Down Book May U.S. Dates
Down have booked some U.S. shows for the Spring, thus far their plans shape up as follows:
05/23 Birmingham, AL – Zydeco
05/24 Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
05/25 Baltimore, MD – Maryland Deathfest
05/27 Augusta, GA – Sky City
05/28 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
05/30 Broussard, LA – The Station
05/31 New Orleans, LA – House Of Blues
COMMENTS
i wonder if this band washes their clothes with Downy.
Who the fuck thumb downed that amazing zinger?
I don’t get how people still listen to this band, and how they are still financially able to make records and tour. I love NOLA, but everything else has been pure shit.
“Pure shit”…no. NOLA was just such a masterpiece at a time when every respected member was in their career peak or soon to be in it. The bar was set so high with that album they had nowhere to go but down (no pun intended) following it. The songs themselves from the albums that followed were still well ahead of their peers, but I think poor production values bogged down II and III. I think the experimentation on II also threw some people off. The new EP sounds better than those last two in regards to mixing/production though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg2u_De8j5o
I don’t get how someone could put this band down. (pun?) Obviously nothing touches NOLA, but most of II i thought was incredible. There are a few tracks on III that didnt do much for me, and im pretty into the IV:Vol 1 as well. Kirk and Pepper are both riff beasts, and I will admit im a Phil fanboy. But, opinions are assholes, aint that right?
II is the fuckin bomb. I don’t know how you could hate on that album. It has some of the best songs Down has ever written on it…. refer to Stained Glass Cross.
You dont know “how they are still financially able to make records and tour” ? You may be one of 3 people that doesnt know the singer of said band was in Pantera, dipshit…
Saw Down at the Rave in Milawaukke a few weeks back. Door man scalped me a ticket for $10, a guy in a wheelchair was trampled in the audience so Phil stopped the show had him crowd-surfed onstage and let him watch from the side of the stage, drink with the band and join in on the giant jam at the end. Amazing show and the last EP was great.
Phils a has been, theres no way in hell these guys make some major profit. As long as they have fun and love what they do, don’t matter. Still doesn’t erase the fact that each album after NOLA, has been a step backwards.
has been my ass, refer to the warbeast split. He’s still someone I will listen to anything he touches just to check it out, thats a legacy held by few. And if every subsequent release is a step backwards, then they are joinging the ranks of about 50% of bands, whose first album holds a stronger place in the heart of a fan than the new shit that “just doesnt compare, man”.
Phil is definitely not a fuckin has been. Anything the dude has ever touched has been pure gold aside from the dope head days of the second Super Joint album. He is still the best lyricist in heavy metal, even if his voice has been through hell. Still alive and kicking ass.
And to say that everything after NOLA is a step backwards… come on dude. That is a dumb statement. That’s like saying everything after Reign in Blood was a step backwards for Slayer. True, but still…. how could you continue to make ground breaking works of art year after year? No band does that.
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