concert post! among other things...
I went to see MCR in Seattle the other night! It was kind of spur of the moment (only bought the tickets last week or so), and I was SO THANKFUL, because I really thought I wouldn't get to see them again before, like... they went back to the studio and wrote a new album and started touring on THAT. so I was very glad. It was not the greatest concert experience, tbh, but MCR was AMAZING.
first, we went and saw the car and motorcycle. the car looked kinda dumb and plasticy, and... idk anything about motorcycles, but their signatures on it were cool? lol. My dad went with me, and we had seats pretty close up on Ray's side, and the seats were kind of awesome and kind of mood-killing. There weren't many people around us, and the people that WERE around us were... very blink-focused, so I was like the only one standing up and dancing and screaming. Along with my dad. ♥ But there was this girl behind me who kept screaming I LOVE YOU, GERARD. I LOVE YOU, GERARD. but yeah, dancing without people around was... weird, but I just had to get over myself and DO IT, because SERIOUSLY, MAN. MCR.
of course they played all the big ones, WTTBP and Not Okay and Helena, that was so, SO great. and Famous Last Words just KILLED ME. that song is one of my favorites, and it's SO EMOTIONAL to me, and I really really loved hearing it live, and feeling that emotion. and they also played SCARECROW, which I was hoping for without hoping TOO HARD for because I didn't wanna get my hopes up that high, but OH MY GOD, it was so lovely. fucking scarecrow. and of course planetary got EVERYBODY MOVING, and destroya was hot because MOANING.
FRANK had white pants. tight white pants. really sexy tight white pants. but LOL I sometimes forget that he can be as awkward-legged as Mikey. he kept bouncing between LOL DORK to UNF UNF HOT AS FUCK. at one point he ended up on the floor, writhing around, you know, THE USUAL. it was pretty hot. GERARD kept doing these little hand moves and toe points and HIP WIGGLES and at some points he looked like a fucking ballerina (not the singer that you wanted but a dancer?!) and at other points he just looked like SASSY-HIP!GEE and at other points he was just fucking hot. there was one bit where he got on the floor and like... did push-ups, almost. with his legs apart. and he looked really hot. IDEK.
I screamed along to every song, and I did all Gerard's little fist-pumping things, and my DAD played along too and it was great. I was SO BOUNCY, but because my dad was not as bouncy and the dude next to me was like... sitting down... it was weird. but talking to my dad afterward: he liked mcr a lot, and he said they are on a "good trajectory" and they've matured a lot, and he LOVED gerard. he was like "the redhead was a really good frontman!" and he said gerard had a lot of awesome stage presence and then he compared gee to freddie mercury and talked a lot about queen and concluded that YES, mcr put on a much better show. AND THE LIGHTS! the lights were KICK. ASS. especially the light up mic stands, that's so fucking cool. and just. IDK. they can do a fucking lightshow. ALSO, GLITTER-FILLED BALLOONS. I love this band. although I did lol a bit seeing Gerard POP THE BALLOONS, given his fear of balloons popping...
BUT OKAY. this is where I talk about blink a little bit, and I must warn you that I DO NOT LIKE BLINK-182, AND I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND BUT I JUST DON'T LIKE THEM OR THEIR MUSIC. I get that they were big when I was... not old enough to be into bands, so I missed out or whatever. but I have had people (tony) TRY to convert me and he failed. utterly. because I don't like them. so okay, you have been warned. maybe skip this if you love them. my MAIN thought was this: you know how people who don't like/don't know mcr go to an mcr show and come away LIKING MCR and WANTING TO KNOW THEM? I love that about MCR. I got that feeling, even though I'm already a fan, with my dad because he knew like one song, but he ended up enjoying himself a lot and liking mcr a lot. I did NOT get that feeling AT ALL with blink. I'm not a fan, and their show reeeeeally didn't make me want to become one, or even listen to them at all. I did go into it with an open mind and knew that they would put on a good show, but... it just fell kind of flat for me.
the screens and light shows were awesome. the travis barker floating out over the pit thing was REALLY DAMN COOL (but as my dad said "why didn't they do that for MORE OF THE SHOW?!") I liked the adorable little shirtless kid in the background rocking out on a guitar. who's kid is that? I saw something mention travis's kid, is that who that is? SOME of the banter was amusing. Mark got a couple bracelets from fans and read out the beaded words and he was kind of presh. tom... I do not like. I don't like his voice, and I didn't like his banter, and mark was really the highlight of the show for me, he had more stage presence.
the problem for me was that i only know a few blink songs. like, three. and they played those! which was good because I could sing along. but the problem with those three is they annoy the crap out of me. so the only songs I knew, annoyed me. and the rest of the songs were either new, so ihni what was going on, or old, and I still had no idea. and the other thing was, THEY ALL SOUNDED THE SAME. I mean, no offense, but I couldn't tell the difference between old and new, interms of style and sound. so it was kinda weird. and for me (and my dad), mcr definitely put on a more engaging show. we left during the last song, because it was going on and on and on and we wanted to get a headstart because by that point we just didn't care. the coolest part of blink's set was definitely the floating drum set thing. fucking crazy.
then there was some stuff and some traffic because lol this venue made some awful roadblock choices and the whole way home my dad talked about gerard and queen and freddie mercury being flamboyant and it was great! and at home my mom was still up so we did a little recap for her! and I checked out mcr_u even though there were hardly any comments except for like, MY OWN TWEETS, which was amusing to me but kinda sad (lol time zones) but then there was this thing about a rumor about a drummer being fired.
in the comments, people were like OH, CAN'T BE, HE MUST BE CONFUSED AND TALKING ABOUT BOB! so i brushed it off and thought YEAH, MUST BE OLD NEWS, because pedione is great! and they love him! and the show was awesome! and they played to him like normal, and I was creeping on him while he watched rancid's set, and it was all fine and dandy!
AND THEN all the shit came out. i was out like ALL DAY with my parents and when i finally got on twitter (conveniently right around the time frank posted his blog) i asked if I missed anything and I was linked to the blog and... I was a little bit in shock. I kept catching up on twitter to see if there was more information and see everyone's reactions and I didn't realize that that shit had JUST HAPPENED when I logged on, so by the time I started seeing reactions, it had sunk in a little more, and then I was just kind of heartbroken. like, really heartbroken for the band.
the thing that upsets me the MOST is that this came on the heels of their AMAZING reading and leeds experience. they shared the best show of their lives with this man as their brother, they loved him. and to have SUCH a betrayal come so soon after that... that just hurts my heart. I can't imagine what they're going through. I almost feel like he didn't deserve to play that show with them, but at the same time I wouldn't change anything about that show because they DID love him, and it WAS amazing. and if this had all gone down BEFORE that show, then it would be hanging over their heads and they'd have a ~new drummer, and that wouldn't have been good either.
I also feel so, SO weird that this happened after MY SHOW. it's not like a tangible thing I can describe very well, but it's just really unsettling to know that I was driving home, (not really high from the show because blink was on during my recovery period) reliving the show with my dad, telling people about it online, and at the very same time, mcr had just come offstage and... I don't even know. must've talked to police and pedicone and all of this must've happened really fast. I feel kind of lucky to have seen him, at the end? but also wow, I can't believe he did THAT MUCH, and I can't believe it happened RIGHT THEN. i mean, to betray his friends like that... it takes a lot. and then I keep thinking of the boys calling people to tell them, especially frank calling jamia to talk about firing him, because all three of them were pretty close, and I just. :( the whole situation is just SHITTY.
I LOVE, however, that the band did some retail therapy and went out on a movie date and really clung to each other, because they are a GANG and they will GET THROUGH ANYTHING. and they played a fucking SHOW tonight, and sure, it wasn't their best, but they went out and DID IT, with THAT amount of turnaround, and I'm just so, so proud of them for pulling it together. the show must go on, as frank said. I also really appreciated gerard's random blog as such an obvious (and MUCH NEEDED) distraction. it really did put me at ease. they're gonna be alright. they're gonna be GREAT. they're mcr.
sorry for... such a craptastic review. it wasn't as overwhelming as my show in the pit on the world contamination tour. it was awesome, but not overwhelming. and my resentment for the asshole blink fans around me kind of killed the mood after. and then all the drummer stuff. this was meant to be a super happy post, but it just didn't turn out that way. but mcr is fucking great and they're going to keep being fucking great, and they're only going to get better from here. this band has proven itself to survive highs and lows, and i trust them.
first, we went and saw the car and motorcycle. the car looked kinda dumb and plasticy, and... idk anything about motorcycles, but their signatures on it were cool? lol. My dad went with me, and we had seats pretty close up on Ray's side, and the seats were kind of awesome and kind of mood-killing. There weren't many people around us, and the people that WERE around us were... very blink-focused, so I was like the only one standing up and dancing and screaming. Along with my dad. ♥ But there was this girl behind me who kept screaming I LOVE YOU, GERARD. I LOVE YOU, GERARD. but yeah, dancing without people around was... weird, but I just had to get over myself and DO IT, because SERIOUSLY, MAN. MCR.
of course they played all the big ones, WTTBP and Not Okay and Helena, that was so, SO great. and Famous Last Words just KILLED ME. that song is one of my favorites, and it's SO EMOTIONAL to me, and I really really loved hearing it live, and feeling that emotion. and they also played SCARECROW, which I was hoping for without hoping TOO HARD for because I didn't wanna get my hopes up that high, but OH MY GOD, it was so lovely. fucking scarecrow. and of course planetary got EVERYBODY MOVING, and destroya was hot because MOANING.
FRANK had white pants. tight white pants. really sexy tight white pants. but LOL I sometimes forget that he can be as awkward-legged as Mikey. he kept bouncing between LOL DORK to UNF UNF HOT AS FUCK. at one point he ended up on the floor, writhing around, you know, THE USUAL. it was pretty hot. GERARD kept doing these little hand moves and toe points and HIP WIGGLES and at some points he looked like a fucking ballerina (not the singer that you wanted but a dancer?!) and at other points he just looked like SASSY-HIP!GEE and at other points he was just fucking hot. there was one bit where he got on the floor and like... did push-ups, almost. with his legs apart. and he looked really hot. IDEK.
I screamed along to every song, and I did all Gerard's little fist-pumping things, and my DAD played along too and it was great. I was SO BOUNCY, but because my dad was not as bouncy and the dude next to me was like... sitting down... it was weird. but talking to my dad afterward: he liked mcr a lot, and he said they are on a "good trajectory" and they've matured a lot, and he LOVED gerard. he was like "the redhead was a really good frontman!" and he said gerard had a lot of awesome stage presence and then he compared gee to freddie mercury and talked a lot about queen and concluded that YES, mcr put on a much better show. AND THE LIGHTS! the lights were KICK. ASS. especially the light up mic stands, that's so fucking cool. and just. IDK. they can do a fucking lightshow. ALSO, GLITTER-FILLED BALLOONS. I love this band. although I did lol a bit seeing Gerard POP THE BALLOONS, given his fear of balloons popping...
BUT OKAY. this is where I talk about blink a little bit, and I must warn you that I DO NOT LIKE BLINK-182, AND I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND BUT I JUST DON'T LIKE THEM OR THEIR MUSIC. I get that they were big when I was... not old enough to be into bands, so I missed out or whatever. but I have had people (tony) TRY to convert me and he failed. utterly. because I don't like them. so okay, you have been warned. maybe skip this if you love them. my MAIN thought was this: you know how people who don't like/don't know mcr go to an mcr show and come away LIKING MCR and WANTING TO KNOW THEM? I love that about MCR. I got that feeling, even though I'm already a fan, with my dad because he knew like one song, but he ended up enjoying himself a lot and liking mcr a lot. I did NOT get that feeling AT ALL with blink. I'm not a fan, and their show reeeeeally didn't make me want to become one, or even listen to them at all. I did go into it with an open mind and knew that they would put on a good show, but... it just fell kind of flat for me.
the screens and light shows were awesome. the travis barker floating out over the pit thing was REALLY DAMN COOL (but as my dad said "why didn't they do that for MORE OF THE SHOW?!") I liked the adorable little shirtless kid in the background rocking out on a guitar. who's kid is that? I saw something mention travis's kid, is that who that is? SOME of the banter was amusing. Mark got a couple bracelets from fans and read out the beaded words and he was kind of presh. tom... I do not like. I don't like his voice, and I didn't like his banter, and mark was really the highlight of the show for me, he had more stage presence.
the problem for me was that i only know a few blink songs. like, three. and they played those! which was good because I could sing along. but the problem with those three is they annoy the crap out of me. so the only songs I knew, annoyed me. and the rest of the songs were either new, so ihni what was going on, or old, and I still had no idea. and the other thing was, THEY ALL SOUNDED THE SAME. I mean, no offense, but I couldn't tell the difference between old and new, interms of style and sound. so it was kinda weird. and for me (and my dad), mcr definitely put on a more engaging show. we left during the last song, because it was going on and on and on and we wanted to get a headstart because by that point we just didn't care. the coolest part of blink's set was definitely the floating drum set thing. fucking crazy.
then there was some stuff and some traffic because lol this venue made some awful roadblock choices and the whole way home my dad talked about gerard and queen and freddie mercury being flamboyant and it was great! and at home my mom was still up so we did a little recap for her! and I checked out mcr_u even though there were hardly any comments except for like, MY OWN TWEETS, which was amusing to me but kinda sad (lol time zones) but then there was this thing about a rumor about a drummer being fired.
in the comments, people were like OH, CAN'T BE, HE MUST BE CONFUSED AND TALKING ABOUT BOB! so i brushed it off and thought YEAH, MUST BE OLD NEWS, because pedione is great! and they love him! and the show was awesome! and they played to him like normal, and I was creeping on him while he watched rancid's set, and it was all fine and dandy!
AND THEN all the shit came out. i was out like ALL DAY with my parents and when i finally got on twitter (conveniently right around the time frank posted his blog) i asked if I missed anything and I was linked to the blog and... I was a little bit in shock. I kept catching up on twitter to see if there was more information and see everyone's reactions and I didn't realize that that shit had JUST HAPPENED when I logged on, so by the time I started seeing reactions, it had sunk in a little more, and then I was just kind of heartbroken. like, really heartbroken for the band.
the thing that upsets me the MOST is that this came on the heels of their AMAZING reading and leeds experience. they shared the best show of their lives with this man as their brother, they loved him. and to have SUCH a betrayal come so soon after that... that just hurts my heart. I can't imagine what they're going through. I almost feel like he didn't deserve to play that show with them, but at the same time I wouldn't change anything about that show because they DID love him, and it WAS amazing. and if this had all gone down BEFORE that show, then it would be hanging over their heads and they'd have a ~new drummer, and that wouldn't have been good either.
I also feel so, SO weird that this happened after MY SHOW. it's not like a tangible thing I can describe very well, but it's just really unsettling to know that I was driving home, (not really high from the show because blink was on during my recovery period) reliving the show with my dad, telling people about it online, and at the very same time, mcr had just come offstage and... I don't even know. must've talked to police and pedicone and all of this must've happened really fast. I feel kind of lucky to have seen him, at the end? but also wow, I can't believe he did THAT MUCH, and I can't believe it happened RIGHT THEN. i mean, to betray his friends like that... it takes a lot. and then I keep thinking of the boys calling people to tell them, especially frank calling jamia to talk about firing him, because all three of them were pretty close, and I just. :( the whole situation is just SHITTY.
I LOVE, however, that the band did some retail therapy and went out on a movie date and really clung to each other, because they are a GANG and they will GET THROUGH ANYTHING. and they played a fucking SHOW tonight, and sure, it wasn't their best, but they went out and DID IT, with THAT amount of turnaround, and I'm just so, so proud of them for pulling it together. the show must go on, as frank said. I also really appreciated gerard's random blog as such an obvious (and MUCH NEEDED) distraction. it really did put me at ease. they're gonna be alright. they're gonna be GREAT. they're mcr.
sorry for... such a craptastic review. it wasn't as overwhelming as my show in the pit on the world contamination tour. it was awesome, but not overwhelming. and my resentment for the asshole blink fans around me kind of killed the mood after. and then all the drummer stuff. this was meant to be a super happy post, but it just didn't turn out that way. but mcr is fucking great and they're going to keep being fucking great, and they're only going to get better from here. this band has proven itself to survive highs and lows, and i trust them.