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FRIDAY MAY 11th: "LOUD FOR LIFE" @ Dublin Pub in New Hyde Park NY

Wow what a great night of metal, is the first thing that comes to mind about the latest installment of our Loud For Life shows. We generally do these shows 4 to 6 times a year. I really wish I could do it more often, but as most of you know, these days doing less and spacing your shows out is the best thing to do. (Hey, we live in the heart of the 'you tube' generation, and arguebly the biggest recession since the Great Depression).

Some of these shows have brought us a solid 200+ people while others we barely broke 100 people in the course of the night. Needless to say in 17 years promoting, I have never based a great show on anything but the talent performing , the way it sounds in the venue and how the crowd responses to whats going on. Yesterday was far from being a sold out show but nevertheless a great metal event.

The bands: AMAZING! All of them. We" started out with: 'The Royds" which ironically is the only 'non metal' band on the bill. Why were they on there? Because I needed a strong sounding reliable band to open a very early show. I also knew that these guys playing a hard rock/ funk are all big metal fans. I called Andrew Jeffries the bass player and said "Drew why don't you come out and play a heavier set? Him and his band obliged by ..beefing it up a little and kicking major ass.
 
Eleven Eleven NYC is a great local metal band that happens to usually be a four piece act with vocals. Not last night. Their vocalist had bailed out a few days before, but being the standup guys that they are, they didn't cancel. instead they played instrumentals of their regular songs. Not only did they pull it off, but a few people in the crowd actually commented what a good instrumental metal band they were. LOL

Martyrd is one of those bands that always sound great and have amazing energy and stage presence. Combining old school thrash with slightly more modern and progressive metal elements this band really tears it up! I really cannot say anything else except if you haven't seen these guys yet, get your ass off the couch next time they play. You will not be disappointed.

11TH FLOOR is made up of a bunch of really talented young musicians, and features Lance Barnewold a 17 year old guitar prodigy who has trained with many older and famous guitar players. Their set was half originals/instrumentals and half classic heavy metal covers. They rocked hard and the most frequently asked question was: "They are how old?! It is also worth noting they were the only female fronted band on the bill, with 15 year old Sarah. Yes, I said 15.

The best way I could describe PRESENT DARKNESS is: "A wall of sound". Intense, in your face but not overly loud (yes their is a difference). Their dynamics also rival some of the most famous bands out there. For guitar fans: their lead player "Scotti The Body" is nothing short of incredible. Although it was a first working with Prresent Darkness, I've been fortunate enough to have worked with Scotti with two other projects in the past.

Pure Steel's Sleepyhollow lived up to their reputation of being a great live band, and way beyond! Led by the infamous Bob Mitchell (who was the former front man of Metal Blade's Attacker) and other well experienced musicians these guys really represent the traditional/power metal that many of us grew up on in all its glory. They are also some of the nicest guys you can ever meet...I was handed two of their CDS by Bob and I cannot wait to listen to them. It was a first working with SleepyHollow and i cannot wait to get them back on one one of our bills in the near future.

The band Exxplorer has been around for about 30 years, yet up until very recently I had no idea who they were. Coincidently Bob Mitchell and Lance Barnewold had brought them up in a conversation. That led me to do some research, and behold I discovered another amazing band that has an equally amazing history from being a very promising early Metal blade band to where they are now with Pure Steel Records. I instantly became a fan. Since Loud For Life
is known to feature great regional and low key national acts, i thought that Exxplorer would be perfect to step in as the headliner. So i got in touch with guitarist Kevin Kennedy and the rest is history. These guys are another act that just "wows you" on stage. Intense with a great stage presence is what these guys are about. As serious as they are about their music, they are also guys that no how to loosen up and have fun. After watching them for just a few minutes, it is apparent that this band has major respect for each other and shares a connection with its fans as well. Exxplorer is also more diverse than i realized. While alot of their stuff is aggressive in a power metal way, other material is more slower paced rock n roll type music. This is another band with an amazing catalog and a great down to earth attitude.

Hats off to my good friend Mike Festa for doing an awesome job with the sound engineering last night. As most musicians know a sound guy can make or break a show.

Thanks to Dublin Pub as always for allowing us to set up shop and hanging in there during some very rough economical times.
 
Extra special thanks to the very talented Mike Lepond of Symphony X for gracing us with his presence......
To all the metal fans, family and friends of the bands: thank you for your support and making us all feel great last night! We hope to see you soon!
~Andrew/Power Of Music
 

Review: "Night Of Extraordinary Guitars" Fri Feb 17, 2012 @ Dublin Pub (New Hyde Park)
Last Friday was the first time we put together an entire event dedicated to shred guitar players. (heck we've only been talking about it for three years). I wasnt sure how it would go...Well It worked out very well. In fact I really couldnt ask for a better show!
A very diverse evening of technical guitar work made up "Night Of Extraordinary Guitars", featuring: Favored Nations Artist: Rob Balducci, Magic Circle recording artist Joe Stump,17 year old guitar prodigy Lance Barnewold, LI Heavy Metal guitar legend: SA ADAMS, Greg Giordano and John Vullo Of the very heavy and progressive Turrigenous and Mike of power/progressive metal band: Martyrd. Being that these acts range from rock to fusion to metal, I wasnt sure how the general crowd would recieve the diversity. Well at midnight we had practically the same amount of people that we had at 9pm, which means people were indeed interested in seeing an entire night of talented guitar driven music no matter what the genre. (Nothing worse than experiencing a show where people only come for one act, and then leave).

I recieved a few emails from the fans that attended, telling me how much fun they had and that we should do this format again. Well we are honored that you can attend and yes another Guitar show is already in the works for later this year!

For those of you that did not attend we hope you casn make it out the next time around. If your not from the area, let us know where you are and maybe we can get these guys up to your area. All these musicians can be found on Facebook and whatnot, so if your not familiar with their music please take the time to search for them and find out what their music is all about!

Special thanks to: Dublin Pub and staff, our engineer Mike Festa, Stamp The Band .com, Jimmy Hobbs, Mike Marquez for helping to make this event a success.

Extra Special thanks to all our friends, family and music fans that came to the show!

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