Recently Experienced Shows

Wow, you would think Nashville would have a ton of shows. It's a big city right? I guess it's Country music capital too though. Where do all the rock shows go? Can you drive to see anything?

Salt Lake City where I am has a TON of shows!!! I guess cause we're a big city and so close to California. Not sure to be honest.

RavenWolf wrote:Wow, you would think Nashville would have a ton of shows. It's a big city right? I guess it's Country music capital too though. Where do all the rock shows go? Can you drive to see anything?

Salt Lake City where I am has a TON of shows!!! I guess cause we're a big city and so close to California. Not sure to be honest.

Nashville is a good sized city but not as large as you might think.  It is nowhere the size of say Atlanta or Chicago. 

Where do rock shows go?  Well, if you are a secular artist, Nashville.  If you are a Christian band, typically Knoxville or Memphis.  I can drive to those, but I am old enough now that driving 3 to 4 hours to see a show just doesn't excite me.  When I was younger, I drove to Knoxville to see Disciple, Red, and a couple of other bands that are escaping my memory at the time.  I drove there another time to see Eden's Way and Eowyn together.  I just am not going to do that anymore.  At soon to be 46, driving more than an hour just seems to be the equivalent of torture.  When my wife and I go somewhere, she typically does all the driving as I have lost the enjoyment of driving.  It is a necessary evil to get me where I want to go.  If someone else is driving, I will enjoy the trip a lot more. LOL

Well I went to #OGodTheAftermath last night
Here are some photos for whoever is interested

https://instagram.com/p/8v3aFWiC7h/

https://instagram.com/p/8v2x6FiC6I/

https://instagram.com/p/8v2et8CC47/

https://instagram.com/p/8v0F-NCC0A/

Going to see Disciple this next week

in my hometown of Walla Walla WA

Jack (Four Star Revival singer) and I went to see Saxon/Armored Saint last month. Absolutely phenomenal show by both bands! Saxon's Power and the Glory album is still one of my all time favorites! I saw Saxon back in the day as well and they sound just as good now as they did back then! They played most of their popular songs from the span of their career, though there were a few left out that I wish they would have played. They also played the title track off their new album "Battering Ram" which was really good.
Armored Saint played a nice mix of popular songs from their career as well, along with a few from their latest album and even opened with the title track "Win Hands Down" (which is a killer album by the way).
This was a cool reunion for Jack, for those that know Jack's history. For those that don't, Jack used to play in a band called Life After Death with Gonzo and Phil from Armored Saint. It was the band they formed after John Bush left to join Anthrax. They put out one album (though Phil had left the band by that point) that was only released in Europe. It is now available on CD Baby though. It's a great album with some awesome songs and lots of guitar harmonies a la Thin Lizzy. Here's the link if you want to check it out, and a picture of me, Jack and Gonzo!

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lifeafterdeath1

The Disciple show is tomorrow night SO PUMPED

I caught Beautiful Eulogy a couple of weeks ago in San Jose. Very good.

My last five concerts:

*Building 429 (w/ my kids)
*Kamelot
*Symphony X
*Stryper
*Duran Duran (does that even count?)

Shows within the last few years:
Stryper a few times 
Mr Big in one of their only US dates in last few years
Kings X 
Kansas with Kings X opening
John Corabi doing the 1994 Motley Crue record
The Winery Dogs
Extreme doing Pornagrafitti
Coheed & Cambria

Pershing1134 wrote:My last five concerts:

*Building 429 (w/ my kids)
*Kamelot
*Symphony X
*Stryper
*Duran Duran (does that even count?)

Some awesome concerts there dude! And of course Duran Duran counts! Just because they are not Metal you mean? I like me some Duran Duran.

Nordic Fest:

Necroblation
Ascendent
Profound Desire
Mantric

Frosthardr
Dalit
Grave Declaration
Leonov

AC/DC Sydney 4th November 2015

What an awesome show, they may be a few steps slower but the boys can still deliver even in the pouring rain, I started off down the front but moved to a seat after about 7 songs

Some pics

I saw the bottom of the page first, saw cannons, and assumed somebody had seen AC/DC.

There's no live metal where I live. The last metal concert I went to was 2003 and even then it was a 3 hour drive to it.

...but I live in the middle of nowhere.

The only local metal is what I make in my studio. I would like to see a concert of a band I listen to sometime before I die.

ThomasEversole wrote:There's no live metal where I live. The last metal concert I went to was 2003 and even then it was a 3 hour drive to it.

...but I live in the middle of nowhere.

The only local metal is what I make in my studio. I would like to see a concert of a band I listen to sometime before I die.

Where do you live dude?



The next concert I'm planning on going to is Nile. They are going to be here in a few months YES YES YES!!!

RavenWolf wrote:Where do you live dude?

I live in a 5 bedroom house in a small village (not a town, a village) of 3,500 people.  Central Illinois.  Even though I'm a 15 minute drive from the state capital, even that is only 100,000 people.  No major death metal gig has came there.

There's a "metal bar" there that plays gigs from local try-hards, but that's it.

RavenWolf wrote:
The next concert I'm planning on going to is Nile. They are going to be here in a few months YES YES YES!!!

Even though I'm not a huge fan of them because of my triggers pet peeve, I'd still like to see them live on stage.

So Im good friends with the promoter who brought Disciple to Walla Walla last week.

So I was at the venue for about 12 hours as long as the band.
I helped them set up sound equipment I helped bring them lunch.
I got to request to Kevin Young that they play Back Again and they did!!!

I then got to work the door at opening rush and then worked Disciple's merch table all night. So that was a successful show.

If you wanna see some of the videos I took at sound check, check out my instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/heavymetaltillidie/

ThomasEversole wrote:There's no live metal where I live. The last metal concert I went to was 2003 and even then it was a 3 hour drive to it.

...but I live in the middle of nowhere.

The only local metal is what I make in my studio. I would like to see a concert of a band I listen to sometime before I die.

Fleshgod Apocalypse, Carach Angren and Abigail Williams are playing in my state in the middle of February, a 3 hour drive away. Looks like I'll go to a concert next year.
http://www.metalinjection.net/tour-dates/fleshgod-apocalypse-carach-angren-us-tour-2016

Nice Thomas! There you go!

Went to Winterjam last night!!!

Got to see

Skillet
Family Force 5
Lincoln Brewster
Jamie Grace
For King And Country'
Love And The Outcome
and Newsong

Last night:

Scar Symmetry (pretty good)
Eluveitie (amazing)
Epica (also amazing)

thedavo wrote:Last night:

Scar Symmetry (pretty good)
Eluveitie (amazing)
Epica (also amazing)

That's a killer lineup dude! I've been a fan of 2 of those bands for years now! Scar Symmetry is one of my favorite Melodic Death Metal bands! Epica is also amazing!!! I bet that show RULED!!!

Def Leppard
Live
Baby Animals

Sydney Australia 17th Nov 2015

some pics, not the best as I was sitting up near the back, my camera has a decent zoom though















more pics here
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153406965519132.1073742095.522709131&type=1&l=96a61a4068

Thanks for those pics JPK! Def Leppard is such a great live band!

One of my favorite bands.

RavenWolf wrote:Thanks for those pics JPK! Def Leppard is such a great live band!

One of my favorite bands.

I still have a few hundred to edit but in the process of moving house so once the move is done and we are settled then I will get to the rest