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Wow, amazing show. Hope you liked it.

Feb 19
2006
8:00PM Sunday Opeth with special guests Dark Tranquillity and The Devin Townsend Band

Sat. Feb 18
Throwdown w/ The Red Chord, Still Remains & A Dozen Furies

March 28
$12-$13 7:00  Darkest Hour, Dead To Fall, Himsa, A Life Once Lost, The Acacia Strain
[$12 advance -$13 day of show]

Wed. March 1
Bleeding Through, Every Time I Die, Between The Buried & Me & Haste The Day

Those I may all see here in the near future. I am also for sure seeing:
1.Fall Of Troy (Equal Vision), The Blackout Pact, Protest The Hero, Angry Ryan & The Nosebreakers this wednesday.
2.Mae, Lovedrug, The Audition in a week or so.
3.The Academy Is..., Acceptance, Panic At The Disco!, Hellogoodbye

WOOO I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE PANIC! AT THE DISCO!!! haha

and also maybe:
4. The Starting Line, Copeland, Cartel, Like Lions, Gatsby's American Dream

I've seen Copeland three times already though, and Gatsby's American Dream once, and I am very much anti-Starting Line, so I may turn this one down.

Edward you have to let me know how Throwdown was, that tour will be here this coming weekend...

Last edited by rufio (2006-02-12 7:48 pm)

Well I wish I could go to both, but one is on wednesday (Fall of Troy), and as awesome as that show would be (and for only $8), I won't be able to go most likely. My parents told me to choose between the two, and it's the trade-off between seeing three bands I want to see versus one.

Throwdown sounds awesome, and I miss the sXe scene around here, they don't seem to come out as much except at a venue on westside that hasn't had a good show since showbread this summer.

holy god, i havent visited this place in months, and this thread is STILL alive?!

Okay, I must admit that I feel let down by the Fall of Troy's performance. Now, I only have Dopplegangr, their newest CD, so I may not know all of their music, but on stage it almost felt like they were just playing around. They played 2 songs from Dopplegangr, 2 that will be on their new album, and a bunch of strange 40 or minute-30 second pieces without vocals. Strange, but kinda cool.

I definitely liked Protest the Hero better. They had a lot of energy (which Fall of Troy didn't lack, but they didn't have as much as this band), and were a metal-screamo mix I guess you could say. Yeah, kinda strange, but it sounded very good.

Oh well, I still liked Fall of Troy I suppose, but I expected better from them for some reason. Their CD that I have has so many energetic songs on it that they left out, and I wish they had played those instead of whatever else they were doing up there.

So maybe this emo thing is way over my head, but I dont really get the point in it. I think these are the reasons for me not butchering my hair into a pattern that picasso would have designed blindfolded.
EXHIBIT A) they found wearing tight pants can severly reduce your sperm count, we are waiting to test this one out after an emo gets a girlfriend
EXHIBIT B) I have friends

Edward wrote:

man, that sucks. I hate being let down by bands live. Like the aforementioned The Red Chord.

Fall of Troy stopped by here a couple of weeks ago, but it was on a sunday, which sucked. I would have hoped they played more off of Doppleganger, because that record is amazing, but they are so talented as a band and as musicians that I could understand why 60 seconds f them dicking around could be entertaining.

It was quite entertaining, I just...I dunno. I really enjoy performances better if the band plays songs that I know IF I know any of their songs at all. On the other hand, Protest the Hero was a surprise Canadian band that I hadn't heard before, so I wouldn't have known if they were making stuff up on the spot or not: it was pleasing to listen to.

I know Throwdown's stuff, but not all of it (although it doesn't matter as much for hXc), and I don't know much of the Red Chord or Still Remains, so I'm expecting to be surprised by the latter. Tomorrow night, ahhh can't wait...

Well, the only girls I see emo kids getting are the one that come back to our school from rehab. OR occasionly they get one before she goes off to rehab. Thats exactly what I would want to bring home to mom and dad! PS whats wrong with polo shirts?

The emo tightpants are just a trend that comes, AND GOES. There is a good video on you-tube about it. It is a trend! Try not to butcher your hair or tatoo your body behind repair so you can still jump on the next trend guys. Some things such as...polo shirts have been around for many years and are not currently trendy, especially when used as school uniforms.

What I was trying to say is that not every single person that is part of a subculture or a scene is in a uniform. I listen to the music, I hang out in a scene, I participate in the mosh, I talk to the scene girls, BUT I do NOT wear girl pants. Am I an emo kid? Am I a scene kid? Yes. But I don't have to wear girl pants to be accepted, so stop generalizing.

My second point is that, even if I did wear girl pants, why should you care? Just let it smurfing be. Are kids attacking you as a person by wearing those pants? No. You don't understand because you're not part of what they're doing. They are doing no harm to you, themselves, or society by wearing those pants, so why should you care?

And while we're on the subject of criticizing other people's fashion sense, polo shirts disgust me. Why should I pay upwards of $50 to buy a shirt that was made for under $5, and that 10,000 other guys are wearing at the same exact time. Furthermore, why should I attempt to be something I'm not. Polo shirts represent kids that go to harvard and yale merely because their families have legacy's there. They represent an echelon of society that I am not a part of, nor will I ever be a part of, so why should strive to be like them?

FYI the majority of the kids in the emo scene around here don't do drugs or booze. Sure they are promiscuous, but that does not mean that love cannot bloom between two of them. I am offended that you would attack and generalize a group that I associate myself with, and furthermore, that you obviously know NOTHING about.

Last edited by Edward (2006-02-19 1:12 am)

I occasionally wear polo shirts, but I don't think I've ever paid more than... come to think of it, I haven't paid for any of them.

I get my polo shirts on eBay, all of you shoudl check out the deals there. Like 6 shirts for 100 dollars + 10 dollars shipping...sounds like a damn good deal. Maybe its just all the emo kids at my school that do drugs, but I'm pretty sure that a large portion of the emo singers and bands fit right in with the idea of drug use and many of the emo kids (generalization, may just be the southern arizona variety of emos) use drugs.

$18/shirt? That's not a deal at all. Now 100 shirts for $6, that's a deal.

But not on eBay. I wouldn't wear anything off an anonymous auction site.