So I went down to my hometown of San Diego last Sunday for the big radio show of the year at the Coors Amphitheater. You know like Weenie Roast here in LA basically. So I’ve been pretty out of it with my blogging this past week and one of the reasons I was waiting for 91X to post some photos so I could include them in my post here. Too bad they are useless to me. I wish there were more good ones but whatever I’ll use what I can.

Story time it is… I’ll run down who I saw first to who I saw last.

The Used

THE USED myspace | website
As a side note they have a new album out today. I don’t really know much about it yet. I mean I’ve been a Used fan since the first album when I was just a kid. Now that I’m grown up a bit and Bert has blond hair I don’t really know what to do. Anyways…. live show. Audio sucked. I was really disappointed. I think it’s because they went on at 3:15 and the sound guy didn’t feel like giving them the time of day. Maybe, just maybe it was for some other reason. Either way I was disappointed and hoped for better. I’ll have to see them some other time and place when they are headlining and hopefully it’ll be good.

Silversun Pickups

SILVERSUN PICKUPS myspace | website
Everybody’s favorite buzz band hit it big. Like really big. I thought hey these guys are good when I first heard them quite a long time ago. I wrote a post on them here in the archives. I never thought that they would be playing festivals and big shows. Congrats to them. Silverlake turned big time. As for the live show… audio was still a little crappy but they played a solid ‘good’ show. The thing that really caught my attention was how comfortable on stage they were and they were just having fun with it. Songs dragged on for twice their length as they were rocking out and just having a blast. Some dude won a contest to be their roady for a day and they were messing with him quite a bit. Basically he was their bitch and he was having fun with it too. All in all, I wish I saw them at a smaller show ages ago like I should have being a blogger and all, but I didn’t so all well. They won’t be playing too may smaller venues anymore.

The Bravery X-FEST 2007

THE BRAVERY myspace | website
I was all about The Bravery two and a half years ago or however long they popped their heads into the scene. Then all the drama between them and The Killers front man Brandon Flowers made me side with The Killers and I stopped listening to The Bravery. (Douchery by Brandon Flowers, he later apologized) I also pulled one of those “their not cool anymore” cards when I was a douche. I still am a douche but at least I know and tell you guys the truth. Guess what, I like em again. Not like the thousands of eleventeen year olds or whoever but as a person who has watched their style change a bit into something more evolved. They also won my vote as my second favorite set because it sounded the best. I could actually hear the vocals and everything was mostly mixed correctly. I was able to enjoy the songs and not be stuck thinking about how the sound is crappy. They played all the popular ones that everybody danced a bit to and a few new ones from the album that comes out today. Great show, I was impressed and they won me over.

30 Seconds to Mars

30 SECONDS TO MARS myspace | website
Welp folks, 30 Seconds to Mars took the cake as far as my book is written. I had been listening to their latest album, A Beautiful Lie all last week and I’ll admit I like it. It’s actually pretty crazy how big a year or two has taken them but they’ve always had a pretty huge fan base. Due to of course Jared Leto. Being a dude I’m not so partial to saying things like this, but everybody knows he’s hot. I thought I would see alot more kiddies because I thought thats what a large portion of their fan base was. I was wrong. They played quite the amazing show. Just goes to show you when you have a front man like Jared Leto that knows he is a rock star and plays the part perfectly you will see a good show. During “The Kill” he decided to run around the whole lower level climbing on chairs and through people. Standing on top of anything he could with spotlights right on him. I had never seen that by anybody in a show of this size. He’s a good example of actor turned rock star as he knows exactly what to do to get the crowd into it. He had all the lights turned off and everybody put up their lighters or cellphones which always looks awesome when you have a grip of people. Pretty amazing show and I didn’t even know I was that into that much.

– RECAP –
All in all, good festival. It was nice and cloudy most of the time so it wasn’t too hot. There was all kinds of weird stuff going on on the lawn like a couple of jerkoffs asking us if we drove “a fast car” that is “blue” because supposedly a fast blue car cut him off on the freeway and he “remembers faces” as he was talking to my friend. He later was almost arrested yet wasn’t and continued to be a jerkoff. Oh yeah, then there was two girls romping around making out and fondling each other. Alot of people thought that was worth watching. As always in San Diego and well pretty much any big festival like show there was bro’s wanting to fight each other. Some guy got knocked out cold in the walkway right below the lawn so everybody rushed to check it out. Just remember, the lawn is always an adventure – but get good seats. It’s worth the money most of the time.