I'll Go with "PASS"

INDIVIDUAL DAILY LINE-UPS:

Friday July 10:

Limp Bizkit

Papa Roach

Steel Panther

Candlebox

Atreyu

All That Remains

We Came As Romans

Escape the Fate

The Aquadolls

Stitched Up Heart

Paralandra

MissYou

Saving Escape

Saturday July 11:

Weezer

Haelstorm

Underoath

Badflower

Static-X

Puddle of Mudd

New Politics

Emmure

Stick to Your Guns

New Years Day

September Mourning

Along Came a Spider

Dead Engine

Mollo Rilla

Sunday July 12:

Blink-182

Mastodon

Hollywood Undead

Falling in Reverse

The Devil Wears Prada

Attila

Cold

Carnifex

Band-Maid

Damn Nation

A Killer’s Confessions

Sink the Ship

Single day tickets are now available, starting at just $65, and two-day tickets are available for $139. Weekend Field Passes, which include three-day General Admission, Field Passes to the concert for the entire weekend and self-guided reformatory tours, start at just $220. See below for additional ticket information.

Why we Missed Hatebreed, who suck anyways...

It was 7 years ago today (2557 days), on Dec. 9, 2011, when Phil Smith, Chris Motter, and I went up to Mc Elroy Auditorium in Waterloo, IA to see Five Finger Death Punch, All That Remains, Sevendust & Hatebreed. The main thing I remember about the concert is that we walked in as Sevendust was ending. I didn't know many of the tunes that All That Remains played, but I remember their drummer had a single bass drum set and how surprised I was that he didn't have a monstrous double bass set. As for Five Finger Death Punch, I'm lying if I say I remember their set. I remember I drove that night and I remember that I thought the venue was downtown, but it isn't, so we arrived later than expected, which is why we missed Hatebreed, who suck anyways, but I regret that I didn't see more of Sevendust's set.

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Festival Lineup Sucks

Honestly, Megadeth is the only band I'd want to see of the ones on the graphic below...

Prayers to Ivan

Five Finger Death Punch Tap All That Remains Vocalist Phil Labonte to Fill in for Ivan Moody on Remaining Tour Dates (with Shinedown)

Sigh.. LAZERfest 2013

Nope, not going to the Des Moines area on a Friday. The lineup is out - it is a good lineup - but I'm not taking off a day of work. I saw Papa Roach at Memphis in May and saw All That Remains open for Five Finger Death Punch. I am firing up the Sick Puppies on my external hard drive - I would like to see them sometime. Their lyrics are thought-provoking. 

Someday . . .

Every year, they hold Rock Fest in Cadott, WI, in mid-July.

Every year, awesome bands, including some of my favorite bands, play at this festival.

Every year, I sigh and wish I was there.

Someday, I will be there.

It would be awesome if it was this year, since from Thursday to Sunday, a lot of my favorite bands play:

• Thursday
• Seether
• Halestorm
• All That Remains
• Friday
• The Offspring
• Theory of a Deadman
• In This Moment
• Saturday
• KISS
• Megadeth
• Stone Sour
• Hellyeah
• Warrant
•  Sunday
• Mötley Crüe!!!!!!
• Whitesnake <== Tommy Aldridge (a drum hero of mine) is playing with them on this tour!!!
• Skillet!!!!!

The fact that Mötley Crüe, the 'bad boys of rock,' headline a show where Skillet, a Christian rock band, plays just a few hours earlier, makes this year awesome.

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A Day Off? Really?

This is not a complaint, but I do not really like shopping. The whole materialistic attitude of the world is sickening. The deals you run into at the store are always encouraging you to spend more. If you spend this amount, you get this, but for $10 more, you get THAT, and THAT is much better.Yes, we ended up with THAT instead of this, which will make people I know happy.

On Friday, 12/9/11, I went with Chris and Phil to Waterloo to see Rains, Hatebreed, Sevendust, All That Remains, and Five Finger Death Punch. It was a good show. I got home at 2 AM and at 8:30 AM, I was on the road to Lynch in Mount Vernon, which was perfect because while I waited for the F-150 to have its oil changed and the tires rotated, I had about 1 hour to write my concert review. I wrote it longhand, which means that it will be edited heavily when transcribing it into the PC.That's the way I usually work. My rough draft, when handwritten, gets plenty of editing when I am typing it into the PC, which is good. I was reading where the "problem" with computers is that writers think their first draft is their final draft. I don't really have that issue. I do edit a lot. Sometimes, as recently as last week, a review started out with one paragraph as the lead-in, but it was published as the conclusion. It's strange.

Tomorrow, I return to work. My co-worker was in India since Thanksgiving Day and returned to work today, but I, my co-worker, and manager all were off work today. I am anxious to hear about the trip tomorrow.

Other than that, my weekend went way too fast.

So I'm wrong...

Slipknot w/ All that Remains and DevilDriver
US Cellular Center
Cedar Rapids, IA
Thu, May 14, 2009 07:00 PM
I've been told by several people that Slipknot is an amazing show. Maybe I'll have to take it in.