Iced Earth -- Chicago, IL -- September 21st, 2010

es156 · #1 09-22-2010, 09:39 AM

Tour: Escape From The Studio
Headliner: Iced Earth
Support: Sons Of Liberty
Venue: House Of Blues, Chicago, IL
Date: September 21st, 2010
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Iced Earth List:

Intro: 1776
01. Burning Times
02. Declaration Day
03. Vengeance Is Mine
04. Last December
05. I Died For You
06. Travel In Stygian
07. Jack
08. The Hunter
09. The Coming Curse
10. A Question of Heaven

11. Colors
12. Watching Over Me
13. My Own Savior
14. Iced Earth

Set Time: 8.00-9.18

Iced Earth Lineup:

Vocals: Matt Barlow
Guitar: Jon Schaffer
Guitar: Troy Seele
Bass: Freddie Vidales
Drums: Brent Smedley

It was cool to hear some rare songs, but four songs were cut from the set for unknown reasons. (Violate, Pure Evil, Prophecy, Birth Of The Wicked.) Barlow sounded great and the band was tight. The place was packed from what I could see and the crowd was fairly loud. There was a decent crush up front. Overall it was a very good show. The only downside was the short set.

Sons Of Liberty Set List:

01. Jekyll Island
02. Don't Tread On Me
03. False Flags
04. Indentured Servitude
05. Tree Of Liberty
06. Feeling Helpless
07. We The People

Set Time: 6.55-7.40

Sons Of Liberty Lineup:

Vocals: Jon Schaffer
Guitar: Troy Seele
Guitar: ?
Bass: Freddie Vidales
Drums: Brent Smedley

God Bringer Of Death · #2 09-22-2010, 09:51 AM

Great gig last night! Unfortunately, for whatever reason House of Blues has a 9:30 curfew. I don't know the reasoning but they're strict about it. I caught In Flames there a few years ago and they were forced to shorten the set considerably. They seemed caught off guard by it as they announced the last song pretty unexpectedly.

Last night, I happened to catch a glimpse of the crew sheet on the soundboard and it said, Curfew 9:30 SHARP!!!!!

ricky4502 · #3 09-22-2010, 09:55 AM

I'm seeing them this weekend. I hope those 4 songs are in the set list when I see them. So the Sons Of Liberty lineup is pretty much Iced Earth - Matt Barlow + unknown guitarist? I know it's Schaffers solo project but this will be the 1st time I see members of a headlining band also being the support LOL

ricky4502 · #4 09-22-2010, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by God Bringer Of Death

Great gig last night! Unfortunately, for whatever reason House of Blues has a 9:30 curfew. I don't know the reasoning but they're strict about it. I caught In Flames there a few years ago and they were forced to shorten the set considerably. They seemed caught off guard by it as they announced the last song pretty unexpectedly.

Last night, I happened to catch a glimpse of the crew sheet on the soundboard and it said, Curfew 9:30 SHARP!!!!!

9:30 curfew wtf? I know the HOB in Hollywood has no such curfew so hopefully the set will be longer this Saturday.

es156 · #5 09-22-2010, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by God Bringer Of Death

Great gig last night! Unfortunately, for whatever reason House of Blues has a 9:30 curfew. I don't know the reasoning but they're strict about it. I caught In Flames there a few years ago and they were forced to shorten the set considerably. They seemed caught off guard by it as they announced the last song pretty unexpectedly.

Last night, I happened to catch a glimpse of the crew sheet on the soundboard and it said, Curfew 9:30 SHARP!!!!!

Really? I know in the past they have had 11:00 or even 10:00 curfews but 9:30 is ridiculous. They should start earlier if that is the case so we can at least get a full set. Or (heaven forbid) they could cut the opener instead of the headliner!

Beaner666 · #6 09-22-2010, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by God Bringer Of Death

Great gig last night! Unfortunately, for whatever reason House of Blues has a 9:30 curfew. I don't know the reasoning but they're strict about it. I caught In Flames there a few years ago and they were forced to shorten the set considerably. They seemed caught off guard by it as they announced the last song pretty unexpectedly.

Last night, I happened to catch a glimpse of the crew sheet on the soundboard and it said, Curfew 9:30 SHARP!!!!!

Was there another late night 17+ or 21+ show by a different band that night?

I know the City of Chicago has a curfew for All Ages shows, but I know it's not THAT early. I'm 99.99% sure the city curfew is 10:30 weekdays and 11:30 on Fridays & Saturdays.

makethemsuffer12 · #7 09-22-2010, 10:53 AM

Shit, they better not cut their set short tomorrow.

darkguardian50 · #8 09-22-2010, 12:00 PM

I really like that set. Could do without Watching over Me AND I Died For You but ah well. Add in the missing songs and thats a really good set. Nice to see Schaffer playing SOMETHING from Burnt Offerings. Wish they would do Burning Oasis though.

maidenpriest · #9 09-22-2010, 12:40 PM

i would love to hear Burnt Offerings or Creator Failure off of that album (the high notes of Creator would be EPIC live imo). But I know that won't happen.

Sanitarium78 · #10 09-22-2010, 04:33 PM

9:30 curfew? Damn, that's crazy. I've never been to a show, no matter the size of the venue, that ended that early. The local club here that gets all the major metal shows has a curfew of at least 11:30. I've seen shows go past midnight there as well. I've never been there but that's definitely a strange occurence at HOB in Chicago if you ask me.

Also, SOL could've cut two songs off their set so IE could've done a few more. IE is the band selling the tickets after all. You figure they would be informed of the curfew before their set started.