The Thrice show this past Friday with Brand new was pretty amazing. It was the first concert I’ve been to with a major band playing so it was pretty exciting too go see a band that influenced me to pick up guitar in the first place. Seeing them perform live just reinforces the fact on how talented they are. It was great to see how they did the stuff you hear in their albums with the effects and everything. The encore with all 3 bands playing together was pretty sweet. Mewithoutyou had a song where four drummers played and Thrice performed “The Earth Will Shake” with 3 drummers which made a nasty song even nastier. I was quite surprised to hear the Water tracks from “The Alchemy Index Vol I and II”. Thrice does a good job performing those live and its quite creative how they gave the Water it’s amazing sound.

So since that show, I’ve been trying to make up a few different riffs that go together and sound of a cross between Thrice and The Receiving End of Sirens. Seeing Thrice live has just influenced me a bit more to put some things together that I can play with a few different people and have an epic sound to it without sounding too much like anything out there. I guess I’ll have to make my skills grow and maybe we’ll be lucky with some work of art out of it all.