Topic: Summer Tour 2006 News & Reviews

The festival was great, and I made sure to watch every band on the bill because I paid 45 bucks to see multiple bands and I was going to see them. Some good bands on the bill were Strapping Young Lad, Bad Acid Trip, Atreyu (it was a surprise for me), Full Blown Chaos, Hatebreed and System of a down.

Since this is a System site I will mainly only talk about System. But I must say this night god answered one of my wishes. I was really pissed that I was going to have to sit through A7X but the powers that be stopped that. There was a rolling black out and it took them an hour to fix it so all in all I only had to listen to 4 of their crappy songs.

But now lets talk about system. Daron came out all alone singing soldier side perfectly.

Then it was 'Attack', 'BYOB', 'Revenga' and pretty much noting too cool like 'Cubert' or 'Darts'. Pretty much the same set list.

Daron of course said some really funny shit through the show like when he started the intro to 'Cigaro' he said "This is a song written by Dick Chaney."

Then he did the mind speech people are talking about and it was hard to remember but it was very cool and true.

Then on 'Lonely Day' he said "such a lonely day with the band, I love these guys up here" I think he said that so people can put to rest the whole breaking up thing. All of System's family attended the show and Daron gave them all a shout out. And it was his cousins birthday and Daron told him happy birthday.

Then he said "I have a lot of family in Iraq and I know you guys do too so this one goes out to them," then they played 'Lost in Hollywood'. That's all I can remember because during the black out they encouraged us to light up a joint and drink a beer and lets just say most of up did just that.

I was in reserved seats in the middle section, so I wasn't able to have any interaction with them onstage, but it was still really cool..

During one of the songs Daron just stopped playing and they all stopped playing as well and he said to the security guards that a fight was going on in the pit and that they refuse to play while people are fighting.. so that was cool.. and he said some other random things too about fighting and war and losing our minds and having to take our minds back etc etc, honestly I cant remember what all he talked about.. I was just so in awe that I was seeing them live..

System of a Down started to play around 9:30 and finished before 11:00 I m not sure about the order but I think i got every song there so, it felt like a short show. They started off with:

Soldier Side- Daron walks in with his sweet hat and just plays it..

Attack- was played perfectly and Daron as usual at the end goes crazy and looses his hat ;P

B.Y.O.B- that's a song that got people move little bit system played energetic and perfectly

Revanga- this song just sounds so much different live I think that was one of best played it sounded much more heavier

Suggestion- Daron spits all over the place and they seemed like some old system right there

Needles- Daron takes of his coat and pulls a tapeworm out of his ass..it was fun

Dear Dance- Daron jumps in the crowd again but he almost got hurt badly. there was that one fagot that just pushed him off and he almost fell on the ground. Thanks to security guard that caught him coz he would been badly hurt \m/ Daron said five words after, he let everyone know that there is the kid and he's bad and see him after concert or something like that

War?- Daron puts his hat back on and I think he just wanted to get backs together after the jump. there is that moment stuck in my head from this song when Daron was yelling 'destroy' like a freak to microphone with the robotic voice and it was another great song Smile

Psycho - another crazy song but the solo at the end had like electronic thing going on in the end it was very long and it was something new

Cigaro- Daron sings the intro as always to it and the song sounded just like on the record..

Sad Statue- before this song, Daron had some weird solo

HYPNOTIZE-  I loved it it because Daron played the song with echo distortion in heavy parts and it sounded bad ass !!!!

Old School Hollywood- I dunno what to say about it :] it was a different song from other and i think it was really cool but this song still kicked ass.

QUESTION- before the song Daron said "I  think that the most important think in life is question..and question..and question..and question.... ".and someone yelled at Daron that he fuckin sucks and something like that and I yelled at Daron and said Daron I agree with you bro and that guy can go fuck himself and Daron smiled at me and they played question.

It was an excellent show. It was the best show I have ever seen.
I went bonkers dancing to it the whole time. Last night was magical. What is good about System is that they talk about thing and play with the crowd.

Serj talked about civilization and how it started where modern Iraq is, between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. And Daron was just himself. He and Serj talked about how we have plenty of oil and that we don't need civilization and it's walls. 'We need each other' It was great.

Shavo danced around like always, and did a bass trick. John was spot on, too. He's so energetic. The sound balance was the best all day. Disturbed was good too. System made the heavy parts accurate and not sound like noise like most of the other bands. System made the clean parts sound good too and not forced. It was great and the pot smell was everywhere.


They played:

Soldier Side Intro
Attack
B.Y.O.B.
Revenga
Suggestions
Needles
Deer Dance
War? (w/ Robotic Interlude)
Psycho
Cigaro
Sad Statue
Hypnotize
Old School Hollywood
This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song
Question!
Kill Rock N' Roll
Chop Suey!
Violent Pornography
Lonely Day
Radio/Video
Aerials
Lost In Hollywood
Suite-Pee
Toxicity
Sugar

Check out this Concert photos in HERE