Patent Pending Review! See them Saturday!

Being the music nerd I am belong to a message board system of one of my favorite bands (it shouldn’t take you too long to figure out who if you know me well enough). I was happily surprised when I stumbled upon one of my fellow boardies who had an icon from a band I liked that I did not think were very popular. This inspired me to write a review on Patent Pending’s Save Each Other, The Whales Are Doing Fine.

I would also like to make you aware that Patent Pending will be playing this year’s Italian Heritage Festival in Clarksburg, WV on Saturday September 5th. (I’ve included the flyer from the show above). My good friend Alex Voldeck has been lucky enough to book them again this year. You might notice a line up change from last year, lead singer Michael Ragosta left the band to be replaced by guitarist and back up vocalists Joe Ragosta. This is be the first time I have been able to see Paten Pending live but I’ve already been told their amazing stage presence. Plus you might even see me there if you look hard enough!

The first time I listened to Save Each Other, The Whales Are Doing Fine I was stunned that this band wasn’t bigger than they were. Not only are they a good band but they also combine that with being very mainstream-able. Normally people take main stream as a bad thing but not necessarily. If you can pull off being good and having the potential to be the next big thing then my props to you.

I’m gonna skip through my normal bullshit and tell you my three favorite tracks and why.

“Decemberween”: This is my favorite song on the whole album. The rest of the album leans more towards pop punk but this definitely has a lot of ska influence. The song will hold your attention all the way through without leaving you hanging somewhere in the middle.

“Cheer up Emo Kid”: Subject matter wise, I always get a chuckle out of hearing this song. Even though dated (come on emo was like three years ago, its all about being scene now) there will always be a group of kids brainwashed by a certain kind of music so the message is still relevant. Though I get lost at the little sing along slow part towards the end.

“The June Spirt”: Vocally this song is the best on the album. Lyrically I love the bitterness and revenge angle (I don’t know what that says about me). This song only furthers my belief that they have the potential to open up for bands like Blink-182.

So there you have it. Three reasons why you should by this album now and why I will be seeing you saturday! Don't forget to say hi!

Blink-182 Concert Review! Aug 14th at The Post Gazette Pavillion

Incase you didn't know,I attended the concert of my life. My friend Alexis and I got there early so we could snag merch in our sizes (for some reason all the smalls sell out really fast). First thing that pissed me off was they wouldn't let us take in our draw string nike backpacks. Last year at warped tour they let us in with them but this time we had to pretty much throw them away (almost like throwing $20 away).

I'm gonna skip going in to every little detail about the concert, since I know you probably hate reading. I'm just going to do a "quick"review on each of the bands before I drop the pictures on you.

Cheaster French: I'll be honestly with you, I had never heard of this band before I saw them on the line-up for the concert. They suprized me by being good. Thier songs were up beat and danceable. I guess they made a rap cd too because the lead singer was talking about it but I did not hear them rapping. I actully think I'm going to check this band out, maybe they'll even be review worthy!

Panic(!) at the Disco: My history with Panic is alittle rocky. I felt indiffernet when I found out they were going to be playing this show. I really liked thier first cd when it first came out and no one knew about them. But then Pete Wentz had to run his mouth all over MTV and plug them and then at one point there were bigger than Fall Out Boy. That's when I stopped liking them. This was only more confirmed when they put out Pretty. Odd. After seeing them live at this show, my apperication for them was found again. Brendon Urie sang perfectly live. The band mostly played songs off of thier first album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. I think they only played two songs off of Pretty. Odd (one of those being the single "Nine in the Afternoon"). Brendon was funny and nice. Over all I thought they did a wonderful job and I would even concider seeing them again!

Fall Out Boy: I'm not even just saying this because I'm a hardcore FOB fan but Fall Out Boy have gotten so much better live. I was expecting alot less from them because I had seen TV performances where they sounded awful. But FOB has grown alot since I saw them two years ago at the same venue for the Honda Civic Tour. Patrick sang perfectly and didn't skip around with the words. Pete talked most of the time, typical Pete, but i enjoyed his little remarks none the less. I was very impressed by the setlist they chose to play. They picked alot of old favorites to play, even ones that weren't singles. The best part of thier show was when Pete had the audience decide on weather we wanted to wear "The Take Over" or a very old song. Not knowing what we were in store for, the crowd went nuts and picked the "very old song". Suddenly Brendon Urie came on stage and they started to play a cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' ". I don't even like Journey and I thought this was incredible. Fall Out Boy have always been known for bringing other bands out on stage with them to do a song. I remembered why Fall Out Boy is my favorite band after thier performance.

Blink-182: Somehow me and Alexis mangaged to seat hop up closer than we already were. The back ground for blink's show was neat (as pictured below). The had a large bunny set up near some of the amps (the bunny is blink's logo except this bunny was revamped from the 90's one we are so used to). They came out and ripped the stage apart with "Dumpweed" as thier first song. I have to say Blink's preformance was the best I have ever seen live. They choose alot of great songs, including all of thier hits and alot of fan favorites. Though the setlist seems like it might have been recycled from thier Greatest Hits tour before thier hiatus. I do wish they would have played more songs from Duderanch. Mark and Tom were as funny as ever. It reminded me of being able to experience TheMark, Tom, and Travis Show Live. I am still in awe. I am so greatful that I got to go to this show. It was way worth the $83.50 I paid for the ticket.

PICTURE TIME! I picked the best pictures out of the ones I took. Really these pictures don't do justice to where our seats were. Towards the end when Blink was playing my camera started to screw up and not focus in on anything.

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