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Sunday, December 30, 2007

I lost my shoe in a wall of death!

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The following blog is copied from my Myspace, about a show I went to on Dec. 28th:
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And now, typed on my shiny new laptop while trying to think of a way to not be sore tomorrow morning, comes my latest little concert blog. This time around, it's Shadows Fall, A Life Once Lost, Skeletonwitch, Defiler, and Badmagick.

I've been told by Brett that Shadows Fall are really good live. They didn't disappoint, although the show was kinda stolen by Skeletonwitch, who I blew all of my money on for a T-shirt and CD (hey, the CD was cheaper than it would be at the mall or something, and it's not like they sell Skeletonwitch shirts anywhere around here anyway). The show confirmed three things I already knew: 1) metal shows are the best kind of shows, 2) mosh pits are hella fun, and 3) Double Stackers taste great with heavy music.

Badmagick, a hard rock band that sounded almost exactly like older Godsmack, played first, followed by Defiler, who were a thrash/death metal act from Southampton. Despite being pretty clearly metal, there was still a bunch of idiot hardcore kids pretending to be Power Rangers during their set.

Fortunately, they mostly disappeared in when Skeletonwitch played, leaving real metalheads (myself included) in mosh pit paradise. The crowd tried to start a pit during their first song, but it ended right as people started bashing into each other. It was hilarious to watch; a bunch of kids run in and start pushing each other, and the song stops two seconds later and the kids are like "WTF?!" Plus, they new how to get the crowd on their side; all you have to do is yell things like "Smoke weed!" and "Eat pussy!" at the end of your songs to get the audience to like you.

Tonight was the last show for the bassist from A Life Once Lost, so they made it special by playing The Wanderer and by starting a Wall of Death. I wasn't about to miss out on the Wall, and on the way back from the pit, I was knocked over. As I was falling, my left shoe flew off of my foot and into God-knows-where. Ben and I spent the rest of their set looking for it; Ben found it next to some drunk lady, who didn't know it was a shoe.

I thought about jumping back into the pit for Shadows Fall's set, but by that point I was beat, so I settled for staying on the side and headbanging like crazy. They had everything you would expect from a metal band-circle pits, windmills with the microphone, a drum solo, crowd surfers falling onto the stage, etc. Paul got up to the front row and got to touch one of Brian Fair's legendary dreads.

Grandpa was nice enough to take us to Burger King on the way home. Burgers with bacon + metal shows = awesome day. And now, back to trying to fix my soreness.
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Mr. President wrote on Dec 30th, 2007 11:42pm

wait...did Grandpa go to the show with you?

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P1ayingW1thF1re wrote on Dec 31st, 2007 9:05pm

lol heavy metal grandpa

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Scourge441a wrote on Jan 1st, 2008 12:13am

I already told Mr. Pres this, but grandpa wasn't at the concert. He dropped us off, and went off to do old man stuff while we were moshing it up.

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