I went to a big punk rock show today. I had been looking forward to it, even excited about it for a while now. I was kinda hoping something fun like this would get me out of the funk that Ive been for the last couple weeks.
Well, Im a little disappointed with it. It kinda blew.
It started out very well, I was up close to see the Distillers, probably my favourite band right now, and they were awesome. But the bad thing was that they played first at 11:00am. It was fucking hot outside and Im not exactly a hot weather type, so the weather was hell for me throughout the day.
I liked some of the bands (Distillers, TSOL, The Damned, X, Pennywise), was indifferent about some (GBH, Adolescents, Buzzcocks, Bad Religion), didnt like a few (Unwritten Law, New Found Glory, Blink 182) and left before a few of them played (Social D, The Offspring, Sex Pistols)
The best thing, other than the distillers - was all the purty girls there. I think I fell in love about 50 times today.
The worst thing some of the fucking people that went to the show. There were a lot of ignorant assholes there. Earlier it was just drunk idiots, which I kinda expected but later on I was truly amazed. As soon as it got dark a ton of fights broke out and people kept setting fires. I think when I left there were 10 fires going on and I had already seen five fights breakout. It reminded me of Lord Of The Flies where the one group of kids reverted to this animalistic/uncivilized/lowest common denominator type behavior. But all it took here was for it to get dark and there was a big group of people. Apparently from talking with EricAllen, he said this happens everytime there.
Fucking stupid I say.
Well, Im a little disappointed with it. It kinda blew.
It started out very well, I was up close to see the Distillers, probably my favourite band right now, and they were awesome. But the bad thing was that they played first at 11:00am. It was fucking hot outside and Im not exactly a hot weather type, so the weather was hell for me throughout the day.
I liked some of the bands (Distillers, TSOL, The Damned, X, Pennywise), was indifferent about some (GBH, Adolescents, Buzzcocks, Bad Religion), didnt like a few (Unwritten Law, New Found Glory, Blink 182) and left before a few of them played (Social D, The Offspring, Sex Pistols)
The best thing, other than the distillers - was all the purty girls there. I think I fell in love about 50 times today.
The worst thing some of the fucking people that went to the show. There were a lot of ignorant assholes there. Earlier it was just drunk idiots, which I kinda expected but later on I was truly amazed. As soon as it got dark a ton of fights broke out and people kept setting fires. I think when I left there were 10 fires going on and I had already seen five fights breakout. It reminded me of Lord Of The Flies where the one group of kids reverted to this animalistic/uncivilized/lowest common denominator type behavior. But all it took here was for it to get dark and there was a big group of people. Apparently from talking with EricAllen, he said this happens everytime there.
Fucking stupid I say.
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I saw some show there last year and it sucked too. first of all i abhor large venues like that, but the worst part is that during the day it's REALLY HOT there and at night it get's FREEZING. so you get there wearing shorts and a tee shirt but right around 7 oclock you realize you need to go out to your car and get a sweatshirt but NOOOOOOO. you're not allowed to leave and come back. so then you get people setting fires all night long. i swear, i'm never seeing a show there again. i'm stickin to little hole in the wall venues like the troubadour.