Last night I went to the State Theatre in Portland to see Nocturne, Crossbreed, Dope, and Mushroomhead. Great show! I hadn’t heard of Nocturne or Crossbreed. I loved Crossbreed’s stuff. Loud, double bass, weird angle grinder throwing sparks all over the place. Just kicked ass. Nocturne was pretty damn good. Their vocalist is pretty fucking hot. Lacey is her name, met her briefly after their set. She was signing items that they had for sale. Good prices on shirts and what not. I wished I had bought something, but I’ll wait till next time I see them (in a month at Ushuaias).
Dope was pretty good. Interesting lyrics, good show. Mushroomhead just owned it up. I knew about half of the songs. I don’t have their album XIII, so I didn’t know any of the songs. However, they played a bunch of the old stuff off XX. Not many people showed up to the show, but the audience still gave great feedback, and the pits were awesome. The security guards were dicks though. They kicked this girl out who snatched a bottle of water off the stage during sets. Then the guard was telling some kid to STFU for some unknown reason. Idiot guard. They didn’t even keep the vocalist from Nocturne from falling off the rail by the front of the crowd.
Got home around 1am. Long fucking show. Didn’t get out till midnight. Show didn’t start until 8:30pm, an hour late. I was thinking of going to a computer show in New Hampshire, but decided against it, as I was not feeling well this morning at 6am. lol
I’ve got to start bringing my camera to shows. Must do this!