Watching this movie brought out the child in me. You've gotta understand, American Idiot was not only the first album I ever bought and owned, but it really got me into being who I am today. Now, I love all the stuff I listened to beforehand, but when I discovered Green Day, it was like Moses discovering the 10 Commandments, OK? It was really big freaking deal.
I thought that what they did to bring their songs onto Broadway was really interesting. I really liked the story they told with the songs and the choreography that went along with them.
MY ONLY COMPLAINT: And this can't really be fixed, but I'm just really picky about people who sing Green Day. I think Billy Joe Armstrong can sing Green Day...and that's about it. There's just certain words he sings with a certain tone and a certain way that just can't be replicated, not to say that anyone tried to replicate it...but that's another problem. It's really odd/unsettling to hear those songs sung by not him; that's all I'm saying.
It's kind of like if you were to listen to someone cover a Bob Dylan song. Yeah, they might get the music totally right, but it won't be the same because they're doing their own thing, or they're trying to much to be like him be imitating him. And if the imitation is a joke, that's cool, but you shouldn't base your whole show on that unless you're Weird Al or something, in which case you can do whatever you want.
Great movie. Thank you so much for showing it.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
My performance at Trojan Live
Danger Dog I thought did a very good job at Trojan Live on Friday, and an alright job on Thursday.
Thursday's showing was just sloppy. I feel that a lot of the focus from the band was put into the energy as opposed to actually being good. Yeah, we played our most upbeat songs, but we didn't play them as well as we ever had.
Friday was much much much better. The crowd was better, the performance was better, and the music was much better. I would say that an accurate performance is better than that of loud, not good performance.
Thursday's showing was just sloppy. I feel that a lot of the focus from the band was put into the energy as opposed to actually being good. Yeah, we played our most upbeat songs, but we didn't play them as well as we ever had.
Friday was much much much better. The crowd was better, the performance was better, and the music was much better. I would say that an accurate performance is better than that of loud, not good performance.
School Of Rock Southern Rock Show
This show was amazing at it's best, and kind of alright at it's worst.
The best song in the set was Freebird. You can't beat that song in this kind of set. You just can't. It's too epic. Also, both of my band members played the ending solo (they split it) and they rocked it.
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed was probably a real close second because of how genius it is, and that it was pulled off so well. The guitarist in my prog band, Jupiter Five played the solo, and I've never seen him play with that much passion. It was beautiful.
And my third favorite was Black Betty for the same reason. Really great performing to add on to it.
I'll bet money that those 3 songs make Best of Season.
The best song in the set was Freebird. You can't beat that song in this kind of set. You just can't. It's too epic. Also, both of my band members played the ending solo (they split it) and they rocked it.
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed was probably a real close second because of how genius it is, and that it was pulled off so well. The guitarist in my prog band, Jupiter Five played the solo, and I've never seen him play with that much passion. It was beautiful.
And my third favorite was Black Betty for the same reason. Really great performing to add on to it.
I'll bet money that those 3 songs make Best of Season.
School of Rock Punk show
Both showings of this school of rock production I played in was pretty good. It had a lot of energy, and a really good crowd turn out. I'll talk about all of my songs.
Die Die My Darling: Guitars sounded great. I was really happy with the kids on that song. My bass was also good.I suppose my vocals were also good; I've never been really happy with them. I just always felt that something about them was missing, and it sucks that I never settled that feeling by the time the show happened. Drums were very meh; the drummer we had gets on my nerves. Too busy hitting on the girls and being a poser instead of actually learning his shit.
Pretty Vacant: I loved it. My only criticisms are toward our drummer and one of our guitarists, but they're kids, so whatever. Even though SOR has taught me that everyone should work hard and has no excuse for not practicing or learning your own stuff regardless of age...whatever.
Hungry Wolf: Easily my favorite song in the set. I didn't notice a single real bad thing. Drummer could've been a little more accurate with his particular beat, but no one noticed it. Also, I flubbed the lyrics at one point the second showing, but no one noticed I don't think, so no bog deal.
I Wanna Be Your Dog: Easily the crowd favorite. I feel that I did a really good job performing and singing this song. Unfortunately I feel that I was the only strong musician on that song. I don't mean to sound like a dick, but sometimes I question how often some of these other players practice.
Ball and Chain: Why did we do this song? No seriously. Why did we do this song? It's not even punk. Screw this song. No one likes this song. No one likes playing this song or hearing it. Why? Because it's about 4 minutes or so of 3 chords, and that's 3 notes for me. Awesome. I love wasting my time with garbage like that. But I digress. I doubt my sarcasm with bleed through the screen enough.I just wanna emphasize my supreme negative feelings toward this song. Also, guitar players on this song don't like tuning.That pisses me off.
Teenage Lobotomy: It took forever for everyone on this song to learn it properly, but they eventually did it, and it became one of the best songs in the show...at least in the first showing. The drummer messed up the reintro the second showing. We got back on, but it still happened.
God Save The Queen: The show closer. It was really really good, minus 2 of the guitarists not being on their A-game at all. Both had problems learning the arrangements. And by that, I mean, they probably didn't practice in their freetime, or even care to listen to the song more that once or twice.
Overall, fun show with flaws, just like every show I've been in for SOR so far.
Die Die My Darling: Guitars sounded great. I was really happy with the kids on that song. My bass was also good.I suppose my vocals were also good; I've never been really happy with them. I just always felt that something about them was missing, and it sucks that I never settled that feeling by the time the show happened. Drums were very meh; the drummer we had gets on my nerves. Too busy hitting on the girls and being a poser instead of actually learning his shit.
Pretty Vacant: I loved it. My only criticisms are toward our drummer and one of our guitarists, but they're kids, so whatever. Even though SOR has taught me that everyone should work hard and has no excuse for not practicing or learning your own stuff regardless of age...whatever.
Hungry Wolf: Easily my favorite song in the set. I didn't notice a single real bad thing. Drummer could've been a little more accurate with his particular beat, but no one noticed it. Also, I flubbed the lyrics at one point the second showing, but no one noticed I don't think, so no bog deal.
I Wanna Be Your Dog: Easily the crowd favorite. I feel that I did a really good job performing and singing this song. Unfortunately I feel that I was the only strong musician on that song. I don't mean to sound like a dick, but sometimes I question how often some of these other players practice.
Ball and Chain: Why did we do this song? No seriously. Why did we do this song? It's not even punk. Screw this song. No one likes this song. No one likes playing this song or hearing it. Why? Because it's about 4 minutes or so of 3 chords, and that's 3 notes for me. Awesome. I love wasting my time with garbage like that. But I digress. I doubt my sarcasm with bleed through the screen enough.I just wanna emphasize my supreme negative feelings toward this song. Also, guitar players on this song don't like tuning.That pisses me off.
Teenage Lobotomy: It took forever for everyone on this song to learn it properly, but they eventually did it, and it became one of the best songs in the show...at least in the first showing. The drummer messed up the reintro the second showing. We got back on, but it still happened.
God Save The Queen: The show closer. It was really really good, minus 2 of the guitarists not being on their A-game at all. Both had problems learning the arrangements. And by that, I mean, they probably didn't practice in their freetime, or even care to listen to the song more that once or twice.
Overall, fun show with flaws, just like every show I've been in for SOR so far.
Eagleclaw
This was the band headlining the show at the Red 7 that night.
Lets make something clear: I was at the show to see my friend Jamey play, but also because there was a raffle going on to have the chance to win a brand new Orange bass amp. Like, 500 watts or something. Great deal. However, you had to have not only entered the raffle, but stay the whole night, or at least show up at the end of the show to be able to claim it.
So, LSD was boring. So Rozie and I were just sitting around hoping that Eagleclaws set wouldn't be as painful. It was.
It's not particularly fair of me to say that considering that we didn't stay the whole time, which means we didn't win the amp. As a matter of fact we left during their first song...about 8 minutes into it or so.
Saying that, they had the same problem as LSD. They were really really boring, and by that time I had even less patience. But also, I was told that this band was very Metallica/Iron Maiden but instrumental, the problem with that statement is that it was completely false, or at least it was based on what I had heard before I lost my patience.
I have a real problem with certain people in the metal community. Not even the community, just any metalhead. That problem is, there are some people that listen strictly to metal because it's metal and nothing else, and be close minded assholes about it. And that bothers me because there's a lot of metal that they're listening to, such as this, that is super fucking boring and is only popular because people don't know what good metal is so they just find something that's metal and just like it regardless of if it's actually good. Because metal. You know? There are some metalheads that will like any metal simply because metal. That is silly to me, because at that point, it's merely about the image and not the music. Sure, a lot of metal is the image, so is any other genre with their own image; it's the balancing of the image and the music that make said artist worth listening to. And from what I can see, a lot of people in the world of metal seem to forget that, or they never learned it.
Lets make something clear: I was at the show to see my friend Jamey play, but also because there was a raffle going on to have the chance to win a brand new Orange bass amp. Like, 500 watts or something. Great deal. However, you had to have not only entered the raffle, but stay the whole night, or at least show up at the end of the show to be able to claim it.
So, LSD was boring. So Rozie and I were just sitting around hoping that Eagleclaws set wouldn't be as painful. It was.
It's not particularly fair of me to say that considering that we didn't stay the whole time, which means we didn't win the amp. As a matter of fact we left during their first song...about 8 minutes into it or so.
Saying that, they had the same problem as LSD. They were really really boring, and by that time I had even less patience. But also, I was told that this band was very Metallica/Iron Maiden but instrumental, the problem with that statement is that it was completely false, or at least it was based on what I had heard before I lost my patience.
I have a real problem with certain people in the metal community. Not even the community, just any metalhead. That problem is, there are some people that listen strictly to metal because it's metal and nothing else, and be close minded assholes about it. And that bothers me because there's a lot of metal that they're listening to, such as this, that is super fucking boring and is only popular because people don't know what good metal is so they just find something that's metal and just like it regardless of if it's actually good. Because metal. You know? There are some metalheads that will like any metal simply because metal. That is silly to me, because at that point, it's merely about the image and not the music. Sure, a lot of metal is the image, so is any other genre with their own image; it's the balancing of the image and the music that make said artist worth listening to. And from what I can see, a lot of people in the world of metal seem to forget that, or they never learned it.
Lonestar State Demons (LSD)
This is the band I saw at Red 7 after Jamey Simms Band. They're a more aggressive styled stoner metal band that at first doesn't seem that bad.
Lemme put it this way, I really liked them their first 3 songs or so, but then I realized that all of their songs were the same and that they weren't very good performers, either. They were pretty bad, and pretty boring.
Also, their set was REALLY long. It was bad enough that their songs were legitimately long, and boring so it seems even longer, but they had more time in their set for more songs than the other bands, and they weren't even headlining. They APPARENTLY set up the show, so they got more stage time. But, they just sucked out loud.
Lemme put it this way, I really liked them their first 3 songs or so, but then I realized that all of their songs were the same and that they weren't very good performers, either. They were pretty bad, and pretty boring.
Also, their set was REALLY long. It was bad enough that their songs were legitimately long, and boring so it seems even longer, but they had more time in their set for more songs than the other bands, and they weren't even headlining. They APPARENTLY set up the show, so they got more stage time. But, they just sucked out loud.
Jamey Simms Band
Saturday night I saw my friend's band play at Red 7 with his band, Jamey Simms Band. They're just pure rock and roll with plenty of attitude, and they were freaking loud. I really enjoyed their show because it was full of energy, both from the band and the crowd, but the band members are just really really good players. Jamey is probably the best if not one of the best guitarists I've ever met in my life.
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