@@nightmareformula i shit you not i just watched that video because emo gives me anemoia and then the next thing you know this vid is in my recommended
The people-explosion from when they played Conduit during this set is still one of the bestest videos ever. This show seems like a really special place in time.
Being a teenager in the late 90s nothing can top it, i was 21 here obsessed with as the sun sets we all went from salem ,ma to prodivence which was atleast once a month this night was amazing
damn what a nice scene. decently-sized space, guys hanging out high af and/or moshing, guitarist up and says fuck it and does vocals, vocalist dribbles spit
@@terminaldeity it’s like, you can tell they’re popular in the underground because of how many people are there, but they’re not a mainstream band so they’re not playing on a stage but rather in a basement of some kind. It’s a perfect combination of popularity and obscurity. You kinda get that at shows nowadays. They’re still really fun but not quite the same. Then again I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t alive in the 90s lol.
@@mavisevelyn618 Only the biggest cities have a big enough scene to support this kind of show now. Now it's like either $40 tickets for a 1k person venue or it's a venue like this/house show but there's only like 30 people there who aren't affiliated with one of the bands.
Yeah, and a total dick. Starts elbowing people and shit because he's TRYING HIS SHOES AT A METAL SHOW and didn't wanna get pushed. The bassist eventually has to literally shove him to the back of the pit cause he's being such an asshole. 3:20 3:50
He's at their show from 97' in kingston Pennsylvania too lol check it out. front row. Maybe he knows them or something ua-cam.com/video/ohAWrCtlay0/v-deo.html
That’s 15 year old me. You should choose another hero though. What people should know is that it was roughly 500 degrees in there, and that’s why everybody looks exhausted.
Converge has always been before their time which makes them timeless. I've been to hundreds of shows and seen thousands of bands. I'll still say to this day, the best show I've ever been to was the first time I saw Converge. Maybe '06? Cleveland, OH
This reminds me of a Converge show in Amsterdam at a tiny place (Volta) beginning of the 2000s. It fit like 100-150 people. Sold out. Mayhem. The show was with Shikari, Rise and Fall, Instil, Greyline, Dead Rivers, and - last minute addition - Bleeding Through! (Cause they started their Euro tour with Sick Of It All and Walls of Jericho the next day at the Melkweg in Amsterdam - squeezed in, for free, at the last moment)
Rarely. But they do. Look up a video of full of hell playing sometime in 2013. Floor was packed and everyone was moshing or headbanging. Nobody had their phone out and if you did, it would get broken immediately. Shit looks intense. I also saw Revocation at a small ass bar not too long ago and the stage was small as fuck so they might as well have been on the floor. Show was just as crazy as this. People jumping off the stage and shit into people was crazy.
If memory serves, Dylan from Full of Hell would perform on the floor while the band was on stage back in their earlier days, but I haven't seen them do that in a long time. I'm seeing them this summer at a venue where the stage is not much higher than the club floor, we'll see what happens.
Look at KB taking charge at 2:45 after his amp apparantly went fucked xD Converge are so cool! Love them forever... by the way, did ATSS also play at this gig? Would be such a badass bill!
Haha. I had that same Bane tree of life shirt back in the day. I miss these types of shows, VFWs, Library basements, people's houses... ...I feel a little too old and silly to be getting swept in a wave of sweaty arms flailing everywhere. Always wondered why the old dudes hung out in the back. Now I am that old dude.
I'm almost 33 and if I still went to shows like this I'd most likely be standing near a wall leaning against it because I have bad knees. No more stage dives and high fives for this dude. lolz
it's nuts to think that the kids in this video are all in their 30's now - and even 40's. i was 21, though not in this video...i wasn't in this video. still, going to these shows.. converge, dillinger, melvins, botch, cave-in, isis, pig destroyer..... those were only the heavyweights!!! I probably went to 200 shows from 1999 to 2004.... and they were all the best years of my life.
I say still go. I turn 34 in January and next month I'm flying out to Sound & Fury in LA for the second year in a row. I've been going to shows like this since I was 15 and fractured my wrist at a Burn show as recently as a year and a half ago. Attending these shows now just means we've got better health insurance to pay the medical bills!
Joey Clemenza it is nuts. This was such a good time in music to be a part of. I still go to the same shows but only once in a while do I lose my shit and end up front and center getting hurt and blowing my voice out. It keeps you young to get back in there occasionally. It does hurt more than it did when I was 20 though.
This video makes me feel nostalgic for a time I never lived and a gig I never attended
you literally described anemoia. Nostalgia from a time you never lived it
they were the best of times, im ready to bring it back!
@@nightmareformula i shit you not i just watched that video because emo gives me anemoia and then the next thing you know this vid is in my recommended
only the chosen few witnessed these events
@@alexbeattie6868 Saw them 1998 with With Love together with maybe 100 poeple in the crowd. Epic show!
The energy here is amazing. You know it if you've ever attended a small hardcore show.
its also incredibly corny looking back at it.
@@pimtool9351 Definitely not. Tap into your local hardcore scene and experience what the unity is all about
i can smell the cigarettes and b.o from reading this
@@aannddrreewwcosta when i went to see jeromes dream the whole place smelled like cigarettes and when we walked out everyone was smoking them
this is the greatest footage of any band ever.
what about have heart final show?
Dillinger playing Destro's Secret & 43% Burnt at whatever that venue was is hard competition
@@chuckyLarmed which show? Can you link me? Would love to see vintage dillinger.
SunflowerField ua-cam.com/video/L6F3UJsZCcE/v-deo.html enjoy!
The people-explosion from when they played Conduit during this set is still one of the bestest videos ever. This show seems like a really special place in time.
this video captures everything that’s missing from modern hardcore shows nowadays
converge is the best band, this is the best song, great crowd, you really appreciate the drummer in this recording
Converge rules! 🤘👾🤘
How is there no comments about this drummer? This dude is awesome!
Watch his videos where he has a gopro strapped to his chest.
Being a teenager in the late 90s nothing can top it, i was 21 here obsessed with as the sun sets we all went from salem ,ma to prodivence which was atleast once a month this night was amazing
I was at this show... it was typical converge. Best band ever
What year was this?
@@lillianwhite760 2001 :)
damn what a nice scene. decently-sized space, guys hanging out high af and/or moshing, guitarist up and says fuck it and does vocals, vocalist dribbles spit
Before Kurt Ballou looked like my dad.
not once in my life have I ever seen a video as hardcore as this
This was a pretty typical show back in the late 90s. Shit was fucking wild.
@@terminaldeity it’s like, you can tell they’re popular in the underground because of how many people are there, but they’re not a mainstream band so they’re not playing on a stage but rather in a basement of some kind. It’s a perfect combination of popularity and obscurity.
You kinda get that at shows nowadays. They’re still really fun but not quite the same. Then again I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t alive in the 90s lol.
@@mavisevelyn618 Only the biggest cities have a big enough scene to support this kind of show now. Now it's like either $40 tickets for a 1k person venue or it's a venue like this/house show but there's only like 30 people there who aren't affiliated with one of the bands.
Insanity of a Converge gig at the time. Anything can happen. Pure chaos and great ol'hardcore/punkrock ways
Seriously, one of the best bands ever existed!
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This is the most hilarious live set I've ever seen lmao
You like this, check out some early Dillinger Escape Plan shows. ‘97-‘04 were their best live years IMO
As The Sun Sets were just as good, if not weirder
@@VioletAOP416 back when a Dillinger show was a hazard to your health and well being 😂
Search for "THE CHARIOT PERTH 2011" this shit is hysterical
@@Kekster3000is that the show they did at someone’s house on top of the slanted roof? That was infamous & insane!
Damn. That kid in the white shirt is high af.
Yeah, and a total dick. Starts elbowing people and shit because he's TRYING HIS SHOES AT A METAL SHOW and didn't wanna get pushed. The bassist eventually has to literally shove him to the back of the pit cause he's being such an asshole. 3:20 3:50
@@classclown6ya lol, jake also tried to get his ass up and the kid gets up and flicks them off. That was hilarious, fucking kid is wild'n
He's at their show from 97' in kingston Pennsylvania too lol check it out. front row. Maybe he knows them or something
ua-cam.com/video/ohAWrCtlay0/v-deo.html
Omg I remember shows like this back in the day. So fun. Kids these days missed this shit.
Kids these days can’t do this shit, cuz their parents will sue. 🤦🏻♂️
@@travisfletcher900 Yeah you're right. It's sad. I was wondering a while back if shows like this exist anymore at all.
@@jakethemistakeRulez Shows like this still happen
@@jakethemistakeRulez They definitely still do happen, its hard to find them though sadly.
The kid drumming at like 1:55 is my hero.
That’s 15 year old me. You should choose another hero though. What people should know is that it was roughly 500 degrees in there, and that’s why everybody looks exhausted.
@@chrismara4929 No more heroes :(
3:20 lmao dude's trying to tie his shoes and everyone's fucking with him and untying them
Converge has always been before their time which makes them timeless. I've been to hundreds of shows and seen thousands of bands. I'll still say to this day, the best show I've ever been to was the first time I saw Converge. Maybe '06? Cleveland, OH
I miss this so much. What a time to see hardcore shows.
This reminds me of a Converge show in Amsterdam at a tiny place (Volta) beginning of the 2000s. It fit like 100-150 people. Sold out. Mayhem.
The show was with Shikari, Rise and Fall, Instil, Greyline, Dead Rivers, and - last minute addition - Bleeding Through! (Cause they started their Euro tour with Sick Of It All and Walls of Jericho the next day at the Melkweg in Amsterdam - squeezed in, for free, at the last moment)
Shikari was the fucking shit
@@HalfdanMCMX Definitely. As I recall, my face was melting ;)
If converge and lightning bolt did a small room floor show for their biggest fans it would be the greatest moment in history of hard music.
But that's already happened. You're watching a video of that happening.
That kid with the charles bronson youth attack shirt gets mad respect from me
Wow, this looks like such a fucking good time! Wish I had the chance to see these guys back in their earlier days.
It was amazing. There used to be shows like this all the time. Idk what happened. Everyone are pussies now I guess.
This just shows how amazing converge is as a band. Kurt's guitar stopped working so he just starts moshing with the crowd n screaming with jakob.
Saw Converge live in July 2019 and they had every bit as much energy as on this video! Awesome live band.
Says the one who haven't seen them 20 years before ;)
gotta love a show with full ceiling lighting
Love that Ben and Kurt just hop in the audience.
Nothing will ever get better than this.
I love how Ben just gets up, and walks right ontop of the crowd, like he needed it
I worked the door at this show . It was Insane!!! In scrantont pa at sessions skatepark
Looks just like sessions when they played there.
I miss this Converge.
2:45 kurt 's head hahaha
2:24 :p jacob just let it flow
The saddest day, will be the day that Converge call it a day...;(
This video reminded me that part of a ceiling fell on my head at a Converge show in 2003.
I am that girl in the green
Yureka Cash lol its literally me like in reality that is me
Jen Millis nice
We're you the only girl there?
Sie Fi no you can see a few other women if you look, but obviously I certainly stood out
Yureka Cash that crowd surfer dude really blindsided you there. Did you feel that the next day?
kinda wish id been born early enough to live this era of live music
This footage is at the same level of Waiting room live..No problem
I have never wanted to be in a hardcore band more than ever after watching this.
3:41 Jacob punches the cymbal
I want this footage injected directly into my veins
1:04 that dude in black
this is the best video I've ever seen on UA-cam
Not only can I see the fun while watching this video but I feel it,GS cOnVeRgE 🖤🖤🖤
Do floor shows like this even exist anymore?
Rarely. But they do. Look up a video of full of hell playing sometime in 2013. Floor was packed and everyone was moshing or headbanging. Nobody had their phone out and if you did, it would get broken immediately. Shit looks intense. I also saw Revocation at a small ass bar not too long ago and the stage was small as fuck so they might as well have been on the floor. Show was just as crazy as this. People jumping off the stage and shit into people was crazy.
Look at lightning bolt, though i don't think they do them anymore.
I promote some floor show at this pub near me called The White Lion, but they're never this crazy
If memory serves, Dylan from Full of Hell would perform on the floor while the band was on stage back in their earlier days, but I haven't seen them do that in a long time. I'm seeing them this summer at a venue where the stage is not much higher than the club floor, we'll see what happens.
Daniel Joel i saw lightning bolt play a show exactly like this at mass art in boston circa 2005
i wish i could go back and time to be there
2:24 tasty
you know it's gonna go crazy when you see the raggedy green shirt in the thumbnail
BRUTAL!!! Converge rules!!!
So awesome
It's like a zombie apocalypse
This looks more like circa 97-99
Look at KB taking charge at 2:45 after his amp apparantly went fucked xD
Converge are so cool! Love them forever...
by the way, did ATSS also play at this gig? Would be such a badass bill!
Deathkampdrone yes they did. As well as There Were Wires
Wow do you happen to have the full set? Have never seen this song from this show. Only Conduit on The Long Road Home DVD.
Sick practice space!
Omg I need this kinda of put more then I need air
まさしくカオス！！
Haha. I had that same Bane tree of life shirt back in the day. I miss these types of shows, VFWs, Library basements, people's houses...
...I feel a little too old and silly to be getting swept in a wave of sweaty arms flailing everywhere. Always wondered why the old dudes hung out in the back. Now I am that old dude.
Description! As The Sun Sets practice space!? MORE AS THE SUN SETS FOOTAGE!!!!!!!!!
its hopefully in the works, h2k just needs to get all his footage to Hate5six.. scalpthepioneer.bandcamp.com
this is killer gig
Hell yeah!
Damn I mis those days.
this is the way
Another angle? On a classic show? Yes!
Who knew there was a girl in a green shirt in the front!
*dress.
This is entirely different hardcore still sucks.
Also the fuck that guy diving into her tits, harcore is even worse than it was before.
Nobody cares. Consolidate your posts.
Watching this in 2020 makes me extremely sad ...the saddest year ever!
I would imagine this is what the showers in prison sound like
There's always that one brave punk girl.
If anyone ever asked me what hardcore was I would point them to this video
Title of the video says it all
лампово
the best time to be alive
3:36 haha
this was almost every show in the northeastern united states from 1997-2004-ish. you kids missed the fuck out.
From PA, can confirm.
Ah, the good old days...
kurt ballou is my fuckin hero
God Damn.
Boston hardcore at it's finest
Group stimming
Best ever
love how at 2:59 the bassist nearly clatters jacob with his headstock.
w video
nuff said
Poor Kurt. Did someone unplug his amp?
they need to send this to space for aliens to find
2:22 ecstasy
does anybody know what song is being played from 2:20? either its an intro or sum kind of breakdown but it sounds sick af
they are playing the saddest day on the whole video
thank you
green girl is legend for standing up still after getting that head injury. also why the fuck she wearing a dress
Fernando Nagode she almost got hit it swung in front of her
lol, girls wearing dresses, you know )
When i saw the hit i felt pain for her. Ouch!
And yeah i was 16 and just weird so i cant really defend the outfit
@@6Perdita6Durango6 lmao legend looking like a time traveler from the 50s who wanted to experience converge xD
Who has the rest of this show!!?
🤘🤘
i'm nearly 40 and i couldn't go to shows like this anymore.... well, yeah i guess i could. fuck it, these were great times.
I'm almost 33 and if I still went to shows like this I'd most likely be standing near a wall leaning against it because I have bad knees. No more stage dives and high fives for this dude. lolz
it's nuts to think that the kids in this video are all in their 30's now - and even 40's. i was 21, though not in this video...i wasn't in this video. still, going to these shows.. converge, dillinger, melvins, botch, cave-in, isis, pig destroyer..... those were only the heavyweights!!! I probably went to 200 shows from 1999 to 2004.... and they were all the best years of my life.
I say still go. I turn 34 in January and next month I'm flying out to Sound & Fury in LA for the second year in a row. I've been going to shows like this since I was 15 and fractured my wrist at a Burn show as recently as a year and a half ago. Attending these shows now just means we've got better health insurance to pay the medical bills!
Joey Clemenza it is nuts. This was such a good time in music to be a part of. I still go to the same shows but only once in a while do I lose my shit and end up front and center getting hurt and blowing my voice out. It keeps you young to get back in there occasionally.
It does hurt more than it did when I was 20 though.
I'd just be too old for this now....but I'd love to watch from a few metres back! 37..mehhhhh
Good rock 'n' roll show
That kid at 3:45 fkn lol every time
lmaoo
when he points the mic at the drummer >>>>
FUCKING GREAT
Holy fucking fuck!
Kurt was like, um, a bar too early on that EVERY TIME YOU JUSTIFY riff?
pretty sure im there lol i dont remember.. old school onlyville era
epic fucking video
0:37 Dawson Leery
Kurt’s amp fucks up so he just jumps in the crowd lol
nate looks 15