Audioslave!!!
Yesterday Nadu and I had a busy day. Early in the afternoon we went to the Northeast side, to the Coliseum Inn for a hockey card show. It was the best show I've ever seen, dealers were there from Vancouver, Saskatoon, and Toronto were there, as well as some representitives from one of the card companies - In The Game - were there.I picked up some nice Oilers cards for pretty cheap, then heard about a neat redemption program. For each box of In The Game Franchise cards you buy and open at the company's table, you get 24 free cards that were made specially for the show in Edmonton.So I tried my luck on one box and made out like a bandit - 2 cards that are only 20 made, and 2 autographs, and got my 24 free show cards too.Then I decided a little while later that I want to do it again - the boxes were only $65, which is pretty cheap for those ones. I go back to the same dealer (a guy from Edmonton) and he says 'if you had busted 2 boxes the first time, you could have gotten one free card numbered 1/1'. Dammit! If I got a Patrick Roy or Mario Lemieux or Vladislav Tretriak, I would have been rich! But it was my fault, I knew about it before I tried the first one and decided against it. But the dealer starts talking to the In The Game guy trying to get me the 1/1 if I give my 24 other cards back. They kind of got in an argument over it, it was pretty funny. I didn't get the 1/1, but I appreciated the dealer trying to get it for me. Just for that, I'll probably go to his store more often now.So here are some of the cards I got from the boxes, the Dionne Stick and Ullman Jersey are the ones that there are only 20 of them, should be able to trade them for some very nice Oilers :)Then we had to wait a while, wasted some time at West Edmonton Mall...and at 7:00 it was time for Audioslave!The first opening band was 30 Seconds to Mars. They were rather crappy, but nobody was there to see them anyway. So Nadu and I sat up in the seats with my friends while they were playing.Next up was Seether. They were pretty good, played with a lot of energy and got everyone excited for Audioslave. By now we had moved down on the floor to watch the bands.After a while of waiting after Seether, Audioslave came on. They were one of the best bands I've ever seen. Chris Cornell didn't even seem drunk for this show and sang really quite well. Tom Morello (guitarist) was amazing, by far the best guitarist I've ever seen...not that I've seen that many :p They did all of their Audioslave hits...Show Me How To Live was probably the best - Morello was jumping around like crazy. Set It Off was another wicked one. They also did some stuff from their old bands. For Soundgarden, they did Spoon Man, Rusty Cage, and a few others. For Rage Against the Machine they did Testify, Sleep Now in the Fire, and Killing in the Name Of (Wow, highlight of the show!) Chris Cornell did an acousic set for a few other Soundgarden songs, and the 3 guys from Rage did an instrumental of Bulls on Parade, which was another hightlight.All in all, definitely the best show I've ever been to...after that would be Pantera, Godsmack, Tragically Hip, Finger Eleven (and a bunch others like Nickelback, Wide Mouth Mason, Trapt, etc.)