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<title><![CDATA[Si mæi, ææær dere...?]]></title>
<link>http://nervevrak.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/si-m%c3%a6i-%c3%a6%c3%a6%c3%a6r-dere/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nervevrak</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Det er så sinnssykt deilig å komme hjem edru på en fredagskveld som dette. Konserten på humla i dag ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Det er så sinnssykt deilig å komme hjem edru på en fredagskveld som dette.<br />
Konserten på humla i dag var jævlig bra. Masse deilig hardcore. Skikkelig energisk og positiv stemning, akkurat slik jeg liker det.</p>
<p><a href="http://nervevrak.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hardcore.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-60" title="hardcore, baby!" src="http://nervevrak.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hardcore.jpg" alt="" width="490" height="346" /></a></p>
<p>Veldig få jenter der, og det har jeg stadig lurt på&#8230; Hvorfor? Men så kommer jeg på dette med moshing og stage diving. Jenter er pyser. Iallefall jeg!  Ser for meg en gjentakelse av Mira Craigs fantastiske stage diving. Jeg er livsfarlig. Såh&#8230; best å gjemme seg bakerst i første omgang, sånn for sikkerhetens skyld. Gøy var det uansett! Og dette må det bli mere av. Perfekt musikk for min krakilske hjernemasse. Problems skal spille på blitz om ikke lenge, det passer bra! Skulle gjerne hatt tak i musikken deres. Kjøpte meg en kassett av Critical Point. Nu är jag spent! Den ser heftig straight edge ut! Høhø.</p>
<p>&#8220;<span style="color:#00ff00;">si mæi, ææær dere stræitedge?</span>&#8220;</p>
<p>&#8220;<span style="color:#ff00ff;">ææh øh, neeei&#8230;?</span>&#8220;</p>
<p>&#8220;<span style="color:#00ff00;">Yessss!</span>&#8220;</p>
<p>Jepp. Folk.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Day Takes New York, Pt. II: MSG1]]></title>
<link>http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>greendaymind</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[======================================== New York, Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009 I knew from ]]></description>
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<em><strong>New York, Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009</strong></em><br />
I knew from the moment I exited the Times Union Center that I would not experience the full impact of Green Day&#8217;s music at this concert. You see, I had seats&#8230; high into the dead zone of MSG. So very sad. Nonetheless, the crowd around me (except for the three people next to me who kept getting out of their seats) were pretty great. There were four young men in crazy hats (Kings for a Day?) who very politely let us know that if their giant sombrero hats got in the way of viewing to say something. And I did. But, my friend who went with me is a only a nominal Green Day fan and while I love her, I don&#8217;t think she enjoyed the show very much. I have sworn never to again attend a Green Day show with someone who is a nominal fan. It&#8217;s all or nothing for a Green Day show.</p>
<div id="attachment_397" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-397" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/p1040605/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-397" title="My hellish view" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/p1040605.jpg?w=150" alt="Green Day concert seats - MSG1" width="150" height="84" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Green Day concert seats - MSG1</p></div>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen a few concerts at Madison Square Garden and for most of them, I&#8217;ve been in the 300 sections, high up under the skyboxes. I hate sitting there. U2 sounded like they were underwater when I saw them there years ago. I noticed the sound difference most specifically during this show when I went down toward the front of the stadium after Billie Joe frightened the MSG security guards by urging fans to (slowly) come down and fill out the pit. Looking from up above, I had a feeling he would do this since the pit on stage right had a slight void of bodies in it. Of course, as usual, I didn&#8217;t get down there in time (yes, I left my friend in the dust), and of course, as usual, I chose the wrong aisle to go down because Billie came up to the stadium on the aisle next to me. I&#8217;m pretty sure they were clearing that area anyway so that he wouldn&#8217;t trip and fall. And he didn&#8217;t! Yay! I marched back up to my seat and longed for that pit. My goodness.</p>
<div id="attachment_401" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-401" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/elijahandgreendaymsg1/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-401" title="Elijah and Green Day" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/elijahandgreendaymsg1.jpg?w=150" alt="Elijah and Green Day" width="150" height="62" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">High Five</p></div>
<p>Other highlights of this show for me where Billie telling the story of fighting with Adrienne over the phone when he was out with friends, while some guy drove by and said, &#8220;Fuck you Billie Joe! Green Day sucks!&#8221; Billie Joe then went on to relate how he beat the crap out of the guy, goes back into the bar, does some shots and forgets that Adrienne is still on the phone. Apparently this all took place during the tough final record-mixing time. Those days are over now, it&#8217;s all good.</p>
<p><a title="Billie Joe Telling a Story" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1Q4KfFYRA" target="_blank">I love storytime</a>!</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Up1Q4KfFYRA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Up1Q4KfFYRA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<div id="attachment_402" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-402" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/gd2msg1/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-402" title="Green Day at Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/gd2msg1.jpg?w=150" alt="Green Day at Madison Square Garden 1" width="150" height="59" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Green Day at Madison Square Garden 1</p></div>
<p>I think the thing that I missed most in this show was the chance to dance, play and interact more directly with the band. Billie, Tré and Mike work the crowd like you wouldn&#8217;t believe. They draw you into playtime, even if seeing them at great distances. Take it from me, the closer the better. Even if it&#8217;s only been three times so far (tomorrow&#8217;s MSG fill will make four, all this year) seeing them, I completely regret not taking the opportunity a long time ago. Oh. Well. After only a few shows, I kinda feel addicted now. Is this how all those old Deadheads felt, too? Hmm.</p>
<div id="attachment_237" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-237" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/green-day-takes-new-york-albany/verizongd/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-237" title="Vcastlive Souvenir Digital Image" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/verizongd.jpg?w=150" alt="Liz and me at the Green Day show, MSG1" width="150" height="120" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Liz and me at the Green Day show, MSG1 </p></div>
<p>From an audience participation point of view, this show had some great moments. I can&#8217;t remember exactly when but at one point a construction hat pops out of the pit, and Billie puts it on. He throws it back to the pit a few seconds later. The construction hat will be back.</p>
<div id="attachment_359" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 122px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-359" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/billieconstructioneric_grossman_-_1/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-359" title="Billie in Some Dude's Construction Hat" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/billieconstructioneric_grossman_-_1.jpg?w=112" alt="Billie in the epic-failed stage dive guy's construction hat - GDA" width="112" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Billie in the epic-failed stage dive guy&#39;s construction hat - GDA</p></div>
<p>&#8220;<a title="East Jesus Nowhere - Green Day - Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMCsMiwuawk" target="_blank">East Jesus Nowhere</a>.&#8221; What can I say about this song except for &#8216;thank you.&#8217; From the very moment when the screeching, metallic quality of the chords start, a powerful moment begins which does not disappoint. The band finds a young, preferably innocent, child upon which to perform a ritual known as &#8220;saving the soul.&#8221; Sometimes the kids are scared shitless, and sometimes you get a kid like Elijah&#8230; with a Biblical name no less&#8230; at Madison Square Garden. Good times. Elijah played his part perfectly and deserved the chant that his name got. Billie was pretty good, too. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>&#8220;Longview&#8221; was surreal. I don&#8217;t remember the first verse singer, but for the second verse singer, we come back to the construction hat. From what I understand, some kids from Oakland traveled from California to see the band. The guy with the construction hat being one of them. Well, he got on stage and in a heavy metal sorta Gwar-like voice started the lyrics. Which was kinda cool for a word or two. And then he stopped in the middle of the verse and made Billie sing the song. A bit of a bummer, I&#8217;d say, particularly since the second verse is the best verse in &#8220;Longview.&#8221; In recompense, Billie had him stage dive, which he gladly did. He ran down the cat walk at high speed down and&#8230;. he jumps and&#8230; nobody catches him. Oops. This <a title="Longview - Green Day - Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009." href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY94ZLEtzEU" target="_blank">clip</a> has the scene, which ends around the 3:37 mark. LOL funny. Luckily, the last dude totally redeems the moment with a great performance and a even better stage dive. As a bonus, the clip also has Basket Case, always a winner. (Hurry before it&#8217;s too late!)</p>
<div id="attachment_403" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-403" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/greenmsg1/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-403" title="The Color of Green" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/greenmsg1.jpg?w=150" alt="Green Day at Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009" width="150" height="51" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Green Day at Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009</p></div>
<p>I think this night was the first time that they played &#8220;<a title="When I come Around - Green Day - Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxpKHo29KBc" target="_blank">When I Come Around</a>,&#8221; which may have been a request from the floor. Lots of fun signs pop up with requests, but alas, I can&#8217;t think of any right now. I was made happy by it being played. Yay! Disappearing Boy made its second appearance on the concert tour (it was also played in Albany), but on this night it was dedicated to Billie&#8217;s oldest son, Joey.</p>
<p>Besides the fact that Green Day played, which is the greatest thing in the world, an even greater thing happened during the 40-hour song, &#8220;Jesus of Suburbia.&#8221; On this tour the song, or portions of it, have been given over to aspiring musicians from the audience in a sort of crap-shoot way (see Construction Hat Guy). Usually it works out well. Occasionally, it works out really fabulously.</p>
<p>Billie began to ask the audience if they could play &#8220;Jesus of Suburbia&#8221; and was about to settle on a guy with a sign when the guy said two words he never should have uttered, &#8220;What song?&#8221; Billie looked at him said, &#8220;What song? What did I just say, dumbass?&#8221; and moved on to a girl with a sign standing next to him. What happened next was magical, and it was a good thing a professional bootlegger&#8230; uh&#8230; caught it on tape.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/8lBe-2SRSCM&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/8lBe-2SRSCM&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Picking Stephanie</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/e69cNb5z7FE&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/e69cNb5z7FE&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Stephanie debuts with Green Day, Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&#8220;I fucking love you!&#8221;*</p>
<p>Stephanie, from the GDC, is pretty ecstatic, as you may well believe. She got a mention in the <a title="&#34;Desparately Seeking Stephanie&#34; - Arts Blog - New York Times" href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/desperately-seeking-stephanie/" target="_blank">Arts Blog of the New York Times</a>, a bunch of other blogs, and most importantly, <a title="&#34;Stephanie Rocks Out With Green Day&#34; - Larrylivermore.com" href="http://larrylivermore.blogspot.com/2009/07/stephanie-rocks-out-with-green-day.html" target="_blank">Larry Livermore mentioned her on his blog</a>. You go, girl!</p>
<div id="attachment_366" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-366" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/msg1calebkidduganmsg6/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-366" title="This child needs salvation" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/msg1calebkidduganmsg6.jpg?w=150" alt="Elijah needs salvation from his good ways - Green Day - Madison Square Garden1*" width="150" height="99" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Elijah needs salvation from his good ways - Green Day - Madison Square Garden1*</p></div>
<p><strong>Setlist: MSG1</strong><br />
1. Song of the Century<br />
2. 21st Century Breakdown<br />
3. Know Your Enemy<br />
4. East Jesus Nowhere<br />
5. Holiday<br />
6. Static Age<br />
7. Before the Lobotomy<br />
8. Are We the Waiting<br />
9. St. Jimmy<br />
10. Boulevard of Broken Dreams<br />
11. 2000 Light Years Away<br />
12. Welcome to Paradise<br />
13. Castaway<br />
14. When I Come Around<br />
15. Disappearing Boy<br />
16. Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)<br />
17. Thank You (Led Zeppelin)/ Sweet Child O&#8217; Mine (Guns N&#8217; Roses)/ Take Me<br />
Out to the Ball Game/ 99 Bottles of Beer/ Iron Man (Riff)<br />
18. Brain Stew<br />
19. Jaded<br />
20. Longview<br />
21. Basket Case<br />
22. She<br />
23. King For a Day<br />
24. Shout/ Earth Angel (The Penguins)/ Swanee/ I&#8217;ll Be There<br />
25. 21 Guns<br />
26. American Eulogy</p>
<p>27. American Idiot<br />
28. Jesus of Suburbia<br />
29. Minority<br />
30. Drama Queen<br />
31. Last Night On Earth (acoustic)<br />
32. Good Riddance</p>
<p>The show traditionally ends with Good Riddance performed by Billie on guitar, and some surprise acoustic numbers have come before it lately. Tonight&#8217;s show held a beautiful &#8220;<a title="&#34;Drama Queen&#34; - Green Day - Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG3X6YUTPe4" target="_blank">Drama Queen</a>&#8221; (my first time hearing it live), and a soulful &#8220;<a title="&#34;Last Night on Earth&#34; - Green Day - Madison Square Garden, July 27, 2009" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqKNwYbmcw8&#38;feature=PlayList&#38;p=B65FFCA8C05B57E4&#38;playnext=1&#38;playnext_from=PL&#38;index=17" target="_blank">Last Night on Earth</a>.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_404" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-404" href="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/green-day-takes-new-york-pt-ii-msg1/billieinblue/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-404" title="Billie in Blue" src="http://greendaymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/billieinblue.jpg?w=150" alt="Goodbye until next time. Like tomorrow??" width="150" height="57" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Goodbye until next time. Like tomorrow??</p></div>
<p>I think the saddest part&#8230; and mind you, I had a super time&#8230; was not being in the pit and missing the chance to meet Adrienne Armstrong. Apparently she was asking folks in the pit to help with the natural resources project that the band is involved with, the <a title="Natural Resources Defense Council - NRDC" href="http://www.greendaynrdc.com/" target="_blank">Natural Resources Defense Council or NRDC.</a> You know, some nature crackpots that keep talking about saving the planet or something like that. Good people. It would have been nice to say hello.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, I still had one more show to go. The second night of two shows is always better.*<br />
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<p><em>Photos from: vcastlive.com; greenday.com; greendayauthority.com</em><br />
<em>*quoth Billie</em></p>
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<link>http://natashayoung.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/barcelona-connect-rude-or-rock-n-roll/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://natashayoung.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/barcelona-connect-rude-or-rock-n-roll/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>With the unpredictable British weather and high-ticket prices, it comes as no surprise that the Brits have caught onto the idea of coming to Spanish music festivals, or that Spanish promoters have started marketing directly to the UK. You can certainly see the attraction of a festival by the sea to British festival-goers who are still airing out their tent after last years Glastonbury. OK, so Primavera Sound or Sonar may not have the same charm or mythical status as Glasto and the food and toilets are no better, but you don’t get much mud on concrete and here you’re almost guaranteed good weather. This British invasion however, doesn’t necessarily sit well with the locals.</p>
<p>Jostling for position down the front for a festival last summer, I learnt a surprising fact. Catalans don’t jostle. At gigs, they find a spot and stay there. Should you endeavour to squeeze in front of them, they’ll look at you like a horrified six year old who’s just had his first bike nicked by the big kid at school. Time and again over that weekend, I realised that the only people pushing to the front were Brits. Each time they did, local fans threw their hands up in outrage and pulled a face like someone had just been sick on their shoes. We seemed&#8230;rude.</p>
<p>What was going on? As a Brit who’s lived here for four years, I know our reputation. I know it’s not good. We’re obnoxious, only English-speaking, drunken, badly-dressed, sunburnt egoists who go for dinner at 6pm; but we’re polite. Aren’t we? We say please. We say thank you. We leave decent tips in restaurants. And yet there we were, taking no prisoners in a bid to get down the front. Have I been out of the country for too long? Have all those collective years of alcopops abuse rotted our brains and destroyed one of our saving graces? We’re British. We make excellent music and television, we pay our taxes and we have impeccable manners. Don’t we?</p>
<p>But I got to thinking. Maybe it’s not a question of manners. Maybe it’s a question of expectations. I remember one of my first concerts. It was New Model Army at Rock City in Nottingham, a band whose fans include punks, goths and clog-wearing vegans. I was only 14 and naively thought how cool it was that my friend and me had snagged a place right at the front. Then the band came on. I nearly got clogged to death and my friend lost a shoe. Bucks Fizz at Skegness Embassy Centre when I was 8 had not prepared me for that. A year later at Milton Keynes Bowl, I got the festival experience in full Technicolor. The weight of responsibility my brother must have felt, charged with looking after his little sister, must have been huge. Down the front there were legs and arms everywhere, fights broke out, men pissed where they stood so as not to lose their hard-fought for spot, all of a sudden you’d get a foot in your face as yet another sweaty body crowd-surfed to the front and bottles flew (not all of them full of beer..). It was brutal. It was carnage. It was brilliant.</p>
<p>Going down the front at a gig is a rite of passage and there’s nothing quite like the first time. Queuing up for hours to be first in the venue. The smell of the crowd. The anticipation. The moment the band first steps out onto the stage. It’s magical. At a rock gig, if you’re down the front and you don’t get your teeth knocked out, drink knocked over or covered in beer and bodily fluids, it just isn’t a good show. It’s that simple.</p>
<p>Live music is big business in the UK. Gig-goers are generally experienced and know their place. If you’re a die-hard fan, hard, new to the game or very young, you’ll be down the front. If you’re a techie, you’ll be standing next to the sound-desk because you know that’s where the best sound will be. If you’re getting on a bit, only quite like the band or are wearing something you don’t want to get stained, you’ll be standing at the side. If you’re exceptionally tall you’ll be standing in front of me and if you’re just there because your mate bought you a ticket, you’ll be in the bar.</p>
<p>At the festival, those pushy Brits looked just as surprised to be challenged as their Catalan peers did to be pushed in front of. They wore expressions that said, ‘what’s your problem? This is a gig’. Maybe we are rude, but maybe, just maybe, we’re simply more rock and roll than they are. When a friend of mine saw The Horrors at Razzmatazz, she got knocked to the floor when the singer flung himself off the front of the stage. Brilliant! That’s what happens at gigs and we should love them for that. Rock and roll is supposed to be slightly dangerous. It’s not just about the music, it’s about the experience too. It’s about being part of the crowd. You shouldn’t expect to be able to lay out a picnic and have reserved seats.</p>
<p>So, I’m terribly sorry to ask, but if you don’t mind, I’ll see you next year down the front?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.barcelonaconnect.com/Newsletter/ShowNewsletter.asp?yr=7&#38;mt=6&#38;page=20">http://www.barcelonaconnect.com/Newsletter/ShowNewsletter.asp?yr=7&#38;mt=6&#38;page=20</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[BALLOON PARTY]]></title>
<link>http://wdunleavy.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/balloon-party/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 22:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I officially lose at being an adult, but this was pretty fucking fun. Give it a second to l]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CHICKENMAN’S PUNK NEWS #2]]></title>
<link>http://wdunleavy.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/chickenman%e2%80%99s-punk-news-2/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wdunleavy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wdunleavy.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/chickenman%e2%80%99s-punk-news-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This past weekend was the craziest ever. On Friday, I saw the Star Fucking Hipsters, probably one of]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK NEWS: RAPPER COOLIO ATTEMPTS STAGE DIVE AND CRASHES TO THE FLOOR]]></title>
<link>http://madnews.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/uk-news-rapper-coolio-attempts-stage-dive-and-crashes-to-the-floor/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Janice aka Miss Mad News</dc:creator>
<guid>http://madnews.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/uk-news-rapper-coolio-attempts-stage-dive-and-crashes-to-the-floor/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Rapper Coolio was injured during a concert in Stoke-on-Trent last Wednesday, after attempting to do ]]></description>
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<p>Rapper Coolio was injured during a concert in Stoke-on-Trent last Wednesday, after attempting to do a stage dive into the audience.</p>
<p>The 90s rap superstar was performing at Staffordshire University’s Students’ Union last Wednesday night, when he decided to jumped into the crowd.</p>
<p>The bad mind (lol) audience parted, sending Coolio crashing to the floor. The students them reportedly mobbed the rapper, stealing his bandana, jewellery and shoes before the star was rescued by the venue’s security team.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t stage diving die out in the mid 90s?</p>
<p>Anyway I don&#8217;t know which is sadder. Coolio crashing to the floor after attempting to stage dive in to the audience at his time of life, or him being reduced to performing at Staffordshire University&#8217;s Students&#8217; Union in Stoke On Trent.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[crowds...]]></title>
<link>http://blackbloodandpain.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/crowds/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>r.c.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blackbloodandpain.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/crowds/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Ma trezesc cu greu in sunet de Amon Amarth, ma spal cu greu, ma imbrac cu greu, intru-n ghete]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8230;Ma trezesc cu greu in sunet de Amon Amarth, ma spal cu greu, ma imbrac cu greu, intru-n ghete cu greu&#8230;si ma tarai spre metrou cu greu&#8230;Si de parca nu ar fi de-ajuns ca e dimineata, sunt si in cel mai prost pozitionat bloc&#8230;la jumatatea distantei dintre gurile de metrou de la Muncii si de la Dristor&#8230;si cum trebuie sa ajung pe la Tineretului pe undeva, am mereu de ales ruta dorita&#8230;azi am ales Dristoru&#8217;&#8230;proasta decizie&#8230;Aglomerat&#8230;foarte aglomerat&#8230;cel mai aglomerat&#8230;ma strecor cu greu&#8230;probabil se discuta in jurul meu despre situatie&#8230;ofteaza lumea, ne-mpingem cu totii, ne luam aerul unii la altii, ne simtim miresmele, ca na&#8230;stam imbratisati cu totii&#8230;accept situatia ca eu oricum nu-s acolo&#8230;In casti imi suna Six Feet Under si-mi imaginez ca-s pe la nush ce concert&#8230;Vreau sa cobor la Timpuri Noi&#8230;lumea in schimb nu vrea&#8230;ei ma vor acolo langa ei&#8230;ridic din umeri si ma las purtat de &#8220;val&#8221;&#8230;un fel de &#8220;stage diving&#8221;&#8230;Minunat mod de a-ti incepe o zi de job&#8230;Maine va fi la fel&#8230;o sa-mi car si chitara, ca sa para mai real&#8230;pan&#8217; la urma e visul meu&#8230;ma trezesc abia la birou&#8230;ura ura!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Holy Moses &amp; Benediction]]></title>
<link>http://mtcsol.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/holy-moses-benediction/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mtcsol</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mtcsol.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/holy-moses-benediction/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Asa a a fost, joia trecuta in LMC si asa ar trebui sa fie la toaste concertele: S-a facut pogo/mosha]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spellbound.]]></title>
<link>http://diechefsache.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/spellbound/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Chef</dc:creator>
<guid>http://diechefsache.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/spellbound/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Totaly SPELLBOUND! Gestern waren der David und ich mit unseren Eltern in Trier in der Arena auf eine]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Totaly SPELLBOUND!</p>
<p>Gestern waren der David und ich mit unseren Eltern in Trier in der Arena auf einem Konzert von Katie Melua. Wem der Name kein Begriff ist: Katie ist eine fantastische britisch-georgische Jazzsängerin und sie hat&#8217;s einfach nur drauf.</p>
<p>Nachdem wir endlich einen Parkplatz gefunden und prompt meinen Politiklehrer gesehen hatten (tja, ich blieb unerkannt), ließen wir uns unsere Karten zerstören und <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">stürzten</span> begaben uns in die Menge.</p>
<p>Um 20 Uhr kam dann zuerst mal die &#8220;Vorband&#8221;, bestehend aus Matthias Kellner und seiner Gitarre (wir dachten, Katie wäre plötzlich rundlicher und hätte einen Bartwuchs), der Kerl war eigentlich recht gut.</p>
<p><a href="http://diechefsache.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/p1150852.jpg?w=300"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-124" src="http://diechefsache.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/p1150852.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Doch dann, gegen viertel vor 9 kam dann die liebe Katie mit ihrer phänomenalen Band (Bassist für E- und Kontrabass, Schlagzeuger, Gitarrist, Pianist mit Flügel und Keyboard und ein Mann, der Mandoline, Flöte, Geige und Hammondorgel spielte! Ach ja, Katie selbst spielt auch noch Gitarre und Klavier.) auf die Bühne gehüpft. Mein Bruder und ich hatten Stehplätze mit super Blick auf die Bühne (Stage-Diving wollten wir allerdings nicht riskieren) und die Leute <em>auf </em>der Bühne legten einen extrem geilen Auftritt hin, der ungefähr 1,5 Stunden + 3 Zugaben dauerte. Die Band war wirklich ziemlich perfekt, die Solos genial (z. B. das Piano-Mandoline-Unisolo) und Katie sowieso noch besser. =)</p>
<p>Das coolste Detail, das mir aufgefallen ist: Das Lied &#8220;Spider&#8217;s Web&#8221; (eines der besten Lieder gegen Rassismus, das jemals geschrieben wurde) spielt Katie immer mit einer roten E-Gitarre, das wusst ich schon vorher. Allerdings hab ich festgestellt, das der Gurt von genau dieser Gitarre mit einem Spinnennetzmuster bedruckt ist. Find ich ziemlich klasse&#8230;</p>
<p>Wir hörten all die Lieder, die wir hören wollten, und noch ganz viele andere tolle und so gingen wir dann wunschlos glücklich (Chefchen mit T-Shirt ausgestattet) nach einem coolen Konzert aus der Arena.</p>
<p>Und da wir ungefähr ne halbe Stunde brauchten, bis wir von dem bescheuerten Parkplatz voller Katie-Besucher wieder auf die Straße kamen, hatten wir verdammten Durst und hielten mit quietschenden Reifen an der Tankstelle.</p>
<p>Ach ja, wer die Überschrift versteht, soll sich melden. =)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://diechefsache.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/p11508471.jpg?w=300"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125" src="http://diechefsache.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/p11508471.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cours de danse Punk/Métal/Hardcore]]></title>
<link>http://mymusiq.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/cours-de-danse-punkmetalhardcore/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>yourangerisagift</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mymusiq.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/cours-de-danse-punkmetalhardcore/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Quand le mosh pit, le stage diving et le crowd surfing deviennent un art&#8230; Voir Aussi: Compilat]]></description>
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<p><strong>Quand le mosh pit, le stage diving et le crowd surfing deviennent un art&#8230; <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/CAep4VS40qo&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/CAep4VS40qo&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Voir Aussi: <a class="alignleft" title="Compil stage diving" href="http://mymusiq.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/compilation-de-stage-diving/">Compilation de Stage Diving</a></span></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Method Man is now a Stunt Man (Video)]]></title>
<link>http://rkwehtoe.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/m-e-t-h-o-d-man/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rkwehtoe</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rkwehtoe.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/m-e-t-h-o-d-man/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m trying to catch up to my hip hop blog sites and on The Rap Up I&#8217;m laughing hard a]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[seară dansantă şi balerini în comă]]></title>
<link>http://mincos.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/seara-dansanta-si-balerini-in-coma/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mincos</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mincos.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/seara-dansanta-si-balerini-in-coma/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[23 ianuarie 2008, a doua zi a festivalului Urban Blast &#8211; primul concert din noul an şi, totoda]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>23 ianuarie 2008, a doua zi a festivalului <em>Urban Blast</em> &#8211; primul concert din noul an şi, totodată, prima dezamăgire la care am asistat.</p>
<p>Cred că “blast” este, într-adevăr, cel mai potrivit cuvânt pentru a descrie ce s-a întâmplat în Club Suburbia, acest Fight Club mioritic.</p>
<p>De altfel, seara a fost destul de calmă&#8230; măcar la început, adică atâta timp cât au cântat Dekadens şi Tep Zepi. Şi se făcea, ca prin vis, că urcau  pe scenă “balerinii” de la Coma&#8230; Că doar vorbeam mai sus despre o seară dansantă. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Apropo, este genială coperta lor de la albumul <em>Nerostitele</em>, cu balerina care pare a da din cap ca un rocker veritabil.  <a href="http://mincos.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/coma-nerostitele.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26 alignright" style="float:right;" src="http://mincos.wordpress.com/files/2008/04/coma-nerostitele.jpg?w=400" alt="" width="237" height="237" /></a></p>
<p>Până aici, totul a fost feeric. Mai departe &#8211; dezastru. Sunetul a fost foarte prost, au existat microfonii şi alte probleme tehnice (nu cred că am înţeles mai mult de două cuvinte, dar nici nu aveam nevoie, doar ştiam versurile pe de rost).</p>
<p>Din păcate, nu muzica a primat, ci diversele manifestări dansant-orgiastice (mamă, ce bizar sună!) ale celor prezenţi. Dacă publicul de la B&#8217;estival a fost alcătuit cu precădere din retarzi, publicul de la Urban Blast a fost compus din puştani proşti. Secondaţi, cum altfel?, de bodyguarzii localului (şi ei, tot proşti).</p>
<p>Povestea, mai pe scurt, sună aşa: puştanii încercau  să facă <a title="definiţia stage diving-ului e la finalul post-ului" href="http://mincos.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/implant-pentru-refuz/" target="_blank">stage diving</a> şi <a title="definiţia crowd surfing-ului e la finalul post-ului" href="http://mincos.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/implant-pentru-refuz/" target="_blank">crowd surfing</a>, dar nu le ieşea. Adică ai fi zis că era vorba, mai degrabă, de stage şi crowd “falling”, cum zicea un prieten. La fiecare cinci secunde, pac! pac!, mai cădea câte-un licean. Şi care nu cădea în cap, era călcat în picioare de mulţime.  Or, dacă în niciunul din cazurile enumerate nu păţeau nimic, o păţeau în schimb de la bodyguarzi.</p>
<p>Pe principiul: poc! puberul la podea, trosc gâtul sau oricare din cele 206 oase ale corpului omenesc, intervenţie bodyguarzi, luat cu japca una bucată puşti, înjurat, dat şut în fund, dat afară din club. Finalitatea inevitabilă &#8211; ameninţări din partea ambelor tabere, de mâine nu mai lucrezi aici, pleacă bip! bip!, îţi rup gâtu&#8217; dacă te mai prind pe aici etc.</p>
<p>Până la urmă, dacă plăteşte omul ca să vină aici şi să-şi rupă gâtul, lasă-l, vere, că doar de aia-i dă mă-sa bani de pachet, nu? <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Clar, adevărul e undeva la mijloc, dar nu asta importă. Ce contează e că atât modul lamentabil de a face stage diving şi crowd surfing (ce ţi-e şi cu tineretul ăsta!), cât şi intervenţiile umflaţilor ăia ar putea strica oricui şi oricând cheful. Un manifest plin de aplomb anti-bodyguarzi găsiţi <a title="Ghid de supravietuire Hardcore" href="http://www.metalhead.ro/KVLtura-Ghid_de_supravietuire_Hardcore-190.html" target="_blank">aici</a>.</p>
<p>La un moment dat, cei de la Coma au încercat chiar să instige publicul şi l-au provocat  la un wall of death. Desigur, tinereii aştia mult prea cruzi (vorbeşte bătrânul expert din mine) nici asta nu au fost în stare să facă. Un exemplu de wall of death savuros găsiţi mai jos.</p>
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<p>Toată atmosfera asta beligerantă s-a adăugat, cum ziceam, la sunetul execrabil scos de boxele alea retrograde. Asta-mi aminteşte de vorba unor contemporani:</p>
<p><em>“La oraş, la club, acolo domnu&#8217;<br />
Ne-o taxat, am intrat, ce fain<br />
Da&#8217; toată seara m-am mirat:<br />
Muzica cântă, da&#8217; oare unde stă fanfara?<br />
Şi-apropiindu-mă de-o boxă am ţipat: Bădie!<br />
Da&#8217; cum naiba cânţi matale-nghesuit într-o cutie?”</em> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[News/Mosh Pits]]></title>
<link>http://thetestingground.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/newsmosh-pits/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sae</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thetestingground.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/newsmosh-pits/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[in quick news &#8211; looking through the Puscifer website i noticed that there are 7&#8243; singles]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>in quick news &#8211; looking through the <a href="http://www.puscifer.com">Puscifer website</a> i noticed that there are 7&#8243; singles coming out for DoZo and Queen B, both featuring reimxes by Lustmord</p>
<p>also, Aaron Turner of Isis reports that he recently turned a remix of Trekka into Maynard for some future EP.</p>
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<p>and now for some personal thoughts&#8230;<br />
now maybe it&#8217;s because  i&#8217;ve been in college for too long now, or maybe it&#8217;s been my desire to establish some sort of culture identicifcaion for myself that moves beyond the color of my skin, but mosh pits are something i&#8217;ve started to analyze a lot in the past year or so&#8230;maybe more</p>
<p>my friends and i were all sitting around one night drinking copious amounts of wine when i posed the question &#8211; <i>does anyone have any idea what compelled us all right around the end of 8th grade to </i><b><i>need</i></b><i> to go to shows and throw ourselves into pits?  i mean, i know i love it, but honestly, what the hell compelled us to do that?</i></p>
<p>jamie, ethertrace, delivered my favorite answer.  though i don&#8217;t remember his exact words, the idea was <i>that we all started to realize that there was something wrong with the world and the way things had been taught to us.  that something was seriously fucked up even if we didn&#8217;t know exactly what it was.</i></p>
<p>now, i&#8217;m a heavy body modification enthusiast.  with this comes a lot of interest in body ritual, such as suspension, play piercing, and many other things.  i remember being a young child and learning about suspensions that native american tribes participated in, such as the <a href="http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/O-Kee-Pa">O-Kee-Pa Suspension</a>.  i also remember thinking how happy i was because i wasn&#8217;t part of a culture that had such painful rites of passage and wondering what would possess someone to do such a thing.</p>
<p>&#8230;i like to examine my own culture and life as if it was being examined by people in the future, putting it back together.  or just by cultures that are completely different than ours, and quite possibly completely ignorant of ours.  i like to think that people might one day view the mosh pits all of my friends and i creat as our reaction to the muzik of our culture similar to dances other cultures have done to bring rain or good weather for this years crops.  they are dance of hope.  the dances we do i feel are of hope, as well as purging our anger and hate.  it&#8217;s our way of creating a space where pain and violence (to some extent) are acceptable for at least a moment because that space doesn&#8217;t exist any open public sphere of our society today.   i think the violence is needed in someway because in our culture violence is so fetishized and we are completely removed from it by law.</p>
<p>my fascination with pits continues with the history of pits, and how different styles of music, as well as different geographical locations have developed different styles of pitting.  though pits are often pure chaos, anyone who denies that there is an extreme amount of order to them needs to reexamine what they think a pit is. circle pits always have the group of enforcers hanging around the edge to protect the rest of the crowd from the chaos.  when someone crowd surfs there are always people holding them up and pushing them around.  when someone stages dives the crowd knows to catch them.  when someone falls down everyone knows to pick them up.  and when the crowd starts to part down the middle, everyone but those into real pain know to get the hell out of the way of the wall of death.</p>
<p>i think i&#8217;ll end here before i ramble on too much, but here are some videos</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqK_0BbZGJY">Lamb of God Wall of Death Compilation</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeIz7dKq0NE">Sick of it All 4way Wall of Death</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AcEQXZ9XtU">Another Sick of it All 4way Wall of Death</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZGj99Alh8">Laughable Yellowcard Wall of Death</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM2TED5TSMc">Random hXc Dancing</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLXMZxOsF4">Really crazy hXc Dancing at a Throwndown Show</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULgU7_lYA38">DevilDriver 25,000 person Circle Pit (biggest ever?)</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Moshpit, circle pit, stage diving]]></title>
<link>http://martabahrull.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/moshpit-circle-pit-stage-diving/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bahrull</dc:creator>
<guid>http://martabahrull.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/moshpit-circle-pit-stage-diving/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Secara saya berfikir dan pernah mengalaminya dapat dikatakan stage diving merupakan hal yang paling ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Secara saya berfikir dan pernah mengalaminya dapat dikatakan stage diving merupakan hal yang paling menyenangkan ketika berada disebuah acara musik. Di tengah-tengah &#8216;crowd&#8217; orang-orang yang sedang berada di area moshpit, saya dapat merasakan kekuatan pikiran untuk menerapkannya dalam segi bentuk emosi dan gerakan aktif.</p>
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<p>Ada beberapa hal yang harus saya perhatikan dalam kegiatan ini, harus paham dan mengerti keadaan orang-orang sekitar agar tidak terjadi keributan, ini sering di temui pada waktu berada di area moshpit.</p>
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<p>Menurut saya, intinya ya bersikap sabar dan hafal akan keadaan sekitar, dan hal-hal seperti tadi mungkin bisa terhindarkan.</p>
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<p>wahh, gambar-gambar diatas asik juga yahh&#8230;..</p>
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<title><![CDATA[my favorite videos of 2007.]]></title>
<link>http://consumptionaddict.com/2007/12/21/my-favorite-videos-of-2007/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jayare20k</dc:creator>
<guid>http://consumptionaddict.com/2007/12/21/my-favorite-videos-of-2007/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[throw some D&#8217;s on those bones. sure, every blog on the internet has made this exact same post.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[O inferno sem céu: Metal, sol e lama (Gods of Metal, Milão, 03/06/07)]]></title>
<link>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/o-inferno-sem-ceu-metal-sol-e-lama-gods-of-metal-milao-030607/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Markus H. Gaardtzche</dc:creator>
<guid>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/o-inferno-sem-ceu-metal-sol-e-lama-gods-of-metal-milao-030607/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Os deuses do metal devem estar loucos da vida. Talvez como punição aos organizadores do festival que]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Os deuses do metal devem estar loucos da vida. Talvez como punição aos organizadores do festival que insistiram em tirar do descanso eterno várias finadas bandas no sábado, no dia seguinte, eles mandaram raios insuportáveis de sol. O lamaçal do dia anterior virou mangue e, se antes era um desespero fugir da chuva, não escorregar era missão impossível, sem qualquer lugar para sentar. Ah, Itália!</p>
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<p><strong>Anathema<br />
</strong><br />
Debaixo de um sol de lascar, ouvir os choramingos dos irmãos Cavanagh era uma tarefa inglória. Os ingleses pseudo-emos até tentaram fazer um set mais animadinho, mas vai contra a religião deles e o show beirou o monótono. Serviu pelo menos como lição para o Velvet Revolver, pois o cover de &#8220;Confortably Numb&#8221; ficou de altíssimo nível. Mas Pink Floyd num festival não tem nada a ver.</p>
<p><strong>Symphony X<br />
</strong><br />
Até parecia que era uma banda de metaleiros malvados, com o show se iniciando com músicas de peso como &#8220;Of Sins and Shadows&#8221;, &#8220;Dominator&#8221; e &#8220;Inferno&#8221;, mas logo tudo tomou contornos nada memoráveis. Solos rápidos e chatos atrás de trocas de ritmo sem graça e gritos histéricos insuportáveis. De inesquecível, só o tombo que Russell Allen tomou logo no início da performance.</p>
<p><strong>Dark Tranquility<br />
</strong><br />
O death metal de Gotemburgo já começou a encher o saco. Por mais que esses suecos sejam dos primeiros a terem a absurda idéia de se unir vocais de death metal com riffs de thrash metal e la-la-lás de metal melódico, tudo soa muito pouco energético ao vivo. E aquela agressividade que se esperava de um grupo do estilo não combinou nada nada com os discursos de &#8220;nós amamos a Itália&#8221; do vocalista. Fique com ela.</p>
<p><strong>Dimmu Borgir<br />
</strong><br />
Outra banda de pseudo-malvados. Os noruegueses pseudo-black metal fizeram um show pseudo-satânico tocando suas músicas pseudo-orquestradas para um público pseudo-interessado. Num pseudo-festival num país pseudo-europeu, esse tipo de som não chega nem a ser pseudo-agradável. É chato mesmo, pois o clima pseudo-sombrio não combina muito com um sol escaldante e o lamaçal no chão.</p>
<p><strong>Blind Guardian<br />
</strong><br />
Nessa hora, a organização do festival deveria ter proporcionado protetores auriculares ao público. O Blind Guardian pode ter deixado de fazer um tosco power metal para cair em viagens orquestradas ou &#8220;progressivas&#8221;, mas Hansi Kursch não se cansa de gritar como bebê-chorão chamando a mamãe para limpá-lo. E haja berros dele e do público num show chato e interminável, apesar de o vocalista ter até cortado os discursos para caber mais músicas como &#8220;I&#8217;m Alive&#8221; e a longuíssima e tenebrosa &#8220;And then there was silence&#8221;. Só podia ser sacanagem divina.</p>
<p><strong>Dream Theater<br />
</strong><br />
Tudo vale a pena, se a alma não é pequena. Parecia provação. Aguentar tantos shows chatos para, finalmente, ter algo que prestasse. Felizmente, o Dream Theater sabe que seus trabalhos mais recentes são insuportáveis e, cientes do sofrimento dos italianos com tantas bandas ruins, além de clima e local desfavoráveis, resolveram tocar seu único disco bom, Images and Words, na íntegra &#8211; a fase ruim atrapalhou com algumas invencionices, mas ainda assim estava de ótimo tamanho. No bis, tocaram algumas outras músicas, mas quem se importa?</p>
<p><strong>Heaven and Hell<br />
</strong><br />
Era para ter valido a pena, mas a rima se estragou porque apenas o tamanho de Dio é que é pequeno. Ver o melhor line-up do Black Sabbath reunido seria um sonho se realizando, não fosse o nível do pesadelo em que se trasnformou a tenebrosa apresentação do grupo. Com pitadas masoquistas de Led Zeppelin, tantas improvisações e embromações faziam pensar que a próxima música seria &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221;, mas apenas viria uma &#8220;Voodoo&#8221; beirando os dez minutos. Para piorar, o anãozinho estava numa noite infeliz, cantando mal demais. A banda, sem nenhuma empolgação, transformou o que deveria ser o momento mais memorável num encerramento digno do nível da porquice do festival.</p>
<p>E tinha ainda um terceiro dia &#8211; quatro semanas depois, vai entender -, mas você está louco se acha que este repórter ia botar seus pés na Itália de novo depois de tanta desgraça&#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[O festival dos mortos-vivos (Gods of Metal, Milão, Itália, 02/06/07)]]></title>
<link>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/o-festival-dos-mortos-vivos-gods-of-metal-milao-italia-020607/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Markus H. Gaardtzche</dc:creator>
<guid>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/o-festival-dos-mortos-vivos-gods-of-metal-milao-italia-020607/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, Itália! Ir ao Idroscalo em Milão para a edição de 2007 do Gods of Metal deveria ter sido algo mu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ah, Itália! Ir ao Idroscalo em Milão para a edição de 2007 do Gods of Metal deveria ter sido algo muito agradável, mas uma chuva forte e insistente tornou a estadia no festival um verdadeiro martírio durante o primeiro dia. O sábado ainda foi marcado por vários shows dos mortos-vivos da cena hard rock, o que também foi responsável por bizarros posers italianos, sujos e molhados. Talvez fosse melhor visitar o San Siro&#8230;</p>
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<strong>Tigertailz<br />
</strong><br />
Dada a irrelevância do grupo, reproduzimos aqui fielmente um diálogo entre duas pessoas durante o show.<br />
- Que banda é essa?<br />
- Tigertailz!<br />
- Tiger o quê?<br />
- Tailz.<br />
- Nossa!<br />
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White Lion</strong></p>
<p>Outra banda renascida do inferno, de onde jamais deveria ter saído. O duro é que, nesse caso, o lance é mais gato por lebre mesmo. Afinal, da formação &#8220;clássica&#8221; (se é que uma banda desse tipo tem formação clássica), apenas o vocalista Mike Tramp. Mas vender como trabalho solo pegaria muito mal, ainda mais porque o dono dos holofotes não parecia na melhor forma para cantar (de novo, se é que algum dia esteve em forma para cantar), então melhor dividir a atenção com uma banda competente de apoio. No mais, hits desprezíveis como &#8220;Little Fighter&#8221;, &#8220;Wait&#8221; e o cover de &#8220;Radar Love&#8221; num show monótono.<br />
<strong><br />
Thin Lizzy</strong></p>
<p>Numa tarde de zumbis, a reencarnação do Thin Lizzy não conseguiu trazer Phil Lynnot da tumba. No lugar do maloqueiro irlandês, o poserzinho John Sykes comandou a festa até com desenvoltura, ao lado de Marco Mendonza e sua ridícula performance de palco &#8211; como se fosse um deus grego, em vez de apenas um junkie latino nojento como muitos dos posers mal vestidos da platéia -. além do sempre feio Tommy Aldrigde e seu solo de bateria de retardado mental. Ah, ok, então vamos falar de música, mas o que dizer quando clássicos do porte de &#8220;Jailbreak&#8221;, &#8220;Suicide&#8221;, &#8220;Boys are Back in Town&#8221; e &#8220;Black Rose&#8221; são tocados à perfeição? Com todos os méritos e todas as justiças, foi o melhor show do dia.<br />
<strong><br />
Scorpions</strong></p>
<p>Outro bando de velhinho decadente de quem não se espera mais nada, porém dessa vez até que surpreendeu. O disco novo é menos desprezível do que 90% do trabalho pós Uli Jon Roth e o grupo fez um show quase empolgante, para os poucos italianos que conseguiram ver alguma coisa, sob aguaceiro intenso e em meio àquele monte de guarda-chuva furando olho e espirrando água nos outros. Os posers sujos devem ter medo que a chuva estrague o laquê, como se fizesse alguma diferença. Destaque mesmo para as boas faixas mais recentes, como &#8220;Hour I&#8221; e &#8220;Humanity&#8221;, pois os mesmos clássicos de sempre já enjoaram.</p>
<p><strong>Velvet Revolver<br />
</strong><br />
Sim, os deuses do metal tiveram piedade e pararam com a chuva durante o show desses restos mortais de duas bandas insignificantes como Stone Temple Pilots e Guns n&#8217; Roses. Ia ser duro aguentar no Idroscalo se desabasse água do céu enquanto esses manés faziam um espetáculo patético, de dar dó, com musiquinhas sem sal, um vocalista demente e uns músicos meia-boca se achando fantásticos. Foi triste ver a destruição promovida em uma canção tão banal como &#8220;Wish you Were Here&#8221;, para não falar da vagabunda versão agonizante de &#8220;Psycho Killer&#8221;. Tudo o que qualquer pessoa de bom gosto mais queria era pegar o megafone das mãos de Scott Weiland e enfiar você sabe onde&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Mötley Crüe</strong></p>
<p>Para encerrar uma noite de mortos-vivos do já enterrado hard rock, nada como escolher um grupo que insiste em não acabar. Seria mais divertido ver o vídeo de putaria de Tommy Lee com Pamela Anderson, mas o grupo preferiu tocar suas músicas de babacas metidos a fodões, como &#8220;Girls Girls Girls&#8221;, &#8220;Shout at the Devil&#8221; e &#8220;Dr. Feelgood&#8221;. Haja refrãos manjados do nível de &#8220;Same Ol&#8217; Situation&#8221; e &#8220;Don&#8217;t Go Away Mad&#8221;. E foram hits atrás de hits, que nos fariam pensar como músicos tão medíocres e canções tão idiotas conseguem fazer tanto sucesso com tamanho lugar comum e palavras sem nexo, não fosse pela necessidade de encontrar refúgio da chuva torrencial que caía em Milão. Exceto por um cover nada a ver de uma música punk, &#8220;Anarchy in the UK&#8221;, não seria muito diferente se o headliner fosse a Britney Spears, pois ambos usam mulheres dançando no palco para tentar esconder o fato de já não terem muito o que fazer no showbiz.</p>
<p>O jeito foi voltar ao hotel sob chuva incessante esperando que o domingo trouxesse um pouco menos de infortúnios. Infelizmente, não foi bem assim&#8230; </p>
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<link>http://redthreat.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/toxic-avenger-on-the-prowl/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nicko</dc:creator>
<guid>http://redthreat.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/toxic-avenger-on-the-prowl/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oh, holy hell! Toxic Avenger is on the move. Together with Franki Chan, the two will be playing toni]]></description>
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<p>Oh, holy hell! <a href="http://www.myspace.com/toxavanger" target="new">Toxic Avenger</a> is on the move. Together with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/frankichan" target="new">Franki Chan</a>, the two will be playing tonite in the great city of Phoenix. So if you&#8217;re around, go to the <a href="http://rhythmroom.com" target="new">Rhythm Room</a>. Cali&#8217;s gonna repshard here, bringing down walls all over the west coast. Along their travels, one of the gigs is in Chicago on the 16th at <a href="http://www.funkybuddha.com/" target="new">Funky Buddha Lounge</a> for another kickass Tuesday night put together by <a href="http://myspace.com/outdanced" target="new">Outdanced</a>. Who needs weekends with nights like that? The hangover makes it sweeter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rednicko.com/music/Fredze%20Fred-%20All%20That%20Motherfuckers%20%28Toxi%20Avenger%20Remix%29.mp3" target="new">Fredze Fred &#8211; All That Motherfuckers (Toxic Avenger Remix)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rednicko.com/music/The%20Toxic%20Avenger%20-%20Stage%20Diving.mp3" target="new">The Toxic Avenger &#8211; Stage Diving</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Quando o repertório estraga o show (Aerosmith, SP, 13/04/07)]]></title>
<link>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/quando-o-repertorio-estraga-o-show-aerosmith-sp-130407/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jacques Z.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/quando-o-repertorio-estraga-o-show-aerosmith-sp-130407/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Um bando de velhotes no palco fazendo menininhas de catorze anos ora chorar com histeria, ora se sen]]></description>
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<p>Nem a tempestade, nem o trânsito, nem a péssima localização do Morumbi conseguiram esfriar mais o público do que a abertura, a cargo do Velvet Revolver. Qualquer banda cover de Guns N&#8217; Roses ou Stone Temple Pilots conseguiria mais animação. Faltou atitude, qualidade e diversão no show gélido dos americanos, tão deprimentes quanto a forçada performance do péssimo vocalista Scott Weiland, uma versão em prozac de Mick Jagger com um irritante megafone.</p>
<p>O Aerosmith, por sua vez, sofreu ao ter feito a escolha, duas décadas atrás, de ser uma banda pop, mesmo com uma performance animada e energética sobre o palco &#8211; Steven Tyler continua empolgante como frontman e segurando a onda nos vocais, bem como Joe Perry é tudo que Slash sonhou em ser e falhou: ótimo guitarrista e carismático. Assim, os brasileiros presentes ao estádio (longe dos 60 mil anunciados pela organização, tamanho o vazio na pista e na arquibancada) se dividiam, em sua maioria, entre garotas sedentas pelos hits dispensáveis de FM e um monte de gente que nem sequer os conhecia direito &#8211; fãs da fase mais rock&#8217;n'roll da banda, apenas um ou outro.</p>
<p>O grupo preferiu agradar a essa maioria. No entanto, isso custou uma apresentação potencialmente inesquecível, ainda que prejudicada pela péssima qualidade sonora. Pois é inconcebível o Aerosmith ter deixado de lado no repertório sua obra-prima, Rocks. Apenas ao final do show, com clássicos do porte de &#8220;Sweet Emotion&#8221;, &#8220;Draw the Line&#8221; e &#8220;Walk this Way&#8221;, a performance parecia entrar num ritmo alucinante. Mas o público já estava dormente, viciado em babas como &#8220;Jaded&#8221; e &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Want to Miss a Thing&#8221;, e esperava por outras como &#8220;Crazy&#8221;, &#8220;Angel&#8221; ou &#8220;Pink&#8221;, incapaz de apreciar a beleza de uma &#8220;Season of Wither&#8221; ou se divertir na bluseira de &#8220;Stop Messin&#8217; Around&#8221;. No fim, todos saíram perdendo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Show nada memorável de uma banda esquecida no passado (Asia, SP, 23/03/2007)]]></title>
<link>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/show-nada-memoravel-de-uma-banda-esquecida-no-passado-asia-sp-23032007/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jacques Z.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/show-nada-memoravel-de-uma-banda-esquecida-no-passado-asia-sp-23032007/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Para os menores de 30 anos, cumpre contextualizar: o Asia foi um projeto de três já então tiozinhos ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Para os menores de 30 anos, cumpre contextualizar: o Asia foi um projeto de três já então tiozinhos do decadente prog setentista que, um dia, vinte e cinco anos atrás, resolveram ganhar dinheiro virando uma cópia dos coldplays da época, o tal de &#8220;adult oriented rock&#8221; &#8211; de rock mesmo, não tinha nada, ressalte-se. Exatamente para celebrar esse aniversário, eles resolveram fugir do asilo a fim de conseguir uma graninha extra para suprir o estoque de fralda geriátrica. Mas idade, além de rugas, também traz sabedoria, e eles reconheceram a incapacidade de uma banda esquecida na irrelevância do passado segurar um show de duas horas apenas com material próprio. Felizmente, apelaram para os covers de seus grupos originais.</p>
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<p>No Brasil, o Asia tem apenas duas músicas &#8220;conhecidas&#8221;, &#8220;Heat of the Moment&#8221; e &#8220;Only Time Will Tell&#8221;, e isso explica as menos de mil pessoas no esvaziado e gélido Credicard Hall. Esperar pelos solitários hits vinha sendo tarefa das mais tediosas desde agüentar as insuportáveis jams finais do último show do G3. Assim, para diminuir a extrema monotonia, pelo menos rolou material das clássicas bandas de cada membro. Sem sombra de dúvidas, o destaque foi &#8220;Fanfare for the Common Man&#8221;, do Emerson Lake and Palmer, representado nessa formação pelo baterista Carl Palmer, cujo solo também foi ponto alto da noite &#8211; a exceção que confirma a regra de solos individuais serem sempre chatos e desnecessários.</p>
<p>No mais, &#8220;Roundabout&#8221; do Yes veio numa levada chata, mas não tão horripilante quanto o visual Mumm-Ra de bisavôzinho Steve Howe e ninguém compreendeu muito bem a razão de justamente o hino &#8220;In the Court of the Crimson King&#8221; fazer parte do set, uma vez que o assustadoramente em forma &#8211; não no aspecto físico, mas na voz &#8211; John Wetton só entrou posteriormente na banda de Robert Fripp, e &#8220;Red&#8221;, de sua fase, seria mais legal, embora, talvez, muito agitada para um show com mesas na pista. Nem os hits salvaram o resto de uma apresentação morna, completamente esquecível. Enfim, como o Asia.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Um show de Death Metal? (Arch Enemy, SP, 01/02/2007)]]></title>
<link>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/um-show-de-death-metal-arch-enemy-sp-01022007/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jacques Z.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/um-show-de-death-metal-arch-enemy-sp-01022007/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Por pouco tempo, dava até pra crer que o show do Arch Enemy era de death metal. Velocidade extrema, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Por pouco tempo, dava até pra crer que o show do Arch Enemy era de death metal. Velocidade extrema, muito peso, vocais guturais, redemoinhos de cabelos e rodas de pancadaria. Mas, quando alguns momentos melódicos à la Stratovarius se intrometiam, sobrava uma estranha sensação: seria o Arch Enemy uma banda emo de death metal?</p>
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<p>Obviamente, enquanto dona de formas fabulosas, um elogio não pode ser repetido ao vocal de Angela Gossow, a musa do Arch Enemy, cujo jeito de &#8220;cantar&#8221; é dos piores dentro do death metal, responsável por estragar as grandes músicas da fase de seu antecessor &#8211; e pensar que Johan Liiva estava entre os melhores do estilo. </p>
<p>Mas e daí? Se a loiraça parecia um capitão caverna rouco e castrado no microfone, no palco, era uma bela moça, bem vestida, só um pouquinho agressiva demais &#8211; ei, era um show de death metal, não? Ao lado de Sharlee D&#8217;Angelo (cadê o Mercyful Fate?!), ela agitava feito louca, chacoalhando a cabeça sem parar, embora seu lado feminino a fazia parecer André Matos ao se comunicar ao público em tons agudíssimos. </p>
<p>No entanto, para uma banda caracterizada pela técnica transbordante dos riffs e solos, algo ficou a desejar. As primeiras músicas estavam com o som tão embolado que mal se escutava qualquer guitarra; o novo membro, Fredrik Akesson, não parecia acostumado ao seu instrumento e escorregava nos solos, enquanto a lenda Michael Amott (saudades do Carcass) beirava a perfeição em suas linhas ultra-melódicas, gerando até alguns inusitados coros de &#8220;oh-oh-oh&#8221; dos quase 3 mil presentes ao Via Funchal.</p>
<p>Num set de uma hora e vinte minutos em que predominaram as músicas dos últimos três álbuns (e alguns solos chatos, como sempre, desnecessários), o público saiu extasiado com a performance da alemã e dos suecos, por óbvios motivos diversos. Mas a contradição reina: enquanto o Arch Enemy parece uma banda emo de death metal, Angela Gossow é de uma agressividade não condizente com seu belos traços de moça meiga. No mais, fica a lição às &#8220;from hell&#8221; brazucas: não precisa parecer bicho pra ser &#8220;do mal&#8221;.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[O nosso humilde festivaleco (Live 'n' Louder, SP, 14/10/2006)]]></title>
<link>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/o-nosso-humilde-festivaleco-livenlouder-sp-14102006/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jacques Z.</dc:creator>
<guid>http://linguamortis.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/o-nosso-humilde-festivaleco-livenlouder-sp-14102006/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[O Live&#8217;n'Louder aconteceu há mais de três meses, porém o Lingua Mortis ainda não existia. No e]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>O Live&#8217;n'Louder aconteceu há mais de três meses, porém o Lingua Mortis ainda não existia. No entanto, como prestigiamos o evento e, apesar de tudo, sabemos de sua relevância, fizemos uma dieta a base de Fosfosol e Memorex para juntar as recordações do dia e dar uma geral sobre o que foi o festival.</p>
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<p><strong>Massacration</strong></p>
<p>Feita a viagem de Nova Iorque pra São Paulo, estava curioso para conferir a &#8220;maior banda de metal de todos os tempos ao vivo&#8221;. Decepcionante. Para ouvir piada, ia no show do Ari Toledo. Apesar de ter lançado um disco acima da porca média do metal de hoje em dia, faltou atitude na performance deles. Fiasco completo. <em>(DH &#8211; Trad. JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>Mindflow</strong></p>
<p>Existem bandas e mais bandas de prog-metal mundo afora. Mas o que a gente menos precisa é, num festival, ouvir músicas intermináveis sem pé nem cabeça. Maldito Dream Theater e seus milhões de clones. O Mindflow só deu vontade de dormir. Mas como, naquele calor de rachar a cuca? <em>(MH)</em></p>
<p><strong>Gotthard</strong></p>
<p>Era esperada uma performance arrasadora dos hardrockers suíço, mas a banda, apesar de esforçada, não foi lá muito cativante. Talvez a falta de conhecimento da grande parte das músicas pela maioria do público &#8211; exceto aquela mesma meia-dúzia de seis ou sete posers do Manifesto &#8211; tenha deixado o show bem mais morno do que o grupo desejava. Em um lugar mais aconchegante &#8211; leia-se, minúsculo -, deve ser melhor.<em>(JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>Primal Fear</strong></p>
<p>Na octagésima milhonésima visita da trupe de Ralf Scheepers e Mat Sinner ao Brasil, essa foi, sem dúvida, a pior apresentação. Problemas de som, banda visivelmente irritada, músicas cada vez mais sem sal. Nem o mago Roy Z. salva. Muito menos o empreendedor Renato Tribuzzy. Acabou a graça desses alemães.<em>(MH)</em></p>
<p><strong>After Forever</strong></p>
<p>Quase esquecido pelo staff na hora de fazer o review, a gente não se lembrou de quase nada do show dos holandeses que não fossem as boas formas da vocalista Floor Jansen, a musa do festival. Música? Que música? <em>(MH)</em></p>
<p><strong>Doro</strong></p>
<p>A ex-musa e atual coroa enxuta do metal pisou pela primeira vez num palco brasileiro tocando apenas semi-hits nostálgicos do Warlock entre uma e outra irrelevante canção solo mais recente. Diferentemente do som da Arena Skol, o set com cheiro de naftalina funcionou e garantiu à alemã uma das melhores performances do dia, apesar do apelativo e desnecessário cover de &#8220;Breaking the Law&#8221;.<em>(JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>Nevermore</strong></p>
<p>Tudo parecia perfeito para o show da banda de Seattle. Tempo chuvoso e público irado com a horrorosa qualidade de som, pronto pra esbofetear quem aparecesse na frente. Os americanos deram tudo em seu curto set, tocando apenas o indispensável do indispensável, mas foi pouco, muito pouco. Mereciam um festival decente e uma apresentação mais longa, pois essa quase nem dá pra contar. <em>(JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>Sepultura</strong> </p>
<p>Como ver o Sepultura ao vivo nos Estados Unidos exige ser guia turístico pra achar os locais, só vindo pro Brasil pra conseguir ver o show mesmo. Apesar de agora ser hoje uma banda cover, é melhor que o original. Sem medleys, ótimo. Sem carisma, chato. Demorou pra encerras as atividades e, por isso, não deve mais virar um mito. <em>(DH &#8211; Trad. JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>André Matos</strong></p>
<p>Eu não tenho nada pra dizer. Também não tenho mais o que fazer. Só pra garantir esse refrão. Eu vou enfiar um palavrão: cu. <em>(MH e RM)</em></p>
<p><strong>Stratovarius</strong></p>
<p>Após uma imensa demora e várias sapatadas do sound manager da banda na equipe de som do festival, os finlandeses entraram gélidos no palco com uma performance completamente desinteressada, cujo set foi calcado nos &#8220;clássicos&#8221;, evitando o temeroso disco autointitulado. O público não reagiu de uma forma muito feliz e todo o staff do Lingua Mortis agradeceu aos céus quando acabou o show. <em>(JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>David Lee Roth</strong></p>
<p>Não dá pra negar que o ex e futuro reingresso vocalista do Van Halen foi divertido. E rock&#8217;n'roll é diversão. Claro que uma banda cover, por mais competente que seja, fechando o festival é algo meio diminutivo, mas a gente até dá um desconto quando o grupo original nem sequer pensa em ganhar dinheiro difícil viajando pra essas terras (isso quando pensa em fazer grana fácil na gringa mesmo). 23 anos separaram a última vez de Dave no Brasil deste show, e muito pouco do produzido nesse intervalo valia a pena ser tocado. Nostalgia completa, recordações em preto-e-branco. <em>(JZ)</em></p>
<p><strong>Visão geral</strong></p>
<p>A Arena Skol é horrorosa. Concretão, faz um calor danado, mesmo só com mormaço e metade da pista vazia (dava pra montar uma quadra de futebol de salão). Brigar por lugar na sombra e pra entrar no &#8220;banheiro&#8221; na hora das bandas inúteis é dureza. Quanto aos horários, algumas bandas cumpriram, outras atrasaram além da conta, o Saxon nem mesmo veio (a origanização foi a última a saber), e nada obviamente foi feito. O som esteve horroroso, só não foi pior que o merchandising. Pelo menos a comida foi razoável e a cerveja não era Nova Skin. Festival de terceiro mundo. Mas é o que tem. <em>(JZ)</em></p>
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