Scenes from Rockville, Metro Park

sheclown · April 28, 2013, 10:56:40 PM

Girl on Fire

sheclown · April 28, 2013, 11:02:08 PM

Steel Panthers

This may have been the band that yelled to an adoring crowd "hey, not too bad for a bunch of rednecks". At which point, I thought it should have been told to him that using the "R" word is okay if you happen to be one. Otherwise, not so much.

Didn't matter tho. The crowd screamed some more.

sheclown · April 28, 2013, 11:04:32 PM

Hollywood Undead.

Taking Limp Bizkit, Shinedown, and Skynyrd out of the equation --this band took the crowd, IMHO. The air was totally electric around them. Security was visibly shaken by the task of controlling the exploding energy.

Papa Roach was a close second for crowd excitement.

http://www.youtube.com/v/R_HHm9ki3JI

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 09:38:29 AM

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 09:49:28 AM

Filter

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 09:55:01 AM

Skillet

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 10:02:02 AM

Buckcherry

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 10:05:43 AM

KenFSU · April 29, 2013, 10:09:58 AM

Great pictures!

Not really my style of music, but I would have liked to have seen Steel Panther.

I've always had a soft spot for PANTHER.

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 02:43:48 PM

Shinedown

and of course, they played:

http://www.youtube.com/v/uJVGg_f0HMY

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 02:54:05 PM

...and then there was SKYNYRD!

Gary Rossington

no words...

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 05:49:03 PM

just kidding, of course there are words.

Gary is the last of the original band members, although Ricky Medlocke is certainly not an outsider, neither is Johnny VanZant. But Gary is the last of the band.

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 05:56:48 PM

Ricky Medlocke tore up free bird last night -- 63 years old and he played that guitar like a mad man. It was a thing of beauty.

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 06:06:35 PM

Johnny Van Zant.

When Shinedown began to play, the crowd was visibly different than it had been for the other bands.

They were listening to family.

And by the time Skynyrd came on stage, grandparents were dancing next to their grandkids, parents were holding up lighters -- all loving the hometown band who were loving them right back.

Johnny Van Zant, clearly moved by his reception from the crowd, told us that is it difficult -- intimidating -- playing for one's hometown. He told us that it was clearly worth it and that he won't stay away so long again. He told us that he'd see us, again, next year.

sheclown · April 29, 2013, 06:12:38 PM

They played the classics. And they played from their latest CD. "Last of a Dying Breed"