With their 2010 tour coming to an end Creed rolled through Dallas with the second to the last show of the tour. I’ve never seen Creed live but I do have several of their shows on cd and they sound great live and their guitarist Mark Tremonti is one of the best ones out there today. I was surprised that the place was not even close to being packed as I figured many people would like to see them not long after they reunited. Either way they sounded great and I’ll for sure see them next time around. In the meantime, here are some shots from the concert.

Dallas Setlist
Bullets
Overcome
My Own Prison
Say I
Never Die
Torn
1,000 Faces
What If
Unforgiven
Are You Ready?
What’s This Life For?
Faceless Man
With Arms Wide Open
My Sacrifice

Encore:
One
One Last Breath
Higher

Scott Stapp

Mark Tremonti

The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival rolled through Dallas on a hot as hell Friday the 13th. Pretty fitting for the type of bands that played which included Five Finger Death Punch, Lamb of God, Korn, and Rob Zombie. Even with the temperature hovering around 104 degrees the venue was packed from the stage to the back of the lawn. Here are a few highlights from the show of the main stage acts.

Rob Zombie

Setlist

1. What Lurks on Channel X?
2. Superbeast
3. Scum of the Earth
4. Living Dead Girl
5. More Human Than Human
6. Sick Bubble-Gum
7. House of 1000 Corpses
8. Never Gonna Stop
9. Mars Needs Women10. Thunder Kiss ’65
10. School’s Out (Alice Cooper cover)
11. Dragula

Shooting Rob Zombie was not as easy as most shows. Zombie likes to keep a low light, very colorful stage to go along with his scary image. It was an awesome show but if you don’t have a higher end camera with a great sensor for low light you’re not going to get much.

KoЯn

Fan-Tastic

Five Finger Death Punch

Lamb of God

9 June, 2010: Superpages.com Center, Dallas, TX:

“The Maiden” kicked off their 2010 Final Frontiers Tour in Dallas. I’ve seen the Maiden many times growing up and they’ve been one of my favorite live bands. Since there’s no telling when they may call it quits (as I heard they weren’t even going to tour the US this year) I figured I’d go see them one last time. I personally felt they could have played a few more classics like The Trooper, Run to the Hills and Wasted Years but the show was great as usual. Bruce sounded great and the guitar work of Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, and Janick Gers were on point even for the first night of their short US tour.

Dallas Setlist:
1. The Wicker Man
2. Ghost Of The Navigator
3. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
4. El Dorado
5. Paschendale
6. The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
7. These Colours Don’t Run
8. Blood Brothers
9. Wildest Dreams
10. No More Lies
11. Brave New World
12. Fear Of The Dark
13. Iron Maiden

1. Encore:
2. The Number of the Beast
3. Hallowed Be Thy Name
4. Running Free

Bruce Dickinson

Janick Gers

Steve Harris

Adrian Smith

Eddie

Up The Irons!

Team Penske Driver Ryan Briscoe  was able to keep the lead as Danica Patrick of Andretti Autosport came in a close second at the 2010 Firestone 550k. Danica actually took the lead late in the race but her lead was short lived as Briscoe was able to get back in front with an outside move.

June 4 – Practice

A HOT day on the track as the weather channel said it was 96 outside, of course they didn’t factor in how hot it was with the heat coming off the track.

Danica Patrick – Andretti Autosport






It looks like below I caught Danica in the middle of a Pantene commercial

Helio Castroneves – Team Penske

Will Power

Dario Franchitti (Husband of actress Ashley Judd)

Michael Andretti

Race Day – June 5

Sparks fly as the drivers come out of turn 1

Danica Patrick in her No. 7 Dallara Honda

The Texas Sun sets in the West as it peaks through the grandstands

Simona De Sivestro of HVM Racing before her fiery crash that ended the race for her and lightly burned her hand.

Helio Castroneves of Team Penske approaching turn 2

Will Power during a pit stop. Notice the fuel line being pulled back as it still drips fuel and the line of water being used to wash it away to avoid a fire.

Dario Franchitti of Target Chip Ganassi Racing during a pit stop

Dario spins his tires as he exits pit road

Drama

Late in the race Danica and Ryan Briscoe battled for first and Danica eventually took over the lead. However Briscoe took back the lead on lap 193 and was able to keep the lead to finish first. Patrick, who started eighth finished second and posted her best finish since the won back in 2008 in Japan.

Spin Out

Briscoe spins out at the finish line under the checkered flag to celebrate his Firestone 550k win.

Goodnight for another year from Texas Motor Speedway

Below a young Bearded Dragon

Below: Albino Boa Constrictor

Below: California King Snake

Below: Young Bearded Dragon

Below: Poison Dart Frog

Below: Panther Chameleon Eye

Below: Emerald Tree Boa

Below: Panther Chameleon

Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki #41

Brendan Haywood #33

‘JJ’ Jose Barea #11

Caron Butler #4

Roddy Beaubois #3

The Matrix – Shawn Marion #0

Jason Kidd #2

Recent Foes

Acie Law #0 Chicago Bulls

Baron Davis #1 Los Angeles Clippers

Carmelo Anthony #15 Denver Nuggets

Russell Westbrook #0 Oklahoma City Thunder

Tip-off

Normally we receive gifts on our birthday but Jason Kidd decided to give the Mavs a gift on his birthday by taking over the game in the 2nd half. Dirk Nowitzki was ejected just after the half after receiving back to back technicals and had to watch the rest of the game from the locker room after arguing with an official. Kidd took over the game and scored 26 points, had 12 assists, and 6 rebounds to help carry the Mavs to a 106-96 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

Please check out Hoopsworld.com for details on their courtside blog. In the meantime check out some action highlights.

Jason Kidd on his 37th Birthday has another double-double with 26 points and 12 assists

Los Angeles Clippers

Baron Davis

You may remember Baron as a Mav killer back when he played with the Golden State Warriors as they eliminated the Mavs in the first round of the playoffs

Below I caught Baron, inches in front of me, stretching as he watched the Mavs introductions

Below, an ants eye view of Brendan Haywood defending Chris Kaman on a baseline jumper.

Roddy Beaubois

Caron Butler drives the baseline

Brendan Haywood with a thunderous dunk

Remote Cam

Former Maverick Drew Gooden drives in against Erick Dampier

For the second time this season the Mavericks have worn the pretty blue alternate jersey with ‘Los Mavs’ on the front and for the second time they lost in them. It’s seems like the Mavs have the equivalent to the Dallas Cowboys’ ‘Bad Luck’ Blue Jersey. Either way we lost two games out of the last three and next up is a back to back with New Orleans and the Clippers. Please check out Hoopsworld.com for full details on this game and every Mavs game.

Boston Celtics

Kevin Garnett – ‘KG’

Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce #34 drives in to the lane past Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Kidd #2 and finished with 29 points

Rajon Rondo #9

Dallas Mavericks forward Shawn Marion #0 and Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce #34 battle for a rebound

Dirk

Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki #41 drives in to the paint and finished with 28 points

Dirk with a jumper over Boston Celtics center Rasheed Wallace #30 who said after their last meeting he would seek retribution against Dirk and the Mavs stating the NBA doesn’t want tough defense on Dirk. He also went on to say “I ain’t worried about it. We’ll see them again. There will be retribution.” His retribution however was scoring only 2 points and 3 rebounds.

Dirk Nowitzki #41 tries to box out Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett #5

Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Terry #31 celebrates a three pointer with his signature ‘Jet on the runway’ move

Dallas Mavericks guard Jose Juan Barea #11

Jason Kidd

Jason Kidd #2 takes off on a fast break and finished the night with 11 points and 9 assists

Remote Cams

Remote Camera A

Remote Camera B

The Dallas Mavericks ‘Los Mavs’ were riding a 13 game winning streak on Noche Latina night when the New York Knicks ‘Nueva York’ came in to town and gave the Mavs a little taste of revenge as they beat the Mavs 128-94. The Knicks lost to the Mavericks by 50 points and were embarrassed on their home court just a few weeks before. For more info check out Hoopsworld.com. In the meantime here are some gametime highlights.

Nueva York

New York Knicks guard Toney Douglas #23  (above) goes up for the basket and scored 21 points

Los Mavs

Dirk Nowitzki scored 20 points

Jason Kidd # 2 scored 15 points and had 5 assists

Shawn Marion finished with 14 points and had 8 assists

Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki #41 is guarded by New York Knicks guard Tracy McGrady #3

The first real test for the new look Mavericks came as the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers arrive in Dallas for their fourth meeting of the season. The Mavericks were embarrassed in Los Angeles as they were blown out by 40 points at the Staples Center so they were hoping to be able to make up for that tonight. One of their newest weapons was not available in this game due to a reaction to some medication before the game. Caron Butler was given medication earlier and it actually made him ill and keeping him out of what would have been his biggest test with his new team.

The Mavericks held on as Kobe made his run as usual in the fourth and won 101-96. For more details check out Hoopsworld.com.

Kobe Bryant

Kobe finished with 20 points and 5 rebounds.

Jason Kidd #2

Kidd finished with 14 points, 13 Assists and 7 rebounds

Shawn Marion #0

Ron Artest #37

Lamar Odom #7

Pau Gasol #16

Rodrigue Beaubois #3

Roddy swats away a shot after Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar #1 took off on a fast break

Beyonce

Jay-Z and Beyonce in their court side seats

Fan-Tastic

Los Angeles Lakers Coach – Phil Jackson

Dance Break