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WOLFMUNCHER
Age: 17
Location: America!
Joined On: Feb 27, 2006
Occupation: Wolfuncher
Website: http://MySpace.com/dj_hoops
'There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza; but I've been complaining about it for so long, there's little hope of it ever getting fixed... But for the sake of novelty and sentimentality, I'll grow to love my bucket's imperfections, rather than taking action myself. After all, without character and defining holes, what is my bucket compared to so many others? No, I believe the hole in my bucket just may be a blessing. Praise be to God for allowing the rust to overtake my bucket and make it so original amongst so many other average, common buckets! Or perhaps I'm so full of it that nothing I ever say is truly coming from my heart anymore. This bucket I once feared the worst for has completely overtaken me. Dear Liza, please help me. Dear God, please help me.'
Bands I've Seen Live:
Jonah the Furious (8)
Kavatica (6)
A Study in Scarlet (6)
Between Hope & Faith (5)
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (4)
The Mirror Conspiracy (4)
Shepherd of Souls (4)
As I Lay Dying (3)
Haste the Day (3)
mewithoutYou (2)
August Burns Red (2)
Emery (2)
Blessed is He (2)
Once Nothing (2)
Relient K (2)
The Classic Crime (2)
Jonezetta (2)
The Glass Ocean (2)
Miyamoto (2)
Second Chances (2)
More Than a Movie (2)
Total Savage (2)
Run to the River (Your Daddy's Revolver) (2)
Amden (2)
Drasco (2)
And the Sea Will Tell (2)
The Avenue (2)
xDEATHSTARx (1)
Thieves & Liars (1)
Still Remains (1)
mychildren mybride (1)
A Plea for Purging (1)
Burden of a Day (1)
Children 18:3 (1)
Currents (1)
Flatfoot 56 (1)
Trenches (1)
Spoken (1)
War of Ages (1)
Sleeping Giant (1)
With Blood Comes Cleansing (1)
Mortal Treason (1)
WrenchintheWorks (1)
Demon Hunter (1)
For Today (1)
The Devil Wears Prada (1)
Gwen Stacy (1)
The Red Baron (1)
Destroy the Runner (1)
The Network (1)
Norma Jean (1)
As Cities Burn (1)
underoath (1)
As Hell Retreats (1)
Life in Your Way (1)
The Wedding (1)
Showbread (1)
lifestory:monologue (1)
The Monkees (1)
Switchfoot (1)
Gray Lines of Perfection (1)
Main Line Riders (1)
Take it Back! (1)
Skillet (1)
The Glorious Unseen (1)
Haceldama (1)
We Shot the Moon (1)
Penny for the Old Guy (1)
Alcina (1)
Alesana (1)
Awaiting Fate (1)
The Sleeping (1)
Before Their Eyes (1)
In Fear and Faith (1)
Catherine (1)
Highway Magic (1)
As Bound With Them (1)
From Autumn to Ashes (1)
The Blood Reckoning (1)
Impending Doom (1)
Means (1)
Sore Eyes (1)
Castaway (1)
Name Taken (1)
Men to Monkeys (1)
Three Dog Night (1)
An Hero (1)
Walking Faceless (1)
For All Those Sleeping (1)
Cold Under Texas (1)
Horizontal Orange (1)
Hawthorne Heights (1)
Putrification (1)
One Dead Three Wounded (1)
Evergreen Terrace (1)
Piebald (1)
Scary Kids Scaring Kids (1)
Days Away (1)
Whitechapel (1)
So She Sang (1)
Prosovere (1)
Bleed the Dream (1)
June (1)
Several Others...
You can also add me on MySpace, VIRB, & Trig. Dig it.
Haste the Day/From Autumn to Ashes/Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Concert (4/10/07)
Let me begin by saying that if you missed this show, you missed an amazing, awesome, incredible concert. With that descriptive intro, we begin.
I will admit that I did not fully appreciate the time I had to prepare for each band. I went into this show knowing very little about the openers, Alesana. I thought they were just another emo/screamo band much like Hawthorne Heights or SKSK. I was fairly wrong. While we were waiting outside, I heard one of the bands warming up, and I picked up on one of the highest-pitched screams I had ever heard. Once Alesana started, I was immediately impressed by their vocals. Three of them could scream, and two of them had incredibly high vocals. What impressed me though, was that they actually put on a very intense show. Their lead vocalist was all over the stage, and kept up his vocals in the process of jumping and moving like crazy. Their style was, in fact, very screamo-emocore, with clean vocals thrown into just about every song. The only real drawback to their performance, was that one of their guitarists was wearing makeup, and basically freaked everybody out during the show. But, nonetheless, they still managed to play a very good show.
I will now admit further that I had the next band, The Sleeping in my mind as an soft rock/emo band. My friend Matt told me he had heard thatthey were more of a Blindside-esque style, and I didn't believe him until they took the stage. When they started playing, they immediately reminded me of the late Staple. With an impressive live show, I was starting to really like them. The vocalist even managed to get a circle pit going, which is next to impossible here in Memphis. Besides engaging the crowd, the music was fairly tight, and I would have like them much more if not for the vocalist's constant use of the s-word. Such overused phrases as "Let's move this **** up front!" and "Let's get this **** going!" seemed not only unnecessary, but very hollow.
Next up, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. Undoubtedly one of my favorite live shows, let alone favorite bands, Maylene took the stage with their style and southern... charm? Vocalist Dallas Taylor stated that being here in Memphis kinda felt like home because they hadn't been in the south for so long. They played some of the songs off of their new album II, but still played several of the older crowd favorites. The show ended with a bunch of kids getting on stage and singing along. (Shortly after which the security guards cleared the stage.) If you ever have the chance to see Maylene live, I highly recommend it.
Following Maylene, a pretty well-known band named From Autumn to Ashes took over. I was a little disappointed in myself for not at least giving myself some material to go by before seeing them live, but I was admittedly getting some of my first tastes of them live. They said that it was their first time in Memphis, and that they were really glad to finally be here. Frontman Francis Mark said that since they hadn't played here in seven years of being a band, they had to cover lost ground. They did so by playing some old favorites, which I wish I would have known going into the show, but I was unprepared. They put on a pretty good show, although there weren't really any standout moments.
Last up was Haste the Day. I have seen them live once before with their new vocalist Stephen Keech. Now, with the recent release of their album Pressure the Hinges he had some of his own material to work with. I was surprised though, because they played mostly old songs, and relatively few new ones. The crowd was pumped, and it was almost the same sort of show as the last time I wrote about. The same kids, the same band, and almost the same songs. That is to say, and incredible show. They also told everyone that Jesus Christ loved them, and to talk to them after the show about it.
If you have a chance to catch this tour, please do. If you want a night of good metalcore, emocore, and post-hardcore, you will want to drive to see this show. While not the most spiritual uplifting of tours, it was still a great time of music.
THANKS SO HARD TO:
Eric, Jacob, Matt, Rachel, Josiah, Jeremy, Barb, Joel, Stacy, Haste the Day, and Natalie.
-Daniel
Haste the Day Concert (9/09/06)
This was one of the greatest shows I've ever been to (line-up speaking.) Before the show we got to meet Haste the Day backstage. Two of my friends got free shirts. I was defeated by Matt in the semi-finals round of a Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament. I got a couple of pics, and then we went back to the line. Destroy the Runner started the show. They were amazing! You know you're seeing a good tour when the opener is great. August Burns Red was up second. The dancers found their step, and the crowd suddenly realized how many people were there. They put on an awesome show, even though they said nothing of Jesus, they did pray before-hand. Scary Kids Scaring Kids was next... They were an emo band in the vein of Hawthorne Heights. I didn't like them. Then, last but NOT least: Haste the Day came up. They told people that Jesus loved them, and to talk to them about it. Their new screamer (Stephen) was a different style than Jimmy, but he was still very good. They put on a great show, people went crazy, people had to be carried away. I saw a guy get smashed in the face. Scary, hahaha.
All together it was great. I'd do it again any time.
THANKS SO HARD TO: Haste the Day, Matt, Josiah, Jacob, Jacob, Eric, Joel, Stacy, Jeremiah from Destroy the Runner.
As Cities Burn/Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Concert (8/12/06)
Awesome show. Sorry if you missed it. The first band, Amden was your tipical local band... (heheh) Jonezetta put on a really good show... Way better than the Complex show... Maylene and the Sons of Disaster played the best show... The crowd got really into it. (Even though Dallas's mic went out half-way during the first song.) But after they fixed it they finished the rest of the show without a hitch. As Cities Burn went up, and they rocked... But unfortunately their sound wasn't mixed very well, so it was a little too much "noise." I'm sure you know what I mean. The lead singer/guitar for Jonezetta (Robert Chisolm) played bass for them... I don't know why. Even with that one kid who thought that it would be great to jump on everyone, towards the end of their show they let a guy named Jeremy come up; and he tought the Word! It was awesome. Then after their whole set, they stood around and played a little bit of a musical "I love You Lord, and I lift my voice; to worship You, oh my soul... Rejoice!" It was great... I sang along. So, you missed a lot, oh yeah "thanks" time!!!
THANKS SO HARD TO: James, Josiah, Jacob, Ben, Natalie, The Bands, and that little kid who got into the music (and crowd) better than anyone else.
I figured I may as well have a blog!
I'm glad you're reading this, because it means you cared enough to see what the crap I had to say; and I thank you. Even though I don't really have much to say, I'll try to make this worth your while... Go ahead and add any (or all) of the bands under my favorites. I promise that you won't be disappointed. I have pretty good taste, at least I think I do... Ha, God bless everybody!
-Daniel
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
Lets not be hasty here! Purevolume shut that down
somehow! I didn't do asnything. When they changed the
site it was shut down. Freaky. But lets not get mad at
your dear ol' Captain James here!
posted 3 days ago
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
Oh! and I only have one account. Just changed the name.
ONCE!
posted 4 days ago
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
Ley me short a long expelation. My family didn't have a
big enough pocket book, some crap appeared that we had
to deal with. So in other words i would have SO! gone
and I would have brought one of the pastors from Saline
too but he couldn't go because of the same crap that my
family and Jeff's family id goning through. But also
mainly. Money. Tahts a facter. I'm really sorry though
that we didn't accompany you. it would've have been
turely an amazing event. I mean seriously! I haven't
see you in a like a freakin' year! So yeah how was it
anyways?
posted 4 days ago
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
DUDE WAKE UP AND SPEAK TO ME! YOU MUST WAKE UP! I'M
BORED!!!!!!!!! W!A!K!E! U!P!!!!! COME ON! SPEAK! OR
TYPE.
posted 6 days ago
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
He's been busy. Job and all. he gets on at rare
ocassions.
posted Apr 13
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
um end may to 13th of june. I've been cool. I think
maybe I'm learning.* (*first youth retreat I was on you
said I would learn)
posted Apr 04
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
Thats cool. Um I was wonderin' if you know when? Cause
this year I may not come due previous engagements. So
all the details you can muster would be
cool. Besides the hair pulling stress that creating
a youth retreat makes, how have you been?
posted Apr 03
Venice Surf Skull and Crossbones
Because Something went wrong in the lab and I died but
then was resurected and thus called Somebody in the
Near Future. So whast shakin' with the youth retreat?
posted Mar 31