Pearl Jam? OH YEAH Pearl Jam!
It is now 4:29 in the AM... it has now been over 24 hours since I got home from going to a Pearl Jam concert. The headache has subsided... my vision is back to normal... lets try to remember the day shall we?
Lets see... we got to the Tweeter Center in Camden around... hmmm (I have no recolection of time.. at all)
Anyway... we got VIP parking.. right in front of the doors to the venue.. poped open the back... grabbed a beer... threw out some fold up beach shairs... opened the cooler... grabbed a beer... started grill... drank another beer... THEN we busted out the 8 year old bottle of VO. woah. ... ... ok... we had the radio on .. yeah... oh fuck man it was so hot out there... muggy and hot and the sun was cranking... the beer felt good.
Then... over the Philly skyline... DARK clouds roll over... It got really windy.. 30mph gusts... dust was blowing in our eyes... everyone went back in the car... EXCEPT ME! By that point we had been there for about 2 hours and by then the booze was pumping through my heart... The wind came.. and I sat... the wind blew my beer over.. that didnt stop me... I reached right in and grabbed another one... determined to outlast the storm in my drunken stupor... the rain came... sideways... in a matter of moments I was soaked... ... I ... I then joked with the man in the car next to me how "I could now piss myself right now and no one would even know"...
The storm lasted a good 10 mins... I was drenched head to toe.. . everyone else came out of the car after the rain had stopped... like pussies.
We continued to drink... the beer had all been drank... the VO bottle was empty... I said "what time is it?.. we should start heading in right?" Then we found a bottle of Biccardi in the car... so we sat back down... rum and coked it for awhile..
Then once we were good and ready... we decided it was time to enter the show...
The Buzzcocks opened... no wait.. first Eddie came out and played like 2 songs alone with an electric guitar... by this time we were arguing "Is that Eddie.. it sounds like Eddie... wait.. is that.. yeah.. that.. wheres his hair? Oh wait yeah its him"
Then he says "kids this is what real punk rock sounds like" and introduced the Buzzcocks.
They were ok.. old school punk rock.. it was fun.
I went into the bathroom… man.. . there were lines of guys peeing in sinks.. it was great.. I was cracking up… went out and spotted the guitar shaped yard glass of beer... I went to the window and said "yard glass"... the girl pointed to the 2 taps one said Budweiser the other Bud Light... she asks "does it even matter?"... and I said "no." I cant tell you what she gave me.. but it was beer of some sort... I must have spilled half of it on me... you know... its kinda hard to drink out of those things when your sober.
Pearl Jam came on.. I was in happy land. Singing along like... well like a drunken sailor (I was drunk loud and soggy enough to qualify). Then Philly's firework show started off the bridge... it was sooooooo awesome. They played "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" Fists were pumping... air guitars were being played... man.. all the girls looked great... (yeah did I mention I was hammered?)
Im not going to list the song by song... they played all the good ones... the day went off without a hitch. Good times.
Now this Tuesday… METALLICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets see... we got to the Tweeter Center in Camden around... hmmm (I have no recolection of time.. at all)
Anyway... we got VIP parking.. right in front of the doors to the venue.. poped open the back... grabbed a beer... threw out some fold up beach shairs... opened the cooler... grabbed a beer... started grill... drank another beer... THEN we busted out the 8 year old bottle of VO. woah. ... ... ok... we had the radio on .. yeah... oh fuck man it was so hot out there... muggy and hot and the sun was cranking... the beer felt good.
Then... over the Philly skyline... DARK clouds roll over... It got really windy.. 30mph gusts... dust was blowing in our eyes... everyone went back in the car... EXCEPT ME! By that point we had been there for about 2 hours and by then the booze was pumping through my heart... The wind came.. and I sat... the wind blew my beer over.. that didnt stop me... I reached right in and grabbed another one... determined to outlast the storm in my drunken stupor... the rain came... sideways... in a matter of moments I was soaked... ... I ... I then joked with the man in the car next to me how "I could now piss myself right now and no one would even know"...
The storm lasted a good 10 mins... I was drenched head to toe.. . everyone else came out of the car after the rain had stopped... like pussies.
We continued to drink... the beer had all been drank... the VO bottle was empty... I said "what time is it?.. we should start heading in right?" Then we found a bottle of Biccardi in the car... so we sat back down... rum and coked it for awhile..
Then once we were good and ready... we decided it was time to enter the show...
The Buzzcocks opened... no wait.. first Eddie came out and played like 2 songs alone with an electric guitar... by this time we were arguing "Is that Eddie.. it sounds like Eddie... wait.. is that.. yeah.. that.. wheres his hair? Oh wait yeah its him"
Then he says "kids this is what real punk rock sounds like" and introduced the Buzzcocks.
They were ok.. old school punk rock.. it was fun.
I went into the bathroom… man.. . there were lines of guys peeing in sinks.. it was great.. I was cracking up… went out and spotted the guitar shaped yard glass of beer... I went to the window and said "yard glass"... the girl pointed to the 2 taps one said Budweiser the other Bud Light... she asks "does it even matter?"... and I said "no." I cant tell you what she gave me.. but it was beer of some sort... I must have spilled half of it on me... you know... its kinda hard to drink out of those things when your sober.
Pearl Jam came on.. I was in happy land. Singing along like... well like a drunken sailor (I was drunk loud and soggy enough to qualify). Then Philly's firework show started off the bridge... it was sooooooo awesome. They played "Keep on Rocking in the Free World" Fists were pumping... air guitars were being played... man.. all the girls looked great... (yeah did I mention I was hammered?)
Im not going to list the song by song... they played all the good ones... the day went off without a hitch. Good times.
Now this Tuesday… METALLICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!