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FireGilbert · 05-01-2020, 07:16 PM

I'm been to a few great shows in my day. Pearl Jam and Radiohead arena shows come to mind and also smaller shows seeing Bad Religion at the House of Blues in Vegas, Japandroids at a 500 person venue and The Flatliners/A Wilhelm Scream at a 50 person venue. There was also a time back in 2006 when I took advantage of a connection for free tickets to any show at Mac Hall. Social Distortion was probably the best and most memorable of those.

The one I want to discuss though occurred at a punk and metal festival in Brisbane in 2010 featuring Frenzal Rhomb, Parkway Drive, NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Dropkick Murphys, GWAR, Megadeth, and The Descendants to name a few.

It was a miserable cold and rainy day unusual for Brisbane and a sign of the crazy flooding to come a month later. Still I was having a good time. The mosh pit for Parkway Drive was one of the craziest I had ever seen and watching The Dropkick Murphys in the pouring rain was a cool experience. The best part was being saved for last though with The Descendants, on their first ever tour of Australia, being the final act on the punk stage. Their set started off normal but it soon became evident there was a big problem. Milo Aukerman was losing his voice! Normally this would have been a deal breaker but thankfully there were a number of punk rock singers back stage very familiar with Descendants lyrics. So we were treated a line up of Fat Mike, Spike Slawson, Al Barr, and Jay Whalley on stage performing what was essentially Descendants karaoke. So cool!

05-01-2020, 07:16 PM	#51
FireGilbert Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Brisbane Exp:	I'm been to a few great shows in my day. Pearl Jam and Radiohead arena shows come to mind and also smaller shows seeing Bad Religion at the House of Blues in Vegas, Japandroids at a 500 person venue and The Flatliners/A Wilhelm Scream at a 50 person venue. There was also a time back in 2006 when I took advantage of a connection for free tickets to any show at Mac Hall. Social Distortion was probably the best and most memorable of those. The one I want to discuss though occurred at a punk and metal festival in Brisbane in 2010 featuring Frenzal Rhomb, Parkway Drive, NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Dropkick Murphys, GWAR, Megadeth, and The Descendants to name a few. It was a miserable cold and rainy day unusual for Brisbane and a sign of the crazy flooding to come a month later. Still I was having a good time. The mosh pit for Parkway Drive was one of the craziest I had ever seen and watching The Dropkick Murphys in the pouring rain was a cool experience. The best part was being saved for last though with The Descendants, on their first ever tour of Australia, being the final act on the punk stage. Their set started off normal but it soon became evident there was a big problem. Milo Aukerman was losing his voice! Normally this would have been a deal breaker but thankfully there were a number of punk rock singers back stage very familiar with Descendants lyrics. So we were treated a line up of Fat Mike, Spike Slawson, Al Barr, and Jay Whalley on stage performing what was essentially Descendants karaoke. So cool! __________________ The masses of humanity have always had to surf.