[CONCERT REVIEW] Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech: CONCERT REVIEW: H****stank invade Virginia Tech
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01 April 2004
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U-WIRE-04/01/2004-Virginia Tech: CONCERT REVIEW: H****stank invade Virginia Tech (C) 2003 The Collegiate Times Via U-WIRE
By Anne-Henley Beck, The Collegiate Times (Virginia Tech)
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Fronted by Ima Robot and LostProphets, H****stank
invaded Squires Commonwealth Ballroom Wednesday night to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 1,600 for their MTV Campus Invasion Tour. While a few came
for Ima Robot, some for LostProphets, and most for H****stank, the bands were able to rile the whole crowd up to moshing, crowd surfing and bouncing
around the floor.
"People were saying it was going to be crazy," said senior communication major Brad Keppler, "but I don't think anyone imagined it
would be this nuts. We were two rows back and I've seen some tough concerts before, but this was nuts. People were starting to throw their
elbows."
To start off, Ima Robot took the stage with its fast paced, speed driven songs and Euro-grunge dress. Asking spectators if they went out to vote today
on such an overcast day, few responded.
"Ima Robot is under-appreciated," said Ryan Battle, a freshman general engineering major. "They're awesome and I'm a big fan,
but you have to appreciate it."
Unlike with Ima Robot, the audience went crazy when LostProphets took the stage, after an intermission of radio songs, and an MTV emcee talking up the
crowd. Jumping up and down and head bopping, the swarm of people started moshing. For LostProphets' song "Last Summer", the band
started the tune by getting the audience clapping in the air energetically until the song's main beat burst onto the scene.
"I was in the very front and it was crazy," said freshman business major Keith Johnson. "People were pushing and falling. I'm glad
they let us go insane because it wouldn't be as fun otherwise."
At one point the LostProphets' lead singer commented on the active crowd by asking if a member of the crowd was okay.
"Is she okay?" he said pointing to a girl. "... They're dropping like flies. I guess it's a casualty of rock."
The band also played "Too Late" and "Burn Burn," prepping the audience for the arrival of H****stank.
Their first song, "Out of Control" kept the crowd surfing, the audiences' reaction impressed the band so much, the lead singer, Doug
Rob later praised the Hokies in attendance.
"You guys hands down have been the best show," Rob said. "If the show ended right now, you'd win against the six other colleges
we've played for."
Keeping the energy high with their hit song "Running Away," the band played many tracks from its new album as well, such as "The
Reason" --
which inspired the crowd to raise their lighters -- and "What Happened
to Us."
"The concert was really hard core," said junior human nutrition, foods and exercise major Tara Moinamin. "They made it a really great
show by giving it their all. You could tell a lot of effort was involved."
Not to forget the ladies in attendance, Rob jokingly sang the beginning of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Wanna Have Fun," making the girls
scream and bounce ever harder. Before playing their last song, Rob thanked the crowd and asked for them to dig deep and find that last ounce of energy
while the instrumentalists began to build up to the finale, "Crawling in the Dark."
With points where the whole floor jumped up and down, and sweat dripping off of moshers' bodies throughout the concert, MTV Campus Invasion and
Virginia Tech Union was able to successfully give a concert everyone enjoyed with no major injuries.
"We did a lot of preparation for this event," said VTU's director of concerts and graduate student in computer science Jason Shank.
"We had a lot of security on hand. Everything's going really smoothly. The bands are having fun. The crowd is having fun too and no one is
getting hurt."
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