The Lewis Show

No, I'm not floating another idea for my blog, there's just a few things I want to share, so here goes. Janine and I were discussing attending the Mayhem tour next month in DC. We very well could be going and that would be mind blowing. The link to the band lineup is here , I posted about it months ago not thinking I was going. The video above is new stuff from Slipknot, tour headliners. It'll be fun to get back to seeing some shows again. There's so much going on here, but I'm so busy at home, I never have time to go see anything. Also, who knew that twenty five years ago, Metallica released Kill Em All and launched them to rock stardom? Twenty five years ago! What do you get for something like that, a headbangers silver anniversary edition record? Talk about making me feel grandfatherly! Here's some really older than Moses footage of them playing. Shh, that's Dave Mustaine at guitar.

Last year was the first in a while that I didn't attend the legendary Ozzfest. I was mostly too scared the element attending a free show would not be a good one. I heard it went off OK overall, but this year's announcement isn't even finalized when I hear about Mayhem Fest . This is a pretty complete lineup, they're actually playing two dates in Virginia, one of them being a Sunday, which is great, and well I'm just excited. Here's the line up. This looks like a LOT of fun! Slipknot Disturbed Dragonforce Mastodon Machinehead Airbourne Five Finger Death Punch Walls of Jericho The Red Chord Underoath Black Tide Suicide Silence 36 Crazyfists

And a lot of bass!

Janine really likes Haste the Day. I like em too, very metalcore, but that's ok. So I'm really interested in going. I assume that it's a show at the Norva where maybe three other bands were playing. Boy was I wrong. I give you the 2007 line up to the Van's Warped Tour . All 9 million bands! Heck yeah, I'll go! A Static Lullaby The Actual Agent Orange Alesana Alkaline Trio All Time Low The Almost Amber Pacific Anberlin As Cities Burn As I Lay Dying Authority Zero The Automatic Bad Religion Bayside Biffy Clyro Big D And The Kids Table Bleed The Dream Bless The Fall Boys Like Girls The Briggs Buck O Nine The Chariot Chiodos Cinematic Sunrise Circa Survive Coheed And Cambria The Confession Cute Is What We Aim For Daphne Loves Derby Desperation Squad The Dear And Departed Dont Die Cindy Drop Dead Gorgeous Envy On The Coast Escape The Fate Evaline The Fabulous Rudies Family Force 5 Fishbon...

In a vain attempt to keep up with the goings ons here in Richmond, I figured I'd look around to see what was going on during the month of May here in town. Here's what I found..ok, it's mostly stuff that I would be interested in doing or seeing. There's plenty going on for everyone's taste. This is just my flavor: As I Lay Dying with August Burns Red and Fair to Midland on May 9th Richmond Luche Libre on May 12th Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on May 31st And looking ahead to June, Three DaysGrace/ Breaking Benjamin with Puddle of Mudd and RED on June 3rd Live on June 6th

Guess who's coming? April 15th.........Tool in Richmond!