HEVYDEVY FORUMS

Did you see this show with DTP, Scale The Summit, Cynic and Between The Buried And Me at Slim's in San Francisco, CA?

Please post your reviews, setlists, photos and video links here!

Thanks,

Mikey
hevydevy.com

The following, up until the photos, is a repost of my ramblings about my attendance of an amazing, super special acoustic set earlier on in the day:

It was awesome. Just me, Devin209 and the recording crew and Dev.

This is kinda out of order but the following was played:

Some nameless ghost stuff without lyrics
A bit of a jam from Deconstruction
Terminal
Ki
Some new song for ghost with a kinda rockabilly rhythm called (I think... sorry was in a bit of a euphoric daze) Radio Highway
Lady Helen
Coast
The intro of Dynamics (OMG YES!)
and Quiet Riot

Followed by some cheesing with Stairway to Heaven by Zep and Dream On by Aerosmith.

Talked to dev and goofed around a bit, he talked to one of the guys about production

Lessee, got a signed poster and guitar pick

Ghost seems to be the working maybe final title of the 4th album, it's going to still be a low key release (he says no one will want it, I beg to differ, it's fun as hell.)

Some info on the visuals for the australian leg of the concert tour: Planet Earth BBC stuff (which should be awesome for you Ozzies)

And it looks like he's coordinating a choir for australia and one for the special vancouver show that doesn't have a date yet but should be in like May.

Nicest dude in the whole world, and I am happy to have such a great person as my favorite artist, truly remarkable meeting him in the way we did.

Keep on pursuing the Mooz (inside joke) Dev.


Sorry if I've oversaturated the forums with these:

Here's simultaneously the worst and most awesome photo I've ever taken:

And a couple of cheesey shots from like 2 blocks from the studio:




As a follow up and a later reflection on the acoustic set... that was really special. The thing is, I'm not sure I'll ever have the opportunity to basically have a private concert with my favorite musician ever again. That was really something else. holy crap. Amazing.


As for the show, my brother joined up with me (he came across the bay) and we showed up about 45 minutes early. Pretty long line, and to be honest, a pretty evenly distributed amount of fans for each group with Btbam having a slight majority. That was super cool. I talked to really cool people from each faction tonight, and I think that just reinvested my faith in metalheads as a whole. Maybe I just need to go to more nerdy concerts.

I ran into an old roommate and his girlfriend, as well as another good friend and another lady as well. Even more interesting was seeing little Spencer Edwards who grew up down the street from me, 18 years old, 6'2 and an epic metal drummer these days.

But I digress. Hey it's not like I'm going for the Pulitzer with these ramblings.

Scale the Summit came first, and based on early reviews from other forum goers and a few listens on their myspace, I wasn't exactly sold. However, despite a lot of their set sounding same-y, I was actually quite impressed. Probably the 2nd most impressive band of the night (more on that later). I mean these kids are basically my age and are playing something that's kinda been there done that, but I liked their energy and enthusiasm.

Devin came on and was basically a beast and a showman, the set was the exact same as it has been for all of the first leg of this tour but that's ok. Disruptr heavy and live is killer... it's an entirely different song. Something he did differently this time was sing Anneke's parts on Supercrush, and I think that was a spectacular choice. Hey, she's not always going to be around, and that song should be a staple of his catalogue forever, soooo yeah. Amazing. Kingdom was never a song I had on repeat, but live it ruled. An odd thing happened during Truth, where Dev and I had this moment of acknowledgement based on hanging out earlier, which was great because he went right back to making monster faces at the crowd right afterwards. I was mildly disappointed when OM didn't fully realize itself, but Dev made a pretty funny/spot-on comment about how the fact that infinity exists is about as heavy of a concept as there could possibly be. By Your Command totally caught the crowd by surprise and everyone (even my mostly skeptical friend Mike) seemed to be into it. The crowd was certainly feeding off of Dev and I saw only like 2 undignified bros, one of which asked him to him his tits as they were unloading their gear. Though I can only speak for the front half of the venue.

Disruptr
Supercrush (Now with Devin singing verses!)
Kingdom
Truth
OM
By Your Command

Cynic was alright and basically 80% awesome except Paul Masvidal's vocals and spoken word killed it for me. It went from being awesome to shit but me still acknowledging their great musicianship. For example, I'm going to blame the levels, but there's an echo effect and an octave harmonizing effect that he uses life that sounds like a poor man's auto-tune. It doesn't sound like that on the album, and I'm no stickler for things being perfect, but whatever delay that was there just made it even worse. And while it was cute that we all did Yoga together, but for fuck's sake, snap out of the peyote dreams.

All in all, me, my brother, my ex-roommate Donnie, his girlfriend, the dude behind us with the scale the summit tab book, we all just wanted more Dev. Which was really cool, and really reassuring for the future of the human race.

We left pretty much right after BTBAM started. Honestly from the get go I knew it wasn't for me.
I could say so much more, but it truly was a day I will remember for the rest of my life.

EDIT: Oh yeah and no one moshed. At least before BTBAM started.

It was refreshing.

So, so jealous. That's awesome stuff.

great review, well done.

can't wait til he's coming to Austria!

Yeah and I wanna hear how the verses sound with Dev having a go himself. Thanks for sharing the review.

Octillus wrote:The following, up until the photos, is a repost of my ramblings about my attendance of an amazing, super special acoustic set earlier on in the day:

It was awesome. Just me, Devin209 and the recording crew and Dev.

This is kinda out of order but the following was played:

Some nameless ghost stuff without lyrics
A bit of a jam from Deconstruction
Terminal
Ki
Some new song for ghost with a kinda rockabilly rhythm called (I think... sorry was in a bit of a euphoric daze) Radio Highway
Lady Helen
Coast
The intro of Dynamics (OMG YES!)
and Quiet Riot

Followed by some cheesing with Stairway to Heaven by Zep and Dream On by Aerosmith.

Talked to dev and goofed around a bit, he talked to one of the guys about production

Lessee, got a signed poster and guitar pick

Ghost seems to be the working maybe final title of the 4th album, it's going to still be a low key release (he says no one will want it, I beg to differ, it's fun as hell.)

Some info on the visuals for the australian leg of the concert tour: Planet Earth BBC stuff (which should be awesome for you Ozzies)

And it looks like he's coordinating a choir for australia and one for the special vancouver show that doesn't have a date yet but should be in like May.

Nicest dude in the whole world, and I am happy to have such a great person as my favorite artist, truly remarkable meeting him in the way we did.

Keep on pursuing the Mooz (inside joke) Dev.


Sorry if I've oversaturated the forums with these:

Here's simultaneously the worst and most awesome photo I've ever taken:

And a couple of cheesey shots from like 2 blocks from the studio:




As a follow up and a later reflection on the acoustic set... that was really special. The thing is, I'm not sure I'll ever have the opportunity to basically have a private concert with my favorite musician ever again. That was really something else. holy crap. Amazing.


As for the show, my brother joined up with me (he came across the bay) and we showed up about 45 minutes early. Pretty long line, and to be honest, a pretty evenly distributed amount of fans for each group with Btbam having a slight majority. That was super cool. I talked to really cool people from each faction tonight, and I think that just reinvested my faith in metalheads as a whole. Maybe I just need to go to more nerdy concerts.

I ran into an old roommate and his girlfriend, as well as another good friend and another lady as well. Even more interesting was seeing little Spencer Edwards who grew up down the street from me, 18 years old, 6'2 and an epic metal drummer these days.

But I digress. Hey it's not like I'm going for the Pulitzer with these ramblings.

Scale the Summit came first, and based on early reviews from other forum goers and a few listens on their myspace, I wasn't exactly sold. However, despite a lot of their set sounding same-y, I was actually quite impressed. Probably the 2nd most impressive band of the night (more on that later). I mean these kids are basically my age and are playing something that's kinda been there done that, but I liked their energy and enthusiasm.

Devin came on and was basically a beast and a showman, the set was the exact same as it has been for all of the first leg of this tour but that's ok. Disruptr heavy and live is killer... it's an entirely different song. Something he did differently this time was sing Anneke's parts on Supercrush, and I think that was a spectacular choice. Hey, she's not always going to be around, and that song should be a staple of his catalogue forever, soooo yeah. Amazing. Kingdom was never a song I had on repeat, but live it ruled. An odd thing happened during Truth, where Dev and I had this moment of acknowledgement based on hanging out earlier, which was great because he went right back to making monster faces at the crowd right afterwards. I was mildly disappointed when OM didn't fully realize itself, but Dev made a pretty funny/spot-on comment about how the fact that infinity exists is about as heavy of a concept as there could possibly be. By Your Command totally caught the crowd by surprise and everyone (even my mostly skeptical friend Mike) seemed to be into it. The crowd was certainly feeding off of Dev and I saw only like 2 undignified bros, one of which asked him to him his tits as they were unloading their gear. Though I can only speak for the front half of the venue.

Disruptr
Supercrush (Now with Devin singing verses!)
Kingdom
Truth
OM
By Your Command

Cynic was alright and basically 80% awesome except Paul Masvidal's vocals and spoken word killed it for me. It went from being awesome to shit but me still acknowledging their great musicianship. For example, I'm going to blame the levels, but there's an echo effect and an octave harmonizing effect that he uses life that sounds like a poor man's auto-tune. It doesn't sound like that on the album, and I'm no stickler for things being perfect, but whatever delay that was there just made it even worse. And while it was cute that we all did Yoga together, but for fuck's sake, snap out of the peyote dreams.

All in all, me, my brother, my ex-roommate Donnie, his girlfriend, the dude behind us with the scale the summit tab book, we all just wanted more Dev. Which was really cool, and really reassuring for the future of the human race.

We left pretty much right after BTBAM started. Honestly from the get go I knew it wasn't for me.
I could say so much more, but it truly was a day I will remember for the rest of my life.

EDIT: Oh yeah and no one moshed. At least before BTBAM started.

It was refreshing.

yeah bro, I was the dude you were talking to outside of the show

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Part of it

wyldweasil wrote:[youtube]lIIyfKkapzA[/youtube]

Part of it

Nope, that was NAMM, the full length of the acoustic show will be posted next week.

It is
http://www.mevio.com/episode/209262/devin-townsend-acoustic-on-mevio-underground

Downloadable video: http://m.podshow.com/media/19560/episod ... 3-2010.mp4

Biert wrote:Downloadable video: http://m.podshow.com/media/19560/episod ... 3-2010.mp4

Thank you for that.

Octillus
Don't you know, what song Dev performs between

The intro of Dynamics (OMG YES!)
and Quiet Riot

with words "I want you, bla-bla-bla". I have no idea about it.

CyclopZ wrote:Octillus
Don't you know, what song Dev performs between

The intro of Dynamics (OMG YES!)
and Quiet Riot

with words "I want you, bla-bla-bla". I have no idea about it.

Oh I left that off the tracklist and I had been meaning to edit it in. He just said that it was song he had just written, probably for Ghost.