Flickerstick

[GoldEyes]

Sorry had to boast...I finally heard Flickerstick on the radio! Okay so it wasn't a local radio station, but it was a radio station in Ft. Worth, TX. (Im listening to the station here on the internet) They are in a "cock fight" and are reigning champs. Get this...their competition is solo Dave Matthews! EWWWW! There is no competition.

EDIT: and i even called long distance to vote. (okay so it was free cause we have free long distance on our cell phones but still...heh)

Edit again: And they put me on the air....hehehehe!!!

Okay, I know, sorry, Im a freak. *crazy*

[DOOM_GOAT]

Freak you may be, but then aren't we all?


(not as much as you, of course :) )

[GoldEyes]

hehe. well they won, so thats all that matters. :D I know, im obsessed....phew....

[Nephil]

Everyone needs his own obsession. :)

[Felix]

just what genre are flickerstick?

[GoldEyes]

See, that's the funky thing about Flickerstick....I don't know. If you are looking for a generic genre to put them in, some kind of alternative rock, I would say.

If you want to take a listen, you can grab an mp3 or two from my yahoo briefcase here...
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/emerald_star98

Im just obsessed. The mp3s dont show what the guys are really like. I've never known a band to sound BETTER on stage, and they do. They are great live performers, and all around nice guys to boot.

[Azrael_ rage]

We are all obsessed with something, I bet Flickerstick would be happy to know how much you like them. Bands can sound better live, I have seen it done. Korn, metallica, less than jake, the prodigy and placebo. But only on occasion.

[GoldEyes]

Azrael, believe me, when I met the guys, I seriously almost broke down. I did tell Brandin (lead singer) how they touch me when they play. (especially live) Dominic (the drummer) heard me telling Brandin that, came over and said I made his night, and that's exactly why they do what they do. THAT made my night! Gotta love em. They are definitely a live band...screw the cd listening! hehe.

Ive seen a LOT of bands live...and these guys do it right and sound better every time.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

I have yet to see any bands live but I really want to see Marilyn Manson And Nine Inch Nails live. The NIN live DVD owns.

[GoldEyes]

Let's see what I can remember.....

Flickerstick (4 times), Green Day (3 times), Hootie and the Blowfish (3 times), Nsync (3 times..hehehe), Tonic (2 times), The Verve pipe (2 times) Collective Soul, Godsmack, Veritcal Horizon, Sister Hazel, Third Eye Blind, Fuel, Finger Eleven, Goo Goo Dolls, Placebo, Stabbing Westward, MxPx, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers, Bush

That's all I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure I've forgotten a few. hehe.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

That's a lot of gigs there Goldy.:)

[Nomad]

I've seen Weird Al in concert. Woo. That's it.

:(

[GoldEyes]

Well a lot of those concerts happened between 1996-1997. LOTS OF THEM. I swear I was going to a concert once a week back then. I may get to goto one, once or twice a year now, if I'm lucky. Bands just don't seem to come around as much as they used to.

[Azrael_ rage]

Good list goldy. Heres my list of bands that I have seen live:
Muse
Amen
Blink 182
The prodigy
less than jake (Twice)
Bowling for soup
Korn
Metallica
Him
Aphex twin
Squarepusher
Queen adreena
Vex red
Queens of the stone age
The dillinger escape plan
Janes addiction
Otep (Blew me away, most intense pit ever.)
Ill nino
Lost prophets
Cradle of filth
Ozzy Osbourne
Mad capsule market
The offspring
Sum 41
Sunna
Raging speedhorn
Reel big fish
Jesus fix
Rammstien
American head charge
Weezer
Pennywise
Blur
AFI
And many more that I cannot remember.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

*whistles* That's a good sized kist Azrael_Rage. And when did these all happen?
Goldeyes, If you were an NIN fan a few years ago, you copuld have seen them live in Columbus. That was one of their tour stops. I just wish they would come a bit further than London over here. :( I don't want to go near the place. I hear a lot of weird stuff goes on down there.

[Azrael_ rage]

London isn't as bad as it sounds. Just avoid soho and brixton if you can. When did I see these gigs? Been going for five years now, so all over the place really. Whenever I can get the money and go the distance. That isn't all of them though, I just can't remember all of them.

[Nephil]

I love going on concerts and festivals, so I have seen more bands live than I can remember. Let's see....

In Extremo
Corvus Corax
Schandmaul
Rammstein
Knorkator
Subway To Sally
Paradise Lost
Fury In The Slaughterhouse
Such A Surge
Guano Apes
Heather Nova
Oomph!
Die Happy
Emil Bulls
J.B.O. (James Blast Orchestra)
Waikiki Beach Bombers
Bananafishbones
Beck
Within Temptation
My Balloon
Merlons
Deftones
Moby
Faith No More
Rollins Band
Silverchair
Marilyn Manson
Type O Negative
Camouflage
Depeche Mode
Miles
Foo Fighters
Therapy?
Free Little Pigs
Keimzeit
Umbra Et Imago
Zeraphine
17 Hippies
Dreadful Shadows
Terrorgruppe
Letzte Instanz
Deine Lakaien
The Cardigans
Eins Zwo
Freundeskreis

...and many more, that I don't even remember. I sure hope that this year some good bands will tour through Germany, so I can go to many more concerts!

[Azrael_ rage]

Alright! You have a lot of gigs behind you, what festivals do you go to? What are they like in Germany? Does ozzfest make it over your way?

[Nephil]

Well, what are festivals like here? I don't think they differ from those in other countries. Uncountable amount of young people, a lot of them drunk or under different influences, a lot of bands, mostly more than 2 stages. Bigger festivals last 3 days, other ones 1 day. I mainly visit alternative festivals like the Bizarre Festival (http://www.bizarre.de), the Greifensteine Openair (http://www.greifensteine-openair.de) (very bautiful location, a natural stage!) and the Taubertal Openair (http://www.taubertal-openair.de) (also very nice, the main stage is placed directly under a castle, beautiful!).
What are they like in The States or England?

I don't know about Ozzfest. But I must admit that the bands of the Ozzfest 2003 wouldn't have been a reason for me to visit it.

[PumpkinSmasher]

Yea I ordered their astronaut CD when you first starting posting about them. Its really pretty good. I'm thinking aobut ordering the new one so I can see the DVD.

[Azrael_ rage]

In england we have loads of festivals. The main alternative festivals are the carling weekender and glastonbury, oh yeah, and there is download and the kerrang weekender. They are good fun, although I was dissapointed wuth the line up of last years carling.

[Doom_Dude]

I remember seeing a Glastonbury Festival a few years back on the Television and it was pretty cool. :)

[Azrael_ rage]

Mmmmm.... Mud. Glasto is funny. Last year Rolf Harriss was one of the headliners, seriously!

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Nephll you lucky bugger! You've seen Marilyn Manson live.:D

[Doom_Dude]

Mmmmm.... Mud. Glasto is funny. Last year Rolf Harriss was one of the headliners, seriously!

LOL! Tie Me Kangaroo Down! :p

[Nephil]

Nephll you lucky bugger! You've seen Marilyn Manson live.:D
Yup. But to be honest: Nothing special. But I'm not really a Manson-fan at all, so my opinion doesn't count.

[Azrael_ rage]

So why did you see him if you aren't a fan?

[Nephil]

So why did you see him if you aren't a fan?
Back then I wanted to see him. That was around, let me think... yeah, 1997. Back then he still wasn't so popular, and he was better (imo),
he didn't try to be so "demonic" and "antichrist" like today. He just made a cool show and good music. OK, the music he makes now isn't really bad, but if I see him in an interview, this guy just makes me laugh. Clown!
Btw.: Do you have to be a fan just to go to a concert? I sometimes visit gigs just because I'm curious or I want to see and hear something different, even if I don't even know the band.

[Azrael_ rage]

No, you don't have to be a fan I suppose, I just got the impession that you really didn't like him. I agree with you on his career. He was much better around the time he released Portrait of an american family, he got boring to me after he released mechanical animals.