Rockfest

KoRn Live! at Rockfest in Kansas City, MO 5/30/09

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Shinedown playing if you only knew at cadott rockfest 09

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Bruce Dickinson – Chile RockFest, Estadio Santa Laura, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 21, 1997, during the ”Accident Of Birth Tour” 1997.

Accident of Birth (Dickinson, Roy Z.)

Bruce Dickinson – Vocals
Adrian Smith – Guitar
Roy Z – Guitar
Eddie Casillas – Bass guitar
David Ingraham – Drums

[Lyrics]

Journey back to the dark side, back into the womb
Back to where the spirits move like vapor from the tomb
The center of the cyclone, blowing out the sun
Break the shackles of your union to the light

I might’ve had a brother
As I was born, they dragged him under
To the other side of twilight
He’s waiting for me now

Nativity was lost on me
I didn’t ask, I couldn’t see
What created me?
What and where and how?

Welcome home – it’s been too long, we’ve missed you
Welcome home – we’ve opened up the gates
Welcome home – to your brothers and sisters
Welcome home – to an accident of birth

Feel our bodies breathing as you try to stop believing
There’s nothing you can do about your shadows
You can fight us, you are like us
And your body will betray you
Lay down and die like all the others

Where are the angels and their wings of freedom?
Jesus had his day off when they pulled you through…

Welcome home – it’s been too long, we’ve missed you
Welcome home – we’ve opened up the gates
Welcome home – to your brothers and sisters
Welcome home – to an accident of birth
…to an accident of birth

Vision’s growing dim as the daylight fades away
A spinning, twisting black hole – it’s your dying day

Welcome home – it’s been too long, we’ve missed you
Welcome home – we’ve opened up the gates
Welcome home – to your brothers and sisters
Welcome home – to an accident of birth

Welcome home – it’s been too long, we’ve missed you
Welcome home – we’ve opened up the gates
Welcome home – to your brothers and sisters
Welcome home – to an accident of birth
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”Accident of Birth” is a song from Bruce Dickinson’s solo album, Accident of Birth 1997.

About this song Dickinson explained: “‘Accident of Birth’ is about a family from Hell. Except they’re in and one of them has accidentally been born, and they want him back and he doesn’t want to go. For all the same reasons that you wouldn’t want to go back to your family if they’re a pain in the ass, he doesn’t want to go back to his family. Ok, so they’re in Hell, that makes a little difference too.”

The album, Accident of Birth is a heavy metal album released in 1997 by Bruce Dickinson.
This is the second album made in collaboration with guitarist/producer Roy Z and is therefore much different from Bruce’s previous Skunkworks album. It marks Bruce’s return to his more melodic style of singing. He was also assisted by another former Iron Maiden member Adrian Smith and the two would later return to the band in early 1999. Thanks to the slightly bigger success of this album, Bruce would work with Roy Z in the future on his solo albums (including his latest, Tyranny of Souls).
Around the time he was creating the album, Bruce Dickinson’s mother told him that he was the result of a “failed abortion.” The album title and the title track are a reference to this revelation: Bruce was a birth that shouldn’t have been. It is not clear whether it was an actual botched abortion or that his mother was expressing regret at not having aborted her pregnancy.

The cover art was done by Derek Riggs, best known for being the creator of Iron Maiden’s mascot Eddie and the artwork on all Iron Maiden albums/singles/posters/tour brochures throughout 1980-1990. (Source : Wikipedia)

Most of the songs on the album featured Roy Z on guitar. His real name is Roy Romeriz but, in his words, “back in the ’80s it wasn’t really all that cool to have an ethnic last name, so I flipped it around and it became ‘Zerimar.’ Eventually, people just started abbreviating it for convenience sake’s and called me ‘Z,’ and it stuck.” However, the song “Ghost of Cain” (which was featured on the single) had Adrian Smith on guitar. Smith was the guitarist for Iron Maiden from 1980-1990 until leaving for his solo project, ASAP (Adrian Smith And Project). “Ghost of the Navigator” was the name of a song on Brave New World, the first Maiden album released after Dickinson rejoined the band.

Bruce Dickinson, about the album: “The truth is never clear… until it clobbers you over the head. That’s what happened when I decided to make the ultimate metal record. My favorite stuff, legends, sci-fi, fairy stories, dark deeds of the occult, set to slamming riffs, soaring vocals and great tunes.”

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Journey performing @ Rockfest 2009 in Cadott Wisconsin

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My brother in round 1 in the finals of the guitar hero 3 RockFest tournament.

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Bruce Dickinson – Chile RockFest, Estadio Santa Laura, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 21, 1997, during the ”Accident Of Birth Tour” 1997.

Run To The Hills (Harris)

Bruce Dickinson – Vocals
Adrian Smith – Guitar
Roy Z – Guitar
Eddie Casillas – Bass guitar
David Ingraham – Drums

[Lyrics]

The white man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives

Soldiers blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing the game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives
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”Run To The Hills” is a song from Iron Maiden’s album,The Number Of The Beast,and it was released in 1982.

”This song is about the American Indians. It’s written from both sides of the picture. The first part is from the side of the Indians. The second part is from the side of the soldiers. I wanted to try and get the feeling of galloping horses. But when you play this one, be careful not to let it run away with you.” (Steve Harris)

Perhaps Maiden’s most publicly recognisable song and their first big hit single, ‘Run To The Hills’ describes the Indian wars of the American west, first from the Indian’s perspective and then from the white man’s perspective. It is a fast-tempo song with a drum beat that is reminiscent of gallopping horses. Although it is a Maiden classic, it is a bit too short. Nevertheless, the song was critical in opening the way for Maiden’s invasion of America.

In the lyrics, the sentence “the only good Indians are tame” probably refers to the infamous American saying “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”. This mindless and absurd proverb is said to stem from the following anecdote that took place in January 1869, at old Fort Cobb, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, shortly after Custer’s fight with Black Kettle’s band of Cheyennes: Old Toch-a-way (Turtle Dove), a chief of the Comanches, on being introduced to General Philip Sheridan (18311888), desired to impress the white man and managed to say in English “Me, Toch-a-way; me good Injun.” The General, a known bigot and Indian hater, just smiled and answered: “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”. Although Sheridan later denied having made such a statement, the sentence became quickly a saying that is still used nowadays, although the Indians that have not been physically killed now live in reservations where alcoholism caused mainly by unemployment and squalor contribute to kill an already dying culture. Who said that America was “the land of the free and home of the brave”?

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Rockfest 2009!!! (Team Skinny)

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Highway Star performed by Buckcherry at Rockfest 2009, the largest single day rock festival in the nation, 50,000 strong.

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Bruce Dickinson – Chile RockFest, Estadio Santa Laura, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 21, 1997, during the ”Accident Of Birth Tour” 1997.

2 Minutes To Midnight (Smith, Dickinson)

Bruce Dickinson – Vocals
Adrian Smith – Guitar
Roy Z – Guitar
Eddie Casillas – Bass guitar
David Ingraham – Drums

[Lyrics]

Kill for gain or shoot to maim but we don’t need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose and never out of season
Blackened pride still burns inside this shell of bloody treason
Here’s my gun for a barrel of fun for the love of living death

The killer’s breed or the demon’s seed
The glamour, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
But don’t you pray for my soul anymore

2 minutes to midnight, the hands that threaten doom
2 minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the womb

The blind men shout let the creatures out, we’ll show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames, of a prime-time Belsen feast… YEAH!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies

The killer’s breed or the demon’s seed
The glamour, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
But don’t you pray for my soul anymore

2 minutes to midnight…

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun

The killer’s breed or the demon’s seed
The glamour, the fortune, the pain
Go to war again, blood is freedom’s stain
But don’t you pray for my soul anymore

2 minutes to midnight…

Midnight… midnight… it’s all night
Midnight… midnight… all night!
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”2 Minutes To Midnight” is a song from Iron Maiden’s album,Powerslave,and it was released in 1984.

The title of the song refers to the Doomsday Clock, one of the most chilling and best known symbols of the nuclear age, representing how close humanity is to the brink of nuclear holocaust (midnight). The clock reached 2 minutes to midnight in September 1953, after the Soviets successfully detonated an awesomely powerful thermonuclear device. Today the clock stands at 7 minutes to midnight after little progress was made on global nuclear disarmament. In 2002, the United States rejected a series of arms control treaties and announced it will withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Moreover, terrorists seek to acquire and use nuclear and biological weapons. Bad news for mankind indeed!”

”About the politics of war and destruction, ‘2 Minutes To Midnight’ makes a meaningful statement about the morality of warmongers and politicians.

As the madmen play on words
And make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions
To make a better kind of gun

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Sevendust at the KC Rockfest on 6-7-08. pics and vid of us meeting the band. all the guys were incredibly cool and friendly! they played an awesome set!!

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