MUAHAHA.... and such
Well two days ago someone called me on a whim and imformed me that they got tickets to that KROQ Weenie Roast thing and that I was going with them. All good and dandy, so I agreed. So it went well, despite the fact that I was called a 'queer' within 20 minutes of entering the Amphitheatre. WEll anyways, First we headed to the side stage, where the lineup consisted of Story of the Year (never heard them until yesterday... typical scream'o band or somethin'), Yellowcard ::shudders::, New Found Glory ::shudders twice::, and Hoobastank ::shudders thrice::. So we stayed for Story of the Year, which wasn't completely horrible because there was a pit consisting of a bunch of really big shirtless people, whom I was frequently slammed into. Anyway, after a fairly accurate cover of 'Enter Sandman', we left to get vairious expensive foods. And speaking of food, the whole day I never even had a hotdog; It's called a Weenie Roast and I couldn't find any hotdogs! wtf! But before I go of on a tyrade... I'l get back on topic. Well so as I was saying, we got food, then hung out under some tent until 5, when the first act started on the main stage. The first band was The Killers, who have a very cool industrial sound, semi Orgy-like but much faster, like The Vines or The Strokes or something equally retro. Buuut they had two issues. First off they weren't very charismatic, and had trouble catching the crowd's attention; Secondly, all their songs started sounding the same! Well anyway after them was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who were good, except for the fact that Karen O had some ridiculous outfit on that made her look like a circus performer. Next on the list was uhh... Modest Mouse. They were very good, but I can see why their music can be unattractive to some crowds. Next was... ::sigh:: Cyrpess Hill. Not only were they my most hated genre of music, but they weren't even very funny, or entertaining to watch on-stage. That, and the fact that the whole stadium, INSTANTLY reeked of pot, the smoke is still trapped behind my eyeballs. So after 45 minutes of that, The Hives came on-stage. Now... not only were they extremely cool looking (style wise), but their music was actually really good live (I had heard them before but they didn't really make that much of an impression), and their lead singer was SOOOOooo fucking cool. He had soo much stage talent, it was sickening. So after them was Velvet Revolver... Ooooh and such. But no, they weren't that great. Scott Weiland is infinately cool, but for some reason the collaberation between him and Guns 'N Roses doesn't work out that well. Lots of their songs started sounding the same, and Slash's solo-whoring attitude was less than cool. Not only that, but they covered a Guns 'N Roses song, which seemed distasteful to me, since they play them-selves off as a completely new band. After that though, they played a really good STP song, and even though that seemed equally lame, it was very good to hear, since the Stone Temple Pilots rock. Not that VR was a complete dissapointment, but they didn't live up to all the hype. So then comes Bad Religion. I love them, so of course I could write a whole essay glorifying them, but I dont want to do that, so I'll just keep this short. First, Jay, the bassist, wore a red dress. That was cool. Secondly, they only played 2 songs off their new album, most everything was the good fast old Bad Religion I know and love... even though one of their new songs was actually really good. So after that was. oh fuck im giong to have to stop typing, I'll finish this /spell check later.