Sounds of the Underground 7/10!
Band Schedule was:
Devil Driver
Madball
Throwdown
All That Remains
A Life Once Lost
Unearth
Every Time I Die
Norma Jean
Poison the Well
Strapping Young Lad
Opeth
GWAR
Clutch
Chimaira
Lamb of God
(If I missed any one or got them out of order I apologize in advance.)
All bands were excellent! Devil Driver did a great job of opening up! GWAR was a blood fest and they even brought up a little Tulsa history (race riots).
Strapping Young Lad was their usual twisted selves! Devin Townsend (ex-Steve Vai) is a great front man and Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, ex-Death, ex-Testament) is a machine on the drums!
Maybe I'm just too old school, but Every Time I Die, Normal Jean, and Poison the Well were my least favorites. Especially Every Time I Die, this singer just got on my nerves so bad.
Opeth well, they were probably the mellowest band out of all of them. Would've been better if a different Swedish band would've been on instead: Meshuggah! And what the heck is "*** rock"? The singer called a couple of their songs this! LOL
Madball, Throwdown, All That Remains, A Life Once Lost, and Unearth are the new wave of the Underground! They're all good!
Finally, Lamb of God, I have to say out of any band that's surfaced in the past decade they bring the true essence of METAL back to the world! Yet, with their own, modern style! The band is just incredible on every song! Chris Adler is a freaking double bass motored robot!
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.