Aftershock Day 3 No Distillers 8( but hey, have front woman, JD will watch -- (edited)
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JD (aka Jason Dean)
Oct 12 '22, 16:25
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As much as I love the opening acts, I'm doing really bad at actually making it to their sets. While I've picked out an opening act, I do have reasons for showing up late. My parents take FH and I out to my birthday breakfast as while I'm kind of clock watching towards the end of it, I'm not going to run out on my parents cause I have to see Eva Under Fire.
So a bit behind schedule, we arrive yet again to the off site parking lot, no real line, but yet another version of not getting on the bus directly. So while we're wearing our 4 day wristbands, it turns out that today they want to scan our digital tickets so that's three for three as different procedures to get on the bus.
Get to the festival and on the upside, Eva Under Fire is playing on the closest stage to where we enter so while walking towards security and through security, we hear Eva Under Fire covering Journey. I absolutely was not expecting to hear Journey during Aftershock but I can't help singing (well under my breath) along with Separate Ways. We make our way in front of the stage in time for the closing bars of Separate Ways and hear their final song. Will make an effort to seek out Eva under Fire in the future.
We then make our way to the other main stage for Lilth Czar cause woman fronted music act. This leads to the second unexpected cover as she does a Stevie Nicks song and in hindsight that's completely obvious given her voice. Thumbs up for the overall set.
Brief stop by the locker and then off to the small stage for Mothica. I'm utterly charmed by her set and was all in after her explanation that her stage name comes from watching moths who steadfastly keep running into lights and that they never give up.
So yay, three consecutive female artists and while they drew the earliest sets, at least they were invited.
FH has seen Thrice before and so we go their set. Ummm...they're fine. Again learning my preferences within the broad category of Rock and Thrice doesn't fall into what I realize is an ever narrow take on the genre.
...and then we went to the Beartooth set. This is a recommendation from FH's stepson (as of this fall, a grad student). Wow, that's kind of loud ;-) To some extent, I feel like I survive that set.
FH has picked out Theory of a Deadman as one of her must sees. I'm pleasantly surprised as it is almost counter to the Beartooth set as there's (ok, my definition) actual songs and I could seem them crossing over to mainstream as well as even country.
We're left with a bit of time before my next act so we check out HO99O9. If you're not of the scene like me, that's pronounced Horror. The set is kind of throw everything at it approach. Rap, rock, hardcore metal. It was uh, interesting.
So my birthday concert was supposed to be Halestrom, The Distillers, My Chemical Romance. With The Distillers dropping out, made more of an effort to see the early acts and had a great time. But now, we're up to Halestrom who I really wanted to see. Lizzy Hale and her band (including her younger brother on drums) are epic. If the original plan had held up, I'd probably have gotten myself hurt at The Distillers as Halestrom have me so fired up that I would've been bouncing around even before Brody hit the stage.
After that, we don't really have a plan (No Distillers) so we wander across the grounds and catch the second half of City Morgue which is rap act that uses rock / metal tracks / riffs as backing and so they're at Aftershock. Unfortunately they have technical difficulties with their mics so it interrupts the pace of the set and they're not quite the impact I think they would've been with out the breaks.
As we're waiting for My Chemical Romance, I make the ego deflating mistake of directing us to the Emo Night Tour. This is essentially a cover band that's become successful enough that there's knock off versions of them. Given their name,. they play songs from that Emo era and OMG, I've never felt so old at a concert in my life. "You all know this one, sing along" Everybody around me, including FH is singing along. I'm uh, this is vaguely familiar but even after the fact, I still don't know the songs for this report. 8-P After 3-4 songs, while it didn't actually happen this way, it completely felt like the band personally called me out: "Here's a lifeline for the old guy JD and we're going to play Green Day". Then there was were more entire crowd singing along with songs that I vaguely recognize and me drinking my beer. I sang at the top of my lungs with the Blink-182 song when they called me out a second time. I'm absolutely not going to the When We Were Young festival as apparently I was already old at the time of when we were young.
That leaves My Chemical Romance. We have noticed that with KISS the night before and now MCR and the twenty something years between their peaks, the crowd has gotten some what younger. The MCR fans are really, really, really fans and as we're not, FH and I take places at the back of the back and actually reinforcing that I'm too old for this shit, we layout our towel and sit through the set. At the same time, completely removed from what I can only imagine the crowd energy at the front, I'm really impressed by their set. Though, I did have us head for the buses just ahead of Helena (made it to Black Parade) so kind of like a Dodger fan and there's practical limits to my fandom for MCR.
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