What Are You Doing Right Now? (258 Viewers)

[ZoSo]

They're not that bad, I don't really listen to either of them much anymore (and I never really listened to Blink) but if they're there might as well see them. I think they will probably clash with Anthrax & Slayer anyway.

I sincerely hate those death core/post hardcore boy bands. It's pretty much a return of glam and hopefully thrash will kill them once again

 

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[Ford Prefect]

One chapter (conclusions), my abstract and the formatting left to in my dissertation got until Tuesday....beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel

 

[Enron]

Went to an amusement park with some college friends as part of a send off for my boy who lives in Norway. I'm beat. Gonna cut grass and watch the Hearts match later today.

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Yeah I like Cypress Hill, I'll be seeing them if there aren't any clashes with ones I already listed. Same with Blink, LP and some others. I'd like to see them but I won't be overly fussed if I miss out because of clashes.

I'll check out those bands and most of the others too besides dragonforce, other similar lame power metal bands and emasculated poser death core/post hardcore boy bands.

Cypress Hill and The Early November are great. A lot of those bands are ones I listened to in high school but never quite made it "big". Must be a "we need more money" tour. Still looks worth while.

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In the same sentence you said that you'll try to catch LP and Blink, and then you say you don't like posers .

I can't stand Linkin Park. Blink was my shit, but then again I came of age in the 1990's.

 

[Nzoric]

Linkin Park is terrible man =/ .

 

[Enron]

Linkin Park is terrible man =/ .

Fixed to what I meant to say.

 

[JuveJay]

Never liked Linkin Park myself, but used to listen to loads of (pop)punk in my teens. Green Day and blink-182 is pure nostalgia now, but musically not the sort of thing I am in to.

 

[ZoSo]

I probably would have listened to those bands if I was a bit older but LP I liked a lot up until a year or so ago. I can't take them that seriously anymore but I guess I still listen to them occasionally for nostalgia and I'd see them at soundwave for the same reason if I get the chance.

 

[Nzoric]

Fixed to what I meant to say.

praise the lawd

 

[swag]

Got tickets to that. $190 but totally worth it.

Metallica, APC, Offspring, Slayer, and Anthrax are my must sees.

More bands coming in 3rd announcement...maybe Megadeth ...Big 4!

I would normally say this is me just getting old, but I was like this when I was 20. I could never get into the mega-outdoor-concert thing, where there's a Chinese menu of 57 bands who play like 8 songs each -- while you're laying in a tiny patch of grass with sweaty friends surrounded by sweaty strangers with frisbees, some 5000m from the stage, facing a parking nightmare just to get in and out of the place.

Give me a greasy no-name band in a small club built for 40 people. Far more exciting to me, for example, was the recent announcement of a show consisting of Com Truise, Poolside, and Bonde do Rolê (and here Brazil's Bonde do Rolê is the band I really want to see) at SF's Mezzanine.

I mean, their baile funk take on Metallica is pure parody genius ... good enough to stand on its own.

Never liked Linkin Park myself, but used to listen to loads of (pop)punk in my teens. Green Day and blink-182 is pure nostalgia now, but musically not the sort of thing I am in to.

Man, living in Berkeley when Green Day suddenly went big, I still have a thing for their record label predecessors like the Mr. T Experience.

 

[JuveJay]

Give me a greasy no-name band in a small club built for 40 people. Far more exciting to me, for example, was the recent announcement of a show consisting of Com Truise, Poolside, and Bonde do Rolê (and here Brazil's Bonde do Rolê is the band I really want to see) at SF's Mezzanine.

Man, living in Berkeley when Green Day suddenly went big, I still have a thing for their record label predecessors like the Mr. T Experience.

on the basement clubs.

Did you shun Green Day, like the rest?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

With my impending exit from work, a sudden sense of sadness, loneliness and depression looms over me. I have a few close friends here, and the thought of not seeing them no a daily basis is disheartening. This final week is gonna be emotional.

 

[swag]

on the basement clubs.

Did you shun Green Day, like the rest?

I liked them, and their Operation Ivy roots. But it was whack seeing how they went from backyard band to global in a matter of what seemed like 6 months. They went from obscure play on college radio KALX in Berkeley to every Top-40 radio station around the world almost within a single semester.

---------- Post added 23.08.2012 at 08:25 ----------

With my impending exit from work, a sudden sense of sadness, loneliness and depression looms over me. I have a few close friends here, and the thought of not seeing them no a daily basis is disheartening. This final week is gonna be emotional.

You close one door and it allows you to open another.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

You close one door and it allows you to open another.

Oh absolutely. But I doubt I'll be able to meet people on a daily basis like I do here. I fear the withdrawal symptoms of not being among close friends.

 

[JuveJay]

I liked them, and their Operation Ivy roots. But it was whack seeing how they went from backyard band to global in a matter of what seemed like 6 months. They went from obscure play on college radio KALX in Berkeley to every Top-40 radio station around the world almost within a single semester.

Must have been an interesting time. I was only a kid then so didn't really understand the background until later, but I'd say Kerplunk is probably still my favourite album of theirs, even though Dookie was bigger and the first I heard.

 

[ZoSo]

I would normally say this is me just getting old, but I was like this when I was 20. I could never get into the mega-outdoor-concert thing, where there's a Chinese menu of 57 bands who play like 8 songs each -- while you're laying in a tiny patch of grass with sweaty friends surrounded by sweaty strangers with frisbees, some 5000m from the stage, facing a parking nightmare just to get in and out of the place.

Give me a greasy no-name band in a small club built for 40 people. Far more exciting to me, for example, was the recent announcement of a show consisting of Com Truise, Poolside, and Bonde do Rolê (and here Brazil's Bonde do Rolê is the band I really want to see) at SF's Mezzanine.

I mean, their baile funk take on Metallica is pure parody genius ... good enough to stand on its own.




Man, living in Berkeley when Green Day suddenly went big, I still have a thing for their record label predecessors like the Mr. T Experience.

Tbh, I too don't really like festivals that much either. A lot of them (especially the ones that based on electronic music) are filled with people that barely know any of the music but go there to OD to loud music, be 'seen' there, show off their muscles and stuff like that. But this festival is different mostly, while it does attract it's fair share of fuckheads like most festivals, a much larger portion of the attendees go there for bands they want to see. Also, the bands I want to see are all playing at least an hour I'd say and Metallica has been confirmed to play 2 hours which is what they play at most of their normal concerts these days. They played 2 hours back when I saw them in 09 on their world tour.

 

[Lapa]

What would I do on my freetime...I would work of course.

 

[Enron]

Never liked Linkin Park myself, but used to listen to loads of (pop)punk in my teens. Green Day and blink-182 is pure nostalgia now, but musically not the sort of thing I am in to.

I remember warming up to Rage's No Shelter before footie matches. Talk about nostalgia.

 

[swag]

Oh absolutely. But I doubt I'll be able to meet people on a daily basis like I do here. I fear the withdrawal symptoms of not being among close friends.

Truly close friends will be the ones you remain close with without the convenience of work to bring you together.

Must have been an interesting time. I was only a kid then so didn't really understand the background until later, but I'd say Kerplunk is probably still my favourite album of theirs, even though Dookie was bigger and the first I heard.

Kerplunk! was getting heavy airplay on KALX like this was the greatest thing since sliced bread. The only thing I could compare it to at the time was the heavy KALX airplay My Bloody Valentine was getting at the time. (I was always more of an MBV fan than Green Day, btw.)

The difference was when Dookie came out. KALX tapered off playing them as they suddenly appeared on commercial radio everywhere. As for MBV? Legend has it that when they were set to similarly take off, with a different musical vein, they never followed up to Loveless. Not even an EP, which they typically did up until then.

Tbh, I too don't really like festivals that much either. A lot of them (especially the ones that based on electronic music) are filled with people that barely know any of the music but go there to OD to loud music, be 'seen' there, show off their muscles and stuff like that. But this festival is different mostly, while it does attract it's fair share of fuckheads like most festivals, a much larger portion of the attendees go there for bands they want to see. Also, the bands I want to see are all playing at least an hour I'd say and Metallica has been confirmed to play 2 hours which is what they play at most of their normal concerts these days. They played 2 hours back when I saw them in 09 on their world tour.

Even if you get to see the band you like, my issue is that you get crummy outdoor audio and have to wade through 80,000 other people to even see them the size of a postage stamp. But you're right about those shows attracting an audience that seems less engaged with the music and more engaged with themselves and having music as the backdrop. Which is probably why it was never my scene.

 

[JuveJay]

My brother in law used to lend me metal and gangsta rap albums when I was 11-12 years old, Rage and Ice-T make an impression on you at that age.

 

[ZoSo]

Even if you get to see the band you like, my issue is that you get crummy outdoor audio and have to wade through 80,000 other people to even see them the size of a postage stamp. But you're right about those shows attracting an audience that seems less engaged with the music and more engaged with themselves and having music as the backdrop. Which is probably why it was never my scene.

I don't think the audio is ever that good at concerts (at least what I've been to). I'd have to say at least in rock/metal, the best I've heard is Metallica but they brought their own custom designed speakers designed for that stage.

I guess that's right but I find it's usually pretty easy to get close to the front or at least a close-ish distance.