what a night!
I'm probably going to make this a quick post since I just got up about an hour ago and I have to head to school soon.
Strokes Warfield Thursday 04/08/04 -- UNBELIEVABLE. So fucking amazing. They started off with a different set than El Paso which was nice to hear for a change.
Here goes the set:
New York City Cops
Someday
The End Has no End
Automatic Stop
Reptilia
Trying your luck
julian asked the audience to choose which song we wanted to hear next:12:51 or the Strokes' version of The Clash's Clampdown. Clampdown wins. I love the way it sounded, it was very edgy.
Hard to explain
under control
the way it is
alone together
I can't win
meet me in the bathroom
last nite
what ever happened
take it or leave it
it was a shorter set than El Paso... they played for about an hour. I got there early ... 9:30 a.m. and basically cleared my schedule for the day and turned in assignments in advance to be able to camp out and be front row in front of the railing. My god I was about to die because I haven't been that close for concerts in ages it seems. When the Strokes came out on stage, everyone went crazy, screaming, cheering and the girls standing a people down from me kept yelling "hell fucking yes, "fuck yea," and a few other versions of "fuck." Julian wore black pants and his black velvet blazer or jacket and a off white dress shirt with funky buttons. He's such a tease on stage when he's spitting water or trying to make his spit come out like its all weird or something. I was basically screaming my head off screaming how sexy julian looked and singing along with intense religious fervor.
*note i'll be back to update this after I pick Jean up from the BART station*
EDIT: I'm recapping two days late because I've been insanely busy with school, the paper and life.
But here goes a full review. If i'm rehashing stuff from earlier it's cuz I don't want to leave out any details about how it all started. It was such an incredible, amazing and awesome show.
So the concert started way earlier for me than it probably should but who cares. I didn't sleep at all Wednesday because I was doing homework and then I left around 6ish to drop off my take home midterm for my mass com writing class. Then finally headed to the Warfield and arrived around 9:30 a.m. thinking possibly I'd be the first in line. No such luck but I was the second person or technically the second person with a group to arrive. The other girls in line were there at 6am and I remember them from the New Year's Eve show in Vegas. They were super super nice and it was cool hanging out and waiting together before more people showed up. Lord knows there were enough homeless people there pissing me off, hassling me for spare change or other shit. Thank god this time i wasn't waiting by myself. Thanks Vanessa, Veronica and Kelly for their kindness. It was awful having to hear this homeless man outside the Warfield "play," or just bang on this guitar he had and sing all sorts of random shit. He was going at it for hours until he decided to walk around and come back. It was hillarious stuff. Time went by fast probably because I was with a group of people. Soon after I arrived, Rhey and her friend also joined the line. Rhey was also at the Las Vegas show. I couldn't believe how many people from Vegas were there at the Warfield show ... ran into a lot of familiar people and it was cool just remembering the good times. Jean wasn't going to arrive until around 3 which ended up being 4:30 because her friend drove and they were lost. But it was all good once she arrived with her friend Denise. We were just hours away from going in and the wait was killing me and figuring out how to stuff the camera in my pants. Security was being wishy washy when some people asked about camera policy. Finally around 7 the security guard started to let a few of the girls in front of me go in only to stop and make an annoucement they're going to check bags and all this security policy shit. Security wasn't too annoying before the show ... they didn't separate the lines or anything. They did the whole patdown thing and checked bags ( I didn't bring a bag which sped up the process) Once inside I was speed walking/running in case other people were and security people inside were like "walk, dont' run." Fuck that shit. So no one else was running but hell I didn't wait a whole day to risk that stuff. But my speed walking helped because by the time I reached the floor I was standing right in the middle in front of the railing. Soon after my sister and some people from the message board lastnite.org we met up with piled onto the floor. Jean went ballistic being so close and was screaming and jumping up and down. Pre-show comments from people nearby me were hillarious. One of the girls first in line kept screaming "fuck yea," or "hell fucking yes," and other versions of fuck something. Priceless moment when Matt Romano came onstage to bring out equipment and tape the setlists to the floor, one girl shouted "fuck me Matt." He just looked up and smiled. Ahhh. Kodak moment sort of right there.
On to the show
Ravenette's opened the show around 8 p.m. and it was really weird. They play great music live but the audience was just standing there, no one singing along or moving even.
Here's their setlist:
Attack of the Ghost Riders
Evil LA Girls
Veronica Fever
Let's Rave on
Chain Gang of Love
That Great love sound
do you believe her
love can destroy everything
little animal
ny was great
c'mon everybody
heartbreak stroll
one of the songs was dedicated in memory of kurt cobain. can't remember which but I'll figure it out later.
The audience during the set was so calm and nice. No pushing or moshing. Everyone was just kind of mellow.
After they finish their set, people came out to remove the equipment and I kept screaming for the setlist and the guy working was nice enough to hand it to me actually instead of throwing it out for everyone to fight over. My setlist is complete without any rips or tears.
Strokes come onstage about a half hour later and everyone freaking goes ballistic and even leaning against the railing becomes more painful. People just kept pushing to the point where I couldn't breathe. They started off the night like this:
NYC cops
Someday
The end has no end
automatic stop
reptilia
trying your luck
12:51 (was on the setlist, but this was when Julian asked the audience whether they wanted 12:51 or the strokes' cover of "clampdown."
Clampdown wins and the version they play sounds exciting and cool to listen to.
hard to explain
under control
the way it is
alone together
i can't win
meet me in the bathroom
last nite
what ever happened
take it or leave it
Julian talking or ramblings of the night
-Julian showed off his rainbow socks and then pulled up his pant leg so everyone could see it while he was singing
-Julian stopped after one song and said we're going to do this right and asked albert if he could have one of his cigarette's and then asked albert about what his birthday wish was.
-Before they started playing, Julian said how much he loved us bunches
-Julian asked if we liked the Yankees. everyone booed obviously and then he asked if we like the Giants. cheers
he then mentioned that his mom was at the show sitting up at the balcony. awww
-his blowjob motion into the mic was very cute
-he pointed out this girl who wasn't paying attention at the show and said if she didnt want to come or had better things to do, then don't come. he thought she was looking for her boyfriend or something.
-Live 105 beach balls were floating around the pit and made its way up the stage. Nick popped one of the balls with his guitar and looked surprised that it happened.
-Julian did walk into the pit for a little bit but not as long as previous shows. It was a mob scene and security was grabbing him and holding him back. I saw so many people rip apart his cream colored shirt and grab his ass and hair and other bodily parts.
Later on stage, he asked why didnt anyone grab his balls. haha.
I got to touch his jacket and his back. I'm so dorky but yeah it was cool getting to touch Julian and being that close.
He later went to the left side of the stage and jumped onto the speakers to the very top and continued singing.
Julian can be such a tease on stage ... he picked up some round thing maybe a quarter or something else during one part, looked at it and then put it in his pocket before showing it off to everyone.
He thanked everyone at the end for coming to the show.
I was able to get part of the second half of the setlist and the first setlist though the edges were a bit torn. It's all good.
After the show, we went to find the tour bus and wait to meet them. We waited an hour or so and then Julian came out looking great ... he didn't even button his shirt and left it half open. Everyone started to crowd around him but he assured us he'd get to everyone sign stuff and take pics. What a sweetheart.
After signing a bit, he said he'd be back and get to everyone. He came out later with a drink and took pics. There were two girls who flew in from Kyoto, Japan and one of them gave Julian a pack of Marborlo cigarette's and socks. He also read out loud the note she wrote him. It was so sweet! She took five pictures with Julian. After she took one, she wanted another one and another one. haha.
the other guys except for Nick came out. Everyone was super super nice and friendly.
A lot of happy birthday wishes for Albert from fans.
Julian seemed sober throughout the whole show and afterwards when signing and taking pics. He asked everyone if the show was allright. And he was joking we were all saying yes because we wanted him to stay and sign stuff. Haha.
Some homeless women came up to him and said she wanted a hug because she was the only black girl there ... not true. But he graciously hugged her and her friend. Fab and Albert also hugged her. She was kind of annoying because she took my sharpie from me. Oh well.
The girl I met up with, Amanda, it was her birthday though later I found out it wasn't. Hehe. But she got Julian to kiss her on the cheek and it was just so cute. He's quite the charmer.
Another guy from the board, Matthieu took pics with Julian and kissed him on the cheek a few times. Priceless.
Ricky, another lastnite.org member I met up with told Julian how their music changed him and all this stuff and Julian kissed him on the cheek! Awww.
A lady there collects buttons, peace buttons and gave two to Julian and he wore them. (I've got the pic in yahoo photos)
I got my pic taken with everyone except Nikolai and Nick. I look like such a dork in most of the pics but who cares. I fucking met the Strokes!!!!!!!!! Ahhh, and I got to hug Julian. The night was precious and I cherished every single minute I got to spend singing and being there with people who share the same love for music.
After the show, I ran into my Japanese friend, Yasui who was there with her boyfriend and a friend I think. Lots of run ins with familiar people that night.
Here's the link to some of the best photos that were taken.
Strokes Warfield pics
Some are scanned as threesome's because I wanted to just get them put up. I'll do an individual scan later and touch up some of the red eye.
After we finished meeting them, I went out to eat with Nancy, Amanda and Ricky at IHOP and we recapped the moment all over again. I'll add more when I have more time to reflect. Life is crazy!
Strokes Warfield Thursday 04/08/04 -- UNBELIEVABLE. So fucking amazing. They started off with a different set than El Paso which was nice to hear for a change.
Here goes the set:
New York City Cops
Someday
The End Has no End
Automatic Stop
Reptilia
Trying your luck
julian asked the audience to choose which song we wanted to hear next:12:51 or the Strokes' version of The Clash's Clampdown. Clampdown wins. I love the way it sounded, it was very edgy.
Hard to explain
under control
the way it is
alone together
I can't win
meet me in the bathroom
last nite
what ever happened
take it or leave it
it was a shorter set than El Paso... they played for about an hour. I got there early ... 9:30 a.m. and basically cleared my schedule for the day and turned in assignments in advance to be able to camp out and be front row in front of the railing. My god I was about to die because I haven't been that close for concerts in ages it seems. When the Strokes came out on stage, everyone went crazy, screaming, cheering and the girls standing a people down from me kept yelling "hell fucking yes, "fuck yea," and a few other versions of "fuck." Julian wore black pants and his black velvet blazer or jacket and a off white dress shirt with funky buttons. He's such a tease on stage when he's spitting water or trying to make his spit come out like its all weird or something. I was basically screaming my head off screaming how sexy julian looked and singing along with intense religious fervor.
*note i'll be back to update this after I pick Jean up from the BART station*
EDIT: I'm recapping two days late because I've been insanely busy with school, the paper and life.
But here goes a full review. If i'm rehashing stuff from earlier it's cuz I don't want to leave out any details about how it all started. It was such an incredible, amazing and awesome show.
So the concert started way earlier for me than it probably should but who cares. I didn't sleep at all Wednesday because I was doing homework and then I left around 6ish to drop off my take home midterm for my mass com writing class. Then finally headed to the Warfield and arrived around 9:30 a.m. thinking possibly I'd be the first in line. No such luck but I was the second person or technically the second person with a group to arrive. The other girls in line were there at 6am and I remember them from the New Year's Eve show in Vegas. They were super super nice and it was cool hanging out and waiting together before more people showed up. Lord knows there were enough homeless people there pissing me off, hassling me for spare change or other shit. Thank god this time i wasn't waiting by myself. Thanks Vanessa, Veronica and Kelly for their kindness. It was awful having to hear this homeless man outside the Warfield "play," or just bang on this guitar he had and sing all sorts of random shit. He was going at it for hours until he decided to walk around and come back. It was hillarious stuff. Time went by fast probably because I was with a group of people. Soon after I arrived, Rhey and her friend also joined the line. Rhey was also at the Las Vegas show. I couldn't believe how many people from Vegas were there at the Warfield show ... ran into a lot of familiar people and it was cool just remembering the good times. Jean wasn't going to arrive until around 3 which ended up being 4:30 because her friend drove and they were lost. But it was all good once she arrived with her friend Denise. We were just hours away from going in and the wait was killing me and figuring out how to stuff the camera in my pants. Security was being wishy washy when some people asked about camera policy. Finally around 7 the security guard started to let a few of the girls in front of me go in only to stop and make an annoucement they're going to check bags and all this security policy shit. Security wasn't too annoying before the show ... they didn't separate the lines or anything. They did the whole patdown thing and checked bags ( I didn't bring a bag which sped up the process) Once inside I was speed walking/running in case other people were and security people inside were like "walk, dont' run." Fuck that shit. So no one else was running but hell I didn't wait a whole day to risk that stuff. But my speed walking helped because by the time I reached the floor I was standing right in the middle in front of the railing. Soon after my sister and some people from the message board lastnite.org we met up with piled onto the floor. Jean went ballistic being so close and was screaming and jumping up and down. Pre-show comments from people nearby me were hillarious. One of the girls first in line kept screaming "fuck yea," or "hell fucking yes," and other versions of fuck something. Priceless moment when Matt Romano came onstage to bring out equipment and tape the setlists to the floor, one girl shouted "fuck me Matt." He just looked up and smiled. Ahhh. Kodak moment sort of right there.
On to the show
Ravenette's opened the show around 8 p.m. and it was really weird. They play great music live but the audience was just standing there, no one singing along or moving even.
Here's their setlist:
Attack of the Ghost Riders
Evil LA Girls
Veronica Fever
Let's Rave on
Chain Gang of Love
That Great love sound
do you believe her
love can destroy everything
little animal
ny was great
c'mon everybody
heartbreak stroll
one of the songs was dedicated in memory of kurt cobain. can't remember which but I'll figure it out later.
The audience during the set was so calm and nice. No pushing or moshing. Everyone was just kind of mellow.
After they finish their set, people came out to remove the equipment and I kept screaming for the setlist and the guy working was nice enough to hand it to me actually instead of throwing it out for everyone to fight over. My setlist is complete without any rips or tears.
Strokes come onstage about a half hour later and everyone freaking goes ballistic and even leaning against the railing becomes more painful. People just kept pushing to the point where I couldn't breathe. They started off the night like this:
NYC cops
Someday
The end has no end
automatic stop
reptilia
trying your luck
12:51 (was on the setlist, but this was when Julian asked the audience whether they wanted 12:51 or the strokes' cover of "clampdown."
Clampdown wins and the version they play sounds exciting and cool to listen to.
hard to explain
under control
the way it is
alone together
i can't win
meet me in the bathroom
last nite
what ever happened
take it or leave it
Julian talking or ramblings of the night
-Julian showed off his rainbow socks and then pulled up his pant leg so everyone could see it while he was singing
-Julian stopped after one song and said we're going to do this right and asked albert if he could have one of his cigarette's and then asked albert about what his birthday wish was.
-Before they started playing, Julian said how much he loved us bunches
-Julian asked if we liked the Yankees. everyone booed obviously and then he asked if we like the Giants. cheers
he then mentioned that his mom was at the show sitting up at the balcony. awww
-his blowjob motion into the mic was very cute
-he pointed out this girl who wasn't paying attention at the show and said if she didnt want to come or had better things to do, then don't come. he thought she was looking for her boyfriend or something.
-Live 105 beach balls were floating around the pit and made its way up the stage. Nick popped one of the balls with his guitar and looked surprised that it happened.
-Julian did walk into the pit for a little bit but not as long as previous shows. It was a mob scene and security was grabbing him and holding him back. I saw so many people rip apart his cream colored shirt and grab his ass and hair and other bodily parts.
Later on stage, he asked why didnt anyone grab his balls. haha.
I got to touch his jacket and his back. I'm so dorky but yeah it was cool getting to touch Julian and being that close.
He later went to the left side of the stage and jumped onto the speakers to the very top and continued singing.
Julian can be such a tease on stage ... he picked up some round thing maybe a quarter or something else during one part, looked at it and then put it in his pocket before showing it off to everyone.
He thanked everyone at the end for coming to the show.
I was able to get part of the second half of the setlist and the first setlist though the edges were a bit torn. It's all good.
After the show, we went to find the tour bus and wait to meet them. We waited an hour or so and then Julian came out looking great ... he didn't even button his shirt and left it half open. Everyone started to crowd around him but he assured us he'd get to everyone sign stuff and take pics. What a sweetheart.
After signing a bit, he said he'd be back and get to everyone. He came out later with a drink and took pics. There were two girls who flew in from Kyoto, Japan and one of them gave Julian a pack of Marborlo cigarette's and socks. He also read out loud the note she wrote him. It was so sweet! She took five pictures with Julian. After she took one, she wanted another one and another one. haha.
the other guys except for Nick came out. Everyone was super super nice and friendly.
A lot of happy birthday wishes for Albert from fans.
Julian seemed sober throughout the whole show and afterwards when signing and taking pics. He asked everyone if the show was allright. And he was joking we were all saying yes because we wanted him to stay and sign stuff. Haha.
Some homeless women came up to him and said she wanted a hug because she was the only black girl there ... not true. But he graciously hugged her and her friend. Fab and Albert also hugged her. She was kind of annoying because she took my sharpie from me. Oh well.
The girl I met up with, Amanda, it was her birthday though later I found out it wasn't. Hehe. But she got Julian to kiss her on the cheek and it was just so cute. He's quite the charmer.
Another guy from the board, Matthieu took pics with Julian and kissed him on the cheek a few times. Priceless.
Ricky, another lastnite.org member I met up with told Julian how their music changed him and all this stuff and Julian kissed him on the cheek! Awww.
A lady there collects buttons, peace buttons and gave two to Julian and he wore them. (I've got the pic in yahoo photos)
I got my pic taken with everyone except Nikolai and Nick. I look like such a dork in most of the pics but who cares. I fucking met the Strokes!!!!!!!!! Ahhh, and I got to hug Julian. The night was precious and I cherished every single minute I got to spend singing and being there with people who share the same love for music.
After the show, I ran into my Japanese friend, Yasui who was there with her boyfriend and a friend I think. Lots of run ins with familiar people that night.
Here's the link to some of the best photos that were taken.
Strokes Warfield pics
Some are scanned as threesome's because I wanted to just get them put up. I'll do an individual scan later and touch up some of the red eye.
After we finished meeting them, I went out to eat with Nancy, Amanda and Ricky at IHOP and we recapped the moment all over again. I'll add more when I have more time to reflect. Life is crazy!