3 days grace review......by Matt Cole

     Let’s see folks! This past Friday (The 5^th) I went to the Three Days Grace concert at the Washington Amory in Albany, NY. Those who know me this isn’t my scene at all and I really didn’t know any of their songs. I am more of a hip hop and sappy pop music kind of cat. So I will fire off a review of this show. 

        Flyleaf… hmmm… The lead singer was smoking hot for being a borderline dwarf. But smoking hot!!!! You couldn’t really hear her at all so it was kind of just an instrumental rather than an actual set. Then there was the bassist. This jackass has his own little box on stage to climb on the just jump off randomly. May I stress randomly. It was rather shallow and pedantic. I would of thought it was awesome except he didn’t do it to the music at all. To say the least he was rhythmically retarded and had no reason to be on the stage. I spent a lot of time at the beer service station.

Chavelle… Very interesting and probably could have headlined their own show in smaller context. There have a rather hard sound and you can definitely hear the lyrics so the music has so much more meaning. I am going to be rather honest with you kind folks, I didn’t really listen very closely to this band because I was more concerned with getting a nice buzz before the main event.

Drumroll please…. The band who’s music I had never really familiarized myself with… I loved it! It was one of the best times I had ever had in my life. The fact that I was only about 10 feet from the stage was even better minus the dickeads, yes two. The show had not even started and this drunk midget had been jumping around trying to get a pit going without any music so he ran and jumped into me… I pushed the oompa loompa by the throat to the ground. The rest of the surrounding folks were rather annoyed and such so in my suave jackass manner I convinced him to crowd surf so he would be thrown to the back of the venue by security. I had to do the same to another idiot too. The crowd was awesome. The stage presence of the band was electrifying. They worked the crowd so well and kept us riled up and jumping. The announced they couldn’t play “riot” and the crowd was so heartbroken and then they said “fuck it” and played it anyways. The insanity that was hidden in the crowd came out like a river over rapids mixed with a rough chinese meal. For not knowing any of their songs, I knew a lot if that made any sense. The setlist was rediculous and kept everything going. I sweat through every layer of clothing I had on.

 In review, Flyleaf needs better sound people so they can turn up the lead singers mic. Chavelle, a hard, rock, sound and was very good as background drinking noise. Three Days Grace… Wow!!!!!!!!!! Loved it even though when I got outside I was an ice cube.

That’s alllllllllllllll FOLK!!!!!!!!!!!