place: Tinker Field

year: 2005

shirt worn: UNEARTH

type of show: official

bands:

lamb of god

CLUTCH

POISON THE WELL

Opeth

from Autumn to Ashes

UNEARTH

chimaira

GWAR

Norma Jean

EVERY TIME I DIE

Throwdown

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD

high on fire

MADBALL

TERROR

A LIFE ONCE LOST

ALL THAT REMAINS

Devil Driver

theRedChord

FULL BLOWN CHAOS

FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES

The Black Dahlia Murder

NORA

went with: Michelle & Brian Hession

show was: so bad ass

entry:

So, not only was this the farthest north of a concert I've ever been to, but it was also the farthest distance I've gone for a concert at all. It was in on 7/13/5. It was during the summer between eleventh and twelfth grade. It was all the way up in Orlando, which is two hours north of me. So Michelle picks me and Brian up at like 8:00 in the morning. We talked about a lot of interesting things on the way to the show, mainly Danny Simmons and politics. She's actually probably one of the smartest girls I know. We ate lunch at one of those service plazas on the side of I95 that have BURGER KING and Popeyes inside of it. OMFG I FORGOT HOW GOOD BURGER KING'S BREAKFAST FOOD IS! Yah, so, we reached Orlando at like 12:00, I believe. We passed by the huge Citrus Bowl, which is Orlando's giant football stadium, and Michelle was telling us about her experiences when she and Danny Simmons went to the SUMMER SANITARIUM TOUR their in 2003. Could you imagine how amazing that would have been to see METALLICA, Limp Bizkit, [LINKIN PARK], deftones, & MUDVAYNE in a fucking football stadium. Well, I knew the show was going to be at a place called the Tinker Field. What I did not know was that the Tinker Field was A FUCKING BASEBALL FIELD. WHAT THE FUCK? lamb of god ON A FUCKING BASEBALL FIELD? The diamond was all cautioned off so no one could mess it up. The stage was in the out field or whatever you call that area. When you're looking at the stage, if you look to your upper right, the Citrus Bowl is towering over the damn field. It was pretty cool. The tour was set up kind of werid, so certain bands would only play select dates, so a lot of the bands listed above didn't even play. ALL THAT REMAINS played first. They did really really well. Then we ran into Ernesto and a couple of his friends. They were talkin about how awesome ALL THAT REMAINS did, and then me and Brian started bragging about how we met them when they came to THE KELSEY CLUB with GOD FORBID. FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES got on next and they did really well even though I don't like them at all. Devil Driver got on after that and tore that place apart. There was a huge mosh pit going on. Right before the last song they played, Dez was like "Now here's what we're gonna do. You in the EVIL DEAD shirt, my favorite movie, keep your hands up. You two big mother fuckers in the black shirts, yes, you, keep your hands up.....etc. etc. etc. Now let's mosh this place up, tear this mother fucker upart, let's get a real pit goin, none of that gay hardcore shit, if you wanna go to karate class go with my six- year- old son, he'll kick your ass." I was rather offended that he would make fun of another type of music or another style of moshing just because he's a nu-metal dumb ass trying to make it in the death metal scene and doesn't understand shit. First of all, why would you try to act all tough when you're the singer of coal chamber on viagra. I thought the point of the show was unity. It was cool though. It was actually the biggest circle pit I've ever seen in my life. What do you know, Brian got trapped in it and got the fuck beat out of him. Then A LIFE ONCE LOST got on but we were all so dehydrated we had to go to the water fountains and drink and sit in the shade. We sat through all of A LIFE ONCE LOST and high on fire. I saw this one girl that dressed herself up like Julya from URANIUM. I looked at her funny and she was like "What the hell are you looking at?" and I was like "A big ugly pile of HOT TOPIC" and she was like "Shut the fuck up" and I was like "Suck my dick you watered down marketed piece of shit." I'm just kidding, none of that happened, but I wish it did. i ran into Dan Asfor. he told me he stayed in some shitty hotel last night where you could hear gun shots going off at night which is funny. He was kinda drunk so he could stand u right. So we got refreshed in time for MADBALL. MADBALL kicked so much ass, I love them. We found Phil from ALL THAT REMAINS, but he didn't remember us, big surprise. We talked to him anyways. Surprisingly, there was a lot of color blinds at the show. Well, I guess it's not really that surprising, seeing that Central Florida is right next to South Florida. After them, Norma Jean played. They did really good. For their last song, the singer was like "this is a cover of third eye blind, we're really into those guys" and then they played Laid Memphis to Waste. Then STRAPPING YOUNG LAD played. When they got on, Devin Townsend, looking like his normal homeless looking self, was all like "Hey! Does anyone know where we are? Somewhere in Florida, right? Isn't there supposed to be a space shuttle going off somewhere? I'm gonna shit my pants when that happens!"  It was a funny thing to say. Apparently there was a space shuttle launch scheduled that day but it got postponed. Florida's cool like that, we have space ships:) I felt like I was going to pass out from all the heat, so Michelle took me to go stand in line for GATORADE..In line I found all the guys from drowned out and spoke to them for a little bit. I got some blue Powerade. It wasn't even GATORADE. I layed down and took off my boots because Michelle said that the temperature of your feet controls the temperature of your body (though my mom just told me that it's actually your head that does that, and she's a nurse, so I guess Michelle doesn't know everything, but she still knows a lot) and I did this throughout STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's set. So, I'm just laying there in the grass listening to STRAPPING YOUNG LAD when all of a sudden this golf cart comes flying by us out of no where with the singer of GWAR on it in his full costume screaming "I'm off to stop a space shuttle!" Don't worry though. I got enough energy to watch Throwdown. OMG they tore place apart. At one point during their set, the singer was like "This song goes out to Dimebag Darrell and MADBALL. This song goes out to our roots.....our ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS." Then they covered ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS by SEPULTURA. At another point during their set, the singer was like "I don't care if you're hard core and you dance or if you're metal and you circle pit. What matters is we're all hear for the same reason. So, let's do what we do best, and that is unite," and then they played UNITE. At another point furing their set, the singer wa like "Look at all those lazy mother fuckers in the back. Now, let's teach those pussies a lesson. Now, when I say, everyone that's actually doing stuff in the front, we're gonna bull doze those mother fuckers down. People in the back, all I can say is, in the words of IRON MAIDEN, RUN TO THE HILLS!" So, me and everyone else was all excited to see this happen, and then it was a big disappointment cause no one did it. Five kids ran back like fifty yards until they realized no one was with them. After them, EVERY TIME I DIE played. They tore it up too. Right before their last song, the singer was like "This song goes out to our favorite band on this tour.....EVERY TIME I DIE" and that made me laugh. The coolest thing about this whole show was that during every band, half their set was kids moshing, and the other half was kids dancing. There really was a lot of unity. GWAR played and they succeeded in being half as ridiculous as CRADLE OF FILTH. I mean, I knew they would be, but I didn't know that they would make me laugh. As soon as they hit the stage, it starts raining like hell. They were wearing their alien warrior costumes and there were dancing cavemen on stage, and the stage looked like some retarded alien dinosaur land. I hate the band but they were funny. The first thing happened during their set was the Pope came out wearing Nazi symbols all over his robe and people were saying "Ziek Hail" and then he battled the singer and the singer chopped off the Pope's face and tore his skin off and the Pope started spraying fake blood all over everyone. Oh, yah, the singer had some kind of fake mechanical penis the size of a baseball bat and a pair of fake fuzzy testicles that hang down to his knees. For the next song the singer was like "and for your next guest celebrity execution, your president," and they brought out a fake President Bush, chopped off his head and his arms, which started spraying fake blood all over the audience, and two of the cave men were tossing Bush's head and a bomb at each other. For, the next song, this big, green, alien, monster thing came out on stage and the singer was like "Oh no. It's Bone Snapper." Then the cave men tried to beat up "Bone Snapper" but got their asses kicked until the end of the song when the singer saves the day and rips out the thing's eyes and fake blood starts spraying out of it's eye sockets all over the audience and the cavemen chopped off his......arms? Yah, and so fake blood started spraying all over the audience from those things. For the next song, a robot came out on stage and they had to beat it up and they ripped out the little guy driving the robot and ripped him in half, and who would have guessed, fake blood sprays all over the audience. During the next song the cavemen were spraying green slime all over the audience with their big green slime gun turret things. During their next song, it was still raining like hell so the singer was like "usually, this song is called Maggots are falling like rain, but today we shall call it The Rain.....Is Falling.....Like Rain!" and so he changed the lyrics on the spot to "The Rain is Falling like Rain!" During the next song, the singer was supposed to spray some liquid all over the audience out of his colossal, alien, mechanical penis but it came out in the form of a gas so he was like "what is this? Am I farting out of my dick? I'm farting out of my dick." During the last song, the song stopped and the singer was like "They were supposed to send the space ship........into space.........but it got cancelled.......or something." and then they just went back into the song. It took them forever to clean up the stage. They had to blow dry stuff off of it. Everyone was wet and muddy and covered with fake blood. The next two bands were my favorite part of the show. UNEARTH tore that mothe fucker apart. They played the same set that they played the last two times I saw them but they cut out a few songs, but it was still all in the same order. Me and Michelle were realy close up for them. The singer pointed to me and looked me in the eye when I was singing the words to ENDLESS. I felt special. After they were done, we finally found Brian and his eyes were bloodshot red, so we took him to the cops to figure out what was wrong and it turns out that his contacts got staned from the fake blood. People were sliding in the orange stuff on the baseball field. It was really funny. chimaira played next and that was really bad ass. That was my favortie part of the show but it doesn't compare to how they did at Ozzfest 2003.Their set was as follows

1. pure hatred

2. severed

3. nothing remains

4. coma tose

5. the dehumanization process

6. power trip

Mark Hunter cut his dreds which made me mad. He didn't split the crowd, which pissed me off, but some red neck told me it was cause some kid almost died the last time they did it. from Autumn to Ashes dropped off the tour. I don't like them anyways, but I feel bad for all the people who didn't get wanted to see them. I'm a big fan of Opeth but they were pretty boring live. The funny thing is the singer sounded so depressed when he would talk in between songs. He did make one funny joke though. He was like "Right now, you're hearing a cover of silence" and then they sat there and did nothing for a minute. CLUTCH played next and did really well. POISON THE WELL got bumped up a spot since they're from Florida. They kicked ass. lamb of god had the biggest pit. After their first song, the singer was like "There's something wrong with the scene here. I keep seeing guys wear white belts. It's not right. This isn't the first day of karate. Ladies, if your man is wearing a white belt, get rid of him. He doesn't have what you need. I do." I was head banging  during all of their songs, and I found out later on that some guy wearing a white belt looked at me like I was crazy. He looked at Michelle with a what the fuck look on his face and she said "Nice belt" and then he felt shitty and turned around. I got home at 1:00 in the morning. I left for North Carolina at 9:00 in the morning. I got home ten days later at 9:00 at night and started typing this. OK. Bed Time. Goodnight.