Ting Ho Dung Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 The singer keeps enticing them to make it bigger and then unleashes them like the Scots against the Brits in Braveheart. The venue where we will see them is small and there will be nowhere to hide. He apparently does this at every show. I'm definitely fearing this.
Steve Haynie Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 Last year the singer from Exodus was trying to get a an east vs. west mosh going on while he was safely on stage. Fortunately the audience was not moshing too hard and was good about picking up anyone who fell. Anthrax encourages moshing at every show, while safely on stage. Unless you are in the first couple of rows/layers or off to the side or back of the floor you are either going to be dragged into the mosh or feel the moshers bumping into you. Many elbows have accidentally hit my back at shows. A crowd surfer accidentally kicked off my glasses once.
Ting Ho Dung Posted September 13, 2016 Author Posted September 13, 2016 1 hour ago, RobB said: The singer is an idiot. It's Rock -n- Roll 44 minutes ago, Steve Haynie said: Last year the singer from Exodus was trying to get a an east vs. west mosh going on while he was safely on stage. Fortunately the audience was not moshing too hard and was good about picking up anyone who fell. Anthrax encourages moshing at every show, while safely on stage. Unless you are in the first couple of rows/layers or off to the side or back of the floor you are either going to be dragged into the mosh or feel the moshers bumping into you. Many elbows have accidentally hit my back at shows. A crowd surfer accidentally kicked off my glasses once. There was a time when I'd be right in there. Sometimes I still get the urge. But I'm sure I'd get hurt now which I don't want to do. My Chiropractor would have a hissy too since he's been putting me back together. Maybe @zorrowcould interpret for us what he's saying.
MCChris Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 Always one of the more interesting homoerotic rituals in our culture.
zorrow Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 I'll have a listen! BTW, Gojira RULES!! \m/
Ting Ho Dung Posted September 13, 2016 Author Posted September 13, 2016 9 minutes ago, MCChris said: Always one of the more interesting homoerotic rituals in our culture. Is that where they get the expression, "Rock out with your cock out?"
zorrow Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 The singer says: ARE YOU READY FOR A WALL OF DEATH? x 2 Make some room, step back, step back a bit more, please step back, step back... We'll show them how we do things in France! ARE YOU READY!? (to the left side) THIS SIDE, MAKE SOME NOISE!!! (to the right side) THIS SIDE, MAKE SOME NOISE!!! (to everyone) MAKE SOME NOISE!!! SO WE DO LIKE THIS!!! (The song starts)
LucSulla Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 I saw Gojira at Stubb's in Austin with Kvelertak and Mastodon in fall 2014. You'll be fine. Here in the States there are way too many hipsters and old dudes going to their shows for anything like that to happen.
zorrow Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 I saw them here in Montreal. They did try that. It sort of worked, given the crowd here gets wild when the artists speak in French. But it wasn't that intense and I could avoid getting sucked into it. You shouldn't worry too much. Rock'n'roll is for everyone!
scottcald Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 Can't wait to hear guys who do the Cookie Monster vocals to see if they can talk in like 15 years.
LucSulla Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 2 hours ago, scottcald said: Can't wait to hear guys who do the Cookie Monster vocals to see if they can talk in like 15 years. Mikael Akerfeldt in 1998 Mikael Akerfeldt in 2016 If anything, most of them lose the ability to do harsh vocals before it starts affecting everything else.
geoff_hartwell Posted September 14, 2016 Posted September 14, 2016 Drummer is sick nasty. Sextuplet double-bass at a tempo that is especially awesome when you see him scratch his chin at 00:47. I LOL'd the first time I saw it. http://youtu.be/3vDSThxlIVc
Ting Ho Dung Posted September 26, 2016 Author Posted September 26, 2016 Got tix and headed to De Land to get Brandon in the morning and then to Tampa to see Gijora. Wish me no injuries.
Never2Late Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 Sick of It All used to do this, too....no fatalities. Only fatalities I'm aware-of were at a Smashing Pumpkins' show "back-in-the-day".....
zorrow Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Ting Ho Dung said: Got tix and headed to De Land to get Brandon in the morning and then to Tampa to see Gijora. Wish me no injuries. No worries, bro. You'll be OK and you'll enjoy it. Those guys are really awesome live. The band is tight as hell. \m/
Steve Haynie Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 Gojira just played Asheville. There were no deaths reported.
velorush Posted September 27, 2016 Posted September 27, 2016 On 9/13/2016 at 1:42 PM, zorrow said: ...the crowd here gets wild when the artists speak in French.
Ting Ho Dung Posted September 28, 2016 Author Posted September 28, 2016 Oh my god! Tesseract was awesome. I've never heard so much bass. 2 seven string guitars and a bass. The singer was the original who reminds me quite a bit of Chris Hall who is one of my all time favorite singers. The entire band was here this time and they always bring their own FOH guy so the sound was intense, loud, and crisp. We chatted with the bartenders before the show and they asked us if we brought our earplugs and I said, "Do we look like we use earplugs?" I almost wished I had but then got over it. No moshing during Tesseract and I saw Security remove 4 people for trying. One thing I did notice though, no hot chicks. You know how at most shows you have chicks who dress the part and when they walk by they do it in a way that says, "Yeah, I'm here." Also I've never seen so many slump-shouldered, round people except at something like a Comic Con. or a reptile show for that matter. Also a lot of people around us seemed to know each other. Tix weren't cheap @ $37 and beers were $10 each. Gojira was incredible as well though I was lost most of the time as I have not heard very many of their songs enough to recognize most of them. The singer played some sort of white Tele, headstock shape may have been Fender, with 2 hums. The other guitarist played a Jackson(?) pointy V. They sounded like they were in standard tuning compared to Tesseract. Whether they were or not I couldn't tell at that time. They were really tight and Brandon said he was surprised at how many early tunes they played. Apparently they are mellowing a bit and changing up their style on their latter efforts. I also don't care as much for the earlier stuff so is probably why I didn't recognize a lot of it. The lead guitarists has a strange picking / scraping / sliding, technique Brandon says is Gojira's signature. Anytime you hear it you know it's Gojira. I found it a little annoying and overused. I knew of one song where he did it but didn't realize it was in so many songs. There was no way Security was going to stop the mosh during Gojira, was the talk around the urinal between sets. And sure enough, they just stood in the crowd and watched. They also toweled off the floor where people slipped and fell. I know, because, after enough liquid courage, Brandon and I jumped.
Ting Ho Dung Posted September 29, 2016 Author Posted September 29, 2016 Mama wanted a picture of us before the show. lol
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