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Post by EvilBob on Jan 19, 2002 21:04:08 GMT -5
i want concerts, gimme gimme yum yum! i have 3 right now, willing to trade.
Live Bochum Zwischenfall 160kps Live in Sydney (01-23-01) 192kps At The Showbox in Seattle WA 11.14.2000 [live] 192kbps
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Post by aquaseafoamshame on Feb 23, 2002 5:36:05 GMT -5
do you do b&ps?
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Post by soniktruth on May 14, 2002 21:23:42 GMT -5
can't wait for this years WARPED TOUR. nofx, lagwagon, bad religion....i saw nofx, suicide machines, snapcase,millencolin,good riddance and others 2 years ago. last year i saw a.f.i. and rancid.......who else is playing this year? anybody know??
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 19, 2002 17:13:59 GMT -5
SAW NOFX, BAD RELIGION, AND LAGWAGON ON WARPED TOUR '02...IT WAS PRETTY COOL, I MISSED THURSDAY THO. PHUCKING PIST ABOUT THAT. ..I WANNA GO SEE SONIC YOUTH, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, THURSDAY, INCUBUS, PRIMUS IN CONCERT........... ANY OF YOU BEEN TO ANY GOOD CONCERTS LATELY?
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 20, 2002 18:30:02 GMT -5
Hey Paranoid, I work for a concert promoter company ("Event Staff"), and I worked at Warped Tour in San Fransisco and Borreal Ski Resort this year. It was pretty awesome. I got put at front of stage at the Volcom Stage, Thursday, The Used, Death By Stereo, Black Holiday, and Places to Park all played there, Thursday was good, I really liked Places to Park, and Death By Stereo were good. It was a great show this year, too bad I didn't get to see Bad Religion, NOFX, or most of the big acts. My girlfriends' really getting into The Mimsies, though, their lead singer sounds like a female Robert Plant. I should have just bought a ticket one day and enjoyed the show
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 22, 2002 13:57:26 GMT -5
THATS A BAD ASS JOB YOU GOT THERE. IMAGINE THAT, GETTING PAID TO WORK AT CONCERTS. WHAT DO YOU DO. WALK AROUND BASH SOME HEADS IN? WHATS THE BEST EVENT YOU'VE WORKED AT?
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 22, 2002 13:58:36 GMT -5
have you've seen SP in concert?
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 22, 2002 14:55:17 GMT -5
years ago....i went to a megadeth/coal chamber concert, megadeth played with precision. they sounded just like the c.d. too me, that is a unique talent in a band. they played perfect. no flaws whatsoever. in my experiences in concerts, bands usually sound like s.h.i.t. or some flaws can be noticed. i've never been to a concert where they sounded just like the album. has anybody?
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 22, 2002 16:41:25 GMT -5
Yeah, my job can kick ass. Basically, we just make sure everybody has a good time, make sure drunks and other "unsober" people don't hurt themselves or each other, and make sure everybody is where they're supposed to be. It sucks for the girls though. They have to do search, which is basically lunges for 4-11 hours. My girlfriend has worked that a lot, and has gotten harrased by drunken rednecks, thugs, it pisses me off, plus she has a bad back, so it's not good for her anyway. For someone like her, maybe it's not such a good job, she's looking for another one. Me, I just enjoy all forms of live music, it's a different experience. The ironic thing is the only concerts I seen before I got hired were The Aquabats at Disneyland (Grad Nite '98) and the Glass House in Pomona, and The Smashing Pumpkins in May of 2000 at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The SP concert was awesome, he played a lot of the older stuff, but a good selection of the Machina stuff. before the concert, me and my friend Aaron were sitting waiting for it to start, and we saw James Iha sliding down the hill on the left on an Igloo Cooler lid. That was worth my $34 right there.
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Post by headINcortex on Jul 23, 2002 3:10:42 GMT -5
how are the aquabats live?
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 23, 2002 15:00:40 GMT -5
the pumkins played the santa barbara bowl? i love the bowl it is an awesome place to see a concert. i saw SANTANA there, it was just beautiful. cool breeze, peaceful people,the smell of bud smoke in the air, and a really good concert.
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 23, 2002 16:42:38 GMT -5
Well, in '98, I used to hate the Aquabats, my friend (the only friend who had a car) used to play their album with "Superrad" all the time, so eventually I was sick and tired of them. I thought they were stupid, but I listened to the Beatles all the time (mainly their 66-70 "drug years" stuff), so most everything in music sounded stupid to me. On Grad Nite, though, when I seen them at Disneyland, I "got" it. They're supposed to be cheesy and campy and stupid. It's like watching a 50's Saturday Morning show live on stage, they all wear the costumes (of course), salute each other, and have the different characters they sing about come on stage, it's fun.
Yeah, the Santa Barbara bowl is great, I loved it. Radiohead played for two nights there last year, but I had just moved, and didn't have any cash to head down there, that sucked. I'd definitely like to catch a show there again, the ocean in the background and the fresh air... that's definitely a nice venue. There was bud smoke in the air that night, but I didn't grab any, 'sall good, I have the boot of the show, and I can listen to it smoked out whenever I want, so it all worked out.
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 28, 2002 1:48:18 GMT -5
what's the best concert you guys have been too? for me, it was a metallica concert during an "...and justice for all) tour. really good concert. faith no more opened up for them, i actually heard boo's in the crowd(ass.holes). this was at irvine meadows in L.A. . crazy pyrotechnics(before the burn incident), crazy crowd, it was just insane. i was pretty young but it was an experience. the song "one" was perfected that night.
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 28, 2002 1:52:11 GMT -5
...also warped tour 2000 was an awesome venue, as well. i saw a lot of favorites like good riddance, nofx, weezer, snapcase, green day?, suicide machines, ...a lot of other phuckers. pretty bad.
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Post by headINcortex on Jul 29, 2002 23:29:41 GMT -5
lucky f*ckin dog...ahhhh, i'm frustrated with small town life. if i wanna see a half good concert, i have to travel at least 2 and a half hours.
which is why i want your job, merc. and one day i will have it...oh yes.
do you have to be a big guy? sorry to be so f*cking surious but i think your job is awesome.
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 30, 2002 16:52:39 GMT -5
Nah, you don't have to be a big guy, but they usually choose taller guys to do the front of stage kind of work. Aside that, they don't really pigeonhole people based on size, there's 5'4" pixie-esque girls working the shows, so size definitely doesn't matter.
I was from a small town, too, about a 1 1/2 to 2 hour drive to any decent venues, but I never had the cash as a kid, plus my parents were a little on the overprotective side, yada yada yada, I never really went to concerts. Now I see them all the time. Just watch out for those country shows, lots of drunk people + stairs + testosorone + girls wearing halter tops and tight jeans = not entirely a fun day on the job. It's usually pretty cool, though.
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 30, 2002 17:39:06 GMT -5
HEY MERC
ARE YOU GUYS ALLOWED TO GET AUTOGRAPHS AND S.H.I.T. OR ARE THEY ASS.HOLES ABOUT IT. IF SO, GIMME STORIES AND NAMES...
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Post by headINcortex on Jul 30, 2002 23:35:40 GMT -5
ok, thanks man, i'm done. i'll definetly be doing that when i'm old enough.
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Post by MercurySolo on Jul 31, 2002 19:22:50 GMT -5
No, we can't get autographs, can get fired for asking. We can't even talk to the performers unless they initiate the conversation, and then we're supposed to keep it short. At warped tour in Borreal, though, I was working in the "backstage" area of the Volcom stage (where the hells' the backstage of a ski resort?), and I worked out there in the sun in a semi-isolated spot for 11 hours. The people who played on the stage that day were really cool to me whenever they passed by. Some guys from Handsome Devil were really cool to me, one of them even offered to hook me up with some water or a coke (the company hooks us up with more water than we can drink at festival shows, so I declined, but thanked him). I talked to one of HD's members' grandmother, she was really nice. A lot of the families of performers that lived in NorCal showed up, 'cause they hardly get to see them. Oh, and Peter Frampton ("Show Me The Way", "Baby, I love Your Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do") yelled at me once, jokingly. I was working front of stage during soundcheck, right in the center of the stage. They let me know I wouldn't be working there during the show, as Frampton didn't want FOS security during his performance. So I was sitting, looking straight ahead, 'cause I didn't want to be staring at him, you know? And then he says "Hey, you in the blue hat, you don't turn around much, do you?" I was kinda speechless, so I just threw the rock on sign ( lml ), and he said, "Oh, you're hired". that was probably one of the high points of my job.
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Post by headINcortex on Aug 5, 2002 0:36:12 GMT -5
f*ckin cool.
my uncle was good friends with zz top for a while. he was going out with the bass players old girlfriend. she had the bass player's kid. my uncle and her went to a show and went backstage and the guy reconized her and it was awkward.
no lie.
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Post by MercurySolo on Aug 5, 2002 16:54:58 GMT -5
Whoa, that's awesome! I like ZZTop, they don't make rock bands like that anymore. The Beards, the Axes, the Lowrider... they were sharp. I liked them in Back to the Future III as the band in the old west, that was cool... I'm having memories of growing up to MTV and seeing ZZTop videos once every 2 hours... sigh, those were the days when MTV had only 200 videos, and 150 of those were David Bowie... Where did they lose their way? My guess is when they decided Pepsi's endorsements were worth more than the music itself, but I don't wanna rant, it's easy to say something sitting down, it's another thing to do something about it.
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Post by soniktruth on Aug 6, 2002 14:04:57 GMT -5
ZZ TOP videos were the s.h.i.t. all those fine looking ladies. they knew how to pick them out.
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Post by headINcortex on Aug 6, 2002 17:50:09 GMT -5
you know that car they had in all their videos? i saw it in the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland. also, i saw like 14 of jimi hendrix's old guitars, his first amp, and the couch he used to sit on and play when he was a kid. and a lot of other cool sh*t. everything you can think of. the best things were probably john lennon's glasses that he got shot in, and the clothes that he got shot in. it was really sad, cause they both still had blood on them. and all the original lyrics that he wrote with his own hand like for his solo career.
i loved being there. its where i got my 1st zepplin cd. they have a huge cd store downstairs.
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Post by MercurySolo on Aug 6, 2002 18:11:50 GMT -5
I'm definitely going to have to make it up to Cleveland one of these days... especially to see the Jimi and Lennon stuff... my favorite Jimi story is how, 3 days after Sgt. Pepper was released, Jimi was playing the title track in concert... I don't know how much I would pay to see that... I hear that the Experience Music Project in Seattle's pretty awesome too, lots of Jimi stuff there, as well as Courntey's first needle (j/k)
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Post by headINcortex on Aug 6, 2002 19:25:31 GMT -5
and i heard that lennon and mccartney were in the audience that night.
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Post by MercurySolo on Aug 7, 2002 16:49:41 GMT -5
Really? Hadn't heard that one, but it makes sense... Jimi was just of another world, there's no other way about it... I'm sad that he passed when he did, he still had a lot to give us in the way of music, he was gonna collaborate with Miles Davis, and eventually go full on into blues... he would have made some awesome music, but I guess when your time is called, they don't wait for answering machines... Rock on
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Post by headINcortex on Aug 7, 2002 20:44:59 GMT -5
just think how much better he would have been if he had lived for just 5 or 6 more years....that just seems unfair.
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Post by soniktruth on Aug 8, 2002 15:32:43 GMT -5
true that merc man!
jimi was a music making machine. all that is released now is just the tip of the iceberg. his family needs to release all his work to satiate his loyal fans.
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Post by MercurySolo on Aug 8, 2002 16:33:51 GMT -5
Yeah, they're probably holding on because they want his other stuff "Digitally Remastered". Doesn't work, though, at least to me. It takes the fuzz off of the distortion, and Jimi used a lot of fuzz effect in his music, so it takes away from it. that's getting into the vinyl-digital debate, though, don't want to start one of those, heh
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Post by soniktruth on Aug 9, 2002 22:47:51 GMT -5
bro, i'm a jimi hendrix freak. i have all his released albums and some other etc. albums like band of gypsies, woodstock, etc. . i have the box set. it's in a awesome looking purple velvet case.. it has some outtakes from certain songs. newer songs. and just s.h.i.t. you can't get anywhere. i made my lady get it for me on x-mas. i was so happy. there's a lot of live s.h.i.t. out there. this guy has so many songs it's amazing!....blues is an awesome album too
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