• 16May 09

  ESS still rocks !!!

  Hey Back again !!! the Shinedown show was awesome !!!! I couldn't believe how small the Tabernacle was, I guess it holds maybe 2000 people, but it totally rocked !!!! we saw Number one contender, Halestorm, and of course, Shinedown !!! NOC is a band from Charleston, and they were pretty good, the lead singer came out with no shirt on from the beginning, so the girls were with him from the get go. They also had a guitar player who wore a shirt and tie and a sweater vest and looked like Lance Armstrong, we called him the professor. !!!! Then Halestorm came on, and they totally rocked !!! my wife was not a big fan, what a shocker since Halestorm features Lzzy Hale as the lead singer !!! her brother is the drummer, and the band did something I have never seen- the drummer (Arejay) did a solo, and really got the crowd going, and then when he had 'em going good, he pulled out a pair of drumsticks that were like 3 feet long, and he kept playing with them !!! THEN, the rest of the band came out and set up a set of 4 drums in the front of the stage, and the whole band played drums together, Lzzy and her brother and the 2 other guitar players, all together, VERY COOL!!!!!!! PLUS , when Lzzy came out, she had a white Flying V, and she later also played a explorer guitar, and I think she really sings very well, she also gets the crowd into it, which is VERY big !!! i just checked out a youtube video of halestorm , in a radio station, Lzzy sang Heart's All I wanna do is make love to you, one of my favorite all time heart songs, in an acoustic version, also super cool!! Watch for Halestorm, they will be big one day !!! Then, Shinedown came out, no pyro, no big intro, very litttle lights, they just kinda showed up: Barry the drummer came out and took his spot, and then Brent and the guys came out, and they just started playing and rocking, and the whole place was really INTO IT , ya know?? I LOVED IT !!!!! they rocked the place, we were on the second floor, and we could feel the floor bouncing up and down, A LOT, we were a little worried, but we just said, screw it and we had a fantastic time !!! I would easily say it was one of the best concerts i've seen yet, (EVER!!!) just from the energy and the love for the band, it was something special being in an old building that now just lives to rock it!! I truly hope the belugas and the rest of the fish at the georgia aquarium were at least feeling the music and , Iknow they would enjoy it !!!! the belugas love to dance, you know ?? we got a Halestorm cd, and I got the wife a Shinedown t shirt, and she had a really great time, maybe even more so than the Nickelback concert!!! my wife made friends with a woman behind us, and she didn't know Shinedown before, but she likes them now !!!! SD didn't play Simple Man, which was a letdown, but I watched some stuff on youtube where Brent said they basically said they just didnt feel the same playing the song now without Jasin, and that it was kinda a tribute to Dimebag Darrel when they did it. I can understand that, and I think it's so cool they are a band that actually has that much feeling and attachment to their songs and the music and the people who inspired it, to them, ya know ??I would easily pay to see the show again, tomorrow, a month from now, a year from now,whenever!!!

  ps , Shinedown announced they are touring this summer with Halestorm,Chevelle (another very cool band) and Staind !!

  pps ROCK SO LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  listening to : Audioslave, right this second!!! ( so awesome!!!) also, Halestorm (duh!!) (I GET OFF !!) and Seether (check out the videos, they have some awesome ones, a great use for youtube, Seether is really great !!!!) as well as metallica, Kill em all and Death Magnetic !!!! both are awesome

  lifelong shooter, dr pepper's biggest fan, Jack Reacher fan !!!

  • Posted May 16, 2009 11:03 pm PT
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• 2May 09

  Hey kids !!!

  ok so it's been a bit of a while since the last update, so here it is!!

  I am within an eyelash of level 20!! woo hoooo !!!!

  went to a BIG concert with the wife last week, Saving Abel, Seether, and Nickelback, and it was awesome !!!!

  that was thursday

  went to a LITTLE concert saturday with Eleven Standing Still, and it was also Awesome. Check them out at myspace.com/elevenstanding still

  the lead singer, Johnathan, came over and said hi and spoke to me and my wife for a few minutes between sets. we were very happy to see them, I had been a fan since I heard about them in the summer of last year, and now my wife is a big fan too. we will probably go see them again tomorrow at a different bar. it was actually a benefit concert, and the band is a really cool bunch of guys.we bought a cd sampler and 2 t shirts, and the guys played like 30 songs or so-- their own stuff as well as other stuff, one nickelback song, a Bob seeger song, 3 Metallica songs, and some I dont even remember. But we enjoyed it a lot. we also met Jamie the lead guitarist. The nickelback show was very cool, the loudest concert we've been to yet, and they had tons of pyro, 5 different colors of flame thrower, huge video screens, fireworks, and a extra guitar/keyboard player named Timmy who was awesome!!!he played a 12 string acoustic guitar with a single neck !! Seether and Saving Abel were also great, and Shaun from seether came out and did a song with Nickelback!! very cool.. I think Seether could headline a concert themselves, and they probably will sometime soon !! Seether didnt do my favorite song tho, fmlyhm...... look it up if you don't know it, gs would kick me out if i told you all the words !!! COOL FACT: during the Nickelback show, Chad, the lead singer, pointed out a guy who was fetching beers for his friends, up near the front, and it turned out, we found out 2 days later, that it was Johnathan of ESS that he was talking about !!! cool huh ?

  So, tomorrow night is more ESS, and on Cinco de mayo, we FINALLY get to seeMY favorite band, Shinedown !!!! (We saw the wife's favorite band , Three Days Grace, last year- they are my second fave !!!) I can hardly wait !!! .45, Devour, Save me, Sound of Madness, and more, and I heard on the radio that this show will be Shinedown's next live DVD !!!!!!!!!!! woo hoooo ps i am a bit excited

  on the game front, i preordered and finally got guitar hero Metallica, and I am thoroughly enjoying it !!! I also recently found GH: Aerosmith with a wireless guitar new at Best Buy for $31.99, but it actually rang up for $23.99, so I got a new GH game and a new wireless GH guitar for $25 bucks and change , with tax !!! the guitar is a Kramer Striker wireless, and it works great !!! my scores are going up already with a new guitar that has all the buttons working !! they also had the guitar alone for $15 bucks, which is pretty good also !!! One of my favorite songs, which is badly overlooked by radio, Albatross by C.O.C., is on the Metallica game -- awesome !!!

  til next time, War Eagle, and oh yeah SHINEDOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!

  ps I hope to go see Metallica in October, should be a helluva show !!!!

  • Posted May 2, 2009 1:23 am PT
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• 3Mar 09

  update`

  I am still playing the first God of war, and I still Freakin love it--- not as good as RE4 was in it's time, to me, but it's still a freaking awesome game !! I'll beat it soon, but I hate those freakin medusas !!

  I'm still kicking myself for not buying the RE4 chainsaw controller when I had the chnace, that thing is freakin awesome !!! i can get the ps2 version for $25 bucks, but then I also hafta buy the PS 2 game...............

  also- I was thinking about buying a used orig XBOX, just since I never had one, and since I have never really played halo, and since the games ofr it are pretty cheap, and I really liked the original big controller, WHATCHA THINK ?

  • Posted Mar 3, 2009 9:55 pm PT
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