the last green day show.
its very sad to hear the bunny's music and not get to see the bunny. for serious. i know they brought the costume. does aol have something against the bunny? come on, aol. we like drunk bunnies.
i had commented earlier about how empty the floor was so it was awesome when billie joe called for more people to come down onto the floor. but, it also sucked, because they went nuts and crushed the fuck out of us, in the HANDICAPPED section. handicapped means "please do not crush". dont people know that.
plus, i had a laptop with me. and it wasnt mine. it belonged to some guy from network live and i feel they would have been upset if it had been crushed. so i spent the whole rest of the show cradling it between my feel and making sure no one got too close.
it made it so i couldnt blog during the show, which was probably for the best. for me. no one would have been reading it during the show anyway. i took notes on my arm about stuff i didnt want to forget to mention. mainly things i just didnt want to forget.
it was great to hear american idiot all the way through again. we saw them do it this way last october, before the album came out. its a lovely bookend to the green day trip experience.
also, it gave them a good reason to use all those extra banners they had aparantly been saving. they had a jimmy banner and a homecoming banner and... other banners as well.
the best part is when they do one of the songs that makes billie joe go all crazy. st jimmy, king for a day, homecoming... those are the ones you wait for. he does something that can only be called scampering. manly scamering, though. punk rock scampering.
i do think that playing whatsername as an encore instead of the last song on the album, which it is, is a weird choice.
i think the idea of saying that minority is the last song and then leaving the stage for a few minutes before coming back and playing an encore, is weird altogether.
the idea of an encore is that the audience wants more, right, that they are so excited to see more that the band decides to come out and play more songs to reward the good audience for being a good audience.
so... its kind of beyond the point to do a fakey encore.
not that i didnt want to hear more songs. i always want to hear more songs.
but i also want to feel like, if i cheer hard enough and loud enough, i can hear EVEN MORE songs.
i dont know. its not a well thought out theory.
loved the big group hug moment at the end of the show. i dont know if that made it to the AOL airing. but they all came out and did the equivalent of a curtain call.
afterwards we went back to the network live room downstairs to get rid of the computer and get our stuff.
we saw many famous people in the backstage areas. zach braff. matthew fox. tim armstrong. some kid from the OC.
we didnt get to meet the band. i guess that would have been the ultimare ending to our experience. but, as it was, the show was a high enough note to end on.
besides, i have this theory that its bad luck to meet your idols.
again, its not a well thought out theory.
k.
there is no return from 86
dont even try
i had commented earlier about how empty the floor was so it was awesome when billie joe called for more people to come down onto the floor. but, it also sucked, because they went nuts and crushed the fuck out of us, in the HANDICAPPED section. handicapped means "please do not crush". dont people know that.
plus, i had a laptop with me. and it wasnt mine. it belonged to some guy from network live and i feel they would have been upset if it had been crushed. so i spent the whole rest of the show cradling it between my feel and making sure no one got too close.
it made it so i couldnt blog during the show, which was probably for the best. for me. no one would have been reading it during the show anyway. i took notes on my arm about stuff i didnt want to forget to mention. mainly things i just didnt want to forget.
it was great to hear american idiot all the way through again. we saw them do it this way last october, before the album came out. its a lovely bookend to the green day trip experience.
also, it gave them a good reason to use all those extra banners they had aparantly been saving. they had a jimmy banner and a homecoming banner and... other banners as well.
the best part is when they do one of the songs that makes billie joe go all crazy. st jimmy, king for a day, homecoming... those are the ones you wait for. he does something that can only be called scampering. manly scamering, though. punk rock scampering.
i do think that playing whatsername as an encore instead of the last song on the album, which it is, is a weird choice.
i think the idea of saying that minority is the last song and then leaving the stage for a few minutes before coming back and playing an encore, is weird altogether.
the idea of an encore is that the audience wants more, right, that they are so excited to see more that the band decides to come out and play more songs to reward the good audience for being a good audience.
so... its kind of beyond the point to do a fakey encore.
not that i didnt want to hear more songs. i always want to hear more songs.
but i also want to feel like, if i cheer hard enough and loud enough, i can hear EVEN MORE songs.
i dont know. its not a well thought out theory.
loved the big group hug moment at the end of the show. i dont know if that made it to the AOL airing. but they all came out and did the equivalent of a curtain call.
afterwards we went back to the network live room downstairs to get rid of the computer and get our stuff.
we saw many famous people in the backstage areas. zach braff. matthew fox. tim armstrong. some kid from the OC.
we didnt get to meet the band. i guess that would have been the ultimare ending to our experience. but, as it was, the show was a high enough note to end on.
besides, i have this theory that its bad luck to meet your idols.
again, its not a well thought out theory.
k.
there is no return from 86
dont even try
posted by k.lenz at 8:17 PM
1 Comments:
I can't believe they asked you to blog from the show and then you didn't even get to meet the band! I would have cried. Kudos to you for being so good natured about it.
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