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I saw Flogging Molly at the Chance last night with Kristen. It was a great show with 2 interesting openers. The first band was from Dublin and they were called Mighty Stef and the second band was called Rev. Peyton and His Big Damn Band from Nashville. Rev. Peyton looked like my friend Kenn a little bit haha. They were a fast bluegrass rock type of band and just a sight to see live. Even if you don't like that type of music it was still a great set! Flogging Molly rocked the place down, and I mean almost literally. the balcony at the Chance was FUCKING SHAKING so much I was grabbing on the railing, waiting for the thing to collapse. It was scary haha. But anywho, I got some great photos from the balcony with my lovely 70-200mm 2.8 lens! Check it out below:

He looks like Kenn Denk hahahaha :)

flogging molly @ the chance
The Reverend Peyton & His Big Damn Band - The Chance
The Mighty Stef - The Chance

When you stop and think about it, so many rock legends have died like: Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Bob Marley to name a few. ReadJunk.com wanted to pay tribute to our favorite dead rock heroes, so we decided to give them a proper shout-out and an obituary so they could continue being remembered. But remember, we couldn't list every single rockstar death so we came up with the Top 25 most tragic deaths in music history.



25. GG Allin:
He was the most disgusting singer in rock history. He had no talent whatsoever, but loved to put on an entertaining live show that included peeing on people, eating his own shit, and ripping off bats’ heads and eating them. What moron would pay money to see someone do those things, when you can just watch a homeless person in NYC do it for free? GG Allin committed suicide in his New York City apartment after he found out he had HIV. Requested in his will, his body was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and his body was shot out of a cannon. All his friends and fans celebrated his death with a carnival following the funeral.


24. Bradley Nowell:
Brad was the lead singer and bass player of the California hippie reggae band Sublime. After the band signed with Skunk Records, Sublime took off and was popular among college students and vagabonds. Many of their songs were at the top of the Billboard charts, including the songs "What I Got" and "Wrong Day." In 1997, after the band’s major label debut got released, Brad Nowell died of a cocaine overdose in his apartment. Nowell was honored in a benefit concert where such California bands like the Foo Fighters and Gwen Stefani played.

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The Pilfers played another reunion show last night at Knitting Factory in New York City. I'll have a full review up this week but I wanted to share some of the photos I took last night. I managed to get a decent spot right up front, on the left hand side of the stage. I couldn't really get a lot of photos of some of the members of Bigger Thomas but I managed to get some great shots of the Pilfers. Like always, the band played an excellent set and I wish they came back full time again. But I'll take what I can get and see them when I can. Here's some photos of the Pilfers:



















See all the photos from the show here:
Pilfers @ Knitting Factory, NYC
Bigger Thomas @ Knitting Factory, NYC
Ghost Front @ Knitting Factory, NYC