I remember 2001-2003 were the breakout years for emo, at least emo at the time. I read an article in guitar magazine that spotlighted five bands. Thrice, The Used, Glassjaw, Thursday, and Poison the Well.
@@lordfrieza2073 1) screamo is a normalfrog term for music with core vocals 2) although bert is emotive, the used have no relation to any emotive genre, and/or emo is not a type of person.
Aaaaagh, I usually don’t care for the standard, “I’d kill to be at that concert” comments you see on everything nowadays, but I genuinely wish I could have been there. Bert’s screams were otherworldly here.
I miss this drummer though. He's def. a lot better than the one they have now. Either way, I think Bert has one of the best screaming voices I've heard especially in that secret song "Choke me"...It's insane!!
First big tour I went to, Warped 2003. As soon as I walked through security o saw Bert jump off the PA speakers into the crowd, Noblesville, IN.Best shit ever.
theres something about this live performance that just blows my mind.....problay the fact that its RAW and not edited, its like a darker version of the song i love it
i wish i was born a decade earlier so i could’ve seen them live back when bert screamed more often! i love them now but no one can top the way he used to scream
my best was like obsessed with this band and i never got it till i actually lisened to them and now im just as in love with them as she is and were always talking about them. i met bert. (:D!) it was great. and i got 2 (2!) hugs from him. september 5th, best day of my life.(:
these were the times... being in high school, going to six flags with friends, skating, playing san andreas on the ps2,. trying weed for the first time inside a small bar, trying cigarettes for the first time near the local cinema, first times getting drunk,...
Sure enough five years and three albums later, The Used are one of the most popular bands in the genre and one of my favorites. It's amazing to be so close to something before it explodes and then watch it actually happen. It trips me out and I'm just thankful I was able to see them up close and backstage before people even knew who the fuck they were.
This girl who was on my bus used to go watch them every day and would come back and say, "you should really go check ou this new band...they're pretty sick." Eventually I did, and then started listening to the CD too. By the end of the summer the whole bus was into it and all agreed that we were watchign the birth of a band that was about to blow the fuck up.
I wish I knew about them and liked them when they weren't popular cuz it would have been cool to see them like that. the used is really good. go the used!
watching this video is crazy because I spent that summer (2002) workign on the Warped tour for one of the sponsors handing out free shit. Nobody had even really heard of those guys yet. The didn't even play on the main stage...they were one of the side acts like so many bands on the warped tour are.
