{"id":1884,"date":"2010-04-28T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2010-04-28T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:28:13","slug":"3-shows-in-a-week-high-on-fire-white-rabbits-and-straighten-the-crooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2010\/04\/28\/3-shows-in-a-week-high-on-fire-white-rabbits-and-straighten-the-crooked\/","title":{"rendered":"3 shows in a week. High On Fire, White Rabbits and Straighten The Crooked"},"content":{"rendered":"

My groin injury was preventing me from skating so what better time to go to some concerts and enjoy a few cold ones? \u00a0The first show was High On Fire on 4\/20. \u00a0Yeap. \u00a0On the hill in Boulder on 4\/20. \u00a0Zach thought the metal music would keep the hippies away. \u00a0Nope.\"\"We may have missed the opening band, but the band that was on was bad enough we went to drink tall cans in the alley. Dave, Zach, Jason and PJ.\"\"Everyone went to this show. \u00a0Jason and Gordon. \u00a0I didn’t listen to much of Priestess. \u00a0What I heard reminded me of why I didn’t make an effort to hear them.\"\"High On Fire. \u00a0I’m not going to claim I was much of a fan before this show. \u00a0I thought after how much I enjoyed Tauntaun it would be worth it to see another metal band. \u00a0To say I was let down is an understatement. \u00a0I tried to enjoy them and I think during the encore I finally saw what people like about this band, but it wasn’t what I like in metal. \u00a0Not enough chords. \u00a0Not enough sludge\/grunge. \u00a0A boring ass drummer. \u00a0Seriously, how can you have a boring drummer in a metal band? \u00a0Not enough big powerful riffs, etc. \u00a0Oh well, my friends that like them said the show was good so there you go.\"\"The next night Liz and I went back to the Fox to see White Rabbits. \u00a0We arrived early enough to see the opening act Here We Go Magic. \u00a0They were decent. \u00a0At times great. \u00a0They have the potential to be a really good indie rock band, but it’s not there yet. \u00a0Good opener though.\"\"White Rabbits came on and established immediately that they were gonna put on a fantastic show. \u00a0It’s funny how the drumming in a pop\/indie rock band like White Rabbits could blow away the drumming from metal heads High On Fire. \u00a0It completely did though. \u00a0At times there would be 3 Rabbits beating the hell out of the drums. \u00a0It was amazing. \u00a0I’ve only mentioned the drums, but everything was on point. \u00a0The singing was perfection as well.\"\"During the encore most of Here We go Magic joined the Rabbits on stage. \u00a0Everyone was having a blast and the music was still kicking. \u00a0Yes, that is Beaver from Leave It To Beaver on the guitar.\"\"Look at all the dudes beating up the drums! \u00a0Show of the year so far! \u00a0Not only was the show so great, but it quickly established White Rabbits as a new favorite and a band I will never pass on seeing live again.\"\"A few nights later Liz, Carleigh, John and I went to see my friend Zach’s first ever show with his new band Straighten The Crooked. \u00a0I had heard some mp3s beforehand so I knew the show would be decent, but it ended up surpassing all expectations quickly. \u00a0The music is kinda like Kyuss or something. \u00a0Grungy metal or whatever you call it. \u00a0I was impressed with the bass and how it didn’t just play along with the guitar. \u00a0The whole show was more creative and impressive then I thought it would be and I went in with somewhat high expectation. \u00a0And yes I thought they were way better than High On Fire. \u00a0 Kudos Zach!\"\"Liz and Carleigh thinking about the two hot dudes moshing by themselves and running into Zach’s parents. \u00a0Or maybe they were thinking about throwing their drinks at the barricade in front of the drums.\"\"Proof that Liz actually thought I was funny that night. \u00a0Unheard of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My groin injury was preventing me from skating so what better time to go to some concerts and enjoy a few cold ones? \u00a0The first show was High On Fire on 4\/20. \u00a0Yeap. \u00a0On the hill in Boulder on 4\/20. \u00a0Zach thought the metal music would keep the hippies away. \u00a0Nope.We may have missed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[52,61,63,65,69,9,563,133,149,150,212,259,297],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-reviews","tag-52","tag-april-20-2010","tag-april-21-2010","tag-arvada","tag-beer","tag-boulder","tag-concert-reviews","tag-fox-theater","tag-here-we-go-magic","tag-high-on-fire","tag-priestess","tag-straighten-the-crooked","tag-white-rabbits"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9K4-uo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}