Man I went to this last night and it was so amazing I had to fight the urge to rub one out whilst watching.

Queens of the stone age were up first and they were really awesome live, heaps of soloing and he sounded like a pretty charismatic dude when talking to the crowd, I'm sure a few people saw him out on the town afterwards, he talked about drugs and sex quite alot and starting singing a cover of Amy Winehouse "Rehab". The band members were all really into the performance unlike the two newbies in Smashing Pumpkins who kinda just stood there.


QOTSA


Smashing Pumpkins did the whole 9 minutes of the track "United States" off their new album which was awesome, it was so cool live it was like some Dream Theater shit honestly!
Jimmy Chamberlin killed the drumming, Billy played really really well (I never realised how good he is at guitar!), they did acoustic covers of Perfect and Thats the way my love is.
They also did like a 15 minute instrumental led by Billy and everyone sung him happy birthday afterwards as it was kinda recent.

They did an encore and Billy climbed up on the rafters, waved directly at me haha and was insulting Jack Johnson quite alot which was really random I remember exactly what he said:

Sorry we arent that jack johnson surf shit that you all seem to like....nah i love jack johnson!
He just could never beat me in a fight, I'd call him curious george, after all he wrote that song

Was quite strange.


So yeah AWESOME gig and I'd been really excited about it for a while.

What bands are you guys looking forward to seeing or what was the last gig you went to?


Here are the best pictures I took:




Smashing Pumpkins singing today with the crowd.

Seems like you had fun time.

Last gig I went to was Porcupine Tree in December. A few cool bands are playing here in Finland in the next few months but I don't really care about them enough to actually see them live, except Boris who are playing in May so I might go see them. Porcupine Tree and Opeth are playing in the same festival in July so I'll most likely go there. Some other cool bands are going to be there too, like The National, CMX and Interpol.

EDIT: Oh ya, Incubus are playing here in June so that could be worth going to.

That looked really fun! Last time QOTSA played here (in Toronto) they had some really mediocre band open up that bored the hell out of everyone but once they got on it was so energetic ​. And yes, Josh is a funny guy.

Last concert I went to see was Gogol Bordello a few weeks ago. I don't imagine many people here at GW like them (or maybe have never heard of them?), it's categorized "gypsy punk" and you could check it out. It was really fun and no one in the whole venue was standing still.

I'm looking forward to seeing A Silvet Mt. Zion in June

I just got free tickets to this gig called Rock2Wellington which is in my city Kiss and Alice Cooper are playing tonight, I'm not really a big fan of either but that is pretty damn awesome for free!

Quote from: DJ Soup on March 21, 2008, 11:22:18 pm

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The only logical reason I find to go to a gig is I WANT TO SEE THIS MUSICIAN IN PERSON!!! and I have like too few in my list, Tom Waits being the highest thing there.
I dunno, sometimes I think I should go places more often but dont seem to be very interested.

Seeing a band live is a whole new experience, it's the way most bands should be seen rather than on a recording.

Maybe its different for you guys in the states because concerts can be so massive.

I've only been to one concert that was from well-known bands that wasn't christian (my parents are responsible for that last part). I went to go see The End, Animosity, HORSE the Band, and BTBAM. The only ones I really enjoyed were Animosity and BTBAM. To many people were going ape-shit during HORSE for me to really enjoy it. And I don't mean ape-shit in as lets have a good time, but as in I'm so Hardcore, look at me flail my arms to prove that I'm so hardcore. BTBAM was fucking awesome. Animosity was pretty intense (regardless of bad their music is) and The End was alright. It was a pretty awesome experience, especially since I got to meet some of the dudes from BTBAM. As far as upcoming gigs, I was going to go to summer slaughter but I really don't feel like driving that far. I do want to go to something though.

WOW I JUST REMEMBERED at Kiss I tried to pee in a bottle and I kinda peed on a guys leg.

At The Gates + Municipal Waste

Make sure you go see At the Gates.