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Quinta 28 Jun – Super Bock Super Rock, Act I

O primeiro dia do Festival Super Bock Super Rock (SBSR) ficou marcado pela primeira enchente da edição deste ano, cifrando-se os números acima dos 35.000, que eram esperados pela organização. Este superar de expectativas teve como consequências directas uma larga fila para entrar no recinto e entermináveis filas para os comes e bebes. A fila para a Telepizza tinha cerca de 50 metros! Metallica foram os previsíveis reis da noite. More Than A Thousand e Mastodon soldaram-se como honrosos cavaleiros da corte.

Men Eater - Devido à fila na porta de entrada para o recinto, quando finalmente deu para entrar, os More Than A Thousand estavam prestes a iniciar o espectáculo, pelo que foi impossível visualizar o dos Men Eater que, diz-se por aí ser uma das mais brilhantes propostas extremas do ano.

More Than A Thousand (MTAT) - A banda de Setúbal não deixou os créditos por mãos alheias e subiu ao palco ajudada por um som poderosissimo, que lhes conferiu um maior brilhantismo à actuação. …

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Thu 28 Jun – Super Bock Super Rock, Act I

À primeira chamada da 13ª edição do Super Rock a tribo metaleira respondeu com uma enchente espantosa no Parque Tejo! O facto de este ano só haver um palco faz com que os concertos comecem mais cedo, e já era bem visível pelas 18 horas que esta primeira noite ia ser concorrida. Podemos dizer sem exagerar que os Metallica tiveram uma primeira parte dividida por seis bandas, já que foram eles os reis absolutos da noite. A excepção foi a excelente actuação dos Mastodon.

No meio das vestimentas negras que povoavam o recinto algumas t-shirts dos Rolling Stones destacavam-se. A ligação entre públicos podia não parecer evidente à primeira vista, mas fazia todo o sentido.

Longe vão os tempos de desilusão entre fãs dos Metallica devido a polémicas como o Napster, ou a mudança sonora e estética por alturas de «Load» e «Reload». Hoje os Metallica são uma instuição respeitada, e admirada, por várias gerações que conhecem o trabalho deles desde a década de 80. …

Thu 28 Jun – Super Bock Super Rock, Act I

This was nothing else than classic vintage Metallica; the setlist included early years classics (such as Battery, From Whom The Bell Tolls, One, Master Of Puppets) and added a few suprises namely the performance of the Cliff Burton's era Orion.

And the energy ?!
Wwooowwww... more than 2:30 hours of it !...

After the two (expected) encores which ended with Enter Sandman, the crowd demanded Hetfield, Hammett, Ulrich and Trujilo back on stage... they played one more song and had nothing more to give other than guitar picks, hi-fives and total dedication to the fans...

As you may have seen in a comment to my last journal entry, after days of uncertainty and general busy-ness it seems my fate is to go and see the metal monsters at SBSR act1 \m/

Most probably I won't have time to see the promising portuguese bands that will open the event, but at least I'll get to see Metallica, Satriani, Stone Sour, and especially Mastodon. Now, I'd just like to take this opportunity to put this simple question into the cyberspace: How can one of the very best metal bands of the moment be 4th-to-last in the line-up? Surely there's a lot of quality rock/metal overall, but Stone Sour won't have a very easy task after the Mastodon call! Unless the idea is to peak early in the day and leave the others to pick up the pieces ;)

PS. Leo is the man. Now back to work ;_;

I finally found a decent CD ripper for Linux. Rubyripper is the program in question. I installed it a few hours ago and spent the next few hours pondering on how I could obtain the CD-ROM drive offset needed for making near perfect rips.
I ended up with installing dBpowerAMP and the AccurateRip DLL, both from Illustrate. Illustrate maintains a database off a lot of CD-ROM drive offsets, but my drive wasn't present, so I had to find the offset myself. A a lot of hassle, the offset was obtained, and I can finally reveal it to the whole world: The offset for the SONY DW-Q78A (SYS1) DVD-RW drive is +6!

I've now ripped my first CD using Rubyripper, and so far, no problems. I'm ripping my albums to both FLAC and Lame MP3 as stated in a previous journal, and Rubyripper has support for multiple encoders.

I've read a bit about the Pink on Wikipedia, and I was surprised to see LSD mentioned under the pressing history. I haven't even looked at the album artwork before now, I've been to busy with listening to the CD. …

Just found out that Boris are playing at this years Roskilde Festival. I've only heard them a bit, so I'm really looking forward to this.
That, and the loads of other bands/artists that seem interesting at this years festival. Volbeat are opening this year. The Killers, Klaxons, especially Beastie Boys, Queens of the Stone Age, Trentemøller.

I'm going interrailing with a good friend in Europe in June. Metallica are playing at Super Bock Super Rock festival in Lisboa, Portugal. We're thinking of spending a single day at the festival, and then returning to Denmark and Roskilde Festival.

After Roskilde Festival, it's time for Nakkefestival. I really hope Ras Bolding is playing this year. I didn't really see his show last year, just heard a bit of it walking by, but this year...