rocket skates
birthmark
engine no. 9
be quiet and drive (far away)
my own summer (shove it)
digital bath
knife party
korea
hexagram
minerva
bloody cape
you've seen the butcher
sextape
prince
diamond eyes
cherry waves
feiticeira
elite
change (in the house of flies)
passenger
encore: root, 7 words
knife party and korea were very unexpected treats, and greg puciato from dillinger escape plan accompanied chino on passenger. perhaps my favorite moment of the show was chino incorporating katy perry's firework into 7 words, captured so wonderfully here at 2:40:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy3ffXjXN8I
i don't know how chino's voice hasn't completely gone out the window after all these years. the whole band did a terrific job and seemed to really be having fun.
i ended up enjoying dillinger escape plan a lot more than i was expecting to as well. while i'm not crazy about their music on cd, ipod, blah whatever, it translates well in a live setting. i don't think i've ever seen so much energy on stage before. they're absolutely insane! their lead guitarist, ben weinman is a madman. he constantly swung his guitar all over the place, including a full 360 over his shoulder somehow. at one point he monkey barred over the crowd on the track lighting, and he also crowd surfed while playing. the singer, greg jumped into the crowd during one song for some moshing. this ended up being good for me since i was in the middle of the crowd about 50 feet from the stage. the place went nuts when he jumped in, so in the confusion i followed him back to the front of the stage where i got a front row seat for the deftones.
the venue, the sonar, in baltimore was interesting. all standing, kind of looked like the first floor of a parking garage. pretty standard $5 beer/$3 water. the show sold out, so the place was packed. never before have i been so immersed in human sweat or come so close to passing out from being crushed, dehydrated, and sharing a small amount of air with hundreds of other people (though meshuggah came close). i was completely soaked and exhausted at the end of the show. i spent $30 on a deftones t-shirt just so i'd have something else to wear on the ride back. the drive their and back was a nightmare. didn't make it home to blacksburg until 5:30 am the next morning. probably the last time i solo an overnight show. i don't like going to concerts alone, but in this case i don't think i would have been able to get so close to the stage with another person(s). the crowd was very friendly and well-behaved (aside from getting kicked in the head by a few crowd surfers), so i didn't feel too alone. the security there was awesome; very relaxed and helpful.
as far as gear goes, i saw stephen use his esp 7-string with the pictures of the company's employees all over it, the black 8-string, the green 6-string, the pink, black, and white camo 6-string, the black tele, and the white tele. he may have used others, but his guitar switches were so fast it was hard to keep up. he had his effects bank selector and volume pedals at the front of the stage and his effects pedals behind him. he was plugged into the PA so his amp wasn't on stage. chino used his red sg and a black orange cabinet (didn't see the amp head). sergio had two tall black orange cabs (didn't see any amp either), and one pedal board that he kept towards the rear of the stage with his mic. i thinked he switched back and forth between two fender basses. i got a picture of jeff tuttle's (dillinger) pedal board as they were packing it up. it's huge!
rock on,
z
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