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Hello Demons..meet skeletons - Acoustic Benefit Show

31 Dec 2008, 18:53

So whenever I'm going to see a show in St. Pete... I always end up being late due to crazy traffic. Needless to say, my luck didn't let me down! There was a crash on the Howard Frankland Bridge. 275 was backed up like crazy. Let's just say it delayed our trip an extra 2 hours.

We got there around 8:30 and Soulidium was just about to go on. So I'd imagine the show was delayed from it's 6:00 start in the first place. I was very happy with Soulidium's performance. I think they sounded awesome acoustic. Next up was Society Red, while I think their normal music is a bit better than their acoustic, they still put on a good show. They finished up with a nice cover of Alice In Chain's

No Excuses.

Parabelle was on next. I'm not a huge Evan's Blue fan and I really didn't enjoy Parabelle... they did seem to play for quite a long time though, 6-8 songs if I recall. Taproot came out... and only did 3 songs, I was very confused. Every other band played more than 3, it seems like their set was cut a little short. Perhaps to get HDMS on stay before 11:30? No clue what happened there. They sounded pretty good though.

So onto Hello Demons..meet skeletons! The lineup was as follows:

Clint Lowery (Sevendust, ex-Dark New Day): Vocals/Guitar
Corey Lowery (Dark New Day, Solo): Vocals/Bass
Morgan Rose (Sevendust): Drums
Gogi (Dear Enemy): Guitar

If I recall correctly they played all of the HDMS songs, Dark new Day's Storm, Corey's Shouldn't Be Alive, Nine Inch Nails/Cash's

Hurt, a U2's

Pride (In the Name of Love), and two Sevendust songs. LJ came out mid-set to do X-mas Day with them. The last song ended up being

Angel's Son; LJ came back up on stage and John came up to replace Gogi (Vince was still hung over it seems, haha). I was hoping to hear Kicking Tree (as were a few others in the crowd it seemed), but nada. Shame!

The guys sounded awesome. It was a real treat to hear Morgan doing Clint and Corey's songs. Supposedly he had just learned most of them the day before, couldn't even tell. He sounded awesome (a bit too loud in some parts), even more so when he got on the bongos/congas/etc. Clint seemed a bit nervous at first but seemed to get into the groove during the first few songs. Corey seemed to be having a lot of fun, it was nice to hear Corey and Clint switch off on vocals. Overall, awesome show. Glad I could be a part of it.

Real Rock's JRR-BQ

10 Nov 2008, 16:25

So another Real Rock event, JRR-BQ (2008-11-09). this one got trimmed down from a football field near Tinker Field to Hard Rock Live. I was expecting the place to be packed, but was pretty surprised when it wasn't. GA was sold out, but I guess HRL didn't oversell like they have in the past. Typical Real Rock crowd, odd mixture of people from all over. We showed up at around 4:30 and there was a pretty good sized line, made it in at like 5:10. So here we go.

Hollywood Undead. Nothing to say. Just... wow. Should have showed up thirty minutes later.

Five Finger Death Punch: Honestly, I was surprised. I really disliked their songs off their MySpace, but they turned out to be pretty solid live. They got the crowd pumped, which got the crowd moshing, which got security angry, which got a lot of people kicked out really fast. Then they started encouraging moshing and crowd surfing... so their set was cut short. Not a smart move on their part, but that's what it's all about.

Trapt was pretty good. Their sound needed some help, but then again, msot all of the sound did that night. I've seen them better, perhaps they've lost their live edge over time.

Puddle of Mudd was enoyable this time around. They busted out part of a cover of Black Sabbath's

War Pigs as a full version of AC/DC's

T.N.T. The crowd seemed to react pretty well to all of their tunes, well at least the three lesbian's in front of us. Hah.

Sevendust is where it's at for me. What can I say, I've seen them a shitload of times and they brought it like they always do. The crowd seemed really into it, but by this time they had wised up to security kicking people out for moshing and they seemed a bit tired. I still stand by the fact that Inside is an amazing opening song. Suffocate's intro is fucking badass. I miss Sonny, a lot, but goddamned I love Clint back in the band. Angel's Son was particullarly emotional as it was 6 years ago the day that Reginald Witherspoon (LJ's brother) was taken from us. RIP man. I look forward to their December mini-tour.

Sevendust's Setlist:
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Inside
Pieces

Clueless

Enemy

Waffle

Suffocate
Angels Son

Denial
Ugly

Praise

Face to Face

We skipped Hinder, as did most of the crowd. A few friend's stayed inside and they said there were less than 25% of the people there for Hinder that were there for Sevendust and the other bands. It was a mass exodous the second the lights went on after Sevendust.

Overall, not a bad Real Rock event. It was a good time, even if the sound was crap.

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