USA (Hartford), October 13, 2009 Review

The power of their preformance was absolutely stunning. You could feel Hunters bass in your chest, and Jade's guitar ripped your ears, in a good way.

Sound:	10
Perfomance:	9
Impression:	10
Overall rating:	8
Reviewer rating:	9.7
Users rating:	6.4
Votes:	5

overall: 9.7

Reviewed by: askingforit176, on december 03, 2009

Sound: I cannot stress how much has changed since I saw them in 2006, its like a whole new band. The power of their preformance was absolutely stunning. You could feel Hunters bass in your chest, and Jade's guitar ripped your ears, in a good way. They both were both the loudest I've seen from them since 2001, as wellas the heaviest.

Now if you've seen the I Heard A Voice DVD and are basing Davey's live sound off then your not doing him justice. That preformance was complete garbage to put it nicely, he sounded amazing both with accuracy and power in his voice. // 10

Perfomance: Setlist:

01. Torch Song
02. Girl's Not Grey
03. The Leaving Song Part 2
04. Veronica Sawyer Smokes
05. No Poetic Device
06. Kill Caustic
07. End Transmission
08. Dont Make Me Ill
09. Beautiful Thieves
10. Dancing Through Sunday
11. Leaving Song
12. On The Arrow
13. Death Of Seasons
14. Medicate
15. Love Like Winter

Encore:

16. The Interview
17. Miss Murder
18. Silver and Cold

Pretty good setlist. They played my top two songs (Death of Seasons and No Poetic Device) with No Poetic, and Dont Make Me Ill a complete suprise. as was On The Arrow (a decemberunderground b-side) and The Interview (I hated this song on the record live I actully really enjoyed it) The Crash Love songs sound much better Live with the heavier guitar tone. Davey did a flip into the audience during the leaving song part two. And appologized about not coming to Hartford in quite some time, and told a story about getting Hunter's tuning peg into the side of his head at that show (story is true I was there) the set was very nice and stripped down compared to the DU tour. The fire alarm was pulled inbetween the Gallows and Afi resulting in us standing out side for over an hour in 35 degree rainy weather. // 9

Impression: USA, Hartford, Connecticut, Webster theatre. Gallows were the openers, amazing live great couple of albums too.

Worst thing about the show by far was the younger fans. Half were with their parents and the other half shreaked everytime Davey spoke pretty much. Grow the f--k up. They also thought it would be a great idea to stand right on the edge of the pit and get upset they got hit...

I've seen Afi every US tour since 99 and if they keep preformin like this (cheap too $24) I will be going for much longer. // 10

Comments

[TheRedScare]

I recently went to their show up here in New Hampshire. Although I've been listening to AFI for years, it was my first time getting to see them live. All I can say is I was completely blown away. They put on an amazing show, every song they played was so heartfelt. I had such a good time, I couldn't have asked for anything better!

[nanaki2007]

i saw the show in chicago and i had similar problems with the younger fans, but the main problem was the crowd shoving up to the front. i'm fine with moshing, but this was pushing your arms and elbows in between people to move them out of the way so you could see better. i saw multiple smaller girls get elbowed by guys much larger just to get to the front. afi is great-the fans need some work. on the plus side, they played nyquil at that show

[MotörHeadFan22]

AFI and moshing? that sounds unnatural

[itmustbejesus]

AFI and moshing? that sounds unnatural

you obviously don't know that much AFI...

[aliceinnirvana]

I'm sorry but when I finally go to see AFI if they don't play Days of the Phoenix I will be horribly disappointed. I would love the show, I'm sure. But god...don't think I could be truly satisfied without that song in the set list.

[SeanX3187]

they played in Hartford? wow, i wasn't aware of that. that's cool
the set list is unimpressive though.
the AFI i know and love stopped being really good in around 2000.
i liked the hardcore punk, not the new sound they've decided to do.
oh well, maybe they'll do a few shows with good songs like "I Wanna Get A Mohawk" and "He Who Laughs Last..." but it's not likely

[AFI _182]

Yeah they are losing a few good songs from that setlist days of the phoenix eg, but they need to get rid of either leaving song or on the arrow cause 2 REALLY slow songs i would perfer and old hit like I Wanna Get A Mohawk, mallus maleficarum or 6 to 8.

[askingforit176]

you and me both. im a larger fan of the older stuff than the newer but im content with both in different mentalities. but i dont think Totalimmortal, Days of the Phoenix or God Called In Sick Today should ever leave the setlist. and i was kinda bummed with the leaving song and on the arrow, not gonna lie

[timeimperfect42]

nanaki2007 wrote:

i saw the show in chicago and i had similar problems with the younger fans, but the main problem was the crowd shoving up to the front. i'm fine with moshing, but this was pushing your arms and elbows in between people to move them out of the way so you could see better. i saw multiple smaller girls get elbowed by guys much larger just to get to the front. afi is great-the fans need some work. on the plus side, they played nyquil at that show

the show i went to in october also had the same problem. we moved up pretty close to the stage while afi was setting up but once they came on stage it went crazy, it was worse than moshing. and eventually we made it farther back where the crowd was okay.

but despite the crowd, the concert itself was truly breathtaking

[pwninator123]

I went to the show around the same time in Cincinatti, the band was absolutely amazing and tight, wonderfully so, and the more Industrial/Techno elements boomed the chest nicely (Death Of Seasons)

I have the same complaint of fans, my shoes got covered in beer, I saw a guy in a wheelchair get hit quite often, and I had the "Davey's biggest fan" fratboy behind me screaming along to EVERY song