Concert Review: Three Days Grace, Army of Anyone, and Glass Intrepid
I ventured to the Verizon last night for a little show called Buzzfestivus featuring local openers Glass Intrepid followed by Army of Anyone, featuring the DeLeo brothers from Stone Temple Pilots and Richard Patrick from Filter, and finally Three Days Grace. Admitted I, your humble slower than a crippled turtle reporter, was a little late so I can't do Glass Intrepid justice as I only heard three songs and only remember the title of one of them, the closer "Whatever It Takes". Based on the three songs I did hear I was impressed enough to pick up their CD The Best is Yet to Come.
Army of Anyone took the stage and went into a solid rendition of "Generation" followed by "It Doesn't Seem to Matter" both of which are excellent energetic songs. Sadly it seems as though they fell victim to the radio show crowd. The show had been promoted almost entirely as Buzzfestivus featuring Three Days Grace (insert long pause) with Army of Anyone and Glass Intrepid (said quickly to finish the 20 second spot). That said there was a significant portion of the crowd that was into it. Highlights of the AoA tunes were the two opening tracks and “Father Figure” which got the show off to a quick start though many of the younger 3DG fans hadn’t caught on at that point. As with any “supergroup” there’s always a few relics of their past musical lives. “Vasoline” and “Big Bang Baby” were outstandingly done and had the crowd energized. They did perform one other STP song; however, it escapes me as to which non-single it was. From the Filter side, they played 2 of my 3 favorite Filter songs with “Welcome to the Fold” and “Hey Man, Nice Shot” It was a shame when they play “Non-Stop” that the crowd seemed a little down because that song is spectacular live. As one would expect they closed with the radio single “Goodbye” which was a solid ending and the only AoA song where even the “we’re just here for Three Days Grace” faction was into it (they participated in the STP and Filter segments but were notably absent from most of the AoA material.
Three Days Grace was next up after the standard radio show pause to introduce the radio staff and obligatory picture. They started of quickly with the radio-friendly “Animal I Have Become from their most recent release One-X followed quickly by “Time of Dying” to keep the energy up. I’m not going to pretend to remember the exact order of everything. I was very pleased with the mix between the self-titled record and One-X. Of the 1 songs they played 8 were from the first album and 7 from the second one. This allowed them to play a number of non-singles the highlights of which included “Wake Up”, “Riot” (both of which had significant crowd participation) and “Scared”. I was pleased they played “Never Too Late” which I very much enjoy. Their set did include an interesting break at one point with Adam essentially playing solo a pretty decent rendition of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” which turned out better than most of the stunned crowd expected.
All in all it was another in my recent string of consecutive good shows which stretches back to about May of this year.
Army of Anyone took the stage and went into a solid rendition of "Generation" followed by "It Doesn't Seem to Matter" both of which are excellent energetic songs. Sadly it seems as though they fell victim to the radio show crowd. The show had been promoted almost entirely as Buzzfestivus featuring Three Days Grace (insert long pause) with Army of Anyone and Glass Intrepid (said quickly to finish the 20 second spot). That said there was a significant portion of the crowd that was into it. Highlights of the AoA tunes were the two opening tracks and “Father Figure” which got the show off to a quick start though many of the younger 3DG fans hadn’t caught on at that point. As with any “supergroup” there’s always a few relics of their past musical lives. “Vasoline” and “Big Bang Baby” were outstandingly done and had the crowd energized. They did perform one other STP song; however, it escapes me as to which non-single it was. From the Filter side, they played 2 of my 3 favorite Filter songs with “Welcome to the Fold” and “Hey Man, Nice Shot” It was a shame when they play “Non-Stop” that the crowd seemed a little down because that song is spectacular live. As one would expect they closed with the radio single “Goodbye” which was a solid ending and the only AoA song where even the “we’re just here for Three Days Grace” faction was into it (they participated in the STP and Filter segments but were notably absent from most of the AoA material.
Three Days Grace was next up after the standard radio show pause to introduce the radio staff and obligatory picture. They started of quickly with the radio-friendly “Animal I Have Become from their most recent release One-X followed quickly by “Time of Dying” to keep the energy up. I’m not going to pretend to remember the exact order of everything. I was very pleased with the mix between the self-titled record and One-X. Of the 1 songs they played 8 were from the first album and 7 from the second one. This allowed them to play a number of non-singles the highlights of which included “Wake Up”, “Riot” (both of which had significant crowd participation) and “Scared”. I was pleased they played “Never Too Late” which I very much enjoy. Their set did include an interesting break at one point with Adam essentially playing solo a pretty decent rendition of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” which turned out better than most of the stunned crowd expected.
All in all it was another in my recent string of consecutive good shows which stretches back to about May of this year.
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