{"id":7329,"date":"2011-04-21T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:39:28","slug":"an-evening-with-amon-amarth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/an-evening-with-amon-amarth\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening With Amon Amarth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So it turns out I have well over 100 decent images from the Amon Amarth gig in Portland. For those of you who couldn’t care less, you’ll be glad to know that this is my last post on the subject. Also, I won’t post them all. What you see here is all you are going to get. I’ll finish off this entry of few words and many photos with five more videos.<\/p>\n

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Johan Hegg bows to the crowd at the end of the evening.<\/p>\n

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It was fun to hear what Johan had to say between songs. He doesn’t talk as much as his fellow Swede, Mikael in Opeth<\/a>. Last time I saw them was in Sweden so he spoke only in Swedish, and I couldn’t understand a word.<\/p>\n

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The sound wasn’t great (or should I say “wasn’t wonder<\/b>ful” since this was the Wonder Ballroom). It was good if you were in the middle in the back half of the Wonder Ballroom, but near the stage or along the sides the sound could only be called poor (at best). I tried various places, eventually settling on the back next to the mixing board for the most part. The sound board should either mix things better for the masses (mostly near the front), or the Wonder Ballroom should move the mixing board to the middle of the venue.<\/p>\n

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The picture above is of the boys in the band handing out guitar picks and drum sticks after the show. The guys I went with (a couple of future attorneys studying law at Willamette University and a guy I drove with from Southern Oregon) ended up with some of these goods. My ride companion dropped his pick and then had to wait for everyone to clear out to pick it up. Too funny, or at least I thought so. He didn’t.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember if they got them from Johan Soderberg or Olavi Mikkonen. I think one of my law school friends (thanks for letting us stay at your place BTW) has picks from each now that he uses as his good luck charms while taking exams. May you pass the bar on your first attempt with pieces of Amon Amarth in your pockets.<\/p>\n

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So it turns out I have well over 100 decent images from the Amon Amarth gig in Portland. For those of you who couldn’t care less, you’ll be glad to know that this is my last post on the subject. Also, I won’t post them all. What you see here is all you are going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[324,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32734,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions\/32734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}