Crossfade
DATE: Saturday, February 17, 2007
VENUE:  The Rock Nightclub
WEBSITE: www.crossfadeonline.com

You are probably thinking right now "Hey, where are the pictures from the Crossfade show?"  There are none. They weren't worthy of any pictures. I did myself – and all of you – a favor by not having any Crossfade photos on here. Not to mention, if I tried taking pictures, I think my camera would have spontaneously combusted into flames.

Let me make this perfectly clear:  CROSSFADE IS THE WORST LIVE BAND EVER

Their 9 song, 45 minute set opening up for Saliva was 9 songs and 45 minutes too long. I had seen Crossfade as the headliner a couple years back and, holy cow, did they suck in concert then. So, I was already harsh on them to begin with, but since DJ Tony Byroads' departure from the band in 2005 (best move of your life by the way bro) and went all pop on their horrific sophomore album, I thought maybe they would have cleaned up their sound. They sounded worse than they did a couple years ago. Vocals of Ed Sloan & Mitch James were just god awful. I think voices were being lost by the second song in the set. The guitars sounded horrible. The mixing was horrible.

The bright spot of the night was the last song they performed…because there was a fantastic cliché and because it meant they would finally be leaving the stage. Crossfade finished with the song "So Far Away". The cliché? I couldn't get far away fast enough!