Four Year Strong We All Float Down Here What The Hell Is A Gigawatt? Maniac (R.O.D.) Go Down In History Find My Way Back Who Cares? It Must Really Suck To Be FYS Right Now Wasting Time (Eternal Summer) Pretty meh set, didn't sound that great either. Wish they'd cut a song for Heroes, weird seeing them not play that. Definitely a band I can skip this summer.
If I were attending this date: 11:50 - Broadside 12:20 Issues 1:22 - The Story So Far 2:00 - Vanna (Would probably honestly just wait to get as close as I could for SC) 2:24 - State Champs 3:00 - Every Time I Die 4:00 - Oceans Ate Alaska 4:30 - Wage War/Four Year Strong (toss up) 5:10 - With Confidence (Would probably leave early to catch next set) 5:30 - Tonight Alive (the girl I'm going with' main reason for going) 5:50 - Like Pacific 6:15 - Knuckle Puck 7:00 - Cruel Hand 7:30 - Motionless in White Seems like I would be at the Monster Stages a lot more than I thought I would be. Doing this shows me how much Sum 41 adds to the lineup for me. Without it this feels like a meh day.
Probably because Ronnie has made himself a controversial "celebrity" in the scene. He gets a lot of attention cause of the shit he's pulled.
FIR is really just a fun, entertaining band in my opinion. I can see why people don't like them though
Like I understand being famous for doing shitty things/being a shitty celebrity, but is it too much to ask to write good music if you're going to be an unbearable human being. I'm sorry but if anyone else in this scene threw 3 fucking mic stands into the audience injuring their audience they would not have this huge of a crowd, but because it's Ronnie it's just another thing to add to the list of scumbag things Ronnie has done. At least on the positive side of things it'll be easier to get to other stages during their set if this many people will be watching.
You know the mic stand thing isn't THAT big of a deal. Josh Scogin does it at '68 shows all the time. Someone just happened to get hurt with FIR. You can get just as hurt by a crowd surfer or a drumstick being tossed into the crowd.
Yeah, you typically get good music from these types but he hasn't come up with anything good since DIYLF. It perplexes me too man, I don't get how he has so many backers either. I think part of it is that a large portion of his fan base are overprotective 14 year-old girls that blindly support him.