Steel Notes Magazine
November 2016
Event Review
Sands Event Center
Sands Casino
Enters a New
Dimension
By Foxxy Roxxy, Photos by Sheri Bayne
The night of August 4, 2016 the Sands Event
Center became an alternate universe. Surroundings became particles of outer space. Our
performers, our guides, were in space suits. The
narrator of our journey, a simple man dressed
as a “nerd” with his glasses and bowtie.
Dustin Bates, the narrator describes in songs
that there are discoveries being made every
day that the people of this world should know
about. Instead of us knowing about these
findings for free, for just extra knowledge,
this information has to go through a series
of steps just so one can make money. Dustin
Bates, founder and lead singer of Starset, has set out on a mission to inform the
audience of the Starset Society in which the band is based on.
“We are a collective of like minded individuals dedicated to the publicizing of scientific discoveries that have
been silenced or otherwise stolen by rogue agents. We do not support the release of technologies owned or developed by the government for the protection of its citizens. Rather, we toil day and night to make shed light on that
scientific knowledge which is being hidden from an unassuming public for undeserved private financial exploitation. We subscribe to no political affiliations, only the self evident rights of man, paramount of which is his right
to the general knowledge of his existence and place in the universe.” – The Starset Society’s Mission
Their first album Transmissions is available online and in stores now. According to All Music, “The album is
centered around a supposed transmission of human origin that was broadcast from the constellation Ophiuchus,
which foretells the future and demise of mankind.”
On this same night, after Starset, came a local Pennsylvania band that hasn’t performed in awhile. They’re back
and stronger than ever thanks to founder Benjamin Burnley. Even through his illness he stays optimistic, not
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