Yeah.
Hell yeah.
CRAZYSHITFUCK YEAH!!
What a satisfying concert. People, catch this tour. Too damned good to miss. I wish I could join all you Chi-town hooligans tonight cuz it'd be worth it in every way. DO NOT SECOND-GUESS AND CHICKEN OUT! If you're in Chicago, fuckin GO to this show. If you don't go, you're banned from metal!
Of course, terrible brutal amateur "hardcore" bands opening, cuz Harpo's doesn't give a rat's ass about what bands they match up with what national acts. They turned the house lights on at the "Okay that's enough" point of the last opener's set. They... they SOUNDED like they were done.. shoulda been done, but no, we were wrong. Then they turned off the speakers, then the monitors, then the stage hand came out to turn off their shit.
Lesson learned: DO NOT exceed your allotted stage time.
They came out and we had a pretty good spot on the rail to watch them. We gave up that spot after only two songs and ran down to the front row! AWWW DAMN is Simone too hot up close. I can't get that close to her again, I'll end up in prison for kidnapping! Steal her away like Elian Gonzales. The guys put on pretty much the same setlist as at Prog Power 7 and just unhinged themselves. Which is suprising, cuz Harpo's was NOT packed. It was maybe 300-400 people. But they were a VERY DEDICATED 300-400 FANS! Everyone was going crazy and just going wild. Excellent kinda crowd. A few of the warmup bands started a pretty wimpy mosh pit behind us. Now, I know that Simone is hot. You all know that Simone is hot. But the robotic spotlights were shining right in our faces and she was captured in a burning halo like a solar eclipse! FIRE WOMAN!!! I think I finally figured out how she does that figure-8 headbanging. I'ma see if I can get that down. At home. In the basement. With the lights off. So I can't embarrass myself. HAH! Of course they played Crystal Mountain and one dude at the very front pretty much unhinged his neck. That poor guy must be so damned sore today. I know I am! I enjoyed their performance in Atlanta. But now I think I'm definitely 100% converted to the cause. Time to spend money!
And in case anyone's interested, I found these interviews:
Video Interviews with Mark and Simone on Face Culture
Never really thought I'd get to see the likes of Kamelot in Detroit. Hell, they don't even play shows in Florida. And after seeing them at PP5 and Conception last year at PP6, I am still totally floored by Khan's vocal ability. The most passionate and emotional singer out there. He had one woman in tears. IN TEARS! She couldn't help it! She told him so after the show by the bus! He was a little suprised by that in a good way. That means he's doing his job right! I thought about how they got the bill at a huge venue like Harpo's, when the crowd really was a size suitable for the I-Rock down the road. And I thought about the difference in the stage sizes. It woulda been a travesty to squeeze them onto that small a stage! Thomas Youngblood was running around like crazy. Wild horses need wide green pastures to roam free! Totally energized band, crowd, performance and interaction. Casey Grillo had his drum solo of course, and I still think that boy is one of the most well-rounded, consistent, perfectly balanced power metal drummers. Everything he does fits the song perfectly. But that drum solo was NUTZ. Very original things in there and some unexpected sounds. Good to hear a challenging drum solo, not a standardized rock n roll boring average whooptydoo whatever drum solo. But what happened to Glenn Barry? When the hell did they lose him on bass? I didn't have any idea he was gone! WTF!!! I wanted to talk to his wife again cuz she's from the Detroit area and we talked about it at PP5. Damned shame. But I was pleasantly suprised by their new bass player, cuz he was as juiced up and wild on stage at Thomas was. I'll have to do some research now. No night can be truly perfect, because they didn't play a single song from before Karma, which means my favorite album got snubbed. I was blowing my voice out yelling "FOURTH FUCKIN LEGACY!!!" at them, to no avail. But they certainly played all the great stuff from Karma Epica and Black Halo... as if there's any less-than-great stuff on those albums! What was I thinking? But then I totally forgot anything about th 4th Legacy cuz SIMONE CAME OUT TO SING WITH KHAN! HAWT!! I think those two should do a whole damned album together. A side project all their own, with equal importance put on both their vocal parts. It would be devastating and heartbreaking. It would end war and poverty. It would make Glenn dedicate one whole night of ProgPower for them. HINT HINT!!!
Hung out at the bus, thanked Khan for braving the trek to Detroit's most notorious stage, got a dark crappy cellphone picture with him, met two really cool kids in the parking lot who gave us each a slice of fresh pizza, yakked about metal with them for a long while, and went home 100% satisfied. I just saw Dragonforce in the same venue a week ago, and that show was shadowed in comparison. This was as perfect a power metal show as I coulda hoped for here in my home town. Only the likes of Blind Guardian could get me more geeked. Oh, well would ya look at that? Why... they'll be on that very same stage in November!
Hell yeah.
CRAZYSHITFUCK YEAH!!
What a satisfying concert. People, catch this tour. Too damned good to miss. I wish I could join all you Chi-town hooligans tonight cuz it'd be worth it in every way. DO NOT SECOND-GUESS AND CHICKEN OUT! If you're in Chicago, fuckin GO to this show. If you don't go, you're banned from metal!
Of course, terrible brutal amateur "hardcore" bands opening, cuz Harpo's doesn't give a rat's ass about what bands they match up with what national acts. They turned the house lights on at the "Okay that's enough" point of the last opener's set. They... they SOUNDED like they were done.. shoulda been done, but no, we were wrong. Then they turned off the speakers, then the monitors, then the stage hand came out to turn off their shit.
Lesson learned: DO NOT exceed your allotted stage time.
They came out and we had a pretty good spot on the rail to watch them. We gave up that spot after only two songs and ran down to the front row! AWWW DAMN is Simone too hot up close. I can't get that close to her again, I'll end up in prison for kidnapping! Steal her away like Elian Gonzales. The guys put on pretty much the same setlist as at Prog Power 7 and just unhinged themselves. Which is suprising, cuz Harpo's was NOT packed. It was maybe 300-400 people. But they were a VERY DEDICATED 300-400 FANS! Everyone was going crazy and just going wild. Excellent kinda crowd. A few of the warmup bands started a pretty wimpy mosh pit behind us. Now, I know that Simone is hot. You all know that Simone is hot. But the robotic spotlights were shining right in our faces and she was captured in a burning halo like a solar eclipse! FIRE WOMAN!!! I think I finally figured out how she does that figure-8 headbanging. I'ma see if I can get that down. At home. In the basement. With the lights off. So I can't embarrass myself. HAH! Of course they played Crystal Mountain and one dude at the very front pretty much unhinged his neck. That poor guy must be so damned sore today. I know I am! I enjoyed their performance in Atlanta. But now I think I'm definitely 100% converted to the cause. Time to spend money!
And in case anyone's interested, I found these interviews:
Video Interviews with Mark and Simone on Face Culture
Never really thought I'd get to see the likes of Kamelot in Detroit. Hell, they don't even play shows in Florida. And after seeing them at PP5 and Conception last year at PP6, I am still totally floored by Khan's vocal ability. The most passionate and emotional singer out there. He had one woman in tears. IN TEARS! She couldn't help it! She told him so after the show by the bus! He was a little suprised by that in a good way. That means he's doing his job right! I thought about how they got the bill at a huge venue like Harpo's, when the crowd really was a size suitable for the I-Rock down the road. And I thought about the difference in the stage sizes. It woulda been a travesty to squeeze them onto that small a stage! Thomas Youngblood was running around like crazy. Wild horses need wide green pastures to roam free! Totally energized band, crowd, performance and interaction. Casey Grillo had his drum solo of course, and I still think that boy is one of the most well-rounded, consistent, perfectly balanced power metal drummers. Everything he does fits the song perfectly. But that drum solo was NUTZ. Very original things in there and some unexpected sounds. Good to hear a challenging drum solo, not a standardized rock n roll boring average whooptydoo whatever drum solo. But what happened to Glenn Barry? When the hell did they lose him on bass? I didn't have any idea he was gone! WTF!!! I wanted to talk to his wife again cuz she's from the Detroit area and we talked about it at PP5. Damned shame. But I was pleasantly suprised by their new bass player, cuz he was as juiced up and wild on stage at Thomas was. I'll have to do some research now. No night can be truly perfect, because they didn't play a single song from before Karma, which means my favorite album got snubbed. I was blowing my voice out yelling "FOURTH FUCKIN LEGACY!!!" at them, to no avail. But they certainly played all the great stuff from Karma Epica and Black Halo... as if there's any less-than-great stuff on those albums! What was I thinking? But then I totally forgot anything about th 4th Legacy cuz SIMONE CAME OUT TO SING WITH KHAN! HAWT!! I think those two should do a whole damned album together. A side project all their own, with equal importance put on both their vocal parts. It would be devastating and heartbreaking. It would end war and poverty. It would make Glenn dedicate one whole night of ProgPower for them. HINT HINT!!!
Hung out at the bus, thanked Khan for braving the trek to Detroit's most notorious stage, got a dark crappy cellphone picture with him, met two really cool kids in the parking lot who gave us each a slice of fresh pizza, yakked about metal with them for a long while, and went home 100% satisfied. I just saw Dragonforce in the same venue a week ago, and that show was shadowed in comparison. This was as perfect a power metal show as I coulda hoped for here in my home town. Only the likes of Blind Guardian could get me more geeked. Oh, well would ya look at that? Why... they'll be on that very same stage in November!
METAL GODS BE PRAISED!!!