October 19, 2000 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom

by Tommy - tfsharprazor@juno.com

holy shit man. . .from the time I heard about the show I was so psyched , SouLFLy has been my band for a long time and it was my first time experiencing them live. It was about a thousand times cooler than I ever could have dreamed of it being.

Slaves on Dope opened up and they were really good. The singer can really scream, and the guitarist has an AMAZING vertical jump. I cought his pick at the end of their set.

Primer 55 was completely raw. They were so loud and so ugly that you had to love it. J-Sin was leaning into the pit which was SO NASTY I got a bruised wrist and I but my tongue and my friends got hurt alot too. They brought out some dude to scream with them on "The Big Fuck You" and he dove deep into the crowd, the energy for Primer was off the hook.

Downset was really really rockin. They played so well and so coordinated, the bassist was in the air every couple seconds. Everyone was gettin surfed all over including me. They were really cool, and I smacked the singer's hand a few times.

Before Soulfly came on everything was RIDICULOUSLY cramped. Worse than any concert I've ever been to, I could hardly breathe. There was this tribal music playing. . but it wasnt even music, it was just pure bass exploding through the soundsystem. All of the soulcrew roadies came out in camouflage and they set up all the shit, with the huge tapestry of the primitive bird in back. They took the stage, and the place erupted. Max said "What's up New York triiiiiibe?? We're going back to the primitive tonight!!!!"

SET LIST
Back to The Primitive
No Hope = No Fear
Roots Bloody Roots
Spit
Beginning of Tribe into Quilombo
beginning of Jumpdafuckup into Bring It
Bleed (with J-Sin of P55)
an awesome tribal percussion intermission with about 6 friends of the
band
The Song Remains Insane
Terrorist (with the singer of Downset)
Mulambo
Boom
No
Pain ( with J-Sin, and the singer of Slaves)
Joe Nunez played the drums for a minute after the rest of the band left

All in all it was the greatest concert I've ever been to. I was leaning over the metal barrier for all of Downset and Soulfly, as close to the stage as possible. During the bridge of Spit, Marcello was pointing right at me because I was going nuts, I loved the fact that they were jammin all of my old favorite Sepultura hits, Roots was so damn HEAVY the cranked it. When they did Pain it was cool, because everyone had a verse and they were all screaming like animals, everyone on stage was wearing black ski masks and camouflage and they were tellin the crowd how bad we were rippin each other up. It was a constant war in the pit all night and I have never been as physical at any other show. The entire experience was incredible and it moved me inside and I will never forget it. IF YOU GET THE OPPORTUNITY , DO ALL YOU CAN TO GET TO A SOULFLY SHOW. . . you will never look at live music the same way again. peace to the tribe