http://www.sootoday.com/content/arts/details.asp?c=17465
Wtf? Considering that the musicians on this tour created the majority of the music I grew up listening to while living in "The Soo" 10 years ago (Black Sabbath, Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Megadeth, all of who I never in a million years would ever think they would ever play a show in SSM), you'd think that after this show, the 16 year old metalheads who currently live there may no longer consider Sault Ste. Marie a boring and overall crummy and depressing place to grow up where everything sucks and no good bands ever stop to play there, IF they got to see Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Down in their own town at a small venue. My personal feelings towards SSM and my time living there have not changed with the announcement of this show however because for me this tour is 10 years to late. Megadeth was the first concert I ever saw, but I was already 19 and I had to move to Windsor to see it (in Detroit). Because this show in SSM is on a Tuesday, I don't have to option to 'go home' to see it (to believe it) because of work and the fact that it's just too far to drive (8 + hours each way from Toronto). If I do want to see this tour at all, I'd have to go to the Air Canada Centre (much bigger venue) and sit in the stands of a packed house with the rest of the Torontonian schmoes. I'd much rather drive 5 mins from any corner of SSM to get downtown to the venue, or better yet, I could have walked to this show from my old house.
The whole thing just blows my mind really. Tony Iommi IS the father of ALL metal (he invented the metal riff!), but I still find it somewhat understandable that he may eventually in his touring lifetime play a show in SSM during his later years when bands go to play shows simply where they have never been before. Megadeth, sure! They still record new albums, tour everywhere they are welcome, they're still trying to keep it alive, it makes sense...but DOWN??? Man, I love DOWN! They are probably in my top 3 fav bands ever and I just can't imagine Phil Anselmo and Kirk Windstein walking down Queen or Bay St, or maybe going for a beer at "Foggy Notions" or eaying at the Husky (North or West End)...or can I? Maybe I'm just so jealous that I'm not there anymore and that I will miss this when it finally happens. I am honestly jealous of the kids who will get to see this tour in SSM and I'll probably be shaking my head if I see kids wearing Down shirts everywhere if I go home to visit sometime this year. But good for them, because nothing else good ever seems to happen there. I hope they have a blast! + I hope it inspires a few of them because if I was still living there and I heard this tour was coming to town, I'd surely shit my pants.
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HEAVEN AND HELL
With Megadeth and Down
TUESDAY, MARCH 20th • STEELBACK CENTRE
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Wtf? Considering that the musicians on this tour created the majority of the music I grew up listening to while living in "The Soo" 10 years ago (Black Sabbath, Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Megadeth, all of who I never in a million years would ever think they would ever play a show in SSM), you'd think that after this show, the 16 year old metalheads who currently live there may no longer consider Sault Ste. Marie a boring and overall crummy and depressing place to grow up where everything sucks and no good bands ever stop to play there, IF they got to see Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Down in their own town at a small venue. My personal feelings towards SSM and my time living there have not changed with the announcement of this show however because for me this tour is 10 years to late. Megadeth was the first concert I ever saw, but I was already 19 and I had to move to Windsor to see it (in Detroit). Because this show in SSM is on a Tuesday, I don't have to option to 'go home' to see it (to believe it) because of work and the fact that it's just too far to drive (8 + hours each way from Toronto). If I do want to see this tour at all, I'd have to go to the Air Canada Centre (much bigger venue) and sit in the stands of a packed house with the rest of the Torontonian schmoes. I'd much rather drive 5 mins from any corner of SSM to get downtown to the venue, or better yet, I could have walked to this show from my old house.
The whole thing just blows my mind really. Tony Iommi IS the father of ALL metal (he invented the metal riff!), but I still find it somewhat understandable that he may eventually in his touring lifetime play a show in SSM during his later years when bands go to play shows simply where they have never been before. Megadeth, sure! They still record new albums, tour everywhere they are welcome, they're still trying to keep it alive, it makes sense...but DOWN??? Man, I love DOWN! They are probably in my top 3 fav bands ever and I just can't imagine Phil Anselmo and Kirk Windstein walking down Queen or Bay St, or maybe going for a beer at "Foggy Notions" or eaying at the Husky (North or West End)...or can I? Maybe I'm just so jealous that I'm not there anymore and that I will miss this when it finally happens. I am honestly jealous of the kids who will get to see this tour in SSM and I'll probably be shaking my head if I see kids wearing Down shirts everywhere if I go home to visit sometime this year. But good for them, because nothing else good ever seems to happen there. I hope they have a blast! + I hope it inspires a few of them because if I was still living there and I heard this tour was coming to town, I'd surely shit my pants.
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