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After waiting 4 weeks after I bought my tickets, my friend and I were driven to the Metro in Chicago. It was an hour long drive, and we waited in line another hour for the show to start. The sign showed the bands were playing tonight were: Common Rider, The International Noise Conspiracy (or T(I)NC), Anti-Flag and the Bouncing Souls. I thought the Lawrence Arms would be there, but unfortunately, no. I guess they would only play the monday night show.

So I made my way into the show, and my friend and I went straight to the front, and very few others were in the front. So we looked around the place for a while. We checked out the merchandise booth, the political literature booth, and the Vegan booth. There were a lot of things being sold, and a lot of buyers.

Seeing as how Common Rider was not to begin for at least 15 minutes I went to go buy some t-shirts. The main merchandise booth was set up so that each band had their own merchandise section. I easily went to the uncrowded Common Rider section and bought an awesome shirt of theirs. Then I made my way to a huge line where Anti-flag merchandise was being sold. After about 10 minutes, I finally got to the head of the line and bought two anti-flag shirts (one for me and one for a friend of mine who couldn't make it to the show).

So I get back and it is really crowded. Unfortunately me and my friend are on the outskirts of the crowd when Common Rider starts out. Jesse Michaels starts to talk a little, but he is lost for words so he just starts to play music. Though, I am not really familar with all the stuff from their new cd yet, they played a lot of the good songs from This is Unity Music. I think their first song was "Firewall", they also played "Small Pebble". Then they got into their older stuff from Last Wave Rockers. Their version of "Conscious Burning" kicked ass. Everybody shouted at the same time "We stay stand together", when that lyric was sang. One kid in the crowd shouted that they play "Unity". But Jesse said that it would be disrespectful because he would only do it with the old band Operation Ivy. In between songs he talked about the importance of Suicide Prevention. Of all the bands, Common Rider was the most conscious of the purpose of the show. Jesse gave the positive message, and he said that we hopefully will might some lives tonight.

The crowd was not really energetic just then, but it was an awesome opener.

So while the T(I)NC setup, I talk to some friends that I see at the show. As I look upstage, I see the guitarist of the band T(I)NC. I remeber I saw him walking around earlier on the Chicago street while I had waited.

To get to the point, T(I)NC started off. A lot of people in the back of the crowd where I was talked about how much this band sucked. But as soon as they started, I sang, slamdanced, and just had a great time. They started off with "Up For Sale" and then went to some of their best stuff. They played "Capitalism Stole My Virginity", "The Reproduction of Death", and of the wonderful "Smash it Up". The lead singer was amazingly energetic. I don't think I can describe this well, but he went upon this huge platform and he must have jumped like 7 feet. No joke. He threw his microphone everywhere, and you could tell me was feeling the music. Some kid next to me gave ma a weird look. He thought I was having a seizure because I was closing my eyes and vibrating to the subversive sound.

Yeah, the T(I)NC put on the best show of the night. The lead singer, damn I should know his name, came into the crowd many times. He was just amazing. His politically motivated speeches were much better than Anti-Flag's. He talked about how America looked at 9/11 and saw how it shouldn't have happened to America, but never looked at how something like this shouldn't happen to anyone. The singer also talked about how capitalization keeps screwing us over.

I went to buy a water, and talked to a friend of mine. During that show a lot of my friends had split up with me, just because it got crazy. Then Anti-Flag started...

Well, they started fast and furious. They played songs like "Tearing Everyone Down", "You'd Do the Same, "911 for peace", " Angry, young and Poor" and of coruse ended with "Die for your Goverment". I had no idea, but I guess Justin Sane, the lead singer of Anti-Flag, had lost his best friend when he was 19. I don't know why (possibly suicide?). But the band plays sort of sloppily. I think anyone who saw them at Warped Tour saw a much better show than this one. Still, the crowd was amazing. Kids everyone, moshing and dancing, and just doing their own thing. My vocal chords were strained by then, with all my singing. Since, I hadn't heard their split with the Bouncing Souls, I couldn't tell what songs they played from it.

Also before the show, it was cool just seeing Justin Sane walking the streets talking to this girl. The band talked a lot about the upcoming war with Iraq at the show. It wasn't really that motivating.

Though I hadn't liked a lot of stuff i had heard from the Bouncing Souls, I was interested in their live show. The crowd went nuts. I mean, I thought it was crazy during the AF show, but wow. Some kid elbowed me in the face. My cheek really hurt and it grazed my teeth and bloodied my mouth. Kids were skanking, and moshing at the same time. it was insane. I got so many hits, and bruises I seriously thought about leaving to avoid further injury. Haha, I'm so wimpy.

It was striking that a lot of the crowd was older. I guess it makes sense because the Bouncing Souls were awesome. I can't really remember any of the songs they played, because I don't know many of the real titles. I think they played " I like your Mom", " No Regrets" and "Hopeless Romantic". When I got to the 2nd row, it was even better. The band was just amazing live, the music, the energy. Everything was great. When they finished I got the pleasure of shaking the lead singer's hand.

Oh but it wasn't over yet.. The crowd started to chant "Ole, Ole, Ole" after the Bouncing Souls had left.

It got really loud, and then the Bouncing Souls came back on. As did anti-flag. Together they sang two songs from the split cd. I didn't know the first one, but they finished off with "Ever fallen in love, with someone you shouldn't of". Wow it was amazing.

Really great show, really great cause. If you get the chance check these bands out.

Individual scores out of 10

Common Rider - 7
T(I)NC - 9
Anti-Flag - 7
Bouncing Souls - 8



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    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 7, 2003 at 2:54 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Horrible review. Please don't write anymore ever.

    And the encore wasn't "ever fallen in love", it was "That's Youth, and "The Freaks, Nerds, and Romantics", you stupid motherfucker. If you don't know the names of the songs, that's fine, but don't make other shit up, fuck-o!

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 30, 2002 at 7:05 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    I wanna see a picture too and it better not be a fake.

    crimsonfire@trustkill.net

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 30, 2002 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    sara (no h)is guaranteed isanely overweight with a tight ass shirt and black rimmed glasses. and im gonna put my email address bitch!

    Longviewrock@yahoo.com

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 30, 2002 at 2:13 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    hehe matt skiba........what a wonderful black haired no eyed man

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 30, 2002 at 2:02 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Waste-elite post your email address and we'll see wether or not you still think I'm fat

    Sara(no h)

    Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 29, 2002 at 1:19 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    i used to be into all this radical politics until i read the book mein kampf. i now totally agree with everything hitler tried to preach. soon a new advanced form of the KKK will emerge we will be hunting all sorts of minorities anyone thats black, arabic, asian or anything thats not blonde hair and blue eyes. so you better tell your minority friends to watch their backs because were out to cleanse this beautiful earth.

    Sincerely,
    Matt Skiba

    Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 29, 2002 at 1:08 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    i hear that!

    Posted by waste_elite on 2002-09-28 21:22:20
    My Score:

    Sara is morbidly obese

    i guarantee it

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 27, 2002 at 6:50 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    I do not agree with the fake wussemorock kid. I think you and the real one both suck. I hate you both. I hate the real one even more, and since he lives here in So. Cal I hope to meet him one day and kick his wussy butt. And Dennis is still fuckin hot,and so is Connor from Bright Eyes. I want to fuck them both.

    Sara(no h)

    Posted by sickboi on 2002-09-27 15:20:42
    My Score:

    Someone is mad at me and wants to make me look bad....what a turd.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 27, 2002 at 2:48 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    plea for my fucking dick minority it offends me that your on this bored bitch

    -sickboi

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 27, 2002 at 10:01 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    haha är det Mudda från burningheart som skrivit? :)

    Posted by lockdown59 on 2002-09-27 00:57:49
    My Score:

    SO is Mike park going to be showing up at all the shows?

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 27, 2002 at 12:45 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Monday's show was Common Rider, Lawrence Arms, Poison the Well, Dan Andriano, t(i)nc, and The Promise Ring. Other than Poison the Well and t(i)nc, it sucked real bad.

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 10:50 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    thats funny.. cause the lead singer of t(i)nc jumped off a balcony in the Electric Factory in philly too.. maybe he realized how "crazy" and "spontaneous" stuff got the crowd going.

    10 for common rider
    10 for thursday
    10 for mike park and the pfp booth
    -10 for t(i)nc

    Posted by waste_elite on 2002-09-26 19:27:37
    My Score:

    lawrence arms are far from shitty

    Posted by TheOneTrueBill on 2002-09-26 15:10:23
    My Score:

    the second night's bill was the same as the first... it started getting shitty for the monday date though... promise ring, laurence arms etc.

    Posted by Luzzew on 2002-09-26 10:14:29
    My Score:

    Shit, I would go to this tour, but Cursive is not on the Detroit date, so I don't really see any reason.

    WEZ

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 9:41 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    The singers name is Dennis Lyxzén, just for the record. He was previously in the band REFUSED.

    /Mudda

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 7:36 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    When PFP came to Pitt, Anti and the Souls sucked, as usual. Musically, both are good, but they both suck live. TINC and Rider were the only half decent performers.

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 6:32 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Fake WussEmoRock take your racist comments (even if they are 'hilarious' jokes) and stick them up your fucking ass.Im a 'fucking' minority and its fucking offensive to hear that shit. You must be a fucking white bastard and if your not then you fucking need to try and be funny some other how. And if you meant what you said, though i doubt, YOUR THE PIECE OF SCUM. KILL ALL THE NAZI'S! ROT IN FUCKING HELL ALL YOU NAZI'S!! SCUMBAGS! ahhhh, i feel no better.

    Posted by WussEmoRock on 2002-09-26 01:46:42
    My Score:

    shut up man, it is getting annoying now. but then again, I'm sure that is your point. anyone else going to the RBF show tomorrow night at the palace? see ya there! and stop posting as me

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock***** (the real one)

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 11:41 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    i hate all you faggots. die horrible fucking deaths. reel big fish is the best bands out there and none of you faggots appreciate em.

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:27 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    so who the fuck played the second night?

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:26 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    i agree with the fake wussemorock cause the real one is lame

    sara(no h)

    Posted by FlabbyG on 2002-09-25 21:08:03
    My Score:

    I just went to the Milwaukee show last night. I thought the local band, Last Place Champs were good, but I went to see the Larry Arms. They kicked ass. They started out with Chris playing "100 Resolutions" solo, I'm assuming they did that everywhere, it was really cool. I met Brendan and Neil right after they played, they cool guys as usual. i left after Common Rider cuz they sucked so bad, and I didn't feel like listening to music after I saw them. Milwaukee got screwed, no Thursday, no Snapcase, no Bouncing Souls, fuck.

    Posted by WussEmoRock on 2002-09-25 21:03:47
    My Score:

    The dumb post on here and on the midtown show review were NOT ME, someone just signed my name, look I am logged in, they weren't. anyway, so don't believe them, and even if you don't like me (which most of you dont), don't like me for those dumb reasons they said. I'd rather you not like me because I like Simple Plan and RBF haha

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 8:33 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Dennis from T(I)NC is hot.

    Sara(no h)

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 7:35 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Crazy crazy people using other peoples names to post under.
    Well emokid do we believe u r a racist fool or not??
    hmmmmmmmm

    I dunno

    ***WUSS EMO_KID****
    Boston Music Guy
    Scott
    Jeffitaph
    Foreigner

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 7:00 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    wait a second, once again everyone, that was not me!!!! 2 posts below (same thing happened on the midtown review). someone else is using my name, notice it is not logged in as wussemorock when he posts, and either is mine right now but that is because I am not home. I love plea for peace and I am going to this tour, so don't believe that asshole

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 4:02 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Did anybody else notice that Jesse's voice is a lot higher live?

    And Wuss, I hate you.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 3:51 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    these bands dont know shit about politics. fuck pleaing for peace! i think its time to take action and wipe out all the minorites that are desecrating our beautiful country! think of life without fear of being shot by some crazy nigger in the projects, no wetback to do a shitty job mowing our lawns , no sandniggers selling our children ciggarettes and alcohol and especially no goddamn kikes fuckin stinkin up the place. yea thats fuckin right bitches i said NAZI REVOLUTION!!!

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by TheOneTrueBill on 2002-09-25 15:33:10
    My Score:

    i guess its a little late for me to submit my review for this show... darn

    must say it was a great show though

    Posted by evildeadalive on 2002-09-25 05:09:02
    My Score:

    The lead singers name you are wondering about is Dennis Lyxzen, formerly of Refused. You may have heard of them? Anyways sounds like an amazing show, all of those bands are worth seeing, although I definately think A-F's live show has deteriorated (along with their music) over the years. I look forward to Common Rider more than anyone else though, as I've seen all the other acts on numerous occassions.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 5:00 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    You shouldn't be writing for a punk site if you don't know who the singer for INC is and what impact he's had on the face of punk music itself.
    Shame.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 2:34 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Saturdays show in Chicago.

    Common Rider - Pretty much sucked there first few songs were really good and it was nice to see kids dancing to the opening band for a change, but the rest of there set was just boring and I didnt enjoy it at all.

    T(I)NC - All I have to say is WOW this band is by far my favorite new band too see live. Ive never seen a band have so much energy.The lead singers moves reminded me of a young Mick Jagger.

    Anti-Flag - I thought AF was pretty good this was the 3rd time I had seen them in 5 months and well there shows are pretty much carbon copy of there last show.

    Bouncing Souls- Well this was my 7th time seeing them and what can I say there The Souls they always put on a great great show and I love it.

    All and All Saturday was great...
    Now onto the Crowd which I thought sucked it was 99% 16 year old kids who had zero respect for anything the plea for peace tour was about all they cared about was seeing Anti-Flag.
    I was first in line and get there at 1pm when the doors opened at 5,and 6 little girls wearing abercrombie and fitch thought they were all gonna move me away from my front row spot,they even had the balls to start kicking me...i hope they enjoyed there elbow to the tits,cause ya know if you would have asked to take my spot i would have gladly let them.i never wanna hear at a show "hey lets all gang up on that guy and steal his spot.

    Sundays Show.

    Every band was better than Saturdays show except for Anti-Flag who was just flat out bad

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 2:17 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    a friend of mine at this show talked to dennis of INC, and he said he'll be recording some new lost patrol stuff soon.

    And yes dennis brings with him a platform just so he can jump off it. Sort of sad, but mainly just funny, its cute.

    wyzo

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 11:27 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    oh yea, the patriotic guy was funny as shit... and this was a damn good review

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 11:26 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    seen the souls twice... amazing band to see live... seen a-f twice, well once was at this years warped in pitt when some overly patriotic guy was flippin out during their whole set (anybody know what i'm talkin about?) ... i was right next to him so that made their set good, but that was about the only thing... otherwise i dislike them... never seen t(i)nc live but i sure would like to, hafta see the larry arms sometime too, i always miss 'em

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 10:35 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    This is Greg again, I forgot my password, but it should be in my email box about now.

    To anwser your question about why I gave the badns numbers between 9-7 and the show a 10:

    All these bands were just amazing. I want to start by saying that. I don't think anyone would take me seriously if I would give them all 10s for one thing. Also, I am being as critical of the bands as I can. I gave Common Rider a 7, but had they headlined, they still would have been worth waiting in a line for an hour. Just an amazing band.

    Great show, really it was.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 10:32 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Hey how were the Lawrence Arms on Monday? Can someone please post a full review of that show, I know a ton of people would be interested in it.

    Posted by emptycauses on 2002-09-24 22:31:03
    My Score:

    ? how can u give all of the bands between 9 and 7 but give the show a 10?

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 10:27 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Mondays show was so much better with Danny playing an acoustic set. i was mildly sad that TPR only played songs off their new album though.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 10:17 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    I enjoyed Common Rider the most.I grabed there set list, and heres the songs;in order: Castaways, Firewall, Small Pebble, On Broadway, Heat Seekers,Midnight Passenger, Am I on my own, Conscious burning, Carry on, Set the Method Down, and they finishedd with the Classics of Love.

    Posted by Geetarchick on 2002-09-24 22:14:40
    My Score:

    You paid the $2.50 for water? Wow you musta been thirsty. Heh. Anyway I went to the Monday one with the Promise Ring headlining... good show indeed.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 10:08 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    very good review...but anti flag is horrible. absolutely horrible. I've seen them numerous times, but my best example showing how much they suck is when they did their own headlining tour a few years back and took shitty one man army, another band I forget now, and Jersey opening the whole thing up, well Jersey rocked this shit out of A-F and showed them up big time. nevermind, A-F sucks

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by maverick on 2002-09-24 21:57:45
    My Score:

    Hey Greg, sorry about the night mixup. You didn't specify in your review, so I just guessed. Thanks for clarifying.

    -Scott

    Posted by Hamish on 2002-09-24 21:36:59
    My Score:

    Sounds like it was a great show. We don't get the Souls at our date (San Francisco), but it's ok cause we don't have to sit through fucking Anti-Flag. I'm sorry kids, but that band is the epitome of mediocrity. But Common Rider, T(I)NC and the Souls are all excellent.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 9:33 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    I wrote this review, and I just want to set the record straight. This was from the 1st Chicago night, that wonderful saturday night.

    In fact, I hope someone posts a review of the 2nd night, because I would like to hear how they were different.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 9:33 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    i cant wait to see common rider. your review made the anticipation even greater.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 9:28 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    I saw the first night and both The (I)NC and Anti-Flag were fucking great. The Bouncing Souls were good, but in comparison to these too had no chance. The (I)NC's singer is the best fucking dancer I've ever seen.
    G

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