Strum my guitar, baby.

So I just saw The Matches and Plus 44.

I saw The Matches at Warped Tour a couple years ago, and I wasnt impressed. They were actually alright tonight, but I'm not going to rush out to buy their CD. Their singer and their guitar player make for an interesting set, with all their running around and crazyness.

The reason I went though, was for Plus 44. I never got see Blink, but now at least I've seen 2 out of 3 of the members, and baby, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. They played the entire album, plus their christmas song. I wish the set had been longer, but what else can they do with only one CD?

Mark was hilarious and exactly what I was hoping for. He made a joke about Travis playing the whole tour with one arm, and Shane playing the whole tour with one ball. Uproarous laughter ensued. They sounded pretty incredible. Mark and Craig make a good singing duo.

So there it is, a very good show.

The Gryphon School carol service on Monday.
Can't wait.

[QUOTE=Loner;13820486]uh :/[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=9715[/url]

:sigh:

I just saw Dropping Daylight and those guys ROCK!!!! They are true musicians, who else keeps touring when their van breaks down and they only have the cloths on their backs and the band whose bus their crashing's instruments and still plays an incredible show? Huh?

[QUOTE=MattSharpIsCool;13826697]So I just saw The Matches and Plus 44.

I saw The Matches at Warped Tour a couple years ago, and I wasnt impressed. They were actually alright tonight, but I'm not going to rush out to buy their CD. Their singer and their guitar player make for an interesting set, with all their running around and crazyness.

The reason I went though, was for Plus 44. I never got see Blink, but now at least I've seen 2 out of 3 of the members, and baby, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. They played the entire album, plus their christmas song. I wish the set had been longer, but what else can they do with only one CD?

Mark was hilarious and exactly what I was hoping for. He made a joke about Travis playing the whole tour with one arm, and Shane playing the whole tour with one ball. Uproarous laughter ensued. They sounded pretty incredible. Mark and Craig make a good singing duo.

So there it is, a very good show.[/QUOTE]

Dude, The Matches >>>> Plus 44

[QUOTE=Eliminator;13823008]Are you serious?[/QUOTE]

Deadly. I'd put Fat Mike for one as one of the best bass players in the genre.

[QUOTE=hey, you're not cory!;13854337]Dude, The Matches >>>> Plus 44[/QUOTE]

yes very much so

OZ: oh for sure man

Plus 44 are alright but there riding the success of Blink and would not be anyhting close to playing to 2500 people without Blink. Im not even sure they would be signed.

The Matches are not very good. They put on a decent show, I'll give them that much, but their music is just very, very "eh". It just seems like a lot of noise thrown together at times.

And Plus 44 is a good pop punk band.

[QUOTE=MattSharpIsCool;13857991]The Matches are not very good. They put on a decent show, I'll give them that much, but their music is just very, very "eh". It just seems like a lot of noise thrown together at times.

And Plus 44 is a good pop punk band.[/QUOTE]

Yeah bands sound like that if you hear them for the first time live.

That's not the first time I've heard them, not even the first time I've heard them live. I have one of their CD's. There is just not a lot in the way of melody in their music, and that's kind of an important component of pop punk.

I dunno, The Matches are just so creative and when you say "it seems like a whole bunch of noise thrown together" is where there appeal is. I like that you can hear each members personal contributions in the music.

If it weren't for the fact that their first cd was obviously Blink influenced I'd easily say The Matches > Blink-182.

(And for the record "Decomposer" pwns AVA and +44, on top of the last 3 blink cds a ridiculously large amount.)

[B]The Starting Line/Max Bemis/The Almost
The Electric Factory in Philadelphia PA
December 28th[/B]

[u]The Almost[/u]

Only caught like 4 or 5 of their songs. They were terrible. Aaron is a poor singer and the sound quality was just not very good at all. Their songs are just not catchy and poorly constructed. No one really seemed to be into them. It was their second show ever.

[B]4/10[/B]

[u]Max Bemis of Say Anything performs an exclusive acoustic set[/u]

Alive With The Glory Of Love
Woe
This Is F[size=2]u[/size]cking Ecstasy (New Say Anything Song)
I Want To Know Your Plans
New Say Anything Song
Belt

Max played fantastic. Everyone was singing along to all the old songs and the new songs sounded amazing. Just as witty and eccentric as the old ones. Max sang perfectly on key and had his trademark goofy voice. Great set.

[B]9/10[/B]

[U]The Starting Line[/U]

The Drama Summer
Making Love To The Camera
Up & Go
Given The Chance
Artistic License
Inspired By The $
Photography
Ready
Hello Houston
Bedroom Talk
A Goodnight's Sleep
Surprise, Surprise
The Best Of Me

Encore:
Yule Be Sorry (Ken Vasoli, Aaron Gillespie, Max Schneider)
Rocks Tonic Juice Magic [Saves The Day cover] (Ken Vasoli, Max Bemis, Aaron Gillespie, Max Schneider)

First just Mike came out and played "The Drama Summer" on electric and Ken then came out to sing it, he even went down into the crowd. The rest of the set was just nonstop energy. Ken hit every note and even played guitar for 'Ready" surprisingly well. The two new songs they played sounded fantastic. Max came out to sing the little backing part at the end of "Ready." For the encore, Ken played guitar, some random dude named Max Schneider played bass and Aaron from Underoath/The Almost played drums for the Christmas song that Ken and Aaron wrote last Christmas called "Yule Be Sorry." Then Ken took bass, Max Schneider took guitar and Max of Say Anything came out with a guitar and they all covered "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic!" Incredible.

My only complaint was that TSL had some guy playing piano for their songs because a couple songs on the new album had piano on it. However, not only did play piano for all of their songs, but it overpowered the guitars way too much. It was kind of disenchanting to see that only Mike sang the harmonies (the guy on piano overpowered a lot of those with his harmonies too) because I was looking forward to seeing them pull of their trademark 3 part harmonies live. The sound was just off in general. The bass wasn't high enough, the guitars didn't blend too well, and the piano overpowered them and sounded cheesy. But overall, a very fun experience and a great Christmas present.

[B]8/10[/B]

Sounds awesome, Chris. Seeing Max Bemis play an acoustic set would be amazing.

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In other news, I'm seeing Hatebreed tonight. :cool:

When I saw the starting line, it was incredible, it was before their newest cd came out so they only new songs they played were Ready and Bedroom talk, and then they played every song that I wanted to hear, and the show absolutely was non stop energy. In Cheek to Cheek when he says, Try and Feel, Try and Listen, Try and think of what your missing, Try to look into my eyes, TRYYYY!!!! was probly one of the best things I´ve ever heard live.

I´ve seen a lot of really good bands, and strangly the starting line is at the very top of who put on the best show.

Sounds good cb.

I'm seeing 36 Crazyfists again soon. Can't wait.
And I MIGHT be seeing Reuben and Mostly Autumn too.

[B]2006 Concert Wrap-Up[/B]
[B]
Shows[/B]: 150 (and 3 halves)

[B]Venues[/B]: 22

[B]Different Bands[/B]: 475

[B](National) Bands Seen The Most[/B]: Forgive Durden (x4), Halifax (x4), Hellogoodbye (x4), Just Surrrender (x4)

[B](Local) Bands Seen The Most[/B]: Cute Is What We Aim For (x6), Dead Hearts (x6), Speakerfire (x6)

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[B]
Coming Up In '07[/B]

Sunday 1/7 – Kill Hannah
Friday 1/12 – battle of the bands (Terror In The Sky, etc.)
Thursday 1/18 – My America Is Watching Tigers Die
Friday 1/19 – The Queers
Saturday 1/20 - Ramallah
Sunday 1/21 – "Buffalo vs. Rochester" (NoxGoal, Achilles, etc.)
Sunday 1/21 – Beres Hammond
Thursday 1/25 – The Panic Channel
Saturday 1/27 – Standard Of Living
Monday 1/29 – A Dying Dream
Friday 2/9 – The Fall Of Troy
Saturday 2/10 – Gone By Daylight
Thursday 2/22 – Jack’s Mannequin
Friday 2/23 – Amber Pacific
Sunday 2/25 – Misery Signals
Tuesday 2/27 – The Matches
Wednesday 2/28 - Anberlin
Sunday 3/11 – Anti-Flag
Tuesday 3/13 – Cartel
Thursday 3/15 – Brand New
Saturday 3/17 – Leftover Crack
Saturday 4/14 – Mono


And possibly...

Friday 1/5 – Razbari Sumthing
Saturday 1/6 – Crime In Stereo
Wednesday 1/31 – Thursday
Sunday 2/4 – Ghost Mice
Wednesday 2/14 – Mastodon
Sunday 3/25 – The Holy Mountain


...plus many more, I'm sure.


:cool:

God, I wanna see that Thursday/fbtmof tour so bad but it's stopping like 2 hours away.

WOW! Brian I can't believe you've seen THAT many shows in 2006.
Do you often go see bands you don't even know?
Also, itsn't it very expensive?

[QUOTE]WOW! Brian I can't believe you've seen THAT many shows in 2006.
Do you often go see bands you don't even know?
Also, itsn't it very expensive?[/QUOTE]
I'm an intern at a club around here, so I get to go to a lot of shows for free.

If I'm paying for the show, I usually know the band pretty well, but if I'm going for free, I'll go see bands I'm not familiar with.

I'm going to see +44 1st Feb, Yay!

Gigs coming up: Bloc Party, Brand New.

Killswitch Engage, Nightmare of You, Blood Brothers, Brand New, Senses Fail, Alexisonfire, Cursive.

I'm going to the NME Rave Tour soon. Not too big on the bands that are playing but it'll be fun anyway.

i'm going to see The Bouncing Souls next month.

Mostly local stuff,although I went to Taste of Chaos and saw

Silverstein
AILD (hate)
Atreyu (hate)
Deftones
and other good local bands who played there and last but not least
Thrice!

yeah i saw it in london, ont bro

Time to bring this thread back to life.

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I've been to a handful of shows so far this year:

Kill Hannah / The Pink Spiders / Love Arcade
My American Is Watching Tigers Die / Morning For The Masses
The Queers / The Heart Attacks / The Riptides
Achilles / NoxGoal / Borrowed Time
Beres Hammond / Marcia Griffiths / Leon & The Peoples
Thursday / Fear Before The March Of Flames / Murder By Death
The Fold / Sound The Alarm / The Graduate
The Fall Of Troy / Damiera / Portugal The Man / Tera Melos
The Apples In Stereo / Casper & The Cookies

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And this week I'm seeing:

Mastodon / Converge / Priestess
Lovedrug (acoustic set) / +locals
The New Amsterdams / +locals
Under the Influence Of Giants / +locals
Olympia / Dance Gavin Dance

:D

I'll be seeing Sonic Youth on Thursday and maybe Gwen Stefani in May.