were going out to Red Lobster tonight"-Jimmy. And when a dollar reached the stage, he decided to put it down his pants and handed it over to Lyn Z telling her to buy some hush puppies for herself to eat. Jimmy then decided he wanted to look like a ballerina and asked the girls to throw up some clothes. Lots of chick clothes landed on stage, including a ballerina gown thing and a pair of pink star glasses and that's what he wore through out the rest of the show lmao. "Why did you dress me up like Amy Winehouse and Kanye West's love child?? WHY??" -Jimmy
The guy in the Winnie The Pooh, costume decided to sneak in the back, running past security to give Jimmy a hug. He jumped off the stage, and Jimmy said really quick "Your going to jail", and the security finally arrested Pooh. And then sometime during the set someone got a hold of a fire extinguisher and was spraying it all around, Crazy shit! Mindless Self Indulgence closed out the set with "I Hate Jimmy Page" "The bad news we're now a top 40 band, like every other band, Assholes! The good news is, we just want your money" – Jimmy Urine.
6:24 AM
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