January 4, 2008The Unseen @ Warped Tour, Columbia 2007
The Unseen performing @ The Vans Warped Tour, Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia MD 07.25.2007
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December 17, 2007Viva Hate @ Alex's Bar, Long Beach 2006
Viva Hate performing @ Alex's Bar in Long Beach, CA on 10.22.2006
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November 4, 2007Misery VS The Wall Of Death, Part II of IV
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Misery VS The Wall Of Death, Part I 7:00 PM 10.28.07: I fly out of the grocery store to the cab, get in, and start trying to regain some sense of acceptance that I will in all likelihood be missing the very band I wanted to photograph, and am using the funds I'm supposed to be paying towards keeping the electricity on in my house to get down to the show, anyway. But how can I NOT photo Sick Of It All after HOB goes and gets me permission to do it??? They cancelled their West Coast tour earlier this year after Lou (Koller) was sidelined with severe back pain from a ruptured disk (I can totally relate), after missing the chance to photograph them when they opened for AFI in January (THAT was a GREAT show... especially when AFI's crew (Smith and RJ) came flying out of backstage and dived into the crowd during one song; and Andrew's head-walking to sing onstage with Davey during AFI's set was legendary before he even had a chance to get home from the show) So I sit, in the back of dark cab, and try to be zen. This lasts until I get down to the part of the 15 Fwy going through Rainbow, and directly to my right off the shoulder are 5 firetrucks and flames leaping into the sky. Passing it, it looks like a structure fire, not one of the wildfires that were still burning in San Diego County at that time. The cabbie looks uncomfortable. Then I notice that both sides of the road are BLACK, and the smell of smoke and fire floods the car... but I can't see enough in the dark to see what the damage is (I would get chance on the way home). Eventually, that passes, as we get closer to the city. Then the guy starts asking "Do I turn here?" every time we approach an interchange. I'M NOT THE DRIVER!!! THAT"S HIS JOB!!! I know enough to stop him from landing me in Oceanside, but I start getting really nervous. 8:40 PM 10.28.07: The nervousness is justified when he breezes past every ramp and looks to be on his way to Mexico. Viva Hate is done and Madball is on stage. Okay, we can get to the 5 and right into Downtown (I have map, once I'm in downtown, and know basically where it is from years of going to conventions in that neighborhood). I give him the map. He looks at it upside down. His ceiling light is broken, so we're trying to read the map by the light of cell phones. I notice the 5 is ending and he took the wrong off-ramp. "Is this it?" he asks... I look t the huge sign announcing that he's driving into the Navy port (complete with NO U-TURNS sign and security checkpoint with armed men) and tell him, "Um, no." He stops in the middle of the entrance, makes a (bad) U-Turn, and then passes up the ramp to get back on the Fwy he just accidentally left and strikes out on a surface street "looking for the highway". I point him towards the 5, knowing if we could get back on it it would go down into Downtown. He TURNS. I point out we're by the docks. "The docks?" he says. Yes, that's what they have all those ginormous cranes and ships right there. I look ahead and see what looks like cars traveling down a ridge line and realize I'm looking at the Coronado bridge. Then we hit a dead end. Cabbie turns AGAIN, but starts going in the right direction. I point out the 5 onramp. His cell phone rings... he's chatting away "No, actually I'm in San Diego right now", as he PASSES the onramp. At this point, I can SEE the buildings Downtown. I point out we missed the Fwy. He looks confused, starts to turn AGAIN (away from the buildings) so I start gesticulating wildly directing him to GO TOWARDS THE BUILDINGS. YES, THERE. THAT'S WHERE I"M GOING. THE BUILDINGS. He goes towards the buildings. Slowly. 10.28.07 9:00 PM: Accepting the low bidder on a flat rate to San Diego definately had it's drawbacks... and that's all I'm going to say about the remainder of the trip... 10.28.07 9:10 PM: I'm at the HOB box office and they've given me a contract to fill out and sign before I cn pick up my photo pass... my vision is so fuzzy I can't tell what half of it says... I think I my have signed away my first born male offspring to Disney in return for being able to photograph a band in their trademarked establishment (the main issues seem to be that I might get their building/interior in the background of my shots.) I check off boxes, initial points, and sign my life away... and they take the form into the back to be approved and countersigned... ...then bring me back two tickets and a butt-ugly blazing pink sticker with "PHOTO" written across it in black magic marker and "Property of House of Blues" in fine print along the bottom. I hope that's refering to the sticker... I go up to the door and wait for security to finish searching and "wanding" a few people ahead of me. When it's my turn I start to show them my camera bag but they see the pink sticker and just wave me through. (I've never been searched when I have a photo pass... seriously, they trust photographers not to be carrying contraband items??? :-). Then I'm in a dark stairwell trying to figure out if I'm supposed to go up, or down, and I hear Madball thanking the audience and leaving the stage. (expletive deleted) 10.28.07 9:25 PM: I scope out the merch table and glance around the main floor, then decide to hit the ladies room and use the better lighting during the time between sets to replace batteries and memory chips and make sure I don't look TOO horribly beastly after the trip, because there are some extremely attractive punk and psycho girls outside and I'm feeling bit under-whelming with zero makeup, split ends and baggy jeans. Yep, look like shit. Oh well... Later, I'll discover that I probably threw away my ear plugs when I tossed the empty battery packaging... Continued in Misery VS The Wall Of Death, Part III...SICK OF IT ALL!!!  Related Groups:
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October 31, 2007Misery VS The Wall Of Death, Part I of IV Photo by Christopher Alvarez Viva Hate - Las Vegas 03.11.07 10.28.07 4:25 AM: Today I'm set to venture off on the next concert trip... this time dragging my camera down to San Diego to photograph Viva Hate, Madball and Sick Of It All at HOB. If you know me at all, you know that my concert trips are invariably both Tragic and Legendary.... anywhere from lost tickets, to stolen credit cards, to being stranded downtown in a strange city at 3am with a dead cell phone and $3 in change, to injuries leaving scars and/or requiring surgery (that's just going to and coming from the show). I don't know what I did to deserve the bad karma that clubs me on the head whenever traveling to a show comes up... either I was the proverbial Nazi in a former life, or I'm enabling several other women to live happy and disaster-free by taking on their shares. This one had already shown potential early... As of a few days ago, I don't think (now confirmed) I was on the press list to get my camera into the venue. Two out of the last three shows I've attended I had been left off, but was finally able to get cleared in (the third they had to lock my camera equipment in a stairwell during the show so I could go into the club just to see the show). I've also had to resort to the bus again, even though on the last trip they stranded me in Los Angeles when the show I was holding someone's ticket for was in San Francisco (and she had already flown there from Texas). I also had to ride next to the creepy-pervert that every bus carries as standard equipment and I suspect they train by showing them photos of me off the internet. There's also the matter of half of San Diego county either currently on fire or charred to a cinder, with hundreds of thousands of refugees who were evacuated from their homes. Many have fled to downtown San Diego or Mission Bay and filled the hotels rather than sleep at the evacuation centers surrounded by thousands of strangers (I totally understand)... Irregardless of the chaos I know I'll run into (anything I get excited about in advance gets run over by the karma bus. without fail. no exaggeration), I've been looking forward to finally being able to photo Viva Hate and Sick of It All. I missed out when I saw them earlier this year (each on seperate tours supporting AFI) because of camera problems. Viva Hate especially as 3/4 of the members are from Bay Area bands I listened to when I was younger (and still do)...AFI, The Force, Circus Tents, the Swingin' Utters... and really, as an artist, I need to get a shot of Wedge doing his "I'M GOING TO COME DOWN OFF THIS STAGE AND EAT YOUR LIVER" snarl. Viva Hate will swing back through for some more California shows in the not too distant future... But I'll probably never seen another lineup with them AND Madball AND Sick Of It All (those things just don't happen all the time!) 10.28.07 11:31 AM update: HOB called and I am definitely not on the press list (someone called them Friday night requesting it, probably Viva Hate's booking agent). Since I wasn't cleared through HOB management a week in advance (a ream of paperwork is required), they offered me a couple of tickets to get in and a stock photo (for a Buzznet write up of the show), but said I couldn't shoot. However, since photos were okayed by Viva Hate, the HOB rep who called me said she'd try to reach the band to ask for confirmation (they may be onsite right now) and would try to get hold of HOB management to see if they'd approve me photographing the one band. If I can get in to at least shoot VH (probably won't be allowed to photo SOIA at all), it'd be worth the trip, and I'd try to shoot some fire coverage while I'm down there... I can't afford the bus tickets just to go watch a show right now, though :( ... I went way over budget in the last month on photo trips, what with the San Francisco Road Trip From Hell and two weeks down with injuries, then getting stranded 100 miles from one concert and scrambling to shoot the following night with my ribs barely stitched together. If I hadn't been able to talk my way into Download Festival to snap the best show photos I've ever produced I think I'd have given up and gone to live in a hut in the woods. If I can't make rent this month I'll probably be down by the river living in a tent next door to those registered sex offenders the County is housing out there. 10.28.07 12:40 PM: Verizon just shut off my cell phone. The owner finally reported it missing, probably. Unfortunately, my home phone service was semi-disconnected because I couldn't pay the entire bill, so I can't make outgoing toll/long distance calls on it. Like, to HOB, to see what the status of the press pass is. And I can't leave, because now I don't have the cell for them to contact me on if I'm on the way; and my voice ail was shut off, so I can't get messages and just check them remotely from calling from a different number. I'm so screwed. I either have to leave, immediately, to get to Greyhound, or find a phone and miss the bus, or stay and wait for the call and miss the bus... 10.28.07 4:43 PM: Oh yeah... I'm just going to find something with a lot of calories and start editing all the photos that are backlogged from shows last month. At least this way I don't have to sleep in a Greyhound station tonight, but dammit, they turned off my HDTV and I couldn't pay my Netflix bill... I need to find my copy of Tank Girl... or Evolution... I'll send Viva Hate a message that I can't make it, and hope they'll be coming through California again soon. 10.28.07 5:32 PM: FUCKING HELL You know as soon as it was 5 minutes late to get the last bus down to SD the HOB publicity person called back with two tickets, a media pass and she hunted down and got special permission from their road manager to photograph Sick Of It All. 10.28.07 5:37 PM: HOB calls back with the set times I requested. 7:00-7:30 Down To Nothing 7:45-8:15 Viva Hate 8:30-9:15 Madball 9:45-11:00 Sick Of It All If I was driving to San Diego, it'd take about 90 or so minutes to get to Downtown San Diego, I figure... but the bus takes longer and there's only one chance left to get one down if I can catch it down the route. 10.28.07 5:40 PM: ISN'T THERE ANYONE HOME ON EMAIL ON A SUNDAY NIGHT??? WHERE IS EVERYONE??? 10.28.07 5:50 PM: I've been loaned a cell phone. I think it's a cell phone. It looks like a thinly disguised iPod. I hate iPods, but I figure, it's really a phone, and how difficult can a phone be? I call a cab! If I take a cab to Temecula, I can get the last Greyhound down to San Diego. It's too late to catch one at an earlier stop, but it hits Temecula at 6:50 PM. 10.28.07 6:10 PM: Where... is... the... TAXI??? 10.28.07 6:15 PM: Where... is... the... TAXI??? 10.28.07 6:25 PM: Where... is... the... TAXI??? I take bids from two cab companies for a flat rate into San Diego. They say they'll "send one right over". 10.28.07 6:40 PM: Where... is... the... TAXI??? 10.28.07 6:48 PM: Where... is... the... TAXI??? 10.28.07 6:49 PM: AAAAIAIAIISIIEIEIEUUEGH@HHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!. 10.28.07 6:51 PM: I SEE IT!!! I SEE IT TURNING DOWN MY BLOCK!!! I wave. No, wait. HEY! WTF?? He's turning around??? WHERE ARE YOU GOING???I'm standing in the middle of the street, waving my arms over my head, and the guy stops in front of my neighbors house. I run up behind him, he pulls away and drives off. I say REALLY bad words Okay, he's turning around.. I run back into the street and wave..Hello!?! Over here!! Duh!!! Finally, he pulls up in front of my house. I throw my camera bag and hoodie inside and tell him, you know where we're going, right? "Uh, in general". Mmmkay. Gotta stop at a store and get batteries and cash, then we're off (will have to stop later to get additional cash as the grocerie store wouldn't give me the entire amount with my change). Whatever... I just want to get on the road and get moving. I'm dying with every minute that passes, here. I'm going to miss Viva Hate. Continued in Misery VS The Wall Of Death, Part II...
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February 3, 2007it's called "Alexis on fire" and NOT "alex is on fire"
after a lot's of digging, i know the band "alexisonfire" better.lol
seriously, is there any "alexisonfire" band fans here on buzz? if you are one of the mad fans and you happen to read this sent me a message cause i need more info on them. but here is what i have got so far: for those who dont know them at all they are a canadian band they are from ontario. their gern is Hardcore Punk the band is called "Alexis On Fire" and NOT "Alex is on fire" (i checked it out in wikipedia) their sound is just amazing i cant descibe it with words, you'll have to check them your selves and they got lots of awards, their newest album is called crisis.  i love those guy, wanna give them a kiss, muhhhhhhhhhh!
Posted by letsparty on 02/03/2007 4:37 AM Comments (1)
yeah, i found a new band!
yeah i did! thanks god, cause i got a little bit tired of the bands i hear
i was serfing on music.download.com and somehow i found my self in the hardcore punk section, yeah hardcore punk so i checked some bands they were quit awsome, all that live rythem and all that screaming, got me so excited! here are some songs i LOVED not liked but LOVE : it;s called "accidents" by Alexisonfire and another song from the same artist is called "pulmonary archery" this songs are god damn awsome! another song am listening to right now it's from the dresden dolls it;s called "dirty business" ok, that's all i wanted to share with you my buzzies, if you want to hear any of this songs you can visit they website (look above) or you can ask me for the direct link xxxxxx your awsome! chill out!
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