Megadeth is badass / I Love Hurley’s
Posted by Skrud at Saturday, September 3rd 2005 at 3:20am
A very busy day. I got up early, I went down to Concordia and got my 1337 bright-red Frosh Leader polo shirt. I helped set stuff up – Aaron and Louis did an awesome job of manning the CCSS booth. After leading around a Froshie tour group, I stuck around with Phrook for some beers… then this really heavy thick rain hit, and we went in to save the DJ booth. The tent actually snapped. And I mean the aluminum supports itself, not just the joints popping out. So we held that up until it cleared up a bit. Then a few more beers, and off to the Bell Centre for Gigantour.
We missed Bobaflex, and we only Symphony X’s last song (which is a shame – but I’ve seen them five or six times so I’m not fretting). Fear Factory played Edgecrusher and Replica, so I was happy. Life of Agony (at least I think it was them) sucked. Why the hell did they play after Symphony X? Boo. Nevermore was and always is sweet, but they didn’t play old enough stuff for me (I’ve been a Nevermore fan forever, they were the first real metal band that I got into). Dream Theater is spectacular live. But I was really only interested in the songs I knew well (Pull Me Under and The Glass Prison were the only ones I recognized). I mean, I love Dream Theater, but I really have to be in a certain mood and frame of mind to truly enjoy and appreciate them.
Megadeth was totally badass. I love Megadeth. Their show was totally 80’s thrashish, with the headbanging longhaired band members (yeah, it’s tough to find nowadays) and ripping solos throughout. Megadave, James (the bassist), and the two Canucks (Shawn & Glenn Drover) performed extremely well. Again: badass. They were filming for the Gigantour DVD tonight, so I’m hoping we’ll see A Tout Le Monde live in Montreal on that. Seriously, there is probably no other city that takes to the three lines of French lyrics like this one. Megadeth puts on a killer show.
After the show, Josh and I went to Hurley’s to meet up with Laura & folk. We also found Jim (who lives at Hurley’s) and had a couple of pints with him. The band playing celtic folk stuff was (as always) fucking amazing. I really have no idea why people never want to go to Hurley’s whenever I suggest it. I love that place. Hopefully Josh now agrees. I guess I just need Gill and Ed to come back into Montreal. I know they’ll appreciate it. :D
Damn fucking right, Hurley’s kicks ass. I wish I could have come to Gigantour but ah well, at least you had a good time.
Hell, I wish I’d known you were going to Hurley’s after… I was at home sitting on my ass all night. :P