Oopooth / High on Fire / Nachtmystium /r/ollcall?[views:17172][posts:112]the Palladium (Worcester, MA) - [high_on_fire][nachtmystium][opeth][randomshots] ______________________________________ [Sep 19,2008 9:31pm - the_reverend ""] high on fire: this band sort of grew out of the same period as mastodon, but never left the relapse family for higher ground. They play "simple" rock out songs that feature not only collective themes, but also some fast strumming complex guitar parts while the man, matt pike showboats around the stage, pointing at invisible things in the sky. Some of this facial expressions and antics look like jack black took them and caricatured them into his personal. When they started off, the sound was mixed terribly. It slowly got more balls, but still wasn't as good as nachtmystium, just louder. Watching the drummer, even the drums are "simple", but so good. They also ended 5 minutes late... Hm... |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 19,2008 11:45pm - DYA / NLI ""] Fucking trust this shithole to start on time for once so I miss Nachtmystium. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 19,2008 11:50pm - the_reverend ""] besides festivals, they are almost always on time. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 19,2008 11:51pm - DYA / NLI ""] I can't find Conservationist ANYWHERE. LOL |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 19,2008 11:57pm - the_reverend ""] opeth: they sounded amazing. Even if I had no idea who any of the guys were besides mikael. Might be the same bassist with short hair and with out the fancy head sways. He's short with the right sort of tattoos, but no longer looks like one of the ancient ones from the dark crystal. I think his name was mendez. The most fun person to shoot on stage was the keyboardist. Headbanging and wearing a discharge shirt. Win-Win. The band started off pretty dry. It took them about 4 songs to get into it. At that point, mikael had more back and forth with the audience. He even played a teaser cover. I don't know what it was. Missed what he was saying. I basically was just waiting for bleak. That song was awesome. Though I noticed a lot of the lead's were different that he played and he did/couldn't hit the higher notes. Not sure why, but he sang them flat. After that we got another talking session. Another treat too, mikael doing the robot. "you only want to hear that cause it's long. it's shit, but it's long" I listened from a distance and left right before the encore. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 12:00am - the_reverend ""] _____ [Sep 19,2008 11:51pm - DYA / NLI ] I can't find Conservationist ANYWHERE. LOL I thought of him cause of the gay opeth logo and goatcatalyst homo'd me up with a watain flyer and he didn't even have the common curtesy to giive me a "no homo" |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 1:14am - the_reverend ""] pictures |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 1:57am - DaveFromTheGrave ""] Hoser kicks ass. I met him and he bought me beer tonight, and he's a straight-up solid dude. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 1:57am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] [img] |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 2:03am - the_reverend ""] DaveFromTheGrave said:Hoser kicks ass. I met him and he bought me beer tonight, and he's a straight-up solid dude. That is the truth. he plays the ignorant red neck and all, but that dude will get drunk it makes his night to talk to you about cannibal corpse for 2 hrs. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 2:05am - the_reverend ""] I looked at that picture and thought "Someone's got the showing off the tattoo pose". I think it's neat that after 20+ years of people about to legally get a tattoo, you decided on a sleeve that you really wanted. one bad thing about hoser is that he's always sitting in gum. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 2:05am - the_reverend ""] and I knew dwyer was wearing that shirt cause I read about it on the internets. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 20,2008 2:08am - Murph ""] AUTOPSY_666 said:[img] Ha. Dwyer and the other guy look serious, and the guy in the middle (if that's Hoser) obviously gets the joke. I think I see dick. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 2:19am - the_reverend ""] hoser's nuts! that's dave from the grave on the left. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 20,2008 7:48am - aril ""] DYA%20/%20NLI said:I can't find Conservationist ANYWHERE. LOL I remember telling a few people he was there last night and they believed me for a split second. I think it was FuckIsMySignature but I can't remember. |
| ___________________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 10:25am - DaveFromTheGrave ""] It would be funny if my name was Dave Dwyer. |
| _________________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 11:17am - DestroyYouAlot ""] You look like Rik in that picture. [img] |
| ________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 11:17am - Hoser ""] Hahahahahaha...that's my Dad's name....no shit. Anyhow, had a great time with you heathen fucks last night. My balls enjoyed your company as well; I talked to them this morning. They seriously said that. Dave...you are a righteous dude. Rev, you're still righteous. Dwyer, you didn't talk to me much but I'll assume the same seeing as you're in a picture with me and my ball. Had a blast...nice to get back to the pavement once in a while. I have to go out and cut some wood for the cold months ahead. So until later...later. |
| _________________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 11:17am - DestroyYouAlot ""] And Hoser has a lovely nutsack. |
| ________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 11:18am - Hoser ""] Thanks man...I am rather fond of that nut. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 12:46pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Hoser said:Dwyer, you didn't talk to me much Honestly, I wanted to hang with Jenni and watch OPETH and you seemed busy chatting it up with the crew around the bar. Usually chat on the sidewalk after, but we just bolted right after it ended. Hoser seems nice enough. :NEWHORNS: |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 5:48pm - neverpurified ""] the_reverend said:opeth:At that point, mikael had more back and forth with the audience. He even played a teaser cover. I don't know what it was. The cover you're thinking off was "soldier of fortune" by Deep Purple, they did the entire song when they played at Berklee 5 years ago |
| _______________________________ [Sep 20,2008 7:59pm - aril ""] They played Soldier of Fortune in Providence during the Damnation tour as well. Porcupine Tree / Opeth |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 8:26pm - the_reverend ""] deep purple is a band I've always meant to get intoo, but I never remember to |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 8:32pm - neverpurified ""] aril said:They played Soldier of Fortune in Providence during the Damnation tour as well. Porcupine Tree / Opeth that was the tour i was referring to |
| _______________________________ [Sep 20,2008 9:11pm - Hoser ""] Jeeeez thanks Dwyer. Nah, you looked really into the show and the babe you were with. I didn't want to bother you with that "we have the same last name" crap. Anyhow, it was fucking cool meeting you guys. Dave, my wife thought you were the balls. She's a sucker for blonde dudes. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 20,2008 9:13pm - Hoser ""] I also got to see my good friend Paul CNV. Fucking great seeing him. Back in the day we hung out almost nightly, but until last night, we probably hadn't seen each other in well over a year. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 9:40pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Yeah, I bumped in to Paul CNV too, fun seeing board people in real life. Hoser, was that your wife dropping the vicious ass-bombs stinking up the place? Oh, and my friend Marsi said she has a doctor named Dewire. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 9:52pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] [img] |
| ________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 10:07pm - Hoser ""] AUTOPSY_666 said:Yeah, I bumped in to Paul CNV too, fun seeing board people in real life. Hoser, was that your wife dropping the vicious ass-bombs stinking up the place? Oh, and my friend Marsi said she has a doctor named Dewire. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....no that was me. My buddy is still talking about the bombs that I was dropping. I had that section of the bar cleared for a bit. |
| ________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 10:08pm - Hoser ""] Are my balls really that tan? I feel like ricki martin. |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 3:17am - DaveFromTheGrave ""] Hoser said:Jeeeez thanks Dwyer. Nah, you looked really into the show and the babe you were with. I didn't want to bother you with that "we have the same last name" crap. Anyhow, it was fucking cool meeting you guys. Dave, my wife thought you were the balls. She's a sucker for blonde dudes. chicks dig the viking look. Still, all the good girls are taken. |
| ________________________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 10:31am - IllinoisEnemaBradness ""] the_reverend said:deep purple is a band I've always meant to get intoo, but I never remember to poser |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 10:37am - the_reverend ""] hoser needs to get those light pixels looked at. |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 11:47am - dreadkill ""] first time i've missed opeth. i was exhausted so i skipped it. :( |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:35pm - goatcatalyst ""] What a fucking night. Too bad it ended with some botched Spiderman antics and my ankle broken in 3 places. My new friend Hydromorphone is keeping good company. Fuck my life. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:40pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] You were friggin' hammered! |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:43pm - DaveFromTheGrave ""] fuck dude. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:49pm - goatcatalyst ""] Yes.Yes I was. I'd call it a "personal best" kind of evening. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:54pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] [img] Camo hat chick = way fucking hot. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:55pm - slymo ""] damn Nachtmystium cancelled the rest of the tour, that sucks. |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:56pm - DaveFromTheGrave ""] thats her boyfriend with his arm around her, Dwyer |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 2:58pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] I know that, she's still hot though. |
| ________________________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 3:24pm - MikeofDecreoitude nli ""] I'm still trying to figure out why kids thought they were at a Hatebreed show when Opeth was playing. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 3:26pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] OPETH brought the SLAMZ! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 5:32pm - the_reverend ""] can we please let the boys be boys? |
| __________________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 9:07pm - DaveFromTheGrave ""] dude that definitely looked better before, when it was just overexposed then again, I'm used to looking really really really really fucking pale and white. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 9:55pm - DyedAbsinthe ""] Nachtmystium I thought was good, but only saw half their set. High on Fire I napped on the railing through ... they just didn't do much for me. I'm so glad that Opeth played The Night and the Silent Water, as well as Bleak and Serenity Painted Death. Great setlist overall. The fake out cover was Soldier of Fortune by Deep Purple; they did that as a bonus track on Ghost Reveries. He also played a small riff from a Camel song earlier than that ... not sure what song it was, though. As for Mikael singing the higher notes flatter, he said something about, "having a bit of a rock n' roll voice tonight" - maybe he was sick? Eh, it was still fucking amazing. "Those pants ... smell like piss, shit, vomit, cum and more piss; and we're only like four gigs into this tour." Haha. Good ol' Akerfledt crowd humor. |
| ________________________________ [Sep 21,2008 11:21pm - sigh ""] So apparently Nachtmystium dropped off the tour after the Worcester show. Wonder what went down. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 22,2008 7:05am - Troll ""] sigh said:So apparently Nachtmystium dropped off the tour after the Worcester show. Wonder what went down. Perhaps they ran out of eyeliner and faux worn denim?!? [img] |