Forum.RttP{Crisis @ The Palladium 9/16 with Soulfly and more gay bands}

the acacia strain: they were added to the bill at the last minute cause of ill nino allegidly getting into fist-t-cuffs with max and exiting the tour quickly. how much of that is true, I don't know... I do know that ill nino is one of the few bands that I've shot and then didn't post the pictures. anyhow, TAS got the opening slot so they only got to bang out 5 songs. 4x4, smoke ya later, and some others. people in the crowd (probably brando) were yelling for BYD songs like "mosh and roll!". while I thought this was hilarious, TAS didn't play them, but it was funny. hey are still looking for a drummers? any takers? just to warn you that you will be following in drum-steps of mark (exBTBAM, current BYD).

twelve tribes: so I went to one dredded event instead of the other. they played a bunch of tracks from the new cd. I didn't realize that there is so many almost rapping parts on the cd. Oh well, it's well done and just on the border of what I can take as far at "rappy"-vocals in hardcore. The screams remind me a bit of BHBS cause they sound great and you can clearly understand everything.

crisis: having never seen then when they were a band back in the 90's, this was my first time seeing them. I'm not really about the new stuff. it's got a lot more cleans in it, but live karyn can't seem or doesn't try to get them to sounds like the cd. on the other side, her growls are much much better live. I noticed a lot of echos on the vocals too.

soulfly: there was a bunch of new songs at first, which I don't really like so.. umm.. I snapped a bunch of pictures and at this point I had to stop and go to one of the side balconies. Some guy behind the stage, sent one of the staff up to tell me to stop shooting so I did. 5 minutes later I was being taking to backstage to explain why I was video taping to someone (who I think was max's wife).. which I wasn't doing. the staff there was very night nice dealing with the people with soulfly, seeing as the soulfly peeps didn't seem to know what was going on. anyhow... they went into some sepultura songs and the "future" of music who I can only assume was max's son came out to sing on the first sepultura song. I was a little bit let down cause the drumming on refuse/resist was just sampled! though brought out some drums for a bunch of people to play, but 2 songs after refuse/resist. guys were pulled from the crowd and 12 tribes and crisis members got up and played drums along with them. they covered nirvana and it was the best song they did that night. though in the middle they tried to get the crowd to chant..good cover none-the-less.