At the Gates Suicidal Final Tour 2008

Boys,

Wow, what a night on Sunday!
A band that needs no introduction is, At the Gates reuniting for the first time in 12 years, to do their last show in Los Angeles at the Fonda Theater. The lineup was as follows: Municipal Waste, Darkest Hour, Repulsion, and At The Gates.
Municipal Waste blew everyone away with their party attitude, I love these guys. At the Gates joined them on stage, last song, for a chorus of "Municipal waste is gonna fuck you up!" Next was Darkest Hour, a band I have seen a few times. I don't know what it is, they don't do it for me. Guitar player is pretty good, but songs don't stick for me. Next was Repulsion, a band from 20 years ago, they were grinding as hard as ever, very cool to see them! Then was the headliners, At the Gates: they ripped with perfection through a setlist of 75 minutes and ended almost at 12:30. It was astonishing and an honor to see them play. The crowd was crazy, bodies flying everywhere!! Highlight of the night was Johnny met Anders Bjorler ('hero of mine', The Haunted, At the Gates). Coming soon in Sept., The Haunted album coming soon called Versus, please be on the lookout. See pics and until next time!!

Horns you bastards!!

J13

ROCKSTAR MAYHEMFEST!

As you all know, Big Pipes was here about two weeks ago and the main show we went to was the Rockstar Mayhemfest out in San Bernadino, CA.! After the Disturbed tour bus stopped in Pasadena to say "Hi", we followed them out to the gig. It was a beautiful day and having VIP access was going to make the event all the more amazing. Here is the bands:

Motocross team The Metal Mulisha

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

• Slipknot
• Disturbed
• Dragonforce
• Mastodon
• Five Finger Death Punch
• Airbourne
• 36 Crazy Fists
• UnderOath
• Machine Head
• Walls of Jericho
• Black Tide
• Suicide Silence
• The Red Chord

Pipes and I were Rockstars, got invited onto the stage to check out the rigs before the gigs. Dragonforce was great, loved seeing the Guitar Heroes up front and close. BUT DISTURBED, blew us away. It also helped getting to meet Dan Donegan(from Chicago) and getting to talk with him for a few minutes. What a damn day, it was burning hot, but Pipes and I were fine in the VIP area, quite nice there! Anyway, everyone please check out the pics, setlists, guitars, and basic debauchery!

MORE PICS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST!

J13

Testament & Judas Priest

Last night I took in Testament and Priest, when I heard Paul Bostaph was on drums I had to go! Testament opened and played a 45 minute set and their energy level was astoundingly high as this was the last stop for them touring here with Priest. Today they left in the wee hours onwards to Minneapolis, USA to hook up on another leg of touring, eventually joining the Metal Fest tour dates and will be playing into late August when Testament's touring ends. If you should be so fortunate to get to see them you won't be disappointed!

As for Judas Priest what else can I comment on that you might have not already heard? Priest still delivers an outstanding show and played many classics along with some songs from his new concept cd. His vocals are still spot on Amazing! They had a great stage show, lights, lasers, smoke and very colorful! I left halfway through Priest's show to catch up with Testament by their tour bus to get some autographs.



Paul Bostaph of Testament pitched 2 drumsticks into the crowd at the end of the show, the second drumstick literally bounced off of someones head and twirled towards me. The guy in front of me loosely caught it in his chest, but however in football rules that is still ruled fair game so I snatched it away immediately! Hehe.

Horns up fuckers! Big Pipes!