Saturday January 5th, 2002- The Cotton Club: Atlanta, GA
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| [minus], Kindlespine, Calm, Chronic MD, and Dylation Saturday January 5th, 2002- The Cotton Club: Atlanta, GA |
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| Dormanicide 2002. It was supposed to be an incredibly amazing event. Kindlespine, Chronic MD, Swift, shun, and [minus]. The night before I was so excited. Finally a show with swift, [minus], and shun all in one place. I had been looking forward to it for months and it was only a day away. Sunday morning I woke up, just as happy as could be. Then around 11 or so, Melina called me. �guess what?� she said. �shun and swift cancelled.� �WHAT!?!!,� I said. I couldn�t believe it! The show had gone from dream to zero in a few hours. Swift cancelled because Gary was sick and couldn�t sing. Shun had to cancel because their van broke down the night before. I was crushed. I tried calling my friend Nathan in Tennessee, to see if he knew anyone that could lend a vehicle to shun. But I couldn�t get through to him. He was coming up for the show and I didn�t know if he�d still want to come if he knew shun and swift cancelled. My friend Justin was also coming up for the show from Florida with some of his friends and I just knew he was gonna be bummed. He really wanted to see Swift and was driving such a long way. But he and his friends had left early in the morning and so I knew that he�d be long gone. I took Marta to the show and the first person I saw there was Jeremy. Talked to him for a bit, and then he went away to talk to some other people. Then Justin came up to me with one of his friends and we talked for a bit. He seemed disappointed that swift and shun weren�t playing (of course) but he didn�t seem as upset as I thought he would be. So that�s good I guess. Melina and Cory showed up and so did Nathan and his girlfriend. And of course the fold crew was there, and leftfield as well. So this was a show with the regular ATL crowd. The first band to play was Dylation. I didn�t really pay much attention to them. They had this guitar player who everyone said was trying to look like Wes Borland. He had his face painted in a �scary� looking manner and he was wearing this long black collared cloak or something. I guess they weren�t horrible, but they really didn�t keep my interest. Next was Chronic MD. Now Chronic is a tight band. They play good music. But their singer was icky. He has since left the band, thankfully. However, I will say that he vastly improved from the last time I had seen them. For some weird reason, Chronic has like this massive fan base, and so there were SOO many people there to see them. A bunch of their high school friends I guess. After they played a lot of people left which was really stupid I thought. �Cause the best bands hadn�t even played yet. The next band to play was Calm. They�re from Florida. Anyway they tore it up. Really loud, energized set. The singer�s voice is just insane, he gets so into it. And they have a black guitar player! Can you imagine a black dude being in a band and not singing or playing bass? Yeah I know it�s hard to believe. But this dude absolutely rocked so I give him much props. Hopefully, they�ll come back up to Atlanta and do another show. Kindlespine was next and they were good. They played a new song that I really liked, Akeem said I would. They also did a cover of Pretty Lush by Glassjaw which everyone loved, �cause you know how obsessed us Atlanta kids are with Glassjaw. Next was [minus] and they rocked the house. I love that band! I never get bored with them and they always put on a good show. That was the end of the show, and while it wasn�t what everyone thought it would be, it was still a good time. | |||||
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