On Tuesday I went to see Angels and Airwaves, the band created by formed Blink-182 guitarist/singer Tom Delonge. It's a great band if you haven't checked em out. They are all about writing music that will make you feel good because, as they say(and I agree)music and things in general are too negative these days. As the guitarist said to me when I talked to him after the show, "Human beings aren't meant to be this miserable".
The show consisted of The Subways, Head Automatica, Angels and Airwaves, and ended with Taking Back Sunday.
I got there pretty earlier in the afternoon to stand in line. When we got there we saw Tom Delonge walking around in the band parking lot which was exciting, and later saw the whole band take a run around the block.
If you haven't checked out The Subways I suggest you do. They are a young 3 piece punk/rock band from England. Very high energy and they put on a good show. Nice people too, I got the autograph from the girl that's their bassist/singer and their drummer signed their CD for me too.
Head Automatica was okay. I've never heard of them before, but a lot of chicks screamed for em so they seemed to like them.
Angels and Airwaves was really good. I've been a huge Blink 182 fan for the past 7 or so years so when they broke up I was a bit upset, but when I heard Tom started AVA I was really excited. Their record is really good and I suggest you check it out. It's like if Blink 182 made another record after their last one, combined with a bit of U2 type influence. I love it, can't stop listening to it.
They played pretty much all their songs from their CD except for "A little's Enough" if I recall correctly. All their songs were very well done, Tom even played "Down", one of Blink's singles of their last record. He and Dave(Guitarist of AVA and also Box Car Racer) also played "There Is" by Box Car Racer, the band they had acouple years back. It started raining during their set, which was very fitting since acouple of their songs(AVA's songs) reference rain in them.
Taking Back Sunday put on a very highly energetic show and their frontman just goes all over the stage. They played for what seemed quite a well, but they may have just seemed that way since I dont know all their songs by heart
After the show two of my friends and I went and hung out around the bus entrance in hopes of catching some of the band members. First we caught Dave Kennedy, guitarist of Angels and Airwaves. He talked to me for like 10 minutes or something, a very very nice down to earth guy. Awesome to see that side of some of your favorite rock stars.
Here's a pic of him and I (he's behind the fence hehe)
After we talked to him for quite a while, eventually Tom Delonge came out along with the rest of the band. Instantly Tom got swarmed by people asking for his autograph. Meanwhile I talked to their Bassist Ryan Sinn a bit, and got Atom's autograph. By the time I made my way to Tom he started to run off and I didn't catch him
It's all good though since I got to see him up close and not on a stage for once And the fact that I got to talk to Dave pretty much one on one 
Anyways, hope you guys dont mind the spam. I had a lot of fun last night so I thought i'd share the fun and hopefully get you guys to check out some bands that you've never heard of or heard.
Cheers,
QforQ
I got there pretty earlier in the afternoon to stand in line. When we got there we saw Tom Delonge walking around in the band parking lot which was exciting, and later saw the whole band take a run around the block.
If you haven't checked out The Subways I suggest you do. They are a young 3 piece punk/rock band from England. Very high energy and they put on a good show. Nice people too, I got the autograph from the girl that's their bassist/singer and their drummer signed their CD for me too.
Head Automatica was okay. I've never heard of them before, but a lot of chicks screamed for em so they seemed to like them.
Angels and Airwaves was really good. I've been a huge Blink 182 fan for the past 7 or so years so when they broke up I was a bit upset, but when I heard Tom started AVA I was really excited. Their record is really good and I suggest you check it out. It's like if Blink 182 made another record after their last one, combined with a bit of U2 type influence. I love it, can't stop listening to it.
They played pretty much all their songs from their CD except for "A little's Enough" if I recall correctly. All their songs were very well done, Tom even played "Down", one of Blink's singles of their last record. He and Dave(Guitarist of AVA and also Box Car Racer) also played "There Is" by Box Car Racer, the band they had acouple years back. It started raining during their set, which was very fitting since acouple of their songs(AVA's songs) reference rain in them.
Taking Back Sunday put on a very highly energetic show and their frontman just goes all over the stage. They played for what seemed quite a well, but they may have just seemed that way since I dont know all their songs by heart
After the show two of my friends and I went and hung out around the bus entrance in hopes of catching some of the band members. First we caught Dave Kennedy, guitarist of Angels and Airwaves. He talked to me for like 10 minutes or something, a very very nice down to earth guy. Awesome to see that side of some of your favorite rock stars.
Here's a pic of him and I (he's behind the fence hehe)
After we talked to him for quite a while, eventually Tom Delonge came out along with the rest of the band. Instantly Tom got swarmed by people asking for his autograph. Meanwhile I talked to their Bassist Ryan Sinn a bit, and got Atom's autograph. By the time I made my way to Tom he started to run off and I didn't catch him
It's all good though since I got to see him up close and not on a stage for once And the fact that I got to talk to Dave pretty much one on one Anyways, hope you guys dont mind the spam. I had a lot of fun last night so I thought i'd share the fun and hopefully get you guys to check out some bands that you've never heard of or heard.
Cheers,
QforQ