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Concert review Alice In Chains
I am a huge Alice In Chains fan, and have traveled the country several times in the past few years to see Jerry Cantrell perform live. When I heard they were coming to my home town to play a show, I did everything it took to get tickets, and then had to patiently wait eight weeks to see them live. :( That my friend is hard to do when you love a band as much as I love Alice In Chains, but the eight weeks eventually passed and I got my chance to see them rock out last night! The band took the stage a little after 10pm, and they started the show with an amazing version of "Again." Jerry was on fire, William sounded great on lead vocals (he is definitely no Layne Staley, but sounded awesome nonetheless), and Sean and Mike were spot on with drums and bass…
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I got sick last Friday, and have been stuck at home all weekend recovering. While I was resting in bed yesterday, I set iTunes to play random music from my CD collection. iTunes was playing musical artists who I haven't listened to in several years (I can't recall the last time I actually listened to Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf), and it got me thinking about who the best guitar players of all time were. There are TONS of awesome guitarists, and after pondering this I came up with my ten favorite guitarists: 1…
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On the last Metallica tour I got to see Godsmack open for James Hetfield and company. Prior to the concert, I had only heard a few Godsmack songs, and those were the tunes that got played excessively on the radio. Since I was there to see Metallica, I said what the heck, and decided to give Godsmack a shot at making my musical circle. The band did just that, and when they played the song "Voodoo," I knew immediately that I liked them…
$ read more →Concert review Cinderella & Poison
I grew up listening to hard rock, and used to bang my head to the likes of Motley Crue, Cinderella, Guns N' Roses, Ratt, Warrant, Skid Row and the rest of the bands who made the 1980s special. Most of these bands are still touring in one capacity or another, and I recently had the opportunity to see two of these bands, Cinderella and Poison. Both bands were a huge success in the 1980s, and I was curious to see if they could still jam. Cinderella was the first band to take the stage, and they began their setlist with what sounded like "Fallin' Apart at the Seams." The lead singer (Tom Keifer) was having problems hitting the high notes Cinderella is known for, but the show was amazing none the less (Tom Keifer told the crowd that his voice was strained, but he chose to go on tour to make all of us Cinderella fans happy…
$ read more →Concert review Candlebox
I grew up loving rock and roll, and spent a fair amount of time in college listening to music (especially when I was writing code for class). One band that got a fair amount of play time on my home stero was Candlebox. They had a cool relaxing sound, and could jam with the best of them. So when Ticketmaster informed me that they would be in town playing a show at a local venue, I decided to get tickets…
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