- Skillet - It's Not Me It's You
- I Prevail - Blank Space (Taylor Swift Cover)
- From Ashes To New - Crazy
- Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
- Volbeat - A Warrior's Call
- Five Finger Death Punch - Gone Away
- Chevelle - Face to the Floor
- Pop Evil - Footsteps (Go Higher)
- Papa Roach - Help
- Breaking Benjamin - So Cold
- Godsmack - Moon Baby
- Shinedown - Enemies
Showing posts with label Pop Evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop Evil. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
12 for Sawyer
These are 12 tunes for Sawyer, my nephew.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Seeing Three Good Concerts Through The Eyes of My Son
2020-02-21 Spicolli's in Waterloo, IA - Pop Evil Acoustic Playlist
2020-02-15 US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, IA - Breaking Benjamin and Korn Playlist
2019-07-19 Wooly's in Des Moines, IA - Pop Evil
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Get Your Ded On
Alex really wants to go to the Pop Evil / Dead / Lionize gig on Wednesday, 11/22 (a short 13 days away) at Spicolli's. The hope is that Susie hosts Thanksgiving, that we drive to Cedar Falls on 11/22, spend the night at the Best Western hotel and then get up the next morning to go to Thanksgiving.
I admit I like this tune.
I admit I like this tune.
Friday, October 13, 2017
No Pop Ded or Breeding
In 40 days, Pop Evil & Ded are playing a concert at Spicolli's in Waterloo, which is where I recently went with Kevin H. and Alex to see Overkill / Crowbar / Havok on a Thursday night. The problem with this Pop Evil & Ded concert is it is on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, 11/22/17. Normally, it would work out great for Alex to see a show in Waterloo, since he is a student @ UNI, but in this specific scenario, it's not going to work out great. You see, Thanksgiving break begins on Saturday, November 18, 2017, so when this concert rolls around, Alex will be at home in North Liberty. His idea is to still drive up to Waterloo with Austin, his buddy, on that Wednesday and see the show and then return home.
What would be smart for him to do would be to check into if he can spend the night in his dorm room (or possibly Megan's apartment) after the concert so he doesn't have to drive back from Waterloo late at night.
In other news, the Breeders are reuniting. This article https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/07/the-breeders-drugs-kurt-cobain-life-after-pixies states that there was such a falling out among the band members that the vocalist and drummer didn't speak for 15 years. It's beyond 'highly unlikely' that the Breeders will play a concert in Iowa, which is no skin off my back because I only know this tune by them:
With my luck, they WILL play a concert in Iowa and I'll have to dismiss the notion of going.
What would be smart for him to do would be to check into if he can spend the night in his dorm room (or possibly Megan's apartment) after the concert so he doesn't have to drive back from Waterloo late at night.
In other news, the Breeders are reuniting. This article https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/07/the-breeders-drugs-kurt-cobain-life-after-pixies states that there was such a falling out among the band members that the vocalist and drummer didn't speak for 15 years. It's beyond 'highly unlikely' that the Breeders will play a concert in Iowa, which is no skin off my back because I only know this tune by them:
With my luck, they WILL play a concert in Iowa and I'll have to dismiss the notion of going.
Friday, May 6, 2016
Unequal Pay is Good ... Sometimes
A professional wrestler in the WWE, Ryback, wrote a blog post about how WWE stars should receive equal pay, whether the wrestler is booked to win or lose. It's an interesting essay and, while there are clumsy phrases throughout, I concluded that Ryback is an intelligent man. I have the link below for your reading enjoyment. Ryback makes the case that there should be more equal pay for professional wrestlers in the WWE.
I know this may be a stretch in the logic Ryback uses, but I am taking his argument and applying it to the fictional situation where I am the booking agent for a music festival. Should I pay the 8 bands I'm going to book the same, meaning the very first band that plays should be paid the same as the headliner. Uh, no. Never. Look at this fictional dream lineup of a day-long music festival I would love to book at Kinnick Stadium. Here's the schedule:
12:00 Doors Open
02:10-02:45 From Ashes to New
03:00-03:40 We As Human
04:05-04:45 In This Moment
05:15-06:00 Pop Evil
06:30-07:15 Breaking Benjamin
07:45-09:00 Shinedown
09:30-11:00 Metallica
Editor's Note: Schedule was revised on 5/13/2016 to use the Rock'n Derby main stage schedule as a template. See below the link to Ryback's post for the bands that are playing at that festival.
Regardless of the amount of time a specific band was playing, there is a higher demand for Metallica than From Ashes to New, the same as there is more demand for Cena or The Rock than for Golddust or R Truth. That's the way it is. The only way a band like From Ashes to New or We As Human can move into the Metallica slot is to keep churning away, playing gigs upon gigs until, eventually, they headline their own tour. A great example is Shinedown. They were not in a good slot the first time I saw them at Memphis in May in 2003. While their single "45" was starting to run up the charts, they still played around 2 PM, which is not the best slot. When I saw them in 2008, Shinedown were sandwiched between Buck Cherry & Saving Abel. When I saw them twice in 2013, Shinedown was headlining their own tour with Three Days Grace & POD opening in February and then headlining the "Carnival of Madness" tour with Skillet & Papa Roach & In This Moment & We As Human opening.
So when Ryback says, "Why not pay the talent equally? The winners have more MERCH as it is or are supposed to anyways so they get that extra perk," he has answered his own question. MERCH is not a perk - it's a clear, tangible, & measurable way to determine whether the talent should be headlining a PPV or in the pre-show. Is it fair? Of course not. The WWE Universe is finnicky. It's hard to imagine this, but there was a time when The Rock was booed and was unpopular. Sometimes things work slowly. For example, The New Day started out as heels and the stable looked like it was going to be a bust. They were unpopular and booed often. Since their debut, they have found a way to connect with the crowd to the extent that on the May 2, 2016, episode of Monday Night Raw, they were faces and teamed up with Cass, another face. Sometimes things don't work at all. The League of Nations (Rusev, Alberto Del Rio, Sheamus, and Wade Barrett) never caught on as a stable. When they turned on each other a couple of weeks ago, I certainly didn't shed a tear.
Read Ryback's post here
I know this may be a stretch in the logic Ryback uses, but I am taking his argument and applying it to the fictional situation where I am the booking agent for a music festival. Should I pay the 8 bands I'm going to book the same, meaning the very first band that plays should be paid the same as the headliner. Uh, no. Never. Look at this fictional dream lineup of a day-long music festival I would love to book at Kinnick Stadium. Here's the schedule:
12:00 Doors Open
02:10-02:45 From Ashes to New
03:00-03:40 We As Human
04:05-04:45 In This Moment
05:15-06:00 Pop Evil
06:30-07:15 Breaking Benjamin
07:45-09:00 Shinedown
09:30-11:00 Metallica
Editor's Note: Schedule was revised on 5/13/2016 to use the Rock'n Derby main stage schedule as a template. See below the link to Ryback's post for the bands that are playing at that festival.
Regardless of the amount of time a specific band was playing, there is a higher demand for Metallica than From Ashes to New, the same as there is more demand for Cena or The Rock than for Golddust or R Truth. That's the way it is. The only way a band like From Ashes to New or We As Human can move into the Metallica slot is to keep churning away, playing gigs upon gigs until, eventually, they headline their own tour. A great example is Shinedown. They were not in a good slot the first time I saw them at Memphis in May in 2003. While their single "45" was starting to run up the charts, they still played around 2 PM, which is not the best slot. When I saw them in 2008, Shinedown were sandwiched between Buck Cherry & Saving Abel. When I saw them twice in 2013, Shinedown was headlining their own tour with Three Days Grace & POD opening in February and then headlining the "Carnival of Madness" tour with Skillet & Papa Roach & In This Moment & We As Human opening.
So when Ryback says, "Why not pay the talent equally? The winners have more MERCH as it is or are supposed to anyways so they get that extra perk," he has answered his own question. MERCH is not a perk - it's a clear, tangible, & measurable way to determine whether the talent should be headlining a PPV or in the pre-show. Is it fair? Of course not. The WWE Universe is finnicky. It's hard to imagine this, but there was a time when The Rock was booed and was unpopular. Sometimes things work slowly. For example, The New Day started out as heels and the stable looked like it was going to be a bust. They were unpopular and booed often. Since their debut, they have found a way to connect with the crowd to the extent that on the May 2, 2016, episode of Monday Night Raw, they were faces and teamed up with Cass, another face. Sometimes things don't work at all. The League of Nations (Rusev, Alberto Del Rio, Sheamus, and Wade Barrett) never caught on as a stable. When they turned on each other a couple of weeks ago, I certainly didn't shed a tear.
Read Ryback's post here
SATURDAY, MAY 21
A DAY TO REMEMBER 9:30 --- 11:00PM
HALESTORM 7:45 --- 9:00PM
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD 6:30 ---
7:15PM
STATE CHAMPS 5:15 ---
6:00PM
WE CAME AS ROMANS 4:05 --- 4:45PM
MEMPHIS MAY FIRE 3:00 ---
3:40PM
MISS MAY I 2:10 ---
2:45PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Pop Evil Bandwagon
I'm really enjoying the band Pop Evil. They are not a new band, but it feels like I'm late to the party.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
I Want to Go South
This http://www.louderthanlifefestival.com/music.html festival in Louisville, KY, looks absolutely awesome! Are you serious?
And when I look at that concert, I'm amazed.
Judas Priest, Alter Bridge, Theory of a Deadman, Pop Evil, Otherwise, Fuel all at the same concert?!? And the next day, seeing Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Buck Cherry, Papa Roach, P.O.D., and HellYeah in concert?!? I haven't read the details, but I hope there isn't three stages going at the same time.
Bands Scheduled to Appear on Day One:
Judas Priest, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Stone Temple Pilots, Alter Bridge, Mastodon, Theory of a Deadman, Steel Panther, Pop Evil, Memphis May Fire, Otherwise, Fuel, NonPoint, Thousand Foot Crutch, Miss May I, Flaw, Wilson
Bands Scheduled to Appear on Day Two:
Kid Rock, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Papa Roach, A Day to Remember, Bring Me The Horizon, Buck Cherry, P.O.D., Hell Yeah, Motionless in White, Nothing More, Butcher Babies, Avatar, Crobot, Islander
And when I look at that concert, I'm amazed.
Judas Priest, Alter Bridge, Theory of a Deadman, Pop Evil, Otherwise, Fuel all at the same concert?!? And the next day, seeing Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Buck Cherry, Papa Roach, P.O.D., and HellYeah in concert?!? I haven't read the details, but I hope there isn't three stages going at the same time.
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