Who went to the Hinder concert last night (2/18)?
This is now rated as the worst concert I've been to.
Starting off with the small wait time outside in the cold, with that brutally chilly wind was not an evening killer.
Getting in there, finding seating and so forth - also no problem.
Opening band, no idea what their name is, never heard of them was SAD to say the least. They're clearly very hardcore rock / metal / grunge or simply just trying too damn hard. Their over-exaggeration of guitar skills were highly amusing at first then you realize they're merely trying too hard and look stupid, after that you start to develop a headache because the band members belief that they can really amuse the crowd with their 'skills' got old and they couldn't stop doing their own thing. The lead singer/guitar dude basically even created his own on chore. The blond guy whom tried a little solo Jimmy Hendrix style thing was HORRIBLE, good god he looked like he was straight out of a meth lab. The drummer really tried to beat the living shit out of his drum set, maybe they were all very very very very angry.
Then came Finger Eleven, well they were at least a lot more pleasant on the ears but the Tabernacles sound technicians sucked last night, because the volume was so crunked up that everything was distorting like crazy and sounded like complete CRAP! I've came to the conclusion that Finger Eleven is a very amusing band to watch, the one guitar guy dancing around like Linkin Park while the other older guy is just chilling there in the back like UB40 and then you have this crazy f*cker whom went total ape sh*t on stage and then of course then you had the lead singer whom reminded me of a female pop-star and a drummer whom almost looked like he was hiding from the cops behind his drum set. besides all this if the speakers wasn't distorting as bad as they were, they would have been pretty damn good.
Then came Hinder, stage setup was really sweet, lights, stainless boxes with logos and strobes, really sweet. This is where whom ever was the sound technicians should have noticed to turn the volume down or adjust some damn settings because, everything was so damn LOUD, that you could not hear the singer over the band and everything was just distorting and sounding like once again COMPLETE CRAP! You could not at all really get a vibe as for what they were playing because of all the distortion. The vibe from the band was awesome, really worked the crowd, but it was horrible to try and appreciate them as artists when they sound so BAD. I am pretty sure they can really play awesome live, I know some bands really suck live, but the factor killing them was sound setup.
I'm no sound tech, but once again it sounded really bad and made the show incredibly unpleasant.
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