Everybody Panic!
Here are my thoughs on the D/C/ Panic! and Plain White Tees tour.
Well ive had a night to sleep on the idea and had some major venting sessions with Sara(via phone) and Eileen (via text) and i still kind of feel the same way. it is such a mismatched line-up. Mismatched fan base, mismatched genres of music. its kind of like when hurricanes come together and form a super storm. But instead of lightning and high winds we will have flaring egos, screaming tweens and 2 shitty bands to sit through. (if Chris even headlines..)
I worry about how Chris will hold up on this tour, Panic are a bunch of fucking brats who had an album deal and big club tours before ever playing a show. I will be honest i dont know much about Plain White Tees outside of Hey There Delilah which was pretty good the first 10 times i heard it. Ok the next 100 and unlistenable after that. All i know is they had to release the song 2 or 3 times before it was a hit. but thats not their fault i guess it has to do with timing and such.
I will be going to 1-2 local shows but more to see my friends. Im sure i will just end up getting a seat and having a few drinks becuase i cant keep up with 13 yr olds in the crowd, nor can i stand and be pushed around incessently for hours before Chris comes on. i am just much more weary than i was at 22.
Last night i also thought about when i first started going to concerts. My first show was Green Day with my dad, uncle and brother. i was 12 and my brother was 10. i can imagine the faces on the older fans seeing "their band" play to a bucnh of kids. at 12 thats all i was..a kid. i knew every song and had a few t-shirts and posters. but i didnt have the life experience to be a hardcore fan. at 12 you are desprete for attention and love and acceptance. So of course i wanted to fit in and be accepted by the other fans, but they were cold and not receptive to me, and now i understand why.
i guess i have come full circle. I have been on the outside looking in and the inside looking out. i have caught onto bands in their infancy, their middle popularity and in their full bloom of success and now that i am getting older i am seeing it doesent matter how old you are or when you start listening to a band but where your heart is. and at 12-15 i dont think you can have these altruistic feelings toward a band because you havent seen them struggle playing shitty bars make no $$ and bum cigarettes, places to stay, food etc from their fans who lovingly and willingly help them out.
I guess for me with dashboard i love the music as well as all the guys in the band. And since i have become friendly with them over the years i feel like its my duty to protect them somehow even though its much easier to protect someone at a small club than the garden.
I have strayed a lot from my original train of thought but i guess this is all i have for now.
Oh and go to see the dark knight. its really good. though i thought it could have used more graphic voilence.
To close with an appropriate lyric:
"Please don't put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band who'll throw it all away"
Well ive had a night to sleep on the idea and had some major venting sessions with Sara(via phone) and Eileen (via text) and i still kind of feel the same way. it is such a mismatched line-up. Mismatched fan base, mismatched genres of music. its kind of like when hurricanes come together and form a super storm. But instead of lightning and high winds we will have flaring egos, screaming tweens and 2 shitty bands to sit through. (if Chris even headlines..)
I worry about how Chris will hold up on this tour, Panic are a bunch of fucking brats who had an album deal and big club tours before ever playing a show. I will be honest i dont know much about Plain White Tees outside of Hey There Delilah which was pretty good the first 10 times i heard it. Ok the next 100 and unlistenable after that. All i know is they had to release the song 2 or 3 times before it was a hit. but thats not their fault i guess it has to do with timing and such.
I will be going to 1-2 local shows but more to see my friends. Im sure i will just end up getting a seat and having a few drinks becuase i cant keep up with 13 yr olds in the crowd, nor can i stand and be pushed around incessently for hours before Chris comes on. i am just much more weary than i was at 22.
Last night i also thought about when i first started going to concerts. My first show was Green Day with my dad, uncle and brother. i was 12 and my brother was 10. i can imagine the faces on the older fans seeing "their band" play to a bucnh of kids. at 12 thats all i was..a kid. i knew every song and had a few t-shirts and posters. but i didnt have the life experience to be a hardcore fan. at 12 you are desprete for attention and love and acceptance. So of course i wanted to fit in and be accepted by the other fans, but they were cold and not receptive to me, and now i understand why.
i guess i have come full circle. I have been on the outside looking in and the inside looking out. i have caught onto bands in their infancy, their middle popularity and in their full bloom of success and now that i am getting older i am seeing it doesent matter how old you are or when you start listening to a band but where your heart is. and at 12-15 i dont think you can have these altruistic feelings toward a band because you havent seen them struggle playing shitty bars make no $$ and bum cigarettes, places to stay, food etc from their fans who lovingly and willingly help them out.
I guess for me with dashboard i love the music as well as all the guys in the band. And since i have become friendly with them over the years i feel like its my duty to protect them somehow even though its much easier to protect someone at a small club than the garden.
I have strayed a lot from my original train of thought but i guess this is all i have for now.
Oh and go to see the dark knight. its really good. though i thought it could have used more graphic voilence.
To close with an appropriate lyric:
"Please don't put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band who'll throw it all away"