My 2nd Favorite Band is in Boston on my Birthday

       I just found out that what has to be my 2nd favorite band, The Expendables, are going to be in Boston on the day of my 21st birthday, and I am wicked pumped.  Tickets go on sale tomorrow and I am definitely going even though it's on a Tuesday.  They're playing at the Paradise Rock Club on Comm. Ave in Boston in November, where I saw them last year when they toured around the same time.  I like that place for shows, it's small so you can get up pretty close, and they get some good acts there.  The Expendables are an awesome band to see live, they sound like Stick Figure with the reggae but with punk and ska thrown in so it's way faster and heavier.  The first time I saw them was when they opened for 311, which has to be my favorite band, last summer at the Comcast Center in Mansfield.  I actually got to see The Expendables twice there because the power when out after they played the first time, so the show got postponed until the next Monday and they played again.  They came on before Ziggy Marley, and both times they ended with "Sacrifice," probably their best song and it was amazing.  They're a really chill band, they had a table set up after they played and I went down to meet them and get a Slightly Stoopid tour flyer signed by all of them; they had those at the show to promote Slightly Stoopid, the band that discovered The Expendables and signed them to their label.   The Expendables dropped a new album over the summer called "Prove It" and it will be sick to see some of those songs live.  I'm pumped for my 4th time seeing them, hopefully I'll grab a few legal drinks at the bar at Paradise, and I'll review the new album soon as a preview to the show.  And as a side-note they came out way before the movie, their first album dropped in 2001.

This is the video for "Sacrifice" by The Expendables:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_MSVALPhro