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Had a blast night at Skid Row at the House of Blues in W. Hollywood. L.A. Guns was one of the opening acts and in some ways I actually enjoyed them a bit more considering that when Skid Row came on they…. ahem.. were missing something…. Sebastian Bach. Oh well still a good time, and surprisingly for 2008 it was sold out. I guess that makes three things that will survive a nuclear holocaust. Cockroaches, Cher, and 80’s metal. Who’d a thought? 

 Nightwish at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Pure awesome. It was totally sold out and thank God there was only one opening band. My main gripe recently is almost every show I go to  we have to sit through 5 lousy local opening bands and by the time the band I am there to see comes on I am asleep and/or bored out of my mind. The opening band was Paradise Lost. Really not a bad band overall solid but pretty much not much action on stage. Nightwish came on around 10:15 opening with “Bye, Bye Beautiful” and totally rocking it out. Annette the new singer is amazing and definitely fills Tarja’s shoes, in fact I would go as far as to say I like her much better than Tarja. A definite highlight was the performance of “The Islander” which was so spot on I thought it was lip synced! They closed the show out with “I wish I had an angel” which was well done and matched every hope I had of seeing Nightwish live.

So Nightwish is coming to town and I am stoked. If you haven’t checked them out what are waiting for. Go here. Buy it. Rock out to it. The new singer Eva is the shizdizzle. Been looking forward to this for months if not years. Sure to not disappoint. So far Kamelot, Sonata Arctica, and Within Temptation have rocked my year chalk another one up for Nightwish. Hopefully.

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Now playing: Nightwish – Bye Bye Beautiful