Concert stories!!!
Well Well Well....where do I start?
We got off the train and were looking for somewhere to put our bags. We ended up not finding any lockers of any sort at the train station so we went to see if there were lockers at the club where the gig was. We got there and there was some fat wrestling fan sitting on the gutter out the front of the club. We opened the door and walked in and the owner greeted us. We asked him if he knew anywhere that we could put our bags. He walked us up to the stage (small venue) and said "chuck them under here. It'll be good". So we put them under the stage and covered them with a cloth, and thought that was sweet, seeing as the guy was being heaps friendly to us and we really weren't supposed to be there.
I then looked over to the side to see a guy wearing a megadeth T-shirt. I thought "hey this guy must be a freakin' legend" but then I realised how right I was, seeing as I recognised him as being the bassist of dungeon... :D. We got talking for a while and ended up hanging out with him at the front of the club, talking about musical tastes and whatnot. I then asked "what time are the rest of the dungeon guys going to get here?". He replied, and only 5 minutes after that, a maroon ford falcon pulled up at the front of the club, and the guitarist from Dungeon got out, went around the back of his car, opened the boot and pulled out his guitars, walked into the club and dropped them off. We didn't really say anything to him at that point because we were crapping ourselves...
The ownwer of the club then came out the front and said to the bassist "I'm just going to get something to eat. Can you just mind the place until I get back? Only these three fellas can come in and noone else". Of course, 'these three fellas' was us, and we were so stoked! We went to the club with the intention of dropping off bags, and we ended up being allowed in whilst they set up and everything. So we walk upstairs to check the view - the balcony is so close to the stage you could jump off and easily make it onto the stage - and check the P.A. The sound crew for fozzy was in the room, as well as the camera crew and the club owner. We watched happily as they set up the amps and stuff, being the loud heavy metal music fanatics we are. Then the rest of dungeon showed up and they were sitting below us as they ate themselves some dinner (kebabs....fuck yea!). The drummer looked funny because he is fat and he was eating the most :D but he is still cool :D.
Then Fozzy came onto the stage and were talking to the sound guys. So just as a re-cap, we were the only people inside the club that had nothing to do with the actual show (besides being there). Inside the club with us, were the sound technicians of the bands, the camera crew, and the bands DUNGEON and FOZZY. There was so much talent in that room, it was unbelieveable. Oh yeh, the singer for Fozzy is the wrestler, Chris Jericho in case you didn't know...
So yeh we were sitting there for quite a freakin' long time, and then this huge tanky guy walked upstairs with a baseball bat in his hand and said "what are you guys doing here?". We were hesitant to respond (because this guy made Rambo look like a pussy bitch) but eventually got out "the owner said we could sit here whilst you guys set up" and he said "well you are going to have to go now, because we have to soundcheck and stuff like that". We didn't argue, and he turned out to be a nice guy, so as we started walking out he said "yeh don't worry about the baseball bat, it's not for you" and Finch said "I don't think you'd need it anyway". I mean seriously, this guy would have kicked all our asses in one go. HE WAS MASSIVE!!!
As we were walking out, we went up to Chris Jericho and shook his hand, told him how awesome we thought he was, and he thought it was really cool that we travelled like 6 or so hours (combined) to see the guys. He turned out to be a really nice guy too, as wrestlers could easily be egotistical dickheads with too much money and too many muscles. He was so muscly, but he was only a shade taller then myself :S.
When we walked out, the first guys we saw in the line, were 2 guys Finch and I met when waiting to get into Venue Music to see megadeth. They both talk to much, and are kind of nerdy, but they are hilarious, and good guys all the same.
So anyway, the show started with Dungeon coming out and totally ripping up. They totally outdid themselves at megadeth, and I was blown away by them even more so. I couldn't believe how much energy the guys were putting into their show. They are truly an amazing band, and the singer has one of the best, most powerful voices out there in metal today. Everynow and then, the bassist would look up at as and give s a thumbs up, showing he recognised we were there and he recognised that WE WERE THE GUYS HE WAS TALKING TO FOR AGES BEFORE THE SHOW!!! The crowd took forever to get into dungeon (because most of them were wrestling fans) but they eventually got nuts! I know Finch and Brad may kick me in the face for saying this, but I think Dungeon were better than Fozzy! :O :O :O...
Anyway, we were waiting for Fozzy to come out, and the Australian promoter (the big beefy guy we thought was security) told us that the show was being filmed for an international DVD release titled FOZZY IN AUZZIE: SYDNEY. It was so cool, because now when we buy the DVD, we will see us on it many times, and it will be awesome!
The intro to fozzy was unforgettable. The promotor put a chair with a cassette player sitting on it, onstage. He then pressed the play button and walked off. Then the sound guys played 'When angels brought me here' by Guy Sebastian over the P.A. The crowd started booing and swearing and it was so shit! Then Chris Jericho came onstage with THE BASEBALL BAT and beat the living fuck out of the cassette player. It was so cool. Then they started ripping into their songs and it was amazing. So many people were jumping on stage, headbanging with Jericho for a bit and then jumping off.
Throughout the night, there were chants such as 'fuck melbourne' because apparently the melbourne crowd sucked. One of my favourites (because brad started it) was the 'fuck jet' chant, because Chris had a go at them for saying there wasn't enough room for metal in the mainstream because of crappy music. It was hilarious, and Brad got the whole crowd going! Throughout the night also, the crowd would chant FOZZY, FOZZY, FOZZY, and the band would shout back 'OI OI OI' and then they'd make up riffs and stuff and almost make a whole song out of it. The performance was amazing and fozzy went truly nuts. Chris would look up at us and show us the same recopgnition the dungeon bassist did during the show, and it was amazing. Also, in one of the fastest songs, brad finch and I linked shoulders and headbanged for the whole intro, and afterwards, Rich (the guitarist) blew a kiss to us, which was mad because he was like, showing us how cool we were (H) :D. When you see the DVD you will be amazed at how our necks are still attached...
On the way back on the train, Finch told me that when I was asleep, he heard some chick saying to her friends "did you see those guys up on the balcony on the top right? They were headbanging so hard it looked like they were going to fall off the balcony!!!" and it was cool because she was tlaking about us! :D. I then got awoken bu a stupid drunken Sydney Swans fan, who would not SHUT UP the whole god damn night. All he did was swear and say stuff like "for those of you gherkin heads in here gettin' off at Gosford, this is your fuckin' stop...ya gherkin 'eads". He was quite funny, but it was 3 in the morning and we were sore and tired and wanted sleep.
We got back to Brad's grandparents and slept like logs, and I guess that is the end of the whole concert experience.
Jealous??? :D
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We got off the train and were looking for somewhere to put our bags. We ended up not finding any lockers of any sort at the train station so we went to see if there were lockers at the club where the gig was. We got there and there was some fat wrestling fan sitting on the gutter out the front of the club. We opened the door and walked in and the owner greeted us. We asked him if he knew anywhere that we could put our bags. He walked us up to the stage (small venue) and said "chuck them under here. It'll be good". So we put them under the stage and covered them with a cloth, and thought that was sweet, seeing as the guy was being heaps friendly to us and we really weren't supposed to be there.
I then looked over to the side to see a guy wearing a megadeth T-shirt. I thought "hey this guy must be a freakin' legend" but then I realised how right I was, seeing as I recognised him as being the bassist of dungeon... :D. We got talking for a while and ended up hanging out with him at the front of the club, talking about musical tastes and whatnot. I then asked "what time are the rest of the dungeon guys going to get here?". He replied, and only 5 minutes after that, a maroon ford falcon pulled up at the front of the club, and the guitarist from Dungeon got out, went around the back of his car, opened the boot and pulled out his guitars, walked into the club and dropped them off. We didn't really say anything to him at that point because we were crapping ourselves...
The ownwer of the club then came out the front and said to the bassist "I'm just going to get something to eat. Can you just mind the place until I get back? Only these three fellas can come in and noone else". Of course, 'these three fellas' was us, and we were so stoked! We went to the club with the intention of dropping off bags, and we ended up being allowed in whilst they set up and everything. So we walk upstairs to check the view - the balcony is so close to the stage you could jump off and easily make it onto the stage - and check the P.A. The sound crew for fozzy was in the room, as well as the camera crew and the club owner. We watched happily as they set up the amps and stuff, being the loud heavy metal music fanatics we are. Then the rest of dungeon showed up and they were sitting below us as they ate themselves some dinner (kebabs....fuck yea!). The drummer looked funny because he is fat and he was eating the most :D but he is still cool :D.
Then Fozzy came onto the stage and were talking to the sound guys. So just as a re-cap, we were the only people inside the club that had nothing to do with the actual show (besides being there). Inside the club with us, were the sound technicians of the bands, the camera crew, and the bands DUNGEON and FOZZY. There was so much talent in that room, it was unbelieveable. Oh yeh, the singer for Fozzy is the wrestler, Chris Jericho in case you didn't know...
So yeh we were sitting there for quite a freakin' long time, and then this huge tanky guy walked upstairs with a baseball bat in his hand and said "what are you guys doing here?". We were hesitant to respond (because this guy made Rambo look like a pussy bitch) but eventually got out "the owner said we could sit here whilst you guys set up" and he said "well you are going to have to go now, because we have to soundcheck and stuff like that". We didn't argue, and he turned out to be a nice guy, so as we started walking out he said "yeh don't worry about the baseball bat, it's not for you" and Finch said "I don't think you'd need it anyway". I mean seriously, this guy would have kicked all our asses in one go. HE WAS MASSIVE!!!
As we were walking out, we went up to Chris Jericho and shook his hand, told him how awesome we thought he was, and he thought it was really cool that we travelled like 6 or so hours (combined) to see the guys. He turned out to be a really nice guy too, as wrestlers could easily be egotistical dickheads with too much money and too many muscles. He was so muscly, but he was only a shade taller then myself :S.
When we walked out, the first guys we saw in the line, were 2 guys Finch and I met when waiting to get into Venue Music to see megadeth. They both talk to much, and are kind of nerdy, but they are hilarious, and good guys all the same.
So anyway, the show started with Dungeon coming out and totally ripping up. They totally outdid themselves at megadeth, and I was blown away by them even more so. I couldn't believe how much energy the guys were putting into their show. They are truly an amazing band, and the singer has one of the best, most powerful voices out there in metal today. Everynow and then, the bassist would look up at as and give s a thumbs up, showing he recognised we were there and he recognised that WE WERE THE GUYS HE WAS TALKING TO FOR AGES BEFORE THE SHOW!!! The crowd took forever to get into dungeon (because most of them were wrestling fans) but they eventually got nuts! I know Finch and Brad may kick me in the face for saying this, but I think Dungeon were better than Fozzy! :O :O :O...
Anyway, we were waiting for Fozzy to come out, and the Australian promoter (the big beefy guy we thought was security) told us that the show was being filmed for an international DVD release titled FOZZY IN AUZZIE: SYDNEY. It was so cool, because now when we buy the DVD, we will see us on it many times, and it will be awesome!
The intro to fozzy was unforgettable. The promotor put a chair with a cassette player sitting on it, onstage. He then pressed the play button and walked off. Then the sound guys played 'When angels brought me here' by Guy Sebastian over the P.A. The crowd started booing and swearing and it was so shit! Then Chris Jericho came onstage with THE BASEBALL BAT and beat the living fuck out of the cassette player. It was so cool. Then they started ripping into their songs and it was amazing. So many people were jumping on stage, headbanging with Jericho for a bit and then jumping off.
Throughout the night, there were chants such as 'fuck melbourne' because apparently the melbourne crowd sucked. One of my favourites (because brad started it) was the 'fuck jet' chant, because Chris had a go at them for saying there wasn't enough room for metal in the mainstream because of crappy music. It was hilarious, and Brad got the whole crowd going! Throughout the night also, the crowd would chant FOZZY, FOZZY, FOZZY, and the band would shout back 'OI OI OI' and then they'd make up riffs and stuff and almost make a whole song out of it. The performance was amazing and fozzy went truly nuts. Chris would look up at us and show us the same recopgnition the dungeon bassist did during the show, and it was amazing. Also, in one of the fastest songs, brad finch and I linked shoulders and headbanged for the whole intro, and afterwards, Rich (the guitarist) blew a kiss to us, which was mad because he was like, showing us how cool we were (H) :D. When you see the DVD you will be amazed at how our necks are still attached...
On the way back on the train, Finch told me that when I was asleep, he heard some chick saying to her friends "did you see those guys up on the balcony on the top right? They were headbanging so hard it looked like they were going to fall off the balcony!!!" and it was cool because she was tlaking about us! :D. I then got awoken bu a stupid drunken Sydney Swans fan, who would not SHUT UP the whole god damn night. All he did was swear and say stuff like "for those of you gherkin heads in here gettin' off at Gosford, this is your fuckin' stop...ya gherkin 'eads". He was quite funny, but it was 3 in the morning and we were sore and tired and wanted sleep.
We got back to Brad's grandparents and slept like logs, and I guess that is the end of the whole concert experience.
Jealous??? :D
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