2009 was the first "major" concert I went to, outside of small local performances. There may or may not have been a time in my life when I was super, super into Coheed and Cambria. They were touring and playing The Starland Ballroom which is pretty famous for them given that live show linked. It. Was. Amazing. I had never experienced something like that before, an old Nabisco warehouse turned concert venue, a ton of nerdy metal people and scene kids, and loud, rockin' music. This was around the time No World for Tomorrow came out, before they completely jumped the shark and it was a classic setlist.

The opener was a band named Recover who I can't really remember and didn't know well at the time, they were okay but I was just too stoked for Coheed considering the six hour drive it took to get to New Jersey. Pretty typical, terrible, Fueled by Ramen band.

Anyway. Just. Listen, Okay? You hear that first note and you know what's coming, and it's nine minutes of moshing and going crazy and you go through that for the entire show. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 is a song that still gives me goosebumps and this band is the reason I picked up the guitar. At 1:45 when the chorus kicks in? Yeah, one of those voices are mine. I couldn't talk or hear for the next day...worth it. The sound quality is bad but you get the point.

Oh god. Nostalgia. I'm getting old.