~Hanging by a Moment Here with You~
As promised:
(Written last night)
I just got back from an AMAZING time in Houston seeing Lifehouse in concert!
Coolest part of the night: Before the concert, my dad, and my friend Danie and I were eating at this nearly deserted Chinese restaraunt not even a block away from where the concert was going to be held. (It was pretty much the only thing that we could find within a ten-mile radius.)
Danie pointed out a group of guys to me and said "Hey, do you think those guys are going to the concert?"
My dad and I just kinda brushed it off with a 'Maybe' and carried on eating. Then, Danie interjected "Wouldn't that be funny if that -was- Lifehouse?"
Once again, I glanced over, and I noticed a verrry familiar bald head. So I watched them for a minute, and that's when I realized that it was in fact Lifehouse eating chinese food and carrying on cheerfully at a table not twenty feet away from us! (The bald head that I had recognised was Rick, the drummer)
But almost as soon as we realized it, they were getting up to leave. So after some coaxing a reluctant Danie who didn't want to get caught in an embarassing moment of mistaken identity, I finally got her to come outside with me so that we could get a picture.
I politely stopped the group, confirmed that they were indeed Lifehouse, and asked if Danie and I could get a picture.
But as if the fates would have it, my camera chose to stop working. But I suppose they were in a hurry to get back to the venue for soundcheck and whatnot, so they graciously excused themselves and invited Danie and I to meet them by the buses after the concert where they would be hanging out.
So, we waved goodbye, rejoined my dad, and ecstatically recapped the event about three times over before taking a few pictures and walking down to Warehouse Live. There, we got in a line of about a hundred people, listened to the soundcheck from outside, goofed around, and called a few of our friends to shamelessly brag about getting to meet the band.
Finally around 7:45 the doors opened and they started letting people in. By then about another fifty people had gotten behind Danie and I. But unfortunantly for us, the ticket-booth guy had given Danie the reciept to her ticket instead of the actual ticket, so we had to wait about five minutes while my dad talked to the guy so that he could re-print Danie's ticket.
Consequently, we weren't as close to the stage as we could have been. We ended up getting a little over to the side and were behind the people closest to the stage and speakers, who got to lean against the poles the entire time. (Which kinda sucked 'cause Danie had stabbed her foot a few days earlier, and I had hurt my knee pretty badly, so it killed us both to stand for that long a time.)
The concert didn't start 'till nine, when the opening band Rocko De Lucas came out and performed for half an hour or so. The music was pretty good, but it was turned up too loud and you couldn't hear the lead singer very well. =/
But everyone rocked out none-the-less and then got restless in the additional half-hour wait after the band left the stage until Lifehouse came out.
Finally, around ten, the real fun began.
Jason played a soft medley on keyboards to start off the show, and then he talked to the crowd a bit while the band got situated.
Unfortunantly, I can't remember the names or order of all of the songs that they played, but somehow I knew all of the words to most of the songs, anyway.
And man, you should have seen me. XD I was jumpin' up and down, fist occasionally pumping in the air, cheering, screaming, silently singing along, etc. I was into it BIG TIME.
All four bands members did AMAZING jobs on their solo's and the crowd definitely showed their apprieciation for everyone, both individually and as a group.
What I especially liked was the fact that you could tell the band members apprieciated, respected, and were all friends with eachother. Whenever two of the band members were performing an instrumental duet, they would join up and rock out together, kinda cheering eachother on in support.
The last 25 minutes was probably my favorite part, though. When Jason announced that they would be doing a few of their songs from the first album for their older fans, two girls around me and I all cheered our heads off, and Jason looked over at us with the biggest grin! It was so cool.
After Sick Cycle Carousel and Only One (<333!), I was getting a bit weary, still verbally wishing and hoping that they would perform 'Everything'. (My favorite song by them) And almost just as soon as I had mentioned that to Danie, the guitar intro. for 'Everything' starts off, causing me to... well, spazz. XD
But as soon as Jason started singing, I calmed down, melted into a pile of standing-goo, and just sang along, danced, admittedly nearly cried, and became lost in my own realm of memories as I so often do when I hear that song. And getting to hear it live was such a special moment for me.
What made the song even more touching was how much I saw Jason get into it; how passionate he was when singing the song.
Then, they broke out into their first, and probably best-known single, Hanging By A Moment. And as soon as the first few chords sounded, the entire crowd knew it, and erupted in ear-deafening cheers. XD Danie and I especially.
This time, EVERYONE sang along and rocked out. During the last two chorus's, Jason even stopped singing, held the mic out, and let the crowd sing bits and pieces of the song. XD It was so cool.
Afterwards, the entire band set down their instruments, stood up, and respectively let the audience give them their farewell cheer.
But we all knew that that wasn't the end, especially when the audience continued to cheer as loudly as they could for nearly five minutes even after the band had left the stage.
And, as expected, Jason came out and introduced an apparently not-very-well-known, and hard to get a hold of song of theirs, called 'Storm'. It was a very solemn love song soley played on acoustic by Jason, and I immediately fell in love with it.
But Danie, remembering that the band had let us know they were going to be hanging out by the buses after the concert, suggested that we start heading to the back of the room, thinking that there was only going to be one encore.
But sure enough, (and as I had some-what expected), almost as we were out the door the band started playing 'You and Me'. So Danie and I hurriedly rushed back into the room, and listened/watched from the back, not bothering to try and make out way back up to our original places in the very front, and silently ''awe''d over all of the couples slow dancing around the room.
Thinking that that surely would be the last song, we headed out and around the back to where the buses were, where we heard the band start up their last and final encore of the night with a song that neither Danie nor I recognised.
The guards made us stand by the signs, not wanting us to come within a hundred yards of the bus, for whatever reason. And suddenly, while Danie and I were talking, the guard laughed and told us that we had just missed the band getting into the bus. But by the way he cackled afterwards, I figured that he was just kidding, so I brushed it off and watched as more and more people started filing into the parking lot by the bus.
That was the bad part. There were at least fifty other people trying to get an autograph this time.
And as it turns out, the guard wasn't kidding. O.o; The lead guitarist was already signing autographs outside, and the rest of the band was eating and cleaning up inside the bus.
After about a fifteen minute wait, the rest of the band eventually came out to sign autographs, and I somehow ended up getting pushed from the front of the crowd, to virtually the back of it.
XX; But, eventually, I was able to get a picture with Jason and Bryce (although the chick who took the picture cut half of Bryce's face off >.>), and an individual one with Rick, and obtained an autograph from Jason and Rick.
I was in too big of a rush to get out of the hectic crowd to try and get an autograph from Bryce, and Ben. But they were no where to be seen by the time I got out of the pit.
Lucky Danie got all four band members autographs and had a semi-lengthy discussion with both guitarists. But that was because she somehow remained at the front the entire time while I was trying not to get squished. =/
But all in all, it was a GREAT night. All four band members seem like such nice, sweet, and down to earth guys, and I can't wait for their new album in the fall so that I can do this all over again. @__@;
Pictures from the concert: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v232/untold_darkness/Lifehouse/
<333
~~Emma~~.
(Written last night)
I just got back from an AMAZING time in Houston seeing Lifehouse in concert!
Coolest part of the night: Before the concert, my dad, and my friend Danie and I were eating at this nearly deserted Chinese restaraunt not even a block away from where the concert was going to be held. (It was pretty much the only thing that we could find within a ten-mile radius.)
Danie pointed out a group of guys to me and said "Hey, do you think those guys are going to the concert?"
My dad and I just kinda brushed it off with a 'Maybe' and carried on eating. Then, Danie interjected "Wouldn't that be funny if that -was- Lifehouse?"
Once again, I glanced over, and I noticed a verrry familiar bald head. So I watched them for a minute, and that's when I realized that it was in fact Lifehouse eating chinese food and carrying on cheerfully at a table not twenty feet away from us! (The bald head that I had recognised was Rick, the drummer)
But almost as soon as we realized it, they were getting up to leave. So after some coaxing a reluctant Danie who didn't want to get caught in an embarassing moment of mistaken identity, I finally got her to come outside with me so that we could get a picture.
I politely stopped the group, confirmed that they were indeed Lifehouse, and asked if Danie and I could get a picture.
But as if the fates would have it, my camera chose to stop working. But I suppose they were in a hurry to get back to the venue for soundcheck and whatnot, so they graciously excused themselves and invited Danie and I to meet them by the buses after the concert where they would be hanging out.
So, we waved goodbye, rejoined my dad, and ecstatically recapped the event about three times over before taking a few pictures and walking down to Warehouse Live. There, we got in a line of about a hundred people, listened to the soundcheck from outside, goofed around, and called a few of our friends to shamelessly brag about getting to meet the band.
Finally around 7:45 the doors opened and they started letting people in. By then about another fifty people had gotten behind Danie and I. But unfortunantly for us, the ticket-booth guy had given Danie the reciept to her ticket instead of the actual ticket, so we had to wait about five minutes while my dad talked to the guy so that he could re-print Danie's ticket.
Consequently, we weren't as close to the stage as we could have been. We ended up getting a little over to the side and were behind the people closest to the stage and speakers, who got to lean against the poles the entire time. (Which kinda sucked 'cause Danie had stabbed her foot a few days earlier, and I had hurt my knee pretty badly, so it killed us both to stand for that long a time.)
The concert didn't start 'till nine, when the opening band Rocko De Lucas came out and performed for half an hour or so. The music was pretty good, but it was turned up too loud and you couldn't hear the lead singer very well. =/
But everyone rocked out none-the-less and then got restless in the additional half-hour wait after the band left the stage until Lifehouse came out.
Finally, around ten, the real fun began.
Jason played a soft medley on keyboards to start off the show, and then he talked to the crowd a bit while the band got situated.
Unfortunantly, I can't remember the names or order of all of the songs that they played, but somehow I knew all of the words to most of the songs, anyway.
And man, you should have seen me. XD I was jumpin' up and down, fist occasionally pumping in the air, cheering, screaming, silently singing along, etc. I was into it BIG TIME.
All four bands members did AMAZING jobs on their solo's and the crowd definitely showed their apprieciation for everyone, both individually and as a group.
What I especially liked was the fact that you could tell the band members apprieciated, respected, and were all friends with eachother. Whenever two of the band members were performing an instrumental duet, they would join up and rock out together, kinda cheering eachother on in support.
The last 25 minutes was probably my favorite part, though. When Jason announced that they would be doing a few of their songs from the first album for their older fans, two girls around me and I all cheered our heads off, and Jason looked over at us with the biggest grin! It was so cool.
After Sick Cycle Carousel and Only One (<333!), I was getting a bit weary, still verbally wishing and hoping that they would perform 'Everything'. (My favorite song by them) And almost just as soon as I had mentioned that to Danie, the guitar intro. for 'Everything' starts off, causing me to... well, spazz. XD
But as soon as Jason started singing, I calmed down, melted into a pile of standing-goo, and just sang along, danced, admittedly nearly cried, and became lost in my own realm of memories as I so often do when I hear that song. And getting to hear it live was such a special moment for me.
What made the song even more touching was how much I saw Jason get into it; how passionate he was when singing the song.
Then, they broke out into their first, and probably best-known single, Hanging By A Moment. And as soon as the first few chords sounded, the entire crowd knew it, and erupted in ear-deafening cheers. XD Danie and I especially.
This time, EVERYONE sang along and rocked out. During the last two chorus's, Jason even stopped singing, held the mic out, and let the crowd sing bits and pieces of the song. XD It was so cool.
Afterwards, the entire band set down their instruments, stood up, and respectively let the audience give them their farewell cheer.
But we all knew that that wasn't the end, especially when the audience continued to cheer as loudly as they could for nearly five minutes even after the band had left the stage.
And, as expected, Jason came out and introduced an apparently not-very-well-known, and hard to get a hold of song of theirs, called 'Storm'. It was a very solemn love song soley played on acoustic by Jason, and I immediately fell in love with it.
But Danie, remembering that the band had let us know they were going to be hanging out by the buses after the concert, suggested that we start heading to the back of the room, thinking that there was only going to be one encore.
But sure enough, (and as I had some-what expected), almost as we were out the door the band started playing 'You and Me'. So Danie and I hurriedly rushed back into the room, and listened/watched from the back, not bothering to try and make out way back up to our original places in the very front, and silently ''awe''d over all of the couples slow dancing around the room.
Thinking that that surely would be the last song, we headed out and around the back to where the buses were, where we heard the band start up their last and final encore of the night with a song that neither Danie nor I recognised.
The guards made us stand by the signs, not wanting us to come within a hundred yards of the bus, for whatever reason. And suddenly, while Danie and I were talking, the guard laughed and told us that we had just missed the band getting into the bus. But by the way he cackled afterwards, I figured that he was just kidding, so I brushed it off and watched as more and more people started filing into the parking lot by the bus.
That was the bad part. There were at least fifty other people trying to get an autograph this time.
And as it turns out, the guard wasn't kidding. O.o; The lead guitarist was already signing autographs outside, and the rest of the band was eating and cleaning up inside the bus.
After about a fifteen minute wait, the rest of the band eventually came out to sign autographs, and I somehow ended up getting pushed from the front of the crowd, to virtually the back of it.
XX; But, eventually, I was able to get a picture with Jason and Bryce (although the chick who took the picture cut half of Bryce's face off >.>), and an individual one with Rick, and obtained an autograph from Jason and Rick.
I was in too big of a rush to get out of the hectic crowd to try and get an autograph from Bryce, and Ben. But they were no where to be seen by the time I got out of the pit.
Lucky Danie got all four band members autographs and had a semi-lengthy discussion with both guitarists. But that was because she somehow remained at the front the entire time while I was trying not to get squished. =/
But all in all, it was a GREAT night. All four band members seem like such nice, sweet, and down to earth guys, and I can't wait for their new album in the fall so that I can do this all over again. @__@;
Pictures from the concert: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v232/untold_darkness/Lifehouse/
<333
~~Emma~~.