Last Tuesday, August 3, 2004, I saw lostprophets live at mississippi nights in St. Louis, MO. This was my second time seeing them live, but the last time was a couple years ago. They put on a great show. Played 10 songs, but only 2 off of the first CD, The Fake Sound of Progress. They did “The Fake Sound of Progress” and “Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja.” I was disappointed that they did not play “Kobrakai.” The other 8 songs were from the new CD, Start Something.

• Not in order:
  • We Still Kill the Old Way
  • To Hell We Ride
  • Last Train Home
  • Make a Move
  • Burn, Burn
  • I Don’t Know
  • Start Something
  • Sway

I have added the pictures I took to the gallery section. The quality blows. it was a disposable camera.

This past Saturday I went to Vintage Vinyl for an acoustic show by Breaking Benjamin.

We first went to eat at Fitz’s. This was my first time there and the food was good. While there we saw Jeremy, the drummer for Breaking Benjamin. We finished up around 4 and got in line for the show, which was at 6. There were only 4 people infront of us.The Point was there so we atleast had some music to listen to while we waited. Then we saw someone who I did not expect to see, the Governor of Missouri, Bob Holden. We got a picture with him. I will post it when I get it.

After 2 hours we finally get in. And damn it was hot in there. There were 400 people crammed into the store. After a little wait the band came out and played: Home, Sooner or Later, Polyamorous, Skin, and So Cold. Only 5 songs, so that kind of sucked. I started to get real pissed because there was a security guard right in my view and was unable to get clear shot with the camera. Also, during Sooner or Later Ben forgot the words, that was funny. Someone said something about Billy Corgan and Ben started to play “Today” and said when he did that infront of Billy he told him to knock it the f*ck off. When they were done we went in back for autographs. The only sucky part was we could only get 1 thing signed. So, I got my We Are Not Alone CD signed.

2 hour wait and done in 1 hour, but all worth it.

Yesterday was The Point’s annual music festival. This was my forth consecutive year attending. Going in I felt the lineup was not as good as it has been in the past, but there were a few bands that I wanted to see. We got there around 10, but they weren’t letting anyone into the parking lot so traffic was really backed up. About 20 minutes later they finally opened it up and we then waited in line for the doors to open at 11. The way things were set up was really different from the way things were done in the past. There was the side stage near the gates (B), but this time there was another stage behind it in the parking lot (A).

The first band Supercrush was voted into the show by a poll on the website. There were apparently 23000 votes and the band won by just 50. I have no idea who was number 2. But this first band sucked. They were a punk band, which already a minus in my book. Stage (B)

They next band, Shamans Harvest, played on (A). Followed by Adair on (B). Then, The Adored on (A). We didn’t really watch any of these bands. We saw a few minutes of Adair and they weren’t bad. They reminded me of Finch who played Pointfest last year.

It was now about 12:20 when Crossfade came out on (B). They were a mixed bag. They had some really kick ass, hard songs. But they had some that just really didn’t seem to fit in. Mainly the ones where DJ/vocalist was doing a majority of the vocals. He was rapping more than singing and I feel the other guy fits in with the band much better.

Next was a local band at 12:55, moderndayzero on (A). This was their seventh Pointfest with the same band members, but their first wit this current name. They were originally known as Mesh, but there was some really bad Sweedish techno group, or something like that, so they had to change their name and they went with MeshSTL. They did play one sang from their old band,but the rest was new. They weren’t bad.

The next bands preformance at 1:30 surprised the hell out of me, Apartment 26 on (B). They came out with a ton of energy and the lead singer was bouncing all over the place. He even climbed up the stage and came out to the barricade. I only know the one song their had on the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack, which they did not play. But I still thought they were amazing. They really got the crowd into it. People were surfing all over and a few really good size pits took place. Also the Crossfade guys were hanging around signing stuff and hanging around with the fans.

At 2:05 Flaw came out on (A). I know a couple of their songs. They were pretty good. The crowd got into them a lot. And we learned one thing; crowd surfing while wearing a skirt, not a good idea. I’m not saying I minded.

Now it was time for a nice little two and a half hour break. We had no interest in seeing the next four bands; Auf der Maur, Von Bondies, Sugarcult, or Lit. So we went and checked out our seats. They weren’t too bad. We were about 15-20 rows back in the left section. We hung out there until about 3 when we left to go grab some food. Where a hot dog, fries and a soda ran me $12.25 which is ridiculous. We went back to our seats, ate and waited around until a little before 5. We started to make out way back to the 2 side stages when we ran across this fan that blew water. That thing was amazing. It felt great.

At 5 Thornley came out on (B). The lead singer had issues with his guitar, but they got straightened out after the first song. They were pretty good. I feel bad for them though because the next band was Story of the Year, who are a local band, so people began migrating to the other stage where they were playing next. We were not one of them, we stayed for their entire set.

Story of the Year played at 5:35 on (A). This stage was in the parking lot and had a small opening in the fence to get to the stage. We decided to stay on the outside of the gate becuase the crowd was huge. Also my friend ran into a couple people that he knew so we just hung out there for a few songs. Where we saw Ben from Breaking Benjamin. He was making his way to the stage with a few ladies, go Ben. Anyway back to the band. I am not a big fan of theirs, so we decided not to stay for their show. Plus I had already seen them live before.

They were the last band to play the side stages. Now it was onto the main stage.

6:35 Papa Roach was the first band up on the main stage and they kicked ass. This was my second time seeing them live. The first time was way back in Nov. of 2000 on the Anger Management Tour. Coby came out into the crowd during a few songs. They had a lot of energy and just seemed to be really glad to be playing live. They played some news songs that will be on their new cd which will be out September 14. They also mentioned that they will be starting up a new tour for about 3 months where they are gonna play small clubs that hold in the neighborhood of 300 people. So that should be really cool.

• SET LIST (Not in order) I got this from a post on their message boards, so if any of it is wrong don’t blame me.
  • Deadcell
  • Broken Home
  • Last Resort
  • Angels and Insects
  • Blood Brothers
  • She Loves me not
  • M-80
  • Born With Everything die with nothing
  • Getting Away with Murder
  • Done With you

8:00 Now comes the band I was waiting for, Breaking Benjamin. This was my third time seeing them live. The first time was a year ago at the last Pointfest. Then I saw them just a couple months ago at Mississippi Nights where they were taping the show. That show was unbelievable. They played for about an hour and a half. And I was dead center only one person infront of me. Anyway back to last night. They kicked ass as usual. StL loves them and it showed. When Ben asked how many owned the CD, the response was atleast 75% of the people. And there was about 18,000 – 20,000 people there. Ben dedicated the last song to all of us shallowbay.net users, which I am a member. My username on the forums is artimeg. They only had an hour to play which sucked because there was no Tool cover song.

• SET LIST: (In order)
  • Home
  • Wish I May
  • Medicate
  • Water
  • Phase
  • Natural Life
  • Skin
  • So Cold
  • Break My Fall
  • Polyamorous
  • Shallow Bay

Last up was the last show for The Urge. Not well known outside of St. Louis, but they are huge here, because they are a local band. They actually broke up a couple of years ago, but got together for a few shows and decided to do one more at Pointfest. They say they won’t be doing anymore shows ever, but we’ll see in a couple years. They were amazing as usual and played all of their big songs. They were scheduled to play for 1 hour but I knew there was no way they would that long. They played for about an hour and a half, which is well short of their 2 and a half to 3 hour shows in the past.

I guess that’s about it. All in all it was a great show.

Pointfest will be on June 5. Breaking Benjamin will once again be playing. That’s the only band I know of for sure.

Rock on!

Update: The Urge, Story of the Year, Breaking Benjamin, Sugarcult, Auf Der Maur, The Von Bondies, Crossfade, Apartment 26, moderndayzero, plus 11 more to be announced.

Now that was one hell of a show. I got there about 5:30, doors opened at 7. We were the 7th and 8th people to get there. We saw Ben a couple of times he was walking around, signing stuff, posing for pictures, etc. But what sucks is they split the into 2 so some other people got to get in at the same time as we did even though they were in the middle of the line. Anyway we got in at 7 and we straight for the floor. The rail was taken by now because of them letting people in from two doors. So we got behind there two chicks who were on the rail right in the center in front of the mic stand. So, we had another hour to wait for the opening band to come out.

8:00-8:45: Ludo Now the first band sucked ass. They were a Weezer/Blink/Jimmy Eat World wanna be band. The only cheers they got were from a Faith No More – Epic cover and it wasn’t even that good. They had this guy on a keyboard thing, who wasn’t wearing shows and looked like he was going into shock . The lead singer was about to screw his guitar, he kept on stroking the next and humping it. That was messed up. He then started to play back to back with the keyboard player. They needed a room. There were actually a couple of chicks who came just to see them, so the guys next to us let them close to the stage. And then they left. They had never heard of Breaking Benjamin, that’s just plain crazy, but anyway I have talked about them much more than they deserved. Two words: They SUCKED!!!

9:15-10-40: Breaking Benjamin Time for the real reason why everyone was there. This was their second straight show in St. Louis, they also played on Saturday night. Both shows were sellouts and at only 10 bucks you can see why. They call STL their second home and will play here any day, anytime. Which is why they decided to tape both shows and they will be on their DVD, whenever that comes out. Ben said he wants to move here, lol. Well it started with the guy who was taping the show announcing the band. He was also out earlier checkin out the lines. Anyway the crowd went crazy when they came out. Everyone was shoved forward into the railing. I was trying to hold people back so that I would crush the chick in front of me, but that didn’t work out so well. They played everything including 3 new songs. One of which was their new single “So Cold.” There were people surfing constantly. I got an ass in the face once and a shoe another time. I tried to watch the security call out the surfers and watch the show, but that didn’t always work out. It was impossible to move at all in there. The hardest thing was staying up because my feet couldn’t move and getting shoved made it really hard to maintain balance, but I was able to do it. When they finished playing, they threw out the pics and drum sticks and that’s when hell broke loose. Everyone was shoving to get closer, it was crazy. Then, they came out for an encore. There was a drum solo, then they came out and did a Tool cover. After that Ben jumped into the crowed and surfed. They threw out some more pics and I was able to find one that was thrown out, but no one caught it, so I found it on the floor. I will add a shot of the pic later. I was drenched by the end of the show. When I finally made it outside I froze my ass off because I was soaked and the cold air. We decided to wait around a little bit to see if they would come out and sign stuff, but they didn’t.

I guess that’s about it. I’m sure I forgot some stuff, but oh well. It was one of the best shows I have ever been to. It is right up there with Taproot at The Galaxy. I don’t know if I have ever seen a crowd into a band like that before. I can’t wait for the DVD. This was my second time seeing them live. I also saw them at Pointfest last summer. I had 3rd row center seats and caught a drum stick. They were awesome live there too, but this second time was unbelievable.

UPDATE: Had issues with the site, so had to use the cache of my site from google to get this post back.
[Listening to: Sugarcoat – Breaking Benjamin – Saturate (3:38)]