Cisharp

On the 14th Color Haze played in the arena. They were supported by the band rotor. I was very much looking forward to this concert. I got tickets around christmas and counted the days till the 14th with anticipation.... I may have to add that I regard Color Haze as one of the 3 best active Stoner Rock groups.... if not the best. And they are a great live band! So my expectations were high. It was one of the best concerts I've been to for a long time. The new album of Color Haze shows that the band definetely progresses their music! One of their songs on their new album "All" has support by a hammond organy. It reminds me of some santana tracks that I know. All the songs on the album are good. But the ones they played live were even better there. Longer versions with such an energy.... just great. Rotor was the band playing before Color Haze. I heard some songs of them already of their ablums, but they kicked ass live. They have no crowd-participation, but they make a hel...

well well, a most interesting concert. black mountain was very good indeed. though their albums do not really touch me, their live performance was outstanding. if you ever have a chance to see them, dig that style of music but dont really like their CDs, go there anyway. it worked for me :) after black mountain, the crew began to prepare the stage for helmet. that was when most people left :) like i expected, black mountain and helmet have very different fanbases, most black mountain fans did not listen to helmet, and vice versa.  fortunately for me, i like both styles so i got more out of my ticket than most.  when helmet started i was a bit perplexed because it was BAD. i then concluded that this was because of the big musical gap between what black mountain are doing in comparison to helmet: this harsh, raw, purposedly dissonant music that helmet is doing did not sound RIGHT after a band like black mountain.  so me and my accompagnee needed some songs to get into it. then the conce...

tomorrow Helmet will be playing in the Arena. i am very much looking forward to that. curious to see if they play the oldschool stuff or much new things. to get myself started, i listened to all helmet albums for 2 days now. this is both good and bad: the good: i get prepared for the concert the bad: i get a slight depression. at least thats what helmet does for me. i find helmet is a blessing: when i slide down the mood spiral, helmet can ease the pain very good. its very dry and hard sound can absorb much of a depression. but on the other hand, when i am in a good mood, it can also slightly get me down. the second great thing about the concert is the other band thats playing: Black Mountain, a very different band from helmet. but a band that i am very interested in too. its a very important band in the psychedelic scene it seems. i dont like their records but many of those bands are very good live nonetheless. so i look forward to hear them bytes

yesterday i was in club ost. thats a club here in vienna i didn't know about till now. it somewhat shall give the visitors an eastern flair. which works pretty well for non-easteners. i was there with some romanian girls. they all told me it all doesn't "fit right". anyway a nice club. i was astonished i didnt know it till now. its not alternative like i like it but on the other hand its not that posh that i would immediately dislike it, maybe i'll once give it another try when there's no concert there. but from the start. a friend of mine called me if i wanted to go out with him and a romanian girl he met at university some time ago to a concert. i had 3 choices what to do with my friday: one: relaxed cinema/video watching with a friend two: go to a free concert of the singer of "Die Sterne" in Chelsea three: join him to a concert of some moldavian band. luckily, i chose number three. i met them at the appartment of the romanian girl. there i disco...

today i watched weedeater in the arena. well i should have. but i didnt like them so i left early. pity in one way:  there even were more than 5 girls in the audience when weedeater started....  something i have not seen for quite a few concerts now  ;) thats the risk when you go to concerts of bands you do not know. you may not like them. but there are many examples when this calculation goes out positive. but before weedeater, 'Stinking Lizaveta' were playing.  though their gig was not super, their performance was outstanding nonetheless! Stinking Lizaveta consist of a couple and the brother of the guitarist playng e-bass (you know....cello type of bass), the couple both being...lez say 40+, but still rocking hard! they put up a show that most other bands can dream of, which sort of compensated the lack of musical greatness from the eyes of a stoner listener. though all their songs have much variety and idea, they are not what i dig nowadays. they more make a mix of noise-mus...

thuesday i watched SIENA ROOT in the arena. if you like deep purple from how they sounded in the early 70s, then you should check out that band. they had a tough challenge, because topping Dead Meadow, the band i watched on monday was nearly impossible.  there were even less people than on monday, i begin to fear that the arena will have to cancel their stoner events if so few people are interested in them. if i could be convinced that there is a god i'd pray that they continue. well, anyways: the band had another obstacle which was that their singer had to return home because of a death case in the family. for other genres this would mean the end of the tour, but as they are doing psychedelic they just decided to do an instrumental tour. i had my doubts if it could be good, because thats not what they usually do so but the concert was quite ok. yes, nothing compared to dead meadow, but they put effort into the show and made a good gig. for 2 songs they even had a sitar player play...