Audioslave Concert or Wrestling DVD's on Sale
Tonight was the Audioslave concert, attended by myself, Erin and the Stobart brothers. The show was not too shabby! The openers, 30 seconds to Mars fronted by Jared Leto were already into their set when we arrived, but we saw enough to know that they were forgettable. The frontman really thought he was the shit, as he demanded that everyone stand for him and sing along to songs they'd never heard of. I'd go so far as to call him an egocentric lunatic. The next band "Seether" was in desperate need of a reminder that the year is no longer 1993, and that grunge is dead. If I wasn't looking at them straight, I'd swear that they were Silverchair back to annoy me. When the dude dedicated songs to Kurt Cobain and Laine Stayley, I knew that things we going downhill. Every songs was similar to the previous one and tended to blur their whole set together. Funny thing is, at one point myself and the Stobart's were all asleep! I'd say that sums up the status of Seether.
Audioslave was great, keeping the crowd going crazy through the whole set. They played a few Soundgarden songs (Rusty Cage, Spoonman, and Black Hole Sun), a few Rage songs (Bulls on Parade, Killing in the Name, and the one about setting things on fire whose name escapes me now), and a great deal of their two albums. All in all they played (including 7 song encore!) for about 1 hour 45 minutes, which is pretty good for a 3 band concert. During the really fast songs, the mosh pit was nuts with people flying everywhere. Had I been 16, I might have wanted to join in, but as I am not, I did not. While on the subject of 16 year olds, I would have to put their percentage of the crowd at somewhere in the 80's. It was a high schoolers convention! When the encore came up, I called that they would play Cochise, Killing in the Name, and Black Hole Sun, which they did (making me correct as usual) but I wasn't expecting them to play 4 more songs! (You win some, you lose some). Anyway, I was very impressed and was glad that I went to the show.
Last night I scored some cheap wrestling DVD's at Wal-Mart (boo) and Music World. They include: The Eddie Guerrero Story, Hall of Fame induction 2004, and Hardcore Homecoming. The hardcore one was a surprise as it was the ECW reunion put on by Shane Douglas the day before the official one that the WWE did. Due to legal issues, they had to bleep out all the ECW chants, the entrance music, and the references to ECW which made the sound mixing really off. The crowd seemed dead the whole night, but they were in fact, red hot the whole time. It was weird to see Sandman come out to techno music and see the whole crowd singing soundlessly to "Enter Sandman." The show itself was cool, for a nostalgia effect, featuring a 3 way barbed wire match that had suitable gore and craziness. At this point, ECW is gone and should stay that way, as you will never be able to duplicate what that company was about. TNA is the future and should be the focus of all the wrestling fans who long for something good again.
4 Comments:
Wrestling's lame.
U get Blog spam.
haha.
Hey Ian, do you have the godly power to delete comments that you don't like?
BTW, the concert was awesome, and Seether put on a much better show than Ian says, and the only reason I fell asleep was because I was tired :)
What happens when you give a lawyer Viagra?............He gets taller :)
Thats awesome Stobes.
P.S. I hope you're talking about the spam.
hehe. Yes, I'm talking about the spam. I wasn't meaning your comment :D
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