Alice in Chains @ Paramount, Feb. 4-5, 2009

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Thursday

Got to Seattle around 5pm and had a couple ESBs at Ruth’s Chris. We had VIP tickets so we had to be in line “no later than 6pm” so we could get our pretty green Cut-the-Line bracelets and wait outside for an hour or so. We did end up front row on the floor, so it worked out. They made us sit on the floor until the opening act came out (~7:40 I think).

Opening act: Creature with the Atom Brain [Wikipedia, MySpace]. Needed much more LSD to appreciate them.

AiC came on at ~8:30, and played for two hours with minimal breaks (mostly just so Jerry could have a smoke) and came out for one encore with two more songs.

Setlist

1. “All Secrets Known”
2. “It Ain’t Like That”
3. “Again”
4. “Check My Brain”
5. “Them Bones”
6. “Dam That River”
7. “Rain When I Die”
8. “Your Decision”
9. “Got Me Wrong”
10. “No Excuses”
11. “Last of My Kind”
12. “Down in a Hole”
13. “Sickman”
14. “God Am”
15. “Lesson Learned”
16. “Acid Bubble”
17. “Angry Chair”
18. “Man in the Box”

ENCORE

1. “Would?”
2. “Rooster”

A random kid standing near me was kind of falling down on the kid in front of him, I asked if he was ok, he turned slightly toward me and stared off into the distance, then just fell forward and had to be carried out by a large black man.

After the show: wandered to find a place to have a beer, ended up at Cheesecake Factory, had a Mac & Jack’s and a bowl of clam chowder (soup of the day, delicious), then drove home.

Friday

I have a ticket for Row 3 on the mezzanine magneted to my fridge.

Metallica, Lamb of God, and The Sword at Key Arena

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Jason got us row 5 tickets for $60, day of show. It took me over an hour to get there, regardless that I live only 12 miles from the venue We missed The Sword completely, but caught the last half of Lamb of God’s set.

Lamb of God was good. Not as good as when they were headlining the show I saw in Spokane at the Big Easy in 2007 mainly because their sound equipment was nowhere near as extravagant as Metallica’s. Seemed like they had their jam-room equipment onstage, whereas Metallica had every speaker in the building hooked to their shit.

Metallica was so fucking loud and badass, though they sounded sloppy/lazy on most of their older solos and seemed to be off-time when entering older choruses. No songs off Load, Reload, or St. Anger were played. I nearly jizzed across the Arena when they went from “Master of Puppets” right into “Blackened”. I was basically screaming every word to all the older songs (hadn’t listened to the new album enough to know the lyrics yet). And Lars is the biggest Diva in metal.

There was no beer “at request of the tour”.

Setlists

The Sword

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Lamb of God

1. Hourglass
2. Laid to Rest
3. Walk With Me in Hell
4. Ruin
5. Overhauled <- I caught from the middle of this song on
6. Now You’ve Got Something to Die For
7. Redneck
8. Black Label

Metallica

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End of the Line
3. Creeping Death
4. Harvester of Sorrow
5. One
6. Broken, Beaten & Scarred
7. Cyanide
8. Sad But True
9. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. Wherever I May Roam
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter: Sandman
16. Motorbreath
17. Die, Die My Darling
18. Seek & Destroy

My ears and voice were fucked for several days after the show. Good times.

Dilated Peoples in Seattle

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I just got home from the show. If there is anyone with enough balls to talk shit about Kanye West and even hang their head in shame during the Kanye track off Neighborhood Watch in the front row near the end of the show, it’s probably me. Fuck Kanye West. Oh, he is the executive producer on your album? Let me not even waste my [recently upgraded] bandwidth to check it out, let alone purchase it in any way, shape or form. “Fuck Kanye West.”

More will be posted regarding the show, which was awesome by the way, eventually. Remind me to rant about Kanye West, Angry Alaskans™, finding parking on Capital Hill, Iriscience’s solo shit (finally), and keeping it real at the show. Peace.

_josh

Atmosphere in Seattle

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

We went to the Atmosphere show at Showbox Sodo on Tuesday. It took me over an hour to get across the 520 bridge. I imagine it would have taken just as long to go down to I-90 and take it across. I finally got to the hotel, we drank some tequila, then hit the Bar bar across the street from Showbox Sodo before the doors opened. None of us were too concerned about the opening acts so we stayed there until the line went down (it was raining most of the time while the sheep stood there) then got our tickets at will-call and went in.

“Any song done during the karaoke portion wasn’t done during the actual show.” The show was ok. I really don’t care about hearing a DJ spinning tight cuts or whatever. And the karaoke was wack for the most part, mostly because any song they did during that wasn’t done during the show, so all we got were half-assed versions of them. There were a lot of songs I wanted to hear that Atmosphere didn’t do, and they did some songs I didn’t want to hear (“Little Man”, fuck my life…).

After the show we went back to the Bar bar and had another beer, then headed back to the hotel where we got caught trying to get into the hot tub that was closed, went back to the room and drank more, then ordered a gigantic pizza that got devoured.

_josh

WordPress 2.3

Monday, September 24th, 2007

WordPress 2.3 has been released and I’ve updated this site. I also modified the header image above a little using Adobe Photoshop CS3, but I’m still not quite happy with it.

The WordPress beta and both versions of Drupal running on this server are gone now.

J&E and I went to Seattle on Saturday for the Fremont Oktoberfest. The weather held up OK. “Charlize Theron is hott.”We went to the Beck’s beer garden and got some beers, then we realized you had to pay an unreasonable amount to get in to the actual Oktoberfest area and decided to go to a few places in Fremont instead.

I watched The Yards with E&L on Sunday and it was pretty weird. I don’t necessarily think it was a bad movie, but it was pretty slow. Charlize Theron is hott so that helped. Mark Wahlberg wasn’t the badass I expected him to be. Joaquin Phoenix played a pretty good suave & crooked guy.

_josh