Thursday night we went to see some bands at The Village. Local band Wishtribe opened the show with a good set. I've recently picked up their locally made CD and it's got some good tracks on it and this is the first time I've seen them since so they were better than I remembered. Next up was hardcore band Bury Your Dead, and while their music really isn't my thing (I prefer a bit more melodic and cleaner vocals) they're definitely a solid, heavy band with a good high energy show. Then In This Moment came on and I wasn't really into them too much. They're sort of like an evil version of Evanescence maybe. Not sure, I really didn't pay a whole of attention to them. No offense to them, we'd just found some people that let us in a V.I.P. room with comfy couches and our own bathroom so we were preoccupied while they were on. Lastly was the band I came to see, Five Finger Death Punch, who I've seen multiple times in the last year but love their energy and show. They're heavy, pissed-off and brutal and I could go watch them weekly. Not too much changed since the last time I saw them. They had the crowd in a moshing frenzy for most of the set and ripped through their debut CD opening with "Ashes", followed by "Salvation" then playing most of the album at some point. I remember hearing "White Knuckles", "Never Enough", a cover of Bad Company's "Bad Company" and "The Way of the Fist" before ending with the massive "The Bleeding". Awesome band.
Here's a couple of pics of them and the last one is me with Bury Your Dead's lead singer Myke Terry:
On Saturday me and my buddy Phil headed over to Memphis for a day for some beer tasting and hanging out. He runs BeerReviewsOnline.com (shameless plug!) so we wanted to hit a couple of liquor/beer stores and get some new stuff to try out and rate on the site. We found a great place called Buster's Liquor and stocked up on big beers then hit Raffi's Deli and grabbed some other stuff, as you can do mix-your-ow six-packs there. Tennessee has some weird law about not selling the strong beer in the same store you sell the lighter beer, so you have to make 2 stops to stock up. Yes, retarded I know.
We then went down to Beale Street and checked in our hotel and wandered aimlessly around all afternoon and night, sampling brews and being entertained by some of the characters. We also holed up in Hooters for several hours and watched most of the UFC pay-per-view while feasting on hots wings. We made stops in the Beale Street Tap Room, Jillians, The Flying Saucer and Coyote Ugly at some point or another. Beale Street ain't what it used to be, as many places I'm used to have closed down and even with University of Memphis having a ball game that night, it was pretty dead in most places. That didn't prevent us from having a pretty good time.
You know I didn't have a thing to do all weekend... well except for sitting around wishing I had a couple of buds to go drink beer and watch fights with.
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