Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mushroomhead and Hed PE Knitting Factory Spokane Wa

8:18 here way late. Bad cold, tired. Just shitty. But looks like mushroom head is up next.
9:20 have you ever been inside the new master piece? Worth the 9 years of waiting to hear this song live.
9:47 the one thing about wanting to see something for so long and from a band that mainly tours the midwest and east coast it can go extremely well or be horrible. Let me just say MH was fn amazing. They did not disappoint. When they came out they were compared to slipknot being called second rate. That is in no way true, they put a lot out for the fans giving us there all. The lead singer even stage dived into the crowd. When was the last time you saw Slipknot do that? 99? Great fucking performance and the mosh cleard my sinuses. He'd Pe coming up
10:29 HED PE! What?!
10:34 oh ah we want some hed ohah we want some hed!
10:56 "Hed Pe isn't just about choking a bitch and slammin her head into the head board come bitch come"

Final Review - So In all I have to say I really enjoyed the show as a whole. Mushroomhead by far being the better of the two bands. I like Hed PE and they have good crowd interaction. But One thing that will always annoy me about a band and really makes me less interested in their show is bring up politic and world conspiracies at a rock concert. After they played a few songs from their early albums and then started bringing up where the world is going 1 world economies, aliens, etc. I really lost a lot of interest in the show.

Mushroomhead though, great vibe. They kept coming at us with more and more energy in each song ensuring the crowd was still with them. A thing about a band that contains 8 members is making everything they do sound good together. With a Guitarist, bassist, drummer, 2 percussionist, a Keyboardist and 2 vocalist it's a lot to fit into a song.

I really did enjoy though the two secondary percussionist, they were on either sides of the stage playing on drums that appeared to have strobes below them that went with the drum hits. They kept in time with each other and was very synchronized. In songs that didnt have the additional percussionist they did various things such as an additional keyboardist or running around on stage with a camcorder, which according to the band this performance was broadcasted online which I will need to locate and post.

I think given a little more time to really catch up on new Mushroomhead Songs, sadly most of the songs I knew and was able to sing-a-long too were off their first CD and from soundtracks I purchased. Oddly seeing Mushroomhead in Spokane, Spokane was were I found a used copy of the first release of the Mushroomhead (Approx 10,000 copies of this CD were printed before being signed). I think their newer stuff has gotten a little edgier but also a little more solid, given that more time to really listen to the songs I would love to see them in concert again. I hope that the do tour the west coast again because I know normally they do only tour the midwest.

Anyways, pictures from my phone during the show are below. I'm currently uploading my Pics to Picasa now from my camera. Next Show is Taproot this Thursday in Kennewick. Then off a couple weeks til Coheed and Cambria in Portland first week of May.

Full Video of Mushroomheads show courtesy of The Knitting Factory Spokane - Here is the Setlist

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