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SO man, have I got funny ass shit to write down. So last night was the Iron Maiden concert. And Jen (
poison_revolver) already posted her version of the show, but I have my version as well.
So I leave the house around 420, pick up Jen and then we leave to go out to eat at Greek Isle. After that, we were trying to get on the freeway to 696 and I was in the wrong lane, and these stupid fuckers ALL of these fuckers, would NOT let me in the lane to get on the freeway! So I had to turn around and manage that way. But seriously, people are suck FUCKERS when they drive!! GOD! I hope they all die in a plane crash!
Anyhow, so we're driving there, and hit up some traffic delays on the freeway, but we managed to get to the Palace okay. We got in there around 630 (we had an hour to kill), and we had to pay a fuckin $15 parking fee!! Fuck that shit! Good thing I had a $20 on me at the time, or else we probably couldnt' have gotten in. Well anyhow, so after we park, we go into the Palace and the people who are working the security are like, "Okay, empty everything out of your pockets." and then she says:
"Ok, you're gonna have to take off your chain necklaces (we were both wearing ball-chained necklaces) because you could take them off and whip someone with it."
ME: "Can we just put them in our pockets?"
HER: "No, you have to take them back to your car."
So we were like WTF? So we went back to the car and took off EVERYTHING that could be considered hazardeous. For me this included my necklace, my chain on my wallet, and I even took off the keychains on my car keys just to make sure.
I mean we've been able to wear our chained necklaces in there before, but I think its because we didnt go into the main entrance where its busy, we went into some side entrance where there was hardly any people there. Still, its SO stupid, like I really came to a Maiden concert to come and whip people in the face with my ball chains. Yeah, great. -__-''
Anyhow, so we get in, and we take our tickets to this table where you have to sign a paper saying that the Palace is not responsible if you get hurt/killed in a mosh pit (because we had floor tix) and then we got our wristbands and that was that.
SO we get on the floor and we wait around and we're talking about the opening band Bullet For My Valentine (aka Butthole for my Valentine as Jen calls it) and about how we thought they were an emo band.
And then this guy who we'll call Mullet Man (because well, he had a mullet!) was there and he comes over and starts talking to Jen and I like he knew us from somewhere, and Jen told me that he was at the Aero/Crue show last week and we talked to him when we were looking at concert gear. I didnt really remember but Jen did. So we were talking to this guy for a while about music and stuff, so that was cool.
Then after that, there was this weird dude walking around who look JUST like David Coverdale, and he was staring at Jen a whole lot and Jen is just lookin at him and shes like,
JEN: "Uhh, How ya doin?"
And he says, "Are you here with a boyfriend?"
JEN: "No, but I'm too young for you."
He says: "Ouch"
ANd then he just walks away and we never saw him the whole concert. It was so funny/fucked up/weird.
After that and after waiting for about an hour, BFMV came on and then they blasted off with SPEED METAL!! SO they were basically a hardcore heavy metal band, and when they came on and started playing, the moshing started. UGH! I hate mosh pitters! So Jen and I try to avoid them, but of course, we got bashed a couple of times, but we just pushed the people away from us.
Then after BFMV we waited for Maiden, and we were talking about how we wanted to get to the front, and this rocker guy in front of us was liek "Are you guys trying to get to the front?" and we said yeah, so he told us to follow him and he'll lead us to the front. Well we were following this guy inching our way up to the very front (we were probably like 5 feet way from the stage at the time), there was this fat bastard hick in a yellow shirt who got mad because I got in front of him adn Jen was stuck behind him because the fat fuck wouldnt move! And hes like "Y'all tryin' to gettin front of me, you be messin' with tha wrong mutha fucka I tell you, get the fuck off of me." and I was just like, "Oh god, dont kill me and dont kill Jen!"
SO eventually I told Jen to move around the guy and dont go through him or he'll probably swing a punch. So Jen got up to me and this guy and then when Maiden came on we tried moving up to the front, and that rocker guy grabbed Jen and pulled her farther to the front and I grabbed Jen and got dragged along.
So after a while, Jen and I kept getting pushed back and this rocker guy kept going forward, so we split from him eventually. At least he was SOME help.
Then during the concert, there was this creepy weird-ass dude there, who was TOTALLY on something, and I dont know WHAT it was because he was like that the WHOLE FUCKING NIGHT! His eyes were barely open and he kept staring at Jen and me, and at first I thought this guy was drunk and I thought he was gonna throw up, so I was trying to find and spot for us to move far away from him. Eventually, he moved somwhere else and we were fine, until Jen and I moved up even more in the front and he was right next to us again. -_-''
Anyhow, let me talk about Maiden for a moment,
Well they were damn good I'll just say that. The band played good and Bruce sang good. It was all kick ass. They played most of their stuff from their new album "A Matter of Life and Death", so I really wasnt too familiar with their stuff, except I knew that they played "Different Worlds, "These Colours Dont Run" "The Breaking of Benjamin Breeg" and "Brighter than A Thousand Suns". Other than that I cant really remember their other new stuff, I havent listened to the CD enough to know.
Anyhow, so back to being on the floor. Well as Maiden was playing of course, there were people who were moshing and we slowly made our way closer to the stage, but still not to the very front, near the end we were probably 2-3 feet away I guess? Well anyhow, so we end up being in part of the mosh pit, and we get bashed around a bit, and there is this guy wearing all black who grabs me and Jen and pulls us away from the pit, and so he pretty much stuck to our side the whole time and blocked off the mosh pit. I'm thankful for that guy, so I'll call him Big Blackie, because he was big and he was wearing all black.
Even that crazy creepy dude was holding off the moshers from us for a while, but you know, then he kept getting all over Jen and me, and then there was this REALLY hot guy at the concert, who was tall, had eyeliner on, had spikey dark hair with a bandana, and had his button shirt open to reveal a NICE body, who pulled the creepy dude away from us, THANK GOD. And at one point when we got bashed, he also helped Jen and me out and he asked me if I was okay, and I said yeah, so that was nice.
So near the end, they played "Fear of the Dark" and then they brought out this GIANT tank with a giant Eddie inside who popped out with binoculars, which I thought was cool.
Then they played their encore songs, "2 Minutes to Midnight" and a few other songs that I cant remember, but this GIANT army version robot of Eddie comes out and just stomps around the whole stage and it was pretty kick ass. Although, I was a bit dissapointed that they didnt play "Run to the Hills" or "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter" but at least the played the other 2 songs which are some of my faves, so its all good.
So Maidens finsihed with success, and it was a really great show. I love it when Bruce is just like "Scream for me Detroit! SCREAM FOR ME DETROIT!" and DAMN was I screaming!! LOL!
So after the show, we were finally able to breathe, we thanked Big Blackie for helping us out, and we bought some concert gear and left. We kind of got lost coming home this time, because we got on 696 East, when we were suppose to be on West, but it wasnt that big of a deal.
DAMN! Did I smell! I mean, I was really sweaty, because mosh pits are like that, PLUS I was wearing my Zeppelin leather jacket, but I took it off for most of the show, and Jen had her Who leather on but she kept it on the WHOLE show! I dont know how she did it, she was probably dying in the end!
Anyhow, yeah sweaty, smelly, I probably had some short of STD from that creepy guy getting all up on Jen and me, smoke, weed, yeah you cant get any smellier than all those combined. XD
So I couldnt wait to shower when I got home. And today I just went to one class, picked up Jen from work and hung out with her the rest of the day pretty much.
Our next show in GNR, and we got floor once again, so we need to plan a better strategie because I wanna be UP FRONT when Im on the floor dammit!!
Cant wait for it!! \m/>_<\m/
poison_revolver) already posted her version of the show, but I have my version as well.
So I leave the house around 420, pick up Jen and then we leave to go out to eat at Greek Isle. After that, we were trying to get on the freeway to 696 and I was in the wrong lane, and these stupid fuckers ALL of these fuckers, would NOT let me in the lane to get on the freeway! So I had to turn around and manage that way. But seriously, people are suck FUCKERS when they drive!! GOD! I hope they all die in a plane crash!
Anyhow, so we're driving there, and hit up some traffic delays on the freeway, but we managed to get to the Palace okay. We got in there around 630 (we had an hour to kill), and we had to pay a fuckin $15 parking fee!! Fuck that shit! Good thing I had a $20 on me at the time, or else we probably couldnt' have gotten in. Well anyhow, so after we park, we go into the Palace and the people who are working the security are like, "Okay, empty everything out of your pockets." and then she says:
"Ok, you're gonna have to take off your chain necklaces (we were both wearing ball-chained necklaces) because you could take them off and whip someone with it."
ME: "Can we just put them in our pockets?"
HER: "No, you have to take them back to your car."
So we were like WTF? So we went back to the car and took off EVERYTHING that could be considered hazardeous. For me this included my necklace, my chain on my wallet, and I even took off the keychains on my car keys just to make sure.
I mean we've been able to wear our chained necklaces in there before, but I think its because we didnt go into the main entrance where its busy, we went into some side entrance where there was hardly any people there. Still, its SO stupid, like I really came to a Maiden concert to come and whip people in the face with my ball chains. Yeah, great. -__-''
Anyhow, so we get in, and we take our tickets to this table where you have to sign a paper saying that the Palace is not responsible if you get hurt/killed in a mosh pit (because we had floor tix) and then we got our wristbands and that was that.
SO we get on the floor and we wait around and we're talking about the opening band Bullet For My Valentine (aka Butthole for my Valentine as Jen calls it) and about how we thought they were an emo band.
And then this guy who we'll call Mullet Man (because well, he had a mullet!) was there and he comes over and starts talking to Jen and I like he knew us from somewhere, and Jen told me that he was at the Aero/Crue show last week and we talked to him when we were looking at concert gear. I didnt really remember but Jen did. So we were talking to this guy for a while about music and stuff, so that was cool.
Then after that, there was this weird dude walking around who look JUST like David Coverdale, and he was staring at Jen a whole lot and Jen is just lookin at him and shes like,
JEN: "Uhh, How ya doin?"
And he says, "Are you here with a boyfriend?"
JEN: "No, but I'm too young for you."
He says: "Ouch"
ANd then he just walks away and we never saw him the whole concert. It was so funny/fucked up/weird.
After that and after waiting for about an hour, BFMV came on and then they blasted off with SPEED METAL!! SO they were basically a hardcore heavy metal band, and when they came on and started playing, the moshing started. UGH! I hate mosh pitters! So Jen and I try to avoid them, but of course, we got bashed a couple of times, but we just pushed the people away from us.
Then after BFMV we waited for Maiden, and we were talking about how we wanted to get to the front, and this rocker guy in front of us was liek "Are you guys trying to get to the front?" and we said yeah, so he told us to follow him and he'll lead us to the front. Well we were following this guy inching our way up to the very front (we were probably like 5 feet way from the stage at the time), there was this fat bastard hick in a yellow shirt who got mad because I got in front of him adn Jen was stuck behind him because the fat fuck wouldnt move! And hes like "Y'all tryin' to gettin front of me, you be messin' with tha wrong mutha fucka I tell you, get the fuck off of me." and I was just like, "Oh god, dont kill me and dont kill Jen!"
SO eventually I told Jen to move around the guy and dont go through him or he'll probably swing a punch. So Jen got up to me and this guy and then when Maiden came on we tried moving up to the front, and that rocker guy grabbed Jen and pulled her farther to the front and I grabbed Jen and got dragged along.
So after a while, Jen and I kept getting pushed back and this rocker guy kept going forward, so we split from him eventually. At least he was SOME help.
Then during the concert, there was this creepy weird-ass dude there, who was TOTALLY on something, and I dont know WHAT it was because he was like that the WHOLE FUCKING NIGHT! His eyes were barely open and he kept staring at Jen and me, and at first I thought this guy was drunk and I thought he was gonna throw up, so I was trying to find and spot for us to move far away from him. Eventually, he moved somwhere else and we were fine, until Jen and I moved up even more in the front and he was right next to us again. -_-''
Anyhow, let me talk about Maiden for a moment,
Well they were damn good I'll just say that. The band played good and Bruce sang good. It was all kick ass. They played most of their stuff from their new album "A Matter of Life and Death", so I really wasnt too familiar with their stuff, except I knew that they played "Different Worlds, "These Colours Dont Run" "The Breaking of Benjamin Breeg" and "Brighter than A Thousand Suns". Other than that I cant really remember their other new stuff, I havent listened to the CD enough to know.
Anyhow, so back to being on the floor. Well as Maiden was playing of course, there were people who were moshing and we slowly made our way closer to the stage, but still not to the very front, near the end we were probably 2-3 feet away I guess? Well anyhow, so we end up being in part of the mosh pit, and we get bashed around a bit, and there is this guy wearing all black who grabs me and Jen and pulls us away from the pit, and so he pretty much stuck to our side the whole time and blocked off the mosh pit. I'm thankful for that guy, so I'll call him Big Blackie, because he was big and he was wearing all black.
Even that crazy creepy dude was holding off the moshers from us for a while, but you know, then he kept getting all over Jen and me, and then there was this REALLY hot guy at the concert, who was tall, had eyeliner on, had spikey dark hair with a bandana, and had his button shirt open to reveal a NICE body, who pulled the creepy dude away from us, THANK GOD. And at one point when we got bashed, he also helped Jen and me out and he asked me if I was okay, and I said yeah, so that was nice.
So near the end, they played "Fear of the Dark" and then they brought out this GIANT tank with a giant Eddie inside who popped out with binoculars, which I thought was cool.
Then they played their encore songs, "2 Minutes to Midnight" and a few other songs that I cant remember, but this GIANT army version robot of Eddie comes out and just stomps around the whole stage and it was pretty kick ass. Although, I was a bit dissapointed that they didnt play "Run to the Hills" or "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter" but at least the played the other 2 songs which are some of my faves, so its all good.
So Maidens finsihed with success, and it was a really great show. I love it when Bruce is just like "Scream for me Detroit! SCREAM FOR ME DETROIT!" and DAMN was I screaming!! LOL!
So after the show, we were finally able to breathe, we thanked Big Blackie for helping us out, and we bought some concert gear and left. We kind of got lost coming home this time, because we got on 696 East, when we were suppose to be on West, but it wasnt that big of a deal.
DAMN! Did I smell! I mean, I was really sweaty, because mosh pits are like that, PLUS I was wearing my Zeppelin leather jacket, but I took it off for most of the show, and Jen had her Who leather on but she kept it on the WHOLE show! I dont know how she did it, she was probably dying in the end!
Anyhow, yeah sweaty, smelly, I probably had some short of STD from that creepy guy getting all up on Jen and me, smoke, weed, yeah you cant get any smellier than all those combined. XD
So I couldnt wait to shower when I got home. And today I just went to one class, picked up Jen from work and hung out with her the rest of the day pretty much.
Our next show in GNR, and we got floor once again, so we need to plan a better strategie because I wanna be UP FRONT when Im on the floor dammit!!
Cant wait for it!! \m/>_<\m/