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Joe's Top 5 Concerts · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. That's right.
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  We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and listen. My name is Justin and you can
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  call me Band Curious. You can call me that as a
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  nickname if you like. Some people have done it, but
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  what it means is I am indeed curious about bands.
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  I like to talk about them with my friends and normally what we
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  would do on this show is we would get together, talk about a
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  band, and then we would put together a top 10 starter kit
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  list for you to get in the band that we were talking about.
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  We ain't doing that today, man. It's it's a different day, which
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  means we do different daily things, which means, you know,
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  sometimes it's Q&A, sometimes it's whatever the hell.
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  We do lots of different things on these dailies.
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  But today my friend Joe hit me up and was like, hey, man,
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  remember when I asked you your top five concerts and you
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  answered, I'd like to do that? And since we put out the open
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  call, I said, yeah, let's do that.
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  So, I mean, I don't know if you're putting any framework on
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  on your top five or if you're just going it, but the floor is
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  yours. Joe, tell me your top five
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  concerts of all time. Yeah.
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  Well, again, hello everybody. It's great to be back here on
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  Deprogram. It's been a little bit actually.
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  I was just on Deprogram doing the Avril.
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  So that was actually really recently.
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  But you also may Remember Me from past episodes that you can
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  go back in the program Deprogrammed back catalog.
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  If I could talk, I do podcasts. Oh wait, no, I don't actually
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  anymore. But also other shows like you
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  know the story so far, Limp Biscuit and Green Day and Blink
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  182 and also my my wealth of knowledge for female artists
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  like Pink, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift.
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  I did all those episodes too. You go back, listen to that full
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  catalog on D program. Anyway, yeah, I did I did ask
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  you those questions and and these episodes have been great.
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  I love these dailies. And listen, anybody that
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  listened to to John's episode, I'm I'm not going to even get
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  close to that because that man has a is a wealth of knowledge
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  with decades of of experiences, but I'm going to do my very best
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  to at least at least make some good daily content.
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  So but quick little back story. I'll give you a little back
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  story for this. And as you know, Justin, you
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  know, I was a wrestler for almost a decade.
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  So really my going to shows has really only been about the last
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  10 years since I've been out of wrestling.
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  Because what was I doing before that?
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  I was wrestling, wrestling on shows every weekend.
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  I, you know, had, you know, school at work and yada, yada,
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  yada. So like I didn't, I never really
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  went to shows during the week either.
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  So my, my shows have really only been over the last decade.
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  So some of these are are kind of recent in my memory because, you
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  know, as as I've gotten older and more mature, seeing my
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  favorite bands and those special moments have have taken kind of
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  place in my heart, if you will, if you will.
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  And of course, just like just like naming off any top five,
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  obviously I have some honorable mentions.
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  So it's more it's more than 5 here.
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  Fair enough, John got vulnerables too, so.
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  He did, he did. But I again, I know this is a
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  daily. So we'll, we'll try to keep it.
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  We'll try to keep this nice and tight.
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  I do the first honorable mention I want to bring up it's 2000.
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  Let's see. So I would have been in my
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  junior, senior year of high school.
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  So it was 2004 September 2004, it was the American Idiot tour.
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  So I saw Green Day at the Target Center in Minneapolis, MN and
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  this was a great experience that lives forever in my mind because
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  it was me and my three buddies and their girlfriend.
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  Well, she was me and my two other buddies and all of our
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  girlfriends went down to the cities.
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  So Minneapolis, Saint Paul as degenerate teenagers, which I
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  don't know why our parents ever let us do that.
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  We we stayed, stayed down there overnight being degenerate.
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  So I don't know why that ever happened.
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  But anyway, New Found Glory open for them.
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  That was right when Catalyst came out.
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  So they, you know, they were doing that tour and then of
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  course the American Idiot tour, which I mean, arguably that tour
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  for Green Day kind of was peak Green Day, arguably.
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  So that was a very memorable moment, but it only makes
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  honorable mention because it was so long ago seen Jimmy Eat World
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  the first time at the north. This was just a couple years
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  ago. And you know, I I love Jimmy.
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  I I know most of the discography.
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  I can't say that I I know all of it, but that show, first time I
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  ever saw Jimmy and it was just so good.
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  They are so good live, man, like so for for me, even to you know,
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  know them and know most of the of the set list.
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  But it was just so cool to see them play and you can just
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  anybody that's seen them, just you can, you can tell how much
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  they love playing music and, and it really shows in, in their
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  performance. This one I actually just thought
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  of before I texted you the other day.
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  And, and also as a reminder, you know, I want to say that I was
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  like, I'm, I'm going to make, I'll make some time for you,
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  Justin, if you want to make some content, I, I guess I'll make
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  some time for you, buddy. I got you.
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  Let's, let's get these dailies up.
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  So this was summer of 2021. So shows just started to happen
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  again because as we know, the whole COVID thing happened.
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  It was actually this is a band that I'll talk about a little
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  bit later, but it was a headline tour for the story so far.
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  And but I'm I'm not talking about them.
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  This one. This is actually the opening,
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  one of the opening bands movements.
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  The the whole entire band had the covids like that day they
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  got they so like it was literally the lead singer and I
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  don't remember if it was one of the guitar techs or literally
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  just somebody that was travelling with the band.
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  They played an acoustic set instead of their their normal,
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  you know, semi main event set. So you know, like they had to
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  put a whatever that is 45 minutes to play.
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  And this person, again, I don't remember if it was their guitar
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  tech or somebody with the band, but they learned the entire set
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  on acoustic that day so they could do something.
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  And at that point, I didn't know movements, but it was so just
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  like in in the Norva. Again, we're talking about
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  geography here. If you don't know Norfolk, VA,
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  the Norva, but that venue, you know, and it's pretty packed for
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  the most part, but to hear an acoustic set by this band that
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  was just like, yo, we thought about just canceling, but we're
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  like, we can do this. So we're going to give it a
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  shot. And it was so cool.
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  Like it's very memorable, especially to hear an acoustic
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  set like that. It was, it was very cool.
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  The last honorable mention I got to say this, even though I'm
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  going to bring this band up in the actual top five, but my
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  girlfriend and I just went up to Worcester, Mass this past
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  December. Four Year Strong plays the
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  annual holiday show every year in Worcester where they're from.
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  They were playing the show at like an old original venue up
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  there in Worcester called the the Palladium or Palladium.
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  I'm not sure exactly how you say it.
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  It's Boston, but so they they announced that they were going
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  to play essentially the entire Rise or Die Trying album, which
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  is their first full length. They're playing that all the way
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  through. Plus they were shooting the a
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  new music video for heroes get remembered legends Never Die,
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  which is the first song that I found them on Go over a decade
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  ago. So that was really, really cool
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  and I was like, I got to be there for it.
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  So that's a that was a great show to to be there for that.
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  OK, we're done with the honorable mentions.
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  Let's get into the list. And now I was going to do the
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  thing where I was going to say there's no one through 5 because
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  I love all these shows so much. But I'm like, you know what,
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  That's a that's a cop out. You got to you got to put
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  numbers on these things. So I'm going to put numbers off.
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  You got to put numbers off. So at #5 these bands I just
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  talked about, it was, I want to say two years ago, might have
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  been three either way, but it was down in Raleigh, Red Hat
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  Amphitheater, which is a really cool venue, right?
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  Right in downtown Raleigh. Really easy to get to, very
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  accessible, awesome venue. It's similar to, again, we're
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  talking about geography here. Justin, have you been to the The
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  Pavilion out in Portsmouth? Yeah, like the the one across
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  from downtown Norfolk, like you take the ferry to get to it.
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  Yeah. Well, you can drive there, but
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  you don't have to. But yeah, yeah, yeah, it
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  essentially Red Hat in Raleigh's is adjacent to that same, same
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  idea. Nice, nice little, nice little
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  Amphitheatre. So this was great because I got
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  to see all three of my rotating five favorite bands on the same
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  on the same card for your strong opened, followed by the Story so
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  far and then A Day to Remember. So in in in one show, I knocked
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  out three of my top five favorite bands.
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  So that yeah, that right there is super memorable because
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  essentially over the last couple of years I've I've been very
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  choosy on which, which shows I was going to go to just, you
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  know, whether it was travelling or, you know, whatever.
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  I'm old now. I'm old.
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  So so go, go and do a show. We talked about this on after
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  the fact recently. I think I'm old now, man.
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  So, you know, a weeknight show is, is tough for me to do.
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  But anyway, so crossing 3 of my five favorite bands off in one
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  show was was absolutely will live forever.
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  And in my mind #4 Oh my gosh, this one I got to put it at 4
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  just cause the other ones anyway.
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  But it was the reunion tour of the yellow card in Baltimore
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  there. Technically they played a show a
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  few days before in Milwaukee and I think it was like a a festival
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  or something like that. So this was the the first true
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  show of the tour that they were back together after, you know,
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  almost 10 years apart or seven years apart.
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  I got some, I got some. Well, meet them informally.
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  Like it was AVIP kind of meet and greet gimmick, but there's
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  so many of us. There's probably like 100
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  people, you know, before the show.
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  So they just did, you know, like everybody around the stage.
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  They did some like deep cuts where you essentially like
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  called out what you wanted to hear and they played it
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  acoustically. It was like 3 or 4 songs they
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  played acoustically, and that was pure 6 in Baltimore.
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  I forget. I think that's what it was
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  called. But anyway, yeah, that was super
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  because that was my first time to ever see Yellow Card.
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  Super memorable. I thought I would never see them
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  after they, you know, ended in 2014.
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  I want to say it was, and I remember, I remember in 2014
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  when I was like, Dang, they're calling it quits and I never got
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  to see them. And then and shortly after that
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  Chester died. So that was like really gut
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  wrenching for me of like, well, I'm never going to see Linkin
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  Park. I'm never going to see yellow
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  card. That sucks.
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  So anyway, when a yellow card announced that they were going
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  to get back together and do a reunion tour, I, I was
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  definitely on on board for that. And they were super cool.
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  Obviously I didn't talk to them directly, but they were super
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  cool and just you can, you can all kind of the theme here.
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  You could tell that they were so happy to be back playing shows
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  #3 This one is the most recent one.
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  It was at the Dome, man geography dude, the Dome here in
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  Virginia Beach to the new venue. Finally getting to see a
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  headline tour for Simple Plan. That was such a a core memory
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  for me having been a fan of Simple Plans since early 2000s
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  and never being able to get to get to see them.
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  There probably was an opportunity at some point along
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  the way. But again, as, as I've said,
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  like I was either wrestling or I was on deployment in the Navy,
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  you know, whatever the case. So but that was such a great
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  show. And they played some deep cuts
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  too, from songs that I, you know, was sad boy and crying too
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  when I was growing up. So seeing those live were was
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  was amazing. Oh, and like I said, I all these
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  shows I cried at by the way, I'll just throw that out there.
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  If you've heard anything that I've talked about with music, I
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  definitely am a am a crier and all these things I'm I'm talking
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  about either brought me to tears song seeing it live or just
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  being there in person. The atmosphere brought me to
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  tears too. This one.
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  So that was, yeah, 5, That was 3.
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  So #2 Oh my gosh #2 this is, this is tough between one and
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  two. Number two is seeing Sum 41.
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  Technically this for the second time ever, but for the first
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  time headline tour. And it was on their farewell
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  tour of May 2023. I saw them the year before in
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  Charlotte. They opened for the Offspring,
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  but that was a just an opening set.
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  So this is the first time I get to see some 41 headline tour.
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  But it's their last year. Yeah.
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  Well, technically, you know, we'll see what happens in 10
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  years. They want to come back.
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  But that was also at the Norva, which originally it was
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  scheduled to be at the bigger venue here in Norfolk at the Ted
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  Constance Center. Again, there's so much geography
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  here, guys, but so here's a little bit of history.
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  So I got I got this one like like like John would.
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  They were supposed to be in a bigger venue, but because the
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  Norva was actually one of the first American venues that they
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  ever played, coming from Canada when they first started, they
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  moved it to the Norva. So that is cool.
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  It was way oversold and over packed.
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  So we were packed in there like sardines.
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  But so as much as I don't really love that, it was such a good
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  show. And you know, we, we were able
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  to find a little spot where people weren't like sweating on
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  us, you know, but man, just the, the energy all night again, you
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  could, you could tell that they were grateful for their career
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  and, and just how long they could play music.
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  I don't know you, I don't know, you could just tell.
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  And they ended with a little curtain call gimmick.
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  And I'm just sitting there bawling like, oh, thank you guys
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  so happy. But I'm so grateful that I got
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  to see them play. If it's the last time and #1 no
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  surprise, I think you know where I was going with this.
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  But we talked about not being able to see bands ever again.
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  We didn't think it was ever going to happen.
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  But the Blink 182 reunion reunion show in 2023 in DC, you
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  and I were there. We were bawling.
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  We were crying our eyes out because we never thought it was
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  ever going to happen again. To see Mark, Tom and Travis
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  together. Yeah.
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  I mean, I don't think you've you've already brought it up,
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  But that show was amazing and and great because it was the
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  first time that they were back together.
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  When we saw them the following year on the One More Time tour
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  in Raleigh was way better for sure.
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  But you know, the number one in my heart always will will be
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  that reunion tour in DC, considering that we didn't think
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  it was ever going to happen again.
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  Yeah. So that's that's it.
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  I mean, I don't really have a lot of history there, but that's
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  what it's fresh in my mind. If I had, I probably got some
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  other ones that I could come up with, but those are those are
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  the freshest ones in my mind that hold a lot of hold a lot of
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  place in my heart. I just want to tag your your
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  number one, your blank with the fact that it was the emotion of
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  it like again, we we. Didn't.
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  Oh yeah. That we'd ever see those three
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  together on stage again and then like the setlist that they
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  chose. A lot of those songs we didn't
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  think we'd ever get to see played.
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  Yeah. So it was like it was.
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  And then, you know, you and I, we we go together and both of us
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  love Blink so much. And it just, it was the all of
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  it. And like he said, I I feel like
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  even the Charlotte show was a little bit better.
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  And then the next year, the Raleigh show was even better
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  than that. But like none of them had that
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  same thing that that that DC show had.
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  And yeah. Well, the, the, yeah, the, the
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  first one back, you know, I mean, like we, we were obviously
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  those following, following shows, we were hyped to see them
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  again and especially on the One More time tour with the new, the
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  new music. But yeah, you can never mimic,
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  whether we're talking about a farewell show or a coming back
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  show, you can never mimic, mimic that energy and and that's vibe
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  of that. I know it's no shocker that
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  Blink was #1 for you, I just wasn't sure which one you were
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  going to go. Yeah, no, no, that's fair.
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  Yeah, I had, I had to go. I had to go that first original
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  DC-1, I was going to say the Charlotte one because that's the
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  one where Astronoid opened, and I love Astronoid now.
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  The that was those guys were like the Hard Rock instrumental
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  band. I fell in love with you.
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  I fell in love with Turnstile on that tour too, because we get to
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  see. Them Yeah, yeah, turnstile slaps
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  too. So actually, I, I did just think
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  of one more honorable mention and you're you're going to,
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  you're going to chuckle. Actually, if I'm not going to
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  say anything honorable mention seeing you play live in Hampton
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  there whenever that was time. I don't know that it was
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  sometime recently, but I, I truly say that because to see my
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  friend up there playing songs that he wrote holds a place in
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  my heart always. I know you're never going to
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  talk about it, but seeing the Undercutters play live holds a
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  place in my heart as well. Seeing my seeing my friend play
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  his music that he created. So that holds a place in my
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  heart too. I know you're you're never going
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  to say it though, so screw off. I love you.
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  Love you too, brother. Well folks, on on that note, on
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  this terribly red faced note, I got to wrap it up.
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  What day this lands on? You guys will find out when I do
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  what day this actually lands on. So we'll see you all tomorrow.
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  Goodbye.