You forgot My Own Savior. I have the set list. Only song not played was Watching Over Me.
As for the band? Come on dude. I have video footage. They were sloppy as hell. I was front row center the entire time. Troy was cheating with the picking patterns by alternate picking instead of copying Jon's stuff. His leads started out fine, but got progressively sloppier. He didn't even learn certain leads (Colors is a good example). Even Jon was off at times. ALL of Matt's screams were way higher then necessary. The band became unlocked several times. That's what happens when you play 4 shows a year. There is no room for growing on the road to lock into one another and become the beast it needs to be. I saw them 2 years ago, same lineup, in the midst of a full on tour. They sounded ten times better. They were even choreographed. This, as fun and exciting as it was, was sloppy.
Part of the issue is re-using the same musicians probably led to people being tired. Sons of Liberty sounded better then IE from a technical stand point. Which is too bad, as I snored through most of Jon's rants. If they were just playing with less banter and the message was optional, I'd have been more into it. That being said, I dislike the entire project a lot less now. The live renditions were superior to the album tracks.
Jon was in high spirits. He was a god-damn nut! Must've took his crazy pills, as he was all hopped up. Even a the end, he was all smiles and laughs. Cracked a joke about making sure Freddie plays on the new record, to which he responded that he won't, but he'll put his picture in the booklet anyway
Turns out Freddy lives an hour from me. Gonna have to hook up with him and hang out at shows. Setting up a stable of local musicians to make guest appearances on my bands debut. Think he'd be a good choice.
Matt seemed tired and not in all that great of a mood at the meet and greet. Interesting, as he was the only member who didn't have to do 2 sets. Strangely, Jon looked surprised when my friend mentioned the National Anthem Nascar youtube clip of Matt singing. I just blurted out "you didn't know!?" and it got laugh. I would've thought that as bandmates and brothers in law (and patriotic nuts that that information would've been shared
They didn't skimp out on the freebies though. Free shirt and flag. Didn't cost me a nickle, as the tix were won my friend through his fanclub membership.
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