So I left Thursday to head down to New Orleans for Voodoo Fest. I hate I missed the whole AUN meltdown, I'll have to catch up on what the hell went down this weekend.
Anyway, about the concert. It rocked my balls in half. I was right up front for pretty much every band, including Rage Against The Machine. Words cannot describe how much that show fucking ruled my ass. Then I got to meet half of them. Granted the less cool half, but the bass player and drummer were just walking around Bourbon Street (with about six plain clothes bodyguards), virtually unnoticed.
I've kept a running list of bands of note that I've seen live. They're not all awesome, but I probably saw the shitty ones at a festival type deal. Also, most of you are old and probably have no idea who a lot of these bands are. After this weekend (and anticipating next week when I go see Hank III, Reverend Horton Heat, and Nashville Pussy), my list looks like this.
2 Live Crew
3 Doors Down
10 Years
311
AFI (x 2)
Afro Man (x 3)
Akon
Alien Ant Farm
Alkaline Trio
Andrew W.K. (x 4)
Anti-Flag (x 2)
The Ataris
Atreyu
Bad Religion (x 2)
Barenaked Ladies
Beach Boys
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Better Than Ezra
The Black Crowes (x 2)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blessid Union of Souls
Blues Traveler (x2)
Bobaflex
James Brown
Candlebox
Cameo
The Casualties
Cheap Trick
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
George Clinton (x 2)
Coheed & Cambria (x 2)
Collective Soul (x 3)
Common
Counting Crows
Cowboy Mouth (x2)
Cracker
Dave Matthews Band
The Doobie Brothers
Die Trying
Drive By Truckers
Drivin' N' Cryin'
Dropkick Murphys (x 2)
Eagles Of Death Metal
Electric Six
Eve 6
Everclear
Everlast
The Exies
Fabolous
Fall Out Boy (x 2)
Feable Weiner
Fireball Ministry
Fenix TX
Flogging Molly (x 2)
John Fogerty
Fuel
Gin Blossoms
Glassjaw
Goo Goo Dolls
Good Charlotte
Good Riddance
Grout
Gym Class Heroes
Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams III (x 2)
Hawthorne Heights
Hinder
The Hippos
Hot Water Music
Hoobastank
Hootie and the Blowfish
Jimmy Eat World
Jet Motor Crash
Billy Joel
Jump Little Children
Jurassic 5
Kilo Ali
Kings Of Leon
KISS
Lefty
Less Than Jake (x 2)
Live (x 2)
Long Beach Dub All-Stars
Los Straightjackets
Ludacris (x 2)
Man...Or Astro-man?
Jon Mayer
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
M.I.A.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (x 3)
Millencolin (x 2)
Motion City Soundtrack (x 2)
Jason Mraz
Mute Math
MxPx (x 3)
Mya
My Chemical Romance
Nappy Roots (x 2)
Nashville Pussy
Willie Nelson
New Found Glory (x 2)
Nine Inch Nails
NOFX (x 3)
No Use For a Name
The Offspring (x 2)
Paolo Nutini
Papa Roach
Pennywise
P.O.D.
Poison (x 2)
Porcupine Tree
Plain White T's (x 2)
The Presidents of the United States of America
Puddle Of Mudd (x 2)
Quarashi
Rage Against The Machine
Rancid (x 2)
Ratt
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Reel Big Fish
Rehab(x 3)
Reverend Horton Heat
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Rx Bandits
Shinedown
Silver Chair
Simple Plan
Sinead O'Conner
Sir-Mix-Alot
Sister Hazel (x 2)
Slack
Smashing Pumpkins
Snoop Dogg
Soul Asylum
The Spin Doctors
Spoon
The Starting Line
Steve Miller Band
Styx
Sugar Ray
Suicide Machines
Sum 41
Talib Kweli
Tantric
The Taylor Hicks Band
Third Eye Blind
Three Days Grace
Thursday
Tiesta
Tiger Army
Tone Loc
The Transplants
TRUSTcompany (multiple)
Tyler Read
The Used
The Vandals
Vertical Horizon
Vanilla Ice
Vendetta Red
Yellow Card (x 2)
Ying Yang Twins
Wesley Willis
Wilco
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