A Night I'll Never Forget Pt. 1

Last night I had several extremely interesting experiences. Yesterday was the Matthew Good concert, and I was pumped, because I couldn't go to see him the last time he came through Edmonton, as it was a licensed event, ergo no minors. However this time he played at Red's so it was an all ages gig. It started out all good, I hopped the bus at clareview station, took it to WEM, and got in line, and I was near the front of the line too, so that was a bonus. The show started, limblifter was on first, they fucking rocked, I advise anyone who reads this to go out and get their CD's, great Canadian music. After limblifter came auf der maur, now Melissa Auf Der Maur was the bass player for both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, now that is a pretty impressive resume. auf der maur was interesting, imagine a Canadian, female version of Tool, that's the impression I got from it, quite intriguing. Next was the main event...........And it was worth the wait. He started out with a modified version of 21st century living, and it was cool, then came hello timebomb, and weapon, alert condition red, and a whole lot of stuff that I had never heard before, it was spectacular. But to end it all, he did a extremely powerful version of apparition, it was awesome, just him on stage with his acoustic. Then came the encore, load me up followed by carmalina, but here's where I did a very bad thing, I left before the show was truly over, but I had my reasons. However the truly great part of the night was in between the songs, the social/political commentary was truly great, everything I expected from him and more. He hates Ralph Klein, he's anti missile defense, he thinks that the people who stay in the jungle rooms at the fantasyland hotel have something wrong with them, I mean who wakes up to go and take a bath in a goddamn volcano? Oh yes, I mustn't forget, on the topic of missile defense, if you don't want our fearless prime minister to make another monumental failure, go to http://www.ceasefire.ca and send a letter to Mr. Martin to tell him that we as a nation will have no part in some grand American Empire scheme those republican fools down south are trying.

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