Forum.RttP{Team Neale Benift show Day 2}

damn, I took 952 pictures. I had to go through all of them and remove the blurry ones. that's what's the hold up.

anyhow, if I were to write a story and call it an emotional concert, it would not come close to this show. A Barrit reunion at a show for the singer's kids, what feeds the fire's last show, bane's drummer's last show...

with honor: the first time I saw them on a real stage with a barricade and all. I didn't know if they were going to pull it off, but they did. the show was awesome. they had so much energy and got the crowd going, even though it was early. they are going into krut from converge's studio in september to record their full length. like the ep, it'll be amazing.

ringworm: another awesome set. mostly old school kids danced to them. It's weird, they get a lot of backing and have releases/shows with hardcore bands, but they sound most like a metal band to me.

most precious blood: they came out and rocked it with some new tracks (for the CD coming out in Nov) along with older tracks. I love mbp cause they are always in there air jumping. Their set ended with the bassist spitting on his bass and the singer curled up in a ball on the monitors. I don't you this show was emotional.

what feeds the fire: hatebreed was late so wftf came on and played early. I will admit, I've heard a 7" from these guys and that's about it. Basically, they all have other projects that they are going off to do. Their set rocked. The sound a bit like the takeover. There was some dumb fight during there set. I guess someone got the $@#$ kicked out of them. the leadsinger jumped into it to.

hatebreed: there were all these rules we had to follow to be able to shoot them. it was weird. Before teir set, I started to hangout with some of steve neale's friends/family and heard tons of stories. The rumor was that hatebreed was going to come out and do their cd "Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire" cover to cover *wishful thinking*, but that didn't happen. they play 1/2 new, 1/2 old. The crowd was odd for them. It didn't see any FSU there dancing.

barrit: what an amazing performance from an amazing band. zack and pete from bane played amazingly. Most of the time, zach was screaming at the top of his lungs into the air while playing. another emotional performance. at one point, the replacement singer said "steve neale, who the fuck was steve neale" and then collapsed near the drums to compose himself. During the first 4-5 songs, the little neale daughter was in sitting on barrit's roadie's lap soaking in the set with her little headphone's on. It was both amazing and tear jerking at the same time. The set ended with zack destroying his bass, tearing his finger open and laying still in a lump on the floor while everyeon around me was crying and hugging.

bane: they played the other 1/2 of the songs that they didn't play yesterday. I couldn't believe the energy that everyone had. They were stage driving and bouncing all over the place. Aaron (bane's singer) did his expected speeches in between songs. This time however, they were mostly about steve, his family and kids. You could hear his voice faltering as he tried to talk and not break into tears. His words rang pretty true, life is short, love people while they are here. In the end, they busted out two classics for nick (the drummer)'s last show ever. Rumors are going around that bane is through now that nick is gone. I guess time will tell.

On a closing note, I knew barrit and knew about the dead of steve, but thankfully, I wasn’t emotionally involved and didn’t have to bare the brunt of his passing. On the other side, it is sad that my encounters with him were brief so that I never really met the man for which a bunch of bands would come together to do a huge scale benefit for. To all the friends and family and children, there is nothing that I can say or do that will make anything better or easier. I hope that with this benefit show, your minds are helped with the facts of how many lives he touched.