US 2008 Paradise Lost Tour

No way! I don't mean for SX, I didn't feel like their soundcheck was all that bad, I've seen their soundchecks be 10x worse! I meant the horrible debacle that was the Into Eternity soundcheck. Was Cleveland really worse?

Ahh I meant the soundchecks as a whole (all 3 bands)..and yes, Cleveland was really worse.
 
April 17, 2008
Portland, OR

It was really good show, though I felt it was interrupted a many times by moshers, and three girls who kept getting on stage and forcing their way through the crowd :mad:

The sound was decent, though for all three bands I felt the vocals were not turned up enough.

Revelation/Divine Wings was definitely the highlight. The girls pretty much ruined Through the Looking Glass, as good as it was. blah. Masquerade was freaking awesome live!

It's a shame that Simone Simmons was not there for Epica, I didn't know she was out for the tour :cry:

anyway:

Courtesy of my cousin's camera:
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im like praying for Looking Glass in Phoenix. knowing my luck ill get Egypt (no offense its an amazing song but has nothing on TTLG). Lets hope they play Ashes too. that would be awesome to hear. aww... they put sea of lies back in the set. :cry: i totally want to hear Walls of Babylon again. was a definite highlight of the 2007 show.
 
i totally want to hear Walls of Babylon again. was a definite highlight of the 2007 show.

holy smokes.....I just realized that they played Walls of Babylon at the Portland show, but it wasn't on the setlist. I think it was before Revelation. Who can confirm? I was rather annoyed with some of the people there, and lost track of the songs that were getting played :mad:
 
you know what is weird in SF last night it was that set-list but they had the other set-list shown with egypt and babylon but they did the one with TTLG
 
PORTLAND SHOW!


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feel free to SUCK MAH BALLZ. '

so symphony x is my favorite band. and it started at 9 (on thurs) and i got there at fuckin 4. i was eating at this mexican place right next door to the venue and i could see the buses and shit hoping to see any members. i saw michael come out. and i was like shit!!!! i ran out, and i was like "michael! you got a sec?" and i asked him about his old esp mIIs, apprently he got them in japan. then we talked about his caparison. then we moved onto engl. he uses the fireball and the powerball live now. he said fuck the vetta :rollin
he was so easy to talk to. greatest moment of my life haha. he said he had to call his family so i went to go wait out in front by the doors.

so i wait for a million hours and talk to some peeps, then my friends nicky (guy) and natalie(girl) came. and we went in. i was first in, got an odyssey shirt and got right in front in the left where i knew michael would be.

into eternity was awesome. epica was lame.

so symphony x came on...

set list:

set the world on fire
domination
serpents kiss
masquerade
paradis lost
looking glass
inferno
smoke and mirrors
IT SAID SEA OF LIES BUT THEY FUCKING SKIPPED IT
Revation/divine wings of tragedy (only like 3 minutes of DWOT :( )

the "encore" (which was on the set list)

eve of seduction
of sins and shadows



fucking amazing playing. i got tons of vids of him doing all the solos. i fucking scored one of his picks and the set list. there were these three girls that went up and were like all humpin on russell and they were really annoying they were up there so long. i looked to michael and i shrugged and said "what the fuck?" and he stopped playing and started laughing and he was like "yeah what the fuck is he doing?". there was a lot of interaction between him and i (sounds gay but...)

afterwards i waited and i met the bassist, mike lepond. he was really tight and he was telling me about how he played with ross the boss from manowar, who was one of his idols. he signed my odyssey cd book thing. then michael came out again, i was honestly the only one actually TALKING to him. i asked him about his pedalboard, which i thought was custom but it turns out its a TC G-system. which was fuckin awesome. but its so expensive :rollin he said he liked the g-major but he wanted that in pedal form so he got the g-system. i told him how much i learned from his the guitar chapter and he said he wants to do another instructional vid. he said he was getting cold and he signed my odyssey thing and that was that :)


best night of my life.
 
PORTLAND SHOW!


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feel free to SUCK MAH BALLZ. '

so symphony x is my favorite band. and it started at 9 (on thurs) and i got there at fuckin 4. i was eating at this mexican place right next door to the venue and i could see the buses and shit hoping to see any members. i saw michael come out. and i was like shit!!!! i ran out, and i was like "michael! you got a sec?" and i asked him about his old esp mIIs, apprently he got them in japan. then we talked about his caparison. then we moved onto engl. he uses the fireball and the powerball live now. he said fuck the vetta :rollin
he was so easy to talk to. greatest moment of my life haha. he said he had to call his family so i went to go wait out in front by the doors.

so i wait for a million hours and talk to some peeps, then my friends nicky (guy) and natalie(girl) came. and we went in. i was first in, got an odyssey shirt and got right in front in the left where i knew michael would be.

into eternity was awesome. epica was lame.

so symphony x came on...

set list:

set the world on fire
domination
serpents kiss
masquerade
paradis lost
looking glass
inferno
smoke and mirrors
IT SAID SEA OF LIES BUT THEY FUCKING SKIPPED IT
Revation/divine wings of tragedy (only like 3 minutes of DWOT :( )

the "encore" (which was on the set list)

eve of seduction
of sins and shadows



fucking amazing playing. i got tons of vids of him doing all the solos. i fucking scored one of his picks and the set list. there were these three girls that went up and were like all humpin on russell and they were really annoying they were up there so long. i looked to michael and i shrugged and said "what the fuck?" and he stopped playing and started laughing and he was like "yeah what the fuck is he doing?". there was a lot of interaction between him and i (sounds gay but...)

afterwards i waited and i met the bassist, mike lepond. he was really tight and he was telling me about how he played with ross the boss from manowar, who was one of his idols. he signed my odyssey cd book thing. then michael came out again, i was honestly the only one actually TALKING to him. i asked him about his pedalboard, which i thought was custom but it turns out its a TC G-system. which was fuckin awesome. but its so expensive :rollin he said he liked the g-major but he wanted that in pedal form so he got the g-system. i told him how much i learned from his the guitar chapter and he said he wants to do another instructional vid. he said he was getting cold and he signed my odyssey thing and that was that :)


best night of my life.


awesome

how much were the odyssey shirts?
 
The show in San Francisco(april 18th) destroyed, my friends and i were the second people there and we got some pictures with lepond,romeo and Rullo!I also talked to Russell and asked if he recovered from being sick and he said he had.During Into Eternitys set the guitarist(not the bald one) got the set list stuck on his boot and he looked at me and i tore it off for him hehe also i got a pick from Romeo................anyways here was the set

Oculus ex Inferni
Set the World On Fire(The Lie of Lies)
Domination
Serpents Kiss
Masquerade
Paradise Lost
Through the Looking Glass
Smoke and Mirrors
Inferno(Unleash the Fire)
Sea of Lies
Revelation (Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia)/Divine Wings
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Eve of Seduction
Of Sins and Shadows


the highlights of the night for me were Masquerade,Ttlg,Revelation and Eve of Seduction
 
afterwards i waited and i met the bassist, mike lepond. he was really tight and he was telling me about how he played with ross the boss from manowar, who was one of his idols.

Excuse me but what the heck do you mean when you say Mike LePond is "tight"?
 
jax maybe you can tell me I got the set-list in SF but it had babylon and egypt on there but then they played the other set-list?

I was right in front of lepond the whole time I think I saw you but I'm not sure where were you?