Last night… okay Friday night I went to the Capital Ex grounds right after work and waited there for my mom, step-father, step-brother and his girlfriend to show up to meet me. We took in the Jakalope concert and my parents ran off not even halfway through along with my step-brother’s girlfriend. Later on she came back only to have my step-brother go with her leaving me alone to enjoy and appreciate the music myself. Which is exactly what I did I took lots of pictures of Katie B. and Dave and I was much closer this go around so the pictures should be of better quality. The set list was the same as their Calgary show and Dave was truly more awesome live than the studio version of Bad Dream *huge thumbs up*

Anthem 2
Instigator
Creeper
Go Away
Digging Deep
Screecher
Pretty Life
Throw It Away
Star 24
Get It Back
Feel It
Upside Down
Code 4
Tell Me Why
Don’t Cry
Bad Dream

Today I got up early (for a Saturday) and rode the bus for over an hour to get to the Sobey’s on the South side of the city to do a meet and greet with Dave and Katie. I got there just in time before they were shutting down to get an autograph from Katie B. herself and to chat a little bit with her. She really is just a sweetheart and so nice to all her fans. There was a woman in front of me from a dental office beside the Sobey’s who had no clue who they were but go their autograph anyways and Katie told her what their group name was and where they were based, etc. It was really sweet I have a full roll of just Jakalope on my ghetto cam #2 that will be processed this week and then posted.

To Sai: Katie is wearing the SONIC 102.9 Intern Army uniform. Dave told her to put it on and so she had to jump into it to get it on right

Edit August 07.2006: Ghetto camera #2 to the rescue!

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Last night I went to K-days The Ex Capital Ex more specifically to Ed Fest the outdoor concert venue they were putting on this year. Now I left early from work to get there with enough time to get a good seat, and well I did I was sitting on the sound tech stage for the entire thing as well as for most of the Three Days Grace performance. Last night”s crowd was the largest for the venue to date, even beating Our Lady Peace! Anyways, Tupelo Honey (Local Edmontonian band) was the first opener and they did not bad considering the humid and hot weather, following them was a group from York, Ontario called Oliver Black. They were not bad, but I would prolly not buy their album just from their live performance, a lot of it was just too much and it would have been better if the lead singer had gone less crazy and stopped screaming her lungs out off key.

Finally, at around 9:30 PM Three Days Grace came out! Adam looked really good, he was wearing a nice black shirt with a white silky tie and long black shorts. Think Anthony Kiedis from RHCP, but hotter and younger They started off with Just Like You and the crowd was into it immediately. Some of the other tracks they performed were Scared, Animal I Have Become, Riot (which I laughed when I saw security running around and hoping that we were not going to start one), Get Out Alive, Pain, Never Too Late and one other that I cannot remember for the life of me. Adam was awesome at keeping the crowd into the music and he got everyone to jump and throw up their hands for all of Animal I Have Become and to sing along to Riot. The light show was really well put together and the sound quality was great so kudos to the techs Finally at around 10:40 they ended with a long intro into I Hate Everything About You and the crowd sang/screamed along and let the groove take them. I picked up a tshirt at the merch station before the first group came on, so I could guarantee sizes. I have taken pictures, but the film has yet to be developed, so I will post them when I get the roll back

Edit July 30.2006: I present my ghetto camera pictures of the performance. Click on the thumbnails for a bigger image.

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Just first off let me say, wow. I am still processing what I saw, so allow me a moment to collect my thoughts. The lineup for this concert was crazy it went from the venue up two sets of stairs, outside onto the street, down the street, into the parking lot of the nearby Mariott hotel and around in the lot itself. Doors opened at 8PM and we were in by 8:30PM. The opening band was The Plain White T’s and I highly recommend them, they were pretty damn good and I have them on my list of albums to go out and purchase. Excellent harmonies and lovely lyrics.

Finally A.F.I. came on the stage at around 10:30PM or so and the stage show was amazing. The lights show was well set up and the matching white outfits for all of the guys were spectacular. Davey was on his mark tonight, his voice was hitting all the notes and all the grrs Hunter was running around the stage, jumping off Adam’s drum platform and kicking into the air. Adam was just sitting and keeping the time for the guys. Jade was just hillarious some times, just seeing him gyrate his hips a bit and grind into his guitar was gold. The crowd was feeling the guys tonight, and Davey even ventured out into the crowd letting them hold him up as he sang, and then letting him roll off and get back on stage. My camera that I borrowed is an old ghetto camera, so the picture quality will be horrible. Once I get them developed I will post them here in this entry, so stay tuned.

Edit July 30.2006: I present my ghetto camera pictures of the performance. Click on the thumbnails for a bigger image.
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