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23 Goldstar Member Reviews

Gregory Santana

We miss Mastodon because of the long will call line.

The Deftones are exactly what they are screaming & loud cords. Almost all of their material starts sounding the same with a few slower songs to really show how good they are musicians & vocals can be. My companion got so tired, she slept through it. The light show was way more interesting than the music.

Alice in Chains was way better, harking to strong classic heavy metal and a clear sound to distinguish who was playing. The vocalist are clear and don't get drowned by the instruments & drums. The lighting effects were good but occasionally miss with the music, but only noticeable to a sharp eye.

Beware that this kind of audience that does not care whom is seating behind them when they want to stand through out the show. Lucky there were places to move to see the show.

Gibson main floor is great for this kind of standing crowd and the balcony for seating providing your up front or enough seats to move to.

I would attend another Alice in Chains without the Deftones.

Written on Oct 13 2010

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Murph

Missed Mastodon because of the ridiculously long and ill-staffed will call lines. Deftones were amazing. Alice in Chains set was heavy on new/more recent songs which were fine (At best...) and played some of their hits, but they could have played way, way, way more songs off Dirt and Jar of Flies. Also, it would have helped to have Layne there. A shame he's no longer with us. The new frontman is cheeseball all the way.

Written on Oct 13 2010

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Louie

Intenese! Mastodon was awesome! Tight! As always. Have seen them so many times before. They never miss a note or beat. Although their mix could have been better but honestly their mix is always kinda off everytime I've seen em. Mayeb they just need a new sound guy.
The Deftones were great. I haven't seen the Deftones in almost ten years. And they are still just as great. High energy. Perhaps the most energy of the night. Was great to hear them rock tunes off of Adrenaline.
Alice in Chains was perfect. They were so tight and on it was almost sickening at how perfect they sounded. And can that new vocalist of theirs sing his ass off. Sure! he ain't no Layne Staley and their never can be another like him , but this guy does those earlier Alice songs justice. All in all the whole night was great.

Written on Oct 14 2010

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odalesque17

This was awesome and the seats were exceptional. The friend I brought was so surprised by how great the seats were for an online site. I had never been to this venue and it is now my favorite because parking is a snap at $10.00, you can grab food there, sound great and leaving the venue is the best---no long lines to deal with or a small exit with a thousand cars to push through.

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Written on Oct 20 2010

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Alice in Chains: In many ways, Alice in Chains was the definitive heavy metal band of the early '90s. Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen  metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. They were hard enough for metal fans, yet their dark subject matter and punky attack placed them among the front ranks of the Seattle-based grunge bands. While this dichotomy helped the group soar to multi-platinum status with their second album, 1992's Dirt, it also divided them. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell always leaned toward the mainstream, while vocalist Layne Staley was fascinated with the seamy underground. Such tension drove the band toward stardom in their early years, but following Dirt, Alice in Chains suffered from near-crippling internal tensions that kept the band off the road for the remainder of the '90s and, consequently, the group never quite fulfilled their potential.

In April 2002, the news that every Alice in Chains fan had been fearing for years had finally come to pass: Layne Staley was found dead due to a lethal overdose of cocaine and heroin. Alice in Chains spent the next few years in limbo, eventually reuniting in 2005 for a benefit show with Damageplan vocalist Pat Lachman filling in for the deceased Staley. After rotating through a handful of different singers, the group eventually settled on Comes with the Fall vocalist William DuVall, who appeared on the group's 2009 comeback record Black Gives Way to Blue.-- Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato

Deftones: Deftones were one of the first groups to alternate heavy riffs and screamed vocals with more ethereal music and hushed singing -- spawning a fair amount of imitators in their wake. The group first formed in Sacramento, CA during 1988, when then high-school students Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Abe Cunningham (drums), and Chino Moreno  (vocals) first began to jam together. They chose the name Deftones and began playing out locally shortly thereafter, going through several different bass players before finding a permanent bassist in the form of Chi Cheng. Although the group was more heavy metal-based early on, the early '90s saw Deftones expand their sound even further, inspired by such groundbreakers as Tool, Rage Against the Machine, and Faith No More. In 2010 the band released a new album, Diamond Eyes.--Greg Prato

Mastodon: Atlanta-based sludge/stoner/alternative metal outfit Mastodon formed in 1999 around the talents of guitarist Bill Kelliher, drummer Bränn Dailor, bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders, and guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds. One of the more notable New Wave of American Heavy Metal acts, a genre spawned in the mid-'90s by bands like Pantera, Biohazard, and Machine Head, Mastodon's innovative, lyrically astute blend of progressive metal, grindcore, and hardcore helped position the band as one of the preeminent metal acts of the early 21st century.

The band's third album, Blood Mountain, debuted at number 32 on the Billboard charts and received a Grammy nomination in the Best Metal Performance category for the song "Colony of Birchmen." Blood Mountain marked the band's highest chart peak, and set the stage for its long-awaited 2009 follow-up, Crack the Skye.-- James Christopher Monger