sacto 11/29

[dufftones]

 Table of contents extended and heavier
Your Skull is red
Ride to the Rectory
Mercedes
Bassy soft new song called "fen fen"
Foreign flag no heavy exit
drum instrumental dj shadowish called "crook vs zach"
Ataraxia
Formant with Chino blues guitar solo
Radioheadish instrumental called "march"
Blvd knights
Soft and dreamy song with chino on guitar and a chino solo called "new guitar"
Natalie portman quieter slowdown in the 2nd verse with the heavy ending

Encore

staring at the queen Zach and crook crazy faster
WWI intro
King Diamond w revenge o da nerds intro


So fucking tight!!!!!

[Inkblades]

dope!

[Deftones-argentina]

excellent. I LOVE mercedes.

[Zevaka]

i wanna recordings!!! thanks for tracklisting

[weakcure]

Thanks for sharing the setlist.

ahhhhh, I'm so stoked about this tour!

[pixElsblUr]

tight, very very cool

[White Wrist]

Fuck! Cool as hell!

[goldpony]

thanks for that, fucking awesome

[Deadradio]

Please someone record these shows. Especially if we get a good version like the El Rey show.

[Mikey]

Please someone record these shows. Especially if we get a good version like the El Rey show.

i think the bluebird theater sounds better....
but yeah, we need some audio.

[tarkil]

thanks for that, fucking awesome

[lxix]

Sorry for my dumbness, but just to clear up, Formant had lyrics yeah?
Thanks

PS You lucky fucker!!

[NiChe]

sick. no recordings?

[el perro]

anyone got anything from the first shows? pics? anything?

[weakcure]

Man, I'm really surprised and bummed out nothing's surfaced yet.

[monk]

hey, guys. made it to the show, so here's my review of it.

got to the boardwalk really early, so we just chilled in the car while we watched zach hill wander aimlessly in the parking lot. doors opened at 7:30pm, but the first band didn't get on until about an hour and a half later. one of the stories of the night was an ongoing soundcheck nightmare, creating delays. monster machine didn't show up. the first band, strata, was really boring. second band, sonny, played their first live show ever. they had all kinds of sound and mic problems in the beginning, and were cut off from finishing their set because the whole show was running late. after that, some people in front of us decided to leave, so we managed to get right next to the stage. the crowd started chanting "chino", which was kinda lame. finally, they hit the stage around 11pm. everyone starts going crazy. the new songs sounded awesome. "fen fen" is a very ambient song that has chino on vocals without his guitar. "crook vs. zach" sounded very decibel devils-ish. "formant" was played just like the demo version, without vocals. it reminded me a lot of the red sparowes with all the darkness and landscape video playing in the background. "march" is a really short, yet beautiful, instrumental song that has chino speaking, not singing, a verse at the end of it. "new guitar" is another soft song that kinda reminded me of deftones' "deathblow". there was no encore. the rest of the band usually leave the stage when crook and zach play "staring at the queen". also, they didn't play the intro of "ever since WWI". it was actually the ending of staring at the queen, which had only chino and todd playing their guitars. it was awesome.

all in all, it was a good show. i was disappointed at some of the old songs they decided to play, like "ataraxia" and "foreign flag", but the new stuff more than made up for it.

i did manage to get some video, but a lot of it is too dark to watch and badly shot. i didn't go to the show with the intention of properly taping it like others, so i just took out my camera and aimed it in the general direction of the stage or wherever i thought one of the band members was. sometimes, all you see is the band with no heads or just the ceiling haha. "mercedes" however, came out beautifully and i will upload it soon. here are some pics/screens.

[tarkil]

Good ol' Monk...
Long time we didn't see you around here old man...

Cool to see you're still around...

[Zevaka]

This is just awesome, monk!

[Inkblades]

awesome, monk...ill gladly sit through badly shot footage of any of the new material if it sounds decent...thats all that matters. : )


look forward to hearing mercedes either way...

[goldpony]

awesome monk!