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8/12/2010

This was a solo show for me, I almost didn’t get a ticket since I had seen Primus a couple of times in the 90s and Les Claypool and his various bands since then. I really like old Primus and didn’t care much for Les’ side projects. Damn I am glad I made this show, Les FUCKING ROCKED HE IS THE BASS GOD!

So the show started with Dead Kenny G’s, which I missed, I guess they went right on a 7PM and I got there about 7:40PM. The 1st 1/3 and last 1/3 of Red Rocks was GA so I found a spot with some people on row 13 and waited for the next act to start.

Gogol Bordello came on at 8:22 and played till 9:36. They were entertaining and sounded OK, except for the lead singer. I couldn’t make out any of what he was singing, wasn’t sure if it was English or Yetish. Most of the crowd was into them and was dancing and singing and enjoying it. Maybe I just didn’t get it because I was there solo and the guys next to me were metal heads and only there to see Primus. They made the statement multiple times how much Gogol sucked.

Next was the main event PRIMUS (Primus Sucks!!!) with Jay Lane on drums, Larry "Ler" LaLonde and guitar, and of course Les Claypool on vocals & bass. They came on stage at 10:12, played till 11:45, then took a break and did a single encore (~3 songs in one) from 11:48 – 11:57. While I LOVE Red Rocks I wish this show was at a smaller venue since I know the crowd\pit would have been awesome. I think everyone enjoyed the show but there is only some much dancing you can do in a 2’x3’ space.

Setlist (from setlist.fm)

1. Pudding Time

2. In The Flesh (Pink Floyd cover)

3. Here Come the Bastards

4. Behind My Camel (The Police cover)

5. Groundhog's Day

6. Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers

7. Golden Boy

8. American Life

9. Big in Japan (Tom Waits cover) (with Gogol Bordello)

10. Over The Falls

11. Drum and Whamola Jam
Les came out with an ape mask on (original 84-90 name of Primus was Primate) and a one string bass contraption w/ a handle at the top that adjusted the tension on the single poor string. Les then proceeded to beat the hell out of that string and with one string played better bass then

12. Eleven

13. Jerry Was A Race Car Driver

14. Over the Electric Grapevine

15. Harold Of The Rocks w/ Stairway to Heaven excerpt

Encore:

16. Tommy The Cat / The Awakening / tease in bridge

· Les said he played The Awakening when he was 17 years old during lunch in his high school cafeteria. He said it was the most awesome thing he had done up to that point and had a 17 year old hard on for the next week. Old youtube video of him doing it.

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8/11/2010

Social Distortion Rocked

Wednesday was the Social Distortion show. I had an extra ticket and traded it to “Tattoo” Adam, who owns Electric Tattoo in Longmont. I’ve been meaning to get my current tattoo (amethyst/purple dragon) touched up and maybe some other work done. Adam, who is a huge Social D fan and even has some of their lyrics tattoo on him, and I left Longmont and got to Boulder about 7PM.

The first act was The Action Design, the female lead singer was attractive to look at, but her voice was piercing and a bit annoying, she also played keyboards a bit. The bass player stood out from the rest of the band. Didn’t care much for this band. Next up was [The] Dan Sartain [Band]. They had a rockabilly sound and the singer sounded a bit like Brian Seltzer. Enjoyed this band much more than the first, they also got the crow going a bit.

Finally was Social Distortion, Adam & I moved right down to stage left; there was only one person in front of us. The place had really filled up by now (sold out) and we made our move right after Dan Sartain got off stage. Since I’m not a big Social D fan I don’t recall what songs they played (pinged Adam on this point) and this show isn’t on setlist.fm, but I enjoyed the band and really enjoyed the pit. The band didn’t have a crazy stage show, just the basics singer/guitarist (Mike Ness), 2nd guitarist (Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham), Bass (Brent Harding), and drums (David Hidalgo, Jr). They had great energy, sounded good, and the crowd was into it. After a few songs I moved into the pit, which has slowly been building. Social D is more mellow punk but with enough energy that you have to move. I stayed on the edge of the pit most of the time, by a couple of women who were very appreciative of me blocking most of the pit from the; they thanked me a few times. When I did get into the pit it was all fun, no one was being violent or overly aggressive. So much show that you could weightless float around the pit, just slowly start falling backwards and bouncing off whoever you fell into and going in the direction they pushed you next. So the pit was mellow, when compared to any of the ones at Mayhem Fest, with a mix of slam dancing, solo dancing, and floaters. The two women I was standing my would occasionally get in and grabbed my arm a couple of those times, so we went around the pit a few times together and apart. At the end of the show I got the redhead’s number (I can’t resist those crazy redheads!). The encore song was Ring of Fire.

Partial set list from Adam, not sure on order and missing some

1. Prison Bound

2. The Creeps

3. Another State of Mind

4. Reach for the Sky

5. Making Believe

6. Don’t Drag Me Down

7. Under My Thumb

8. Ball and Chain
Encore

9. Ring of Fire

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7/23/2010

Heading out on another long riding trip, NCTR 500!

Leave today for a seven day riding trip. My riding group (NCTR) are starting out with 3 days around Ridgway\Ouray area, then moving further SW to Rico area; both in the San Juan National Forest. In total we riding six days with one down day. We will be doing mostly single track riding and I’m really looking forward to this trip. So no updates for a week.

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7/22/2010

Chic Rock, Alt Rock, Metal, Blues, and Electronica

Music is good, it does the soul good, and dancing/moshing relives the negative energy in be. Wednesday 7/13 was Lilith and that was a good mellow show, too bad I didn’t get there early to see more of the bands, but Sarah was worth the $10. Saturday 7/17 I went to The Dead Weather (MySpace) (set list) @ The Ogden, Jack White’s latest band. The show was sold out and pretty crowed but I worked my way down onto the floor off to the right some. The band put on a great rocking show and glad I got to finally see Jack. Don’t recall anything that stood out from the show, but it was good. Sunday was Mayhem Festival had had a good time there moshing and getting the negative energy out that seemed to be in me lately (post on Mayhem). Monday I went to CA for the day for business. Tuesday went to see Johnny Lang, who Moreland & Arbuckle opened for, at the Gothic. M&A were very good, they are a 3 person band, and played southern rock\blues, I got a CD before I left. Johnny was smoking as always. I think the first time I saw him was in the mid-nineties in Atlanta, when he was 15. I’ve seen him a couple of times with Gov’t Mule and\or Allman brothers and at least one other time solo. He is an amazing guitarist and singer, his facial expressions and body language alone make him worth seeing too! I ended up going with a friend, who also went to Lilith with me.

Last night was THE SHOW of THE WEEK/year so far, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (set list – blank currently) and Lords of Acid (set list – blank currently) @ The Ogden. I ended up parking right by Chrissy’s apartment and gave her a ring. We hadn’t seen each other in weeks and ended up catching up, stayed there till about 9:15PM. When I got to the Ogden TKK hadn’t gone on stage yet, I assume there was a band before them. I went right down in front of the stage, the place wasn’t packed. There were a lot of women at this show and one very hot goth chic, which of course I had maneuvered to be by her and her other attractive friends. When TKK came on the crowd started moving and everyone was having a great time. A small pit broke out and I stayed on the side lines most of the time, occasionally jumping in; as did this goth chic. TKK put on a great show, sounds was pretty good but not perfect but I was there for the crowd more than the sound. LoA topped TKK! The band, sound, and crowd all were better. I enjoyed this show more than any of the others this past week and maybe this entire year. It was that good! I didn’t bring my phone in so no pics or notes. During “Pussy” and I Sit on Acid the band let a bunch of women on stage, which were flogged, spanked, and were allowed to molest the band members. This one lesbian was all over the other female since and had some fun with Lacey Conner too. Great show!

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7/18/2010

Mayhem Festival

I mainly went to Mayhem Festival mainly for Rob Zombie, but got to mosh too many more! I had planned on getting there around 4PM since I had assumed all three stages would be going about the same time. I also had several things to do before I left for the show. I ended finding a post of the Mayhem Festival forum that has the full scheduled. The two side stages were setup side-by-side and as soon as one band got done the next started. So I ended up leaving earlier and getting to Comfort Dental (Fiddlers Green) Amphitheatre around 3PM. I met up with Bethany and her friend was buying my extra ticket. The line going in was long as hell, but her friends tipped us off about going around the main line to the other entrance and that saved us at least 30 minutes of waiting! We went to the main stage\only stage normally and met up with her friends who had a good spot on the lawn. I did some greetings and then headed out on my own. Originally this event was going to be a “date” with Bethany when we first talked about it a couple of months earlier, but this was now a solo event for me. Metal shows (or any for that matter) aren’t really a good date event anyways. Being solo at a metal show makes it a hell of a lot easier to get to the pit and not having to worry about losing your friend. Once I left the group I headed right to the side stages and was able to work my way in front of the stage into the put during Winds of Plague. It was in the high 90s and I was wear pants, I knew I would be moshing and went for safety vs. comfort, and a black shirt (style vs. comfort), so it was pretty hot and I stayed on the edge of the pit. I ended up going back and forth between the two stages and seeing Chimaira, Atreyu, 3” of Blood, Hatebreed (set list); with Hatebreed probably being the best. I then headed to the main amphitheater area and sent a txt to Bethany to find out where they were. The entire place was PACKED by this point, sold out show with 15K people, and it took a while to get over there. Where they had been sitting had turned into a mosh pit area, on grass at a ~30 degree angle. So this was a bit of an odd pit. I got there at the tail end of Lamb of God (set list) and moshed a bit during Five Finger Death Punch (set list). Between those bands I grabbed a beer and purchased a couple of T-shirts. I went to my assigned seat and rested up for a bit. Rob Zombie (set list) then came out and like always put on a HELL OF A SHOW! He had major pyro setup, with flames in sync to the music and even colored, huge LCD screens with zombies, 50s, and House of 1000 Corpses movie clips playing on them. The band sounded really good too, the acoustics in the seats are much better than further up on the lawn. We, Bethany friend was in the seat next to me that I sold him, headed back up to find Bethany and friends after a few songs and I hit the pit again until the end of Rob. Once Rob was done I said goodbyes and headed out, I had a 8AM flight the next day and had to get up around 5:30AM.

Overall I really enjoyed Mayhem Fest and like the double stage setup and Rob was the highlight of the night.

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7/13/2010

Lilith last night and several concerts this week

Went to “Lilith” Fair last night, got the tickets for $10 without any service fees even and seeing Sarah McLachlan alone was worth that. I had an extra ticket, yet again, so I sent out a mass txt to six friends\semi-friends. One of them, whom I’ve done a few group things with, was interested, so we met up about 6:30PM and headed to the show. She was working still about 6 and couldn’t meet earlier so we missed some of the other bands, but we did catch the tail end of Ingrid Michaelson and all of Emmoylou Harris. The night was great, perfect temperature, great view of the mountains, and a nice evening sunset and sky. Unfortunately Comfort Dental Amphitheater has bad acoustic up on the lawn; this is the 3rd time I’ve been here and all 3 times the sound wasn’t good. But Sarah still put on a great show and it was worth the $10.

Next week I have: Sat: The Dead Weather, Sun: Mayhem Festival (Want to see Rob Zombie, Korn, Hatebreed, & Atreyu, just SUCKS it’s also at Comfort Dental Amphitheater since there is nowhere for a good pit and I could really use a good mosh pit to get out some frustrations), Tue: Johnny Lang, Wed: Lords of Acid & My Life With the Trill Kill Kult.

Monday I have to fly to CA for the day, 8:10AM flight out and get back at 11:11PM. So next week is going to be busy.

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7/11/2010

Around CO for ~$2,800K

Well I got back Sunday night around 7PM after doing 877 miles around CO. Unfortunately this adventure is going to cost me close to $3K. The bike slid out once in loose sand when going around a tight corner, I was only doing a few miles an hour so it wasn’t much of a crash. But it was enough to damage one of luggage bags on the bike. Then when going over Tincup Pass the other luggage bag hit a large rock outcropping when going down a steep part which then caused me to drop the bike again, this was the toughest section of the ride. Given that the bike weighted 410lbs dry + me (160lbs) + 3 luggage bag (hard plastic and maybe 50lbs each) that’s over 700lbs which made it very hard to control when going downhill, the near street tires didn’t help at all either. This damaged the other luggage bag, front crash guards, and scuffed up the paint some. The 3rd, “trunk” bag, one broke off on its own, the plastic brackets gave way from the vibrations of the dirt road and rocks I guess. Well each of these bags cost $400 + $150 for the busted brackets. So the rental place is charging me the max damage deposit of $1,500 and the bike cost $740 for a total of ~$2,300. FUCK! For that amount I could have purchased a bike and resold it and still come out ahead.

Minus the huge amount of money this trip cost (close to $2,800, including hotels, repairs in Crested Butte, and flat tire repair in Craig) it was still a good, not great trip. My riding buddies were two brothers, one of which I worked with at a past company for several years. The whole trip it felt like we were in a rush to get to our destination, which we were to some degree since each day we got in between 6-7PM. Both of their bikes also had much more aggressive tires on them then my rental, I had gotten advice on tires from someone at the local ATV\bike shop and it turned out to be bad. So they were able to keep their speed up much more in the turns, since we were doing dirt back roads most of the time there were a lot of loose turns, it fell back in the turns but was able to catch up in straightaways. So this caused me to have to push the limits of the bike/tires and my skills to keep up. We also rarely stopped for pictures and stayed in hotels each night, @$100+/night. By the time I met the guys on Wednesday they had already ridden ~2,000 miles and had camped most nights. So I can understand why they were over camping, it also rained VERY hard one day in CO, and were ready to just get the trip over with. The one day we got really wet we got rained, hailed, and snowed on; so I nice warm bed was really welcome that night.

The best thing about the trip is that I got to see a lot more of CO and realized I MUST get out on my street bike more often. I was also refreshed with my love for the Crested Butte area, which we rode though. The bike I rented was great on the hard packed dirt and asphalt and was a lot of fun when on those surfaces. I would have much rather done the trip at a much more leisurely pace and just camped when it was time to stop for the evening. The whole trip was beautiful but the best areas were in NW CO with Tincup Pass (12,154) have the top views; I’ve been up their camping multiple times in the past. The other passes we went over were Kebler (9,980), Buffalo (10,300), and Cameron (10,276). The towns we rode though were: Trinidad, La Veta, Gardner, Silver Cliff, Cotopaxi, Salida, Tincup, Crested Butte, Rifle, Meeker, Craig, Baggs WY, Steamboat Springs, & Longmont. I have lots of pictures from the other guys and some of my own I need to go though. Once I do I’ll add a link here.

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7/7/2010

Heading out on my CO dual-sport adventure

It’s been a busy last few days, had our annual July 4th block party on Sunday and ended up going to bed about 4AM. It rained later in the evening and most of the party moved to my house, where I have pool, Ping-Pong, and darts, games were being played till well after 3AM. “Someone” let off fireworks, which are highly illegal in CO, around 11PM (video here). Pictures from party, not many.

Right now I’m leaving for a dual-sport ride from SE CO -> W CO -> NW CO -> WY -> Steamboat then back to Longmont. I’m meeting three friends today who have been doing the Trans-America Trail since July 1st. When we get to Longmont Sunday they are leaving their bikes at a friend’s house and then flying home. Sometime next week a bike shipping company will then be shipping their bikes back. My shoulder is a bit sore and I’m sure the BMW F650GS is going to be much better for it then my WR450.

I’ll do a post after I get back on the 11th.

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6/30/2010

Block party tomorrow

Tomorrow is our (700 Gay St) big July 4th block party, the street will be barricaded at 9AM and we will start setting up the grills, tables, and such around 11ish with music starting about then too. This year we are putting the DJ and equipment on my porch, MD~ will be DJing with me backing him up. Since I have pool, ping pong, and a dart board at my house I’m sure it will be the place for adults to hang out, drink, or smoke up away from their kids. Not sure where we will be setting the kegs up yet. If this party is like most it will start getting busy in the late afternoon and peak around 10PM with the diehards, like myself staying up until 4 or later to get donuts for the cleanup crew in the AM. Normally around 100 or more people come by, neighbors from nearby blocks and friends of friends of friends.

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6/27/2010

Pikes Peak Hill Climb and Shadow of Rockies ride finalized

Spoke to my buddy from Atlanta, who is riding with his brother and two other friends from MS to AK, then one friend is turning back in AK, and the other three are continuing to Trinidad, CO (SE corner of CO). I’m meeting them in Trinidad and one of them is taking my truck and his bike back to my house then flying home the next day. The other three of us are then continuing our dual sport (80% dirt road) ride from the SE corner of CO to the NE corner, then heading east back to my house in Longmont. I’m meeting them on July 7th and we leave the next morning and hope to be at my house by the evening of July 11th. We will be doing roughly 900 miles, mostly dirt\4x4 roads and cross multiple passes in CO. I had planned on riding my WR450 until I realized it was now going to be four days and ~900 miles. So I’m not renting a BMW F650GS for $140/day, which comes out to being a couple of hundred more expense then putting saddle & tank bags on my WR450 but a lot more comfortable! My buddy is still working on finalizing the last few details in CO. They leave MS on July 1st, so getting close to go time. Looking forward to this trip some, but not as much as the five day trip I’m doing with my riding group the end of July. We will be covering 500+ miles but 70% of these will be nice tight and technical single track. Hope my shoulder is up for this, it’s still sore and very weak…

Saturday I headed up near Pikes Peak to go camping and to be closer to the mountain the next day. The initial spot I planned to camp is now private land with some odd name on it. I ended up going up to Rampart Range and going down a dead end 4x4 road until I found a nice sport. I then setup camp and had a couple beers while I cooked dinner. I also started a camp fire, didn’t really need it but I brought the wood so better to burn it and enjoy a fire then hauling in back. When I go camping I try to make sure I’m not near anyone else so I can let my dogs run wild (which they prefer to do). This trip was no exception. I had just finished cooking my steak and Jake & Elwood (my dogs) came up and Jake had a (dead) rabbit in his mouth. I guess he wanted meat for dinner too. I took away the rabbit from him and finished eating. The next morning I got up about 4:45AM and drove to Pikes Peak.

I got to Devil’s Playground around 6:30AM, made breakfast, and then took the dogs for some rock climbing and hiking at ~12,600’. Dogs had a lot of fun running and climbing, they both love to climb stuff. Came across a small glacier and hiked to where we could get on top of it and got them chasing each other and playing on it. By now it was 8 something so headed back to the Playground area and tied the dogs up to a cable nearby and started watching the race. I enjoyed the race and took lots of pictures, but this was the 1st year I went solo and it was pretty lonely and a bit depressing seeing everyone else chatting and having fun with their friends. I had pinged multiple friends, include several who live nearby, but everyone was busy. I guess I need to make meeting more people and making new friends a higher priority.

Killer video of "Moster" doing the hill climb this year

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