I love how the guy's talking about the dudes not being very animated and right above it there's a crazy picture of Daron. Heh, there's irony for you. Hee hee.

o0o0o, this review makes me want that 8/16 concert to come faster!! (Any one else goin' to Orlando?)

I SOOOO AGREEEEE THE SHOW WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO AWEEESSSOOOMMMEEEE!!!!! MY NECK KINDA STILL HURTS CAUSE I WAS HEADBANGING THROUGH THE WHOLLLEEEEE THING!!! IT WAS FREAKINNNN AWESOMEEEEEEE

this guy is stupid. they were AWESOME last night!! theyve got plenty of energy and i dont think theyve changed hardly at all.

I can't wait to see their show in Philly on the 26th. I have a feeling it's gonna be awesome!!!

Its called a gibson thunderbird!.... what a shitbitch

The Dallas show was amazing. I cant even explain how great it was. I loved it, and it was obvious that everyone around me did, too. Wonderful, as always im sure. They played that many songs? They just bounced from one to another, I didnt even realize it was that many lol. Thats great though!

i cant belive they played dam! they havnt done that since the 90's! god i want to see them wen they com to baltimore! and this cocaine musta been awsome!

all this live show reading is making me really think about the prospect of seeing them live... a thought that is angrying me yet calming me....

shavo doesn't play gibson explorer but gibson thunderbird bass :/

i was at that concert and it was so fucking awesome!!!! i loved the mars volta's performance too!!! best night of my life!

What a jerk, Shavo isn't a goofball. Also, i've seen Serj animated a hell of a lot of the time!

The Dallas show was fucking awesome. System of a Down played so damn perfectly and I swear it sounded better than the studio recordings. I have been listening to SoaD nonstop up until the concert, and even after the concert I've still been listening to them. The acoustic intro to Cigaro was fucking hilarious, and I remember Serj saying, "Dallas, you are fucking beautiful." It was the greatest day of my life and probably will be until I see them again. If you ever get a chance to see them live, don't pass up the chance. Go donate some sperm or blood if you need the money.

Honestly, I think they sound better on the CD. Sure the actual experience of seing them live is better, but in terms of listening to the actual music, the album versions are better. You can't really hear the cymbals or the bass most of the time, John seems to be... slacking a little bit on the *insane* hihat work you'll hear on the album on a few of the songs (the chorus of Violent Pornography, verses of Prison Song and Deer Dance, Needles--he uses one crash instead of three), Darren sometimes plays easier versions of the riffs you'll hear on the album (Deer Dance; he doesn't go up to the high C, opting instead to stay on the same string) and his solos can sometimes get... muddled (the end of Psycho, for instance) and Serj... well, he just doesn't, to me, seem to be having any fun up there. He's not putting as much heart into his performance as he could; he's a quarter of a step flat pretty much always (this is true of songs like Kill Rock N Roll where he goes ridiculously high, but it's also true of, say, Lost in Hollywood), he very rarely sustains any notes (AERIALS, Toxicity), and often times he'll choose to falseto rather than scream (Cocaine, Siggero, also Deer Dance and Prison Song although to a much more acceptable extent). I know Serj is a great vocalist, I know that he *could* do all of these things. He just doesn't seem to be putting much effort into it; at times, it's almost as if he's choosing to sound bored, like when he says "Psycho Groupie Cocaine Crazy" in the middle of the first verse. Not to mention, sometimes the song will call for a harmony, and there will be only one voice (Deer Dance again, but most notably in Question! since that's half of what makes the song good in the first place); and when there is harmony, often times it's really uncoordinated. (Revenga, Kill Rock 'N Roll) They can get away with this because people will sell out concerts regardless because "ITS FUCKING SYSTEM!" But even so, that irritates me. Is he tired? I mean, that's understandable, they've been playing shows for months on end now and SOAD material is really difficult to play... at all, let alone every day for a month plus all the earlier concert tours this year. Even so, if you're not having fun, what the hell are you doing on stage?

i dont understand how the bass coulda just snapped off. that doesnt make any sense. that was my favorite bass!