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Shinedown, Trapt, Halestorm, The Underwater. I had a big smile on my face a lot.
I pretty much got back an hour or 2 ago from NJ.
I have a smile now, still, thinking about it. Um, I guess the theme is,
rock stars I've known a long time.
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so well with him. That's great. He has another band, called The Fairwell
(I did that site for a real short period of time) They're signed now, Warner (sub?).
He looked very much like a full fledged rock star up on that stage, looking great.
Great great stuff. Expect to see The Fairwell around these parts when Shinedown
isn't touring or in the studio. So that's Zach. You all know Zach.
Vikki managed Zach (manages? - I didn't ask). Played MMC a few times,
first time in 1999 (I was there, taped it, realvideo online, etc).
Played Hbg venues outside of MMC a few times, Gullifty's.
Well known here, well liked here. He's an honorary Central PA guy,
and you all should be happy for him, rooting for him.
Halestorm. On Atlantic. Been touring for about 6 months
now. Doing this tour, did Sno Core before that.
Been playing to between 2-5k people 6 nights a week solid.
They haven't yet recorded a debut studio album, haven't yet gotten a big radio push.
Not yet famous, not yet a household name. But fans? Definitely yes.
She's definitely a star. Me and Matt were watching the Hampton show
from up in one of the skyboxes, one giving a great vantage point on the crowd.
She got it. They love her. If you know Halestorm (for some background, scroll down,
read Publishers Notes, mostly 1999-2002) you know what I'm talking about.
The voice and the charisma have always been there.
Anyway. She's always had it,
and it translates really really well to larger stages. Sure, she's definitely better,
but she always had it. Smile on my face to see Halestorm do great, even without
a studio record and radio and all that. It's not gonna be long at all til they're
headlining venues like Hampton and Starland, and everyone is there to see them,
loving them.
The Underwater. Going in, I didn't know what to expect.
I knew that they were gonna be playing with Shinedown, Trapt and Halestorm.
When I heard that, I was psyched to see Halestorm. I wasn't really sure how they "fit" with S,T,H.
When I heard Zach was in Shinedown (that info got to me from Bran, who got that
from Pam Saunders), that really put a smile on my face. (An aside, Trapt
is managed by Zig Zag, Shinedown and Halestorm are managed by
In de Goot, and The Underwater is co-managed by both) I wasn't
surprised to see The Underwater play a couple dates on the tour,
the Zach thing was the surprise. Anyway, The Underwater had never played in
NH before (MA, yes), never played with Shinedown or Trapt (Halestorm, yes),
and they don't exactly play a Shinedown or Trapt style
of Active or Mainstream rock. So, I didn't know. Well, it went very very well.
They played great, which is what I expected, and the fans were digging it.
Now, I think that Shinedown and Trapt got a better response (ok, I know they did),
as did Halestorm (played with Shinedown there or in the area before)
but the fans were definitely digging it
Nice big (not massive, but big) roars, especially up in NH. Now I don't really
want to sound like a broken record but I was kinda surprised at how
much the fans (Shinedown fans, Trapt fans) really did dig it. (An aside - new song "Every Road" sounds
undeniable to me. Take a listen.) Anyway, that's but one way
to look at the last, what, 54 hours. They all did well, I was happy, smiling.
Another thing that put a big smile on my face was to watch everyone interacting.
Like I've said before, I've known Halestorm and Zach since 99. Since about 2002, it's been all about
The Underwater. Other things have been pretty much of secondary importance.
Back then, I went "all in" with The Underwater. Then, as now, I felt
that they'd be a massive, massive band,
among the rock legends. Back in mid 2002, there were a bunch of things on my mind.
A bunch of bands. Some bands are better than others. Let me tell you about them. That
kind of thing. But I pretty much said screw all that when The Underwater came along.
These guys should be huge,
and that's about it. Now, that wasn't necessarily a good strategy
for PA Rocks, you know, to go from an approach like "lets talk about e
very band, be fair, honest, detailed, smart" to
"all The Underwater, all the time, plus the other bands, to the
extent that those bands are relevant to The Underwater" "Jim, have you turned this into a fan site for The Underwater?"
"Very perceptive"
Anyway, back to the interacting.
So, now Halestorm and Zach are doing great.
And they're digging The Underwater. (The Matts and Bran went
to Atlantic City with em - the rest back to the Dell).
So, it just makes me happy. I know I've been babbling a bit on this one.
It's hard to express. I like Zach, Bran is standing there, talking to him or whatnot, they're having fun, making
plans, networking. It makes me smile.
Everybody is talking, being friends. I don't know. It's really, really good.
I can't explain, just real real good.
General random impressions of the shows, and random thoughts.
Both venues, Hampton and Starland are great. They both treated
The Underwater really nice. Everyone treated
The Underwater really nice. That was great. I enjoy things like dressing rooms,
free food, free drinks. Seeing people you know and like on stage when thousands of people are going
nuts at a sold out show is a real good feeling. David Bendeth is awesome.
Passionate about music and nice and funny. Nick and Brian from Silvertide (MMC6)
were at the Starland show. Nick played
a song with Shinedown. Nick can flat out play.
MMC10 was last weekend. I wasn't offically participating this year
(first time ever) but I woulda stopped by to check something out probably,
but I had to go up to Baldwinsville, NY
at the last minute. Jealousy Curve played, and Jealousy Curve is real good,
so that was good. Their sound guy, good guy, has been running sound for Halestorm on the tour, and
ran sound for The Underwater at the shows as well. Had em both sounding great.
I'm still interested in MMC, so I read the hbgonline.com message board fairly close to try to fill in
the gaps in my knowledge. I heard reports from the house of dell.
Hierosonic did good. Julian Fist drew. I hope Darcie did good. Something controversial
about Fisaga. Trade Show quiet. I didn't hear anything about panelists.
Going back over the years,
typically I'm asleep during the day, but these days I'm more interested
in industry and all that. I had a theory a couple months back that just doing my thing with The Underwater was
going to put me in proximity of more industry than MMC.
So, I'm curious about MMC this time around. I mean, I was a panelist a couple times.
What was it like this year? Any good producers?
It's hard to beat David Bendeth - one of the hottest producers around
(Breaking Benjamin will have the #1 album sometime mid Augustish).
I'll have some photos from these shows (Liz, Zach, Brandon photo w/ somewhat interesting old story from Feb 1999)
if I ever get that film developed.
5:00am Wednesday 6/21
No ones gonna take me alive.
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Knights of Cydonia
Huge Song Huge.
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4:30pm Thursday 5/25
Greetings from Atlanta, where I'm hanging with The Underwater, shooting video, editing video, etc etc.
They're doing pre-production at this house with a studio and an engineer. So, it's cool, the studio is
here, the house is here, costs are low (or can be). The Atlanta suburbs (Duluth, GA) are interesting, sorta,
99% of everything is less than 20 years old, so it's all new strip mall after strip mall after strip mall.
At any given intersection, it's like - if you take a left, go a mile - there are the full compliment of fast food restaurants,
chain restaurants, strip malls with nails places, and a Publix supermarket. If you take a right, same thing down a right.
Nobody has really done a heck of a lot here except work in the studio, in terms of going out and doing stuff (Not counting
drinking and smoking, which is very frequent). Personally, I would've very much liked to have seen the free show
with the Flaming Lips and Big Star in Centennial Park, but I knew that that wasn't gonna happen. I also would've wanted
to see Pretty Girls Make Graves, or Liars and Apes, again, knew that wasn't gonna happen. And it might be cool to
see Zolof in Marietta (again, not ...). Doesn't matter. Haven't been to Atlanta yet. Pretty much spent the entire time
in endless new strip mall land. There are 2 shows this weekend, in Cartersville, which is NW of Atlanta (we're NE)
and in Hinesville, which is near Savannah (6 hour drive according to ).
Anyway, here's a video I made of Mordy drumming Render with travel party fun clips edited in.
8:30pm Thursday 5/11
So, it appears that Fuel is offering Chris Daughtry (American Idol) the lead singer spot.
I think that's a good fit, win win kind of thing. Chris is a good singer who now has fans.
Fuel is an established band with credibility. I'd worry a bit about going into the rock space
from American Idol without a band, without credibility as a songwriter. It may not be true
anymore (I think, it is, it certainly was) but it used to be that rock bands weren't seen as packaged
acts, where songs were given to them, produced, etc. Top 40, not so much. Kelly Clarkson is Top 40,
competing with Britney, etc. No one really expects Britney to do anything except sing and dance
and look pretty. Same with Kelly Clarkson. People think that bands like U2, Green Day, Fuel, do write their own
songs. They usually do. Chris might or might not be a great songwriter, but American Idol is a signing contest.
People would think, if Chris won, was signed, and was a rock act, that he wasn't writing his own songs, and that
he should be, and was therefore less authentically rock, more fake. That wouldn't be helpful.
Now Kat, or Taylor, they'll be on Top 40, or AC, or something, where authenticity isn't really a factor.
Personally, I'd prefer that a "rocker" doesn't ever win AI. I kinda like the idea of spins on radio going to
bands who existed, etc. etc., write their own songs, instead of a contest winner. Authenticity and all.
Now Chris joining Fuel would be great. They have the authenticity, Carl writes the songs typically, and need
a new singer, and Chris is famous and a good singer. Win win.
The reason I'm writing this though, is because I was talking about Chris joining Fuel about 2 months ago.
(Not here) At The X's (Brett ex-Fuel), Condition K, Lotus Blue show a couple months back, I was talking to
AJ and Jackie of RedRoom about this very topic - who should be the new Fuel singer? I said "Chris Daughtry"
or "that guy on American Idol who sung Hemmorage and people are talking about it". They responded with Manian
of Condition K. Now, I agree that Manian would be a good choice, and good karma, taking someone from the
Harrisburg area when you're a Harrisburg area band, but Chris D definitely would be great.
Off,
soon, to York and Atlanta. Y'all should go see The Underwater at Dfly
tomorrow (Friday) and Bo Bim at District tonight (Thursday), last few
days in Hbg.
6:30am Friday 4/7
Ok, let's see, The Underwater is artist of the week on XM radio XMU Radio Unsigned for the week of
April 6, 2006.
Oh, I've started doing some video again. Encoded some new stuff, uploaded some stuff that's been
on my computer for a while, made pages for stuff that's been online without a page, like
that. We'll call it NEW, because, why not? Here's the NEW video.
A Utopian Skyline,
Blindside,
Bo Bim,
Brave the Day,
Farewell Hope,
Jah Works,
Junior,
Out Of Line,
Spinebelt,
Underoath,
The Underwater,
The Witnesses.
I might be putting more "NEW" video up. Many of you know that I pretty much
stopped putting a lot of video online around 2001, but I didn't stop taping, and haven't
stopped taping at all (I don't see as many shows as I used to, but I usually tape. Anyway,
expect more NEW video from 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 to be appearing here sometime.
What else?
How about looking at my email? Just gonna copy and paste pretty much.
The Seldon Plan had good new reviews of Making Circles from
On Tap Magazine and The Chickenfish Speaks.