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They were on tour with Hella, Between The Buried And Me, Horse The Band. All 3 of which I never heard of. I went with my brother and thought about inviting my friend. I thought it would be a bad idea because me and my bro had tickets whilst my friend didn't have one.
It would be shitty if we go there only to find out he can't get in cause tickets are sold out. My brother assured me "These shows never sell out, all the concerts I've been to, not one at full capacity."
What ends up happening? You guessed it, sold out show, my friend gets in asks to buy a ticket, sold out, he has to leave. I wanted to step outside and go talk to him but the miserable Ihavestickinmyass Bouncer says "You can leave but you can't come back in."
I drove down and was the sober driver. My brother had broken his leg, and I couldn't leave my brother, so hopefully my friend isn't too fucking choked.
The doors were supposed to be open at 8:00pm, but opened at 8:20pm instead. The first band up, was apparently drunk or something and they misplaced their keyboard or some shit.
They had a real tripped out sound, like oldschool Mr.Bungle mixed with Nintendo sounding keyboards, it was pretty rad. They were being dumbfucks on stage and after 3 songs they started babbling on about their sad tale of not being able to find the keyboard and being dumb and drunk. The frontman thought he was a comedian doing a routine.
So me and my brother did the polite thing and told them to "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PLAY! NO ONE GIVES A SHIT! PAID MONEY TO HEAR YOU PLAY MUSIC! NOT SPEAK!"
Being polite and courteous never worked so well. They did more songs then had to cut their set short because of the late start time which was too bad. Too bad because the next two bands licked nuts.
I saw quite a few people with shirts and hoodies with this white face on them. I was wondering to myself "Where had I seen it before?" Then it hit me. Job's current avatar.
During the intermission I had this chick come up to me and say "Hey sexy." I had never had that happen to me, I didn't know how to react really. So I started laughing and responded with "Not nearly as sexy as you are." We made small talk for a bit, and then I decided to just go for it.
"Got a number?" I asked. "Yeah, but my boyfriend wouldn't like that. He wouldn't go to the show with me, I'm pissed off at him."
So I asked, "Pissed off enough that you'll say fuck him and give me your number?"
"Sorry." she said. I says "Thought so." and left it at that. Dumb broad.
Next two bands blew anal monkey rectum. Never in my life had I seen the opener kick the shit out of the bands that follow it. The third bands suckage just fucking dragged on and on, seemingly never ending.
Dillinger Finally hits the fucking stage, moshpit time for me! Good pit, quite friendly. There was none of those dudes with like the 6 foot 6 frame, 280lbs just beating everyone in sight.
There were emo kids but they gave up on their dumbshit karate dance crap, and everything went all out thrash styles. For a sober concert it was fun times. Although for the two bands before Dillinger I really wanted to drown out the suckage with booze.-
I hate opening bands, if only because the time it takes for the bands to change is nearly as long as the set itself. These switches shouldn't take more than a few minutes, but for all the shows I've been dragged to, they've averaged at least half an hour.
Though one time my friend Shaun's band was opening for Lacuna Coil and Moonspell and I didn't realize until I saw him setting up his stage space, so seeing him get up on stage to drum through a short set was a nice surprise.
Anyway, how was the Dillinger set? I notice a lot of technical bands don't have half the precision live as their albums do. I mean, don't get me wrong, I hate live music shows, but sometimes they're almost album-quality performances and thus tolerable. -
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Like I brought up in the Metalcore thread, theres bands that have zero production value. This in turn, means their album sounds like shit. But, what you hear on their album, will make a near perfect transition live.
I was at a concert put on by a teeny tiny record label, sometime back. The one band that had a cd, I bought. What I had heard at that show, is almost exact to what I heard on the cd.
That's because the sound is left raw, pure, and unengineered. It's amazing how you can take shitty music and make it sound great with pro tools. It's especially a real problem with vocalists, none of them can sing the way they do on their album, because it's not how they truly sound.
A bands true talent as far as I'm concerned, is being able to put on a great rendition of their recorded work.
As for the Dillenger set, I thought they did a pretty good set. It wasn't super spectacular, but good enough to make me want to throw people around.
Bands that are real technical and/or achieve their sound through engineering, will always have a difficult time achieving an album worthy performace.
Buddy of yours opened for Lacuna Coil? That's pretty fuckin rad. Lucky bastard. Christina Scabbia is fucking hot. I wanna marry her. :P - Show next comments 6 more
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