Foo Fighters
Oct. 23rd, 2005 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosephileThat was great. Just :)
Some bad: I would've gotten in way sooner if I didn't have to stand outside (sometimes feeling like a moron, sometimes feeling like a sleeze) trying to sell my tickets. This black scalper dude offered me $40 when I first got there--for BOTH tickets. I said no. He then offered $60. Um, no. I got some sympathy and commiseration from other people, hung out with a girl whose boyfriend stood her up so she was trying to sell one ticket too, but her friends were going in, so she left. Then this CHEAP-ass, annoying dad tried to pay $70 for the pair so these two girls could go (daughter & friend?)...he wasn't very nice, and the girls (teenagers) just stared at me and wouldn't say anything. I was thinking about giving up when this woman rushed over to me and gave me what I'd paid, saying that someone just tried asking $60 each...it was the black scalper dude.
So anyway, two tickets lighter and $100 heavier, I jogged over to the GA entrance and got in pretty quickly, just as the lights went down and Hot Hot Heat started up. I didn't get in too bad an area (I was shocked), maybe 30 feet/15-20 people back from the stage, left/middle. Hot Hot Heat was better than I'd expected. Plus, the guitarist is left handed!!! Then Weezer came on, and they were really fun to watch. I had no idea they all switched around instuments/positions for different songs. They had confetti (not nearly as much as Green Day, but personalized, y'know, with the 'W'? It was cool.), and opened with "My Name is Jonas" (yea). I'd see them again, for sure. :)
Well, I'd moved up during Weezer, since there was part where the action was on some other stage in back (which I couldn't see) and everyone was tuned around. This was maybe not a good idea. The Foo Fighters came on, and the CRUSH was on. It must have been like the free Smashing Pumpkins concert (my first concert)...not just touching and pushing, but crushing, like a corset or something, only made of bodies. I couldn't even try to concentrate on the show, stage, words, anything, only on trying to draw breath and stay upright. Things got slightly more bearable, but then worse again, so I moved with difficulty on over to the left, ending up just to the right of the giant speaker column. But at least "way" over here (I probably moved 10 or 15 feet) people weren't in the crush. The only problems I had over here were non-scary: sometimes tall people in the way, and during the last song ("Monkey Wrench"), several guys started moshing RIGHT in front of me. I think I got a couple more bruises from that. How does elbowing people really hard and getting some back enhance your concert experience? Stupid males, just jump like normal people. Oh, and there was the whole, 'by the speakers' thing. I really hope I'm not deafening myself. But at the very end, after the mosh pit broke down, I found myself only four people back from the barrier, so in a way I just moved forward the whole time.
I got some merch (there's a poster with UFOs!), then listened to some 'In Your Honor' and then 'Colour and the Shape' and got a shake (and water, thank god) at In'N'Out on the way home. And here I am, tired as hell, but nice and clean after a shower. I have to get up early for the Packers game. Gotta remember to check if it'll actually be on tv (then I could sleep 'till like 9:55!...but they're almost never on tv here). And now I'm rambling, so I shall go. :)
Some bad: I would've gotten in way sooner if I didn't have to stand outside (sometimes feeling like a moron, sometimes feeling like a sleeze) trying to sell my tickets. This black scalper dude offered me $40 when I first got there--for BOTH tickets. I said no. He then offered $60. Um, no. I got some sympathy and commiseration from other people, hung out with a girl whose boyfriend stood her up so she was trying to sell one ticket too, but her friends were going in, so she left. Then this CHEAP-ass, annoying dad tried to pay $70 for the pair so these two girls could go (daughter & friend?)...he wasn't very nice, and the girls (teenagers) just stared at me and wouldn't say anything. I was thinking about giving up when this woman rushed over to me and gave me what I'd paid, saying that someone just tried asking $60 each...it was the black scalper dude.
So anyway, two tickets lighter and $100 heavier, I jogged over to the GA entrance and got in pretty quickly, just as the lights went down and Hot Hot Heat started up. I didn't get in too bad an area (I was shocked), maybe 30 feet/15-20 people back from the stage, left/middle. Hot Hot Heat was better than I'd expected. Plus, the guitarist is left handed!!! Then Weezer came on, and they were really fun to watch. I had no idea they all switched around instuments/positions for different songs. They had confetti (not nearly as much as Green Day, but personalized, y'know, with the 'W'? It was cool.), and opened with "My Name is Jonas" (yea). I'd see them again, for sure. :)
Well, I'd moved up during Weezer, since there was part where the action was on some other stage in back (which I couldn't see) and everyone was tuned around. This was maybe not a good idea. The Foo Fighters came on, and the CRUSH was on. It must have been like the free Smashing Pumpkins concert (my first concert)...not just touching and pushing, but crushing, like a corset or something, only made of bodies. I couldn't even try to concentrate on the show, stage, words, anything, only on trying to draw breath and stay upright. Things got slightly more bearable, but then worse again, so I moved with difficulty on over to the left, ending up just to the right of the giant speaker column. But at least "way" over here (I probably moved 10 or 15 feet) people weren't in the crush. The only problems I had over here were non-scary: sometimes tall people in the way, and during the last song ("Monkey Wrench"), several guys started moshing RIGHT in front of me. I think I got a couple more bruises from that. How does elbowing people really hard and getting some back enhance your concert experience? Stupid males, just jump like normal people. Oh, and there was the whole, 'by the speakers' thing. I really hope I'm not deafening myself. But at the very end, after the mosh pit broke down, I found myself only four people back from the barrier, so in a way I just moved forward the whole time.
I got some merch (there's a poster with UFOs!), then listened to some 'In Your Honor' and then 'Colour and the Shape' and got a shake (and water, thank god) at In'N'Out on the way home. And here I am, tired as hell, but nice and clean after a shower. I have to get up early for the Packers game. Gotta remember to check if it'll actually be on tv (then I could sleep 'till like 9:55!...but they're almost never on tv here). And now I'm rambling, so I shall go. :)
