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Story Behind Favorite Artist: Paramore
To be honest, I have no clue how this one started. But I'll make up something.
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So, there I was. It was a cold day. Or maybe it was a warm day. Yeah, it was a warm day but I was covered in ice cubes. It was the weirdest things. Ice cubes made of velcro. They weren't going anywhere. Neither was I. I was hooked up to an internal "alt rock" music station. Which was fine with me. There were some good bands on there, bands like Emery and Blur and Brandtson and Making April and Nirvana. And then there was some girl singing. At this time the velcro stopped working.
There was a female voice. My blood boiled over so much that the velcro lost the fastening hold on the ice cubes and everything started melting. I was so upset. Girls can't sing. They suck. Girls can't be in a legitimate rock band. This band is SWEET. And the vocals are SWEET. This goes against EVERYTHING that I've learned!
And then, oh then, there I was. All the ice cubes were gone and I was left naked in front of the chapel. My sins naked for all to see. My pride had been crushed.
Sure, I was arrested and later released on a bail of $320 dollars. But I heard some great music that day and added Paramore to my favorite artists.
THE END
Story Behind Favorite Artist: Kutless
To be honest, I have no clue as to how I came across Kutless. They were relatively new and so was I. But at the same time, they were all over, getting hype from all angles in the Christian circuit. At the time, so was I. So it made perfect sense that we were to find each other.
I remember the first song "Again" and I remember digging it. I saw an old music video, maybe an interview, maybe a sampler, maybe heard them on a show. Something wild like that. Then they put out a CD that got major hype. I bought it and I was like "eh." It was "Sea of Faces" and it was okay, but not great. Then they did "Strong Tower" which I avoided because I got duped. Then they put out a worship CD which I avoided.
Then came their latest "Hearts of the Innocent" and I heard songs and hype and it reminded me of their first release. So I bought it and am pleased with it. Probably my favorite CD of theirs. Back to their roots, their roots of Not Sucky Music combined with some good old-fashioned rock and biscuit.
Sorry about this one, it makes no sense and is lame. Sorta like you. Hmm..........
Story Behind Favorite Artist: subseven
subseven (which means below seven) is a band. Actually, that's not true. They WERE a band, as they fell victim to the "Split Band Curse of 2006" in which THOUSANDS of bands have broken up this year. What a joke. What happened to artists staying together?? Apparently that's a thing of the past.
Well, these guys earned a Fave somehow. So let's begin.
Their music came out on a CD sampler from Flicker Records that my friend got for free. We played it in his car and hated pretty much all of it except for the following bands that we had never heard of: Kids in the Way, Staple, and subseven. So we thought subseven must be pretty cool. Then at Sonshine that year, they were on the list and playing a show. We ran over to their stage after one of our favorite bands (I forget who) and saw the end of their set but it was sweet. I remember distinctly being way up to the front and watching the lead singer's neck veins pop out, get replaced, and pop back out again. He might have died that day. They were screaming, rocking out, and their mosh pits were punching me in the face. It was a good time. I got the EP but never bought the CD when it came out. The EP was good enough for me. I combined that EP with the Acceptance EP that came out around the same time. That's fun news.
Peace.
Sonshine Festival 2006
Well, there it was and there it came and there it went and it's gone. Here is the list of bands that I saw, most of which are found right here on PV. Great times.
==THURSDAY==
Gretchen
John Reuben
Thousand Foot Krutch
==FRIDAY==
House of Heroes
Pillar
Calls From Home
Fireflight (CHECK THIS BAND OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE -- AMAZING)
Staple
Spoken
Kids in the Way
Skillet
Relient K
==SATURDAY==
Dizmas
Sanctus Real
Disciple
Stellar Kart
Run Kid Run
And for what has become an annual tradition: The Mosh Pit Story. Except this time there are two of 'em.
The first one is at the Thousand Foot Krutch show. TFK is rocking it out as well as they should be, and there is the usual mosh pit up front going on. Nothing too bad, this is a Christian festival after all, but kids get wild sometimes. And it's not a Christian-only festival. So a couple people near me look behind them, not a big deal. Then a couple people in front of me turn around and look behind me. I'm into the music, as well as I should be, but people looking behind me have me curious as to what is going on. Somebody cool back there? Well, going on behind me is a mosh pit. I didn't know until I turn around and a kid comes spinning right at me and NAILS me in the face. Punches me in the left cheek. The face cheek. Not on purpose, his hand just kinda flails out and hits me in the face. Hurts more from the surprise than anything else, but it's still pretty weird. Afterwards, we laugh about it. We being the two kids I went with for the three days.
The second one is infinitely better and it might replace the security guard shoving me two years ago as my favorite mosh pit story of all time. We're at the last show, Run Kid Run. They are playing indoors for some ungodly reason. All the bands that play indoors play EXTREME HARDCORE music. Like, the music in there BLOWS. It is pretty awful. So when Run Kid Run gets up there, a band that plays punk rock, the usual crowd doesn't know what to do. "What is this?" the kids ask. "Is this actually MUSIC?" Yes kids, yes it is. So anyway, we got there well before RKR sets up, so we are close up front. I am behind the two kids I went with. When RKR starts, the crowd goes wild as usual. When Run Kid Run starts the chorus of the first song for the first time, the kids, oblivious to the fact that this is not death metal, do what they do anyway: start moshing. It makes no sense, but kids will be kids. So I'm there seeing a mosh pit to my left and saying to myself that I need to watch my left side. A little later I see a mosh pit to my right. Kind of odd, but anything can happen. I just need to protect both my left and right sides.
Then, I have what can be described as a LIGHTBULB MOMENT. Looking back on it, it's one of the funniest lightbulb moments of my life:
There isn't one mosh pit to my left and one mosh pit to my right. There is simply ONE huge mosh pit And I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
The lightbulb goes ding and I now have .02 seconds to defend myself from the spinning, angry mob. After a while, I manage to work myself out of the pit, but not until I hit some people and get hit in return. What a wild ride. Haha.
Love you guys. Hope you still love me after all of these years.
Story Behind Favorite Artist: Skillet
Okay, so, is Skillet even a band anymore? Like so many other bands I come across, I am usually there before anyone else. I know most people say this, and I obviously do. What I am doing is building up my pride, see. We all do it, whether by demeaning ourselves or by building ourselves up. Anyway. Skillet.
"I ate chicken dinner with John Cooper!" I remember this quote because I said it to rub it in my friends' faces and also because I screamed it at Sonshine one year and everyone looked at me weird. I then proceeded to shove sand into my eyes.
I got into Skillet I believe because of my friend Double A. It was way back in the day, maybe I discovered them by myself, maybe not. Back when Spirit 93, the radio station my father works for, was cool, they played Skillet all the time so maybe I heard of them from there. The first song was "Hey You, I Love Your Soul" and then it just kept getting better and better. Skillet was one of the fifirst bands I ever downloaded music from illegally. I hope they are proud of me right now.
Skillet solidified their place in my Immortal Hall when they played a show IN MY HOMETOWN (which is very rare, sadly) with my at-the-time-favorite band 38th Parallel. I was pretty much there for 38P and rocked out so hard for them, but then Skillet came in the lights went on and off and they put on a laser show with some crazy keyboard rock and I was transformed. John Cooper, the lead singer (who eats a mean chicken dinner) was and still is so PASSIONATE about the music that it is a sight that is incredible to behold.
Skillet has changed so much over the years, and it's been a fun ride. From wacky keyboards to plain rock, to their last album which was ridiculously hard almost metal rock, they know how to continually rock the faces off of the alien youth. Amen.
subliminalxo
Hi Tim! It\'s been way too long since our last
conversation. I hope you have a spectacular new year :]
posted Dec 31
Broken Chance
Hahaha niccce socks!!!!
posted Feb 01
no longer using this profile
so hows it going
posted Dec 20
subliminalxo
i miss you!
posted Dec 17
indieroben
haha hey watsup. sorry...i havnt checked my purevolume
in forever....i am alive and well though, thank you for
caring....i see you are as well, thank god! probably
hot lives on! yessssss... ;)
posted Dec 06
subliminalxo
Timmy! My favorite! xo
posted Nov 24