YTSEJAM Digest 7136 Today's Topics: 1) SYL concert review by Mike Shetzer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:36:34 -0400 From: Mike Shetzer To: progressivemusicsociety@yahoogroups.com, Ytsejam Subject: SYL concert review Message-ID: <001501c54527$dbe5aab0$9b00a8c0@mizz> --Boundary_(ID_TKB/777yU3/RgG86YQn3eg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT For the lazy... here's the gist of my night last night. "Holy monkeys... that was a crazy concert. HevyDevy himself was a lunatic, with warp speed picking, spine tingling screams, and greatly humorous lines like "if snot were money, i'd be a ten-ionnaire!" or "we're strapping young lad, you're you, what more is there to say?" or "we're strapping and you're not! shut up!", while monster drummer Gene Hogland is a man-beast of ungodly speed and precision. They played mostly material from their newest release, Alien, but a few songs from their old CDs which I unfortunately do not own. A performance worthy of earplugs and a sanity check! Two out of the three opening bands, Agony Scene and Misery Index were pretty good, but what took the cake was the incredible first opening band Reflux, from Washington. Picture if you can, a short drummer who plays with Virgil Donati style precision and acrobatics, a jeans-and-hat-clad bassist who plays Les Claypool-esque tapping, sweeping and slapping, and a tall, built guitarist who shreds like Michael Romeo and has a great array of effects to add magic to the music. Combine this with a musical style similar to SYL plus a bit of hardcore, emo, neoclassical, thrash and prog metal, and you have these guys. Absolutely blew me away... I ended up rushing to buy their CD, and I rarely do that with opening bands. Check them out here... http://www.refluxsound.com " From my site http://www.angelfire.com/music5/sandman --Boundary_(ID_TKB/777yU3/RgG86YQn3eg) ---YTSEJAM FILTER: Rest of message skipped because of attachment ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 7136 ************************** === Contributions to ytsejam: ytsejam@torchsong.com === === Send requests to: ytsejam-request@torchsong.com === === More information at: http://www.dreamt.org/local/ytsejam.php === === Brought by the ghost of ytsejam@arastar.coms past === === Reach the owner of this list at: ytsejam-owner@torchsong.com ===