Avenged Sevenfold Live 2004 part 1

Filmed at SloBrew, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2004. This footage was lost from 2005 through 2011. It has been found.


My grandfather died in December 2010. It fell on my brother and i to begin the process of sorting his belongings that were to be divided amongst the family. When searching through a random box in his house, i found many articles of mine that i had left there from the time i lived with him in 2003-2004. In that box was a dv tape in a little clear plastic case which i thought had been destroyed or trashed by the person who moved into my space after i had left many years ago. For the past 6 years i have always been saddened by the fact that under my care, the record of an awesome early A7X club show was forever not to be seen. Needless to say, at my grandfather's house, when i saw the tape laying at the bottom of the dusty cardboard box that day, my brother and i lost our minds with excitement. We yelled and howled like total idiots at each other about how epic and amazing the discovery was. To be honest, that was probably inflated by the fact that we needed a release from the sadness at the time. But nonetheless, it's wonderful that the concert has returned from the land of the unseen.

I knew they wouldn't let me film during the concert being just some random fan so i concocted a false story and then lied to everyone that got in my way that night. I told the promoter that i was filming for my music recording class and we were going to analyze the audio in class the next day as a class project--bullshit. When i snuck into the sound check during the day i told the backstage bouncer i was a journalist from my school--total bullshit. Then when i was stopped by another bouncer once the show was starting i told him i had permission from the promoter. I told him to gesture towards the promoter for his approval of the situation and after a tense few moments the promoter waved back, the bouncer released me, and i hit record.