I Miss...
*note: most of the pictures in here are NOT mine. I found them on flickr. or somewhere else.
Some of them ARE mine, or Mom's, or whatever.
*note 2: Not everything I mention has to do with the pictures. There aren't pictures for everything, I just happened to find some cool pics today and wanted to include them. Not everything mentioned is in chronological or logical order. You have to read everything if you want to catch everything I'm saying.
I Miss...
- seeing THIS GUY (the one on the right) every day during Chiodos' set, and laughing about how he wore those damn camo shorts EVERY DAY. Then finding out he used to be the drummer in Roses Are Red. And he worked for The Academy Is I believe... LOL.
- sunny skies in Miami. Meeting Myspace friends from California (Conrad!). Almost getting heat exhaustion while waiting in line. Being VIP, and not knowing why, exactly.
- almost-tornadoes in Miami. And Steve and Joey just standing there watching the sky without a care in the world. (Did I mention this was the same day as that sunny sky above?)
- that electric crowd Chiodos had in Miami after we all thought we were going to recreate the movie Twister. ELECTRIC.
- clusterfucks of lines in Englishtown, trying to find the Guest List table, and missing Family Force 5. Notice the sprinkler that is on over to the left of the line. Yeah, definitely had to walk through water to go back and forth. Also, notice the lack of stages or anything nearby, because everything was a mile around the corner from the entrance.
- dust pits in Jacksonville. Looking like a little homeless boy.
- when Ronnie comes out to the line to say hi to you, and then goes back to the bus. Meaning, he goes out of his way to say hi to you.
- being right in the middle of this stuff
- front row. Dodging security guards to try and get good pictures. Being kicked and punched in the face by crowdsurfers.
FxC
- waiting outside the venue in Charlotte. Wanting The Sunstreak to just STOP asking us to listen to them. Seeing a band member walking around promoting their cd, realizing you talked to that person last year, but having no clue who the hell they really are. Meeting Myspace friends (Brenna!). Truth Sean. Air raid sirens. Travis McCoy high-fives. Free water. Walking past Troy Wambold (he wasn't even at Aiden's merch tent, he was just wandering) and him being like "HEY GUYS!" all the while we're 3 states away from home and I'm wondering how the hell he remembers us so every time without fail. How people in Charlotte have NO IDEA how to make a line.
- WTF? Being in other people's pictures. Being front row for Spencer Chamberlain's hometown Warped show.
- ORANGE SHIRT GUY. (LOLZ) Mind you, he's not wearing an orange shirt here. And I did kind of yell at him in Englishtown. This guy keeps Craigery from being raped by fangirlies when he goes out on to the crowd.
- friends in Ohio. Randomly finding them in the Pit Reporter's pictures on Flickr.
- dirt lines. Chuck Taylor tan lines.
- Lindsey, is that YOU?
- Seeing how enthused Steve is onstage. Alliance flags. Magic Castles. Robotic dinosaurs. The Tonight Show. Dave: "Is Paris out of jail yet?"
- "Can you guys give me a ride to Taco Bell?" "Don't you dare move anything!" "You guys want anything? I have 7 dollars." "Hi, I'm Philip." "Don't worry, I've got you." Red Jumpsuit's cd playing in the car when we take Joey to Taco Bell: priceless. Karate-chop flowerpot. Cove. "I bet he takes it off during the third song!" People being like "Why did you come to Milwaukee for Spring Break if you're from Florida?!?!?!"
- seeing all the other band members in the crowd watching Bad Religion close the first day of Warped Tour 2007. Being in the racial minority for the first time, like, EVER. Feeling like California is definitely hotter than Florida, or at least it must be closer to the sun.
- butt cracks (not really). Telling the security guard "You're definitely gonna need a few more reinforcements for this band..."
- Jeff from Cute Is What We Aim For playing Blink 182's "Dammit" with All Time Low. ATL's clothing toss up in Uniondale. "Let It Roll". Being front row for All Time Low's hometown Warped show.
-being in the middle-of-nowhere California. Walking a half mile to the front of the line. The line being a half mile long. Parking in fields.
- wanting Keith Morris to just SHUT. THE. HELL. UP. AND. PLAY.
- having to be front row for Killswitch Engage like, every freaking day, just so we could have front row for RJA.
- voting for them. Seeing them win. Seeing that little square around their name on the lineup. Seeing them play 10 minutes more. Seeing them at the table during signings.
- meeting Jack at the merch table. Seeing that girl about to faint, because she couldn't believe she was actually meeting Jack.
- smartasses that don't know how to organize the lines for the guest list table.
- watching Lorene Drive with Duke in Ventura.
- never figuring out why the hell this was at Warped Tour.
- lemonade slush things in Camden. Indoor bathrooms. Uncrustables. Walking through the hood to get to the front of the line. Eyeing the Gallows-brother hottie hanging at the guest list table. Seeing Kevin Lyman. Trying to get pictures of Jeffree Star. Trying not to get run over by random trolley things. Mohawks. Random bodybuilders in their undies.
- being on the recycling team in Jax. But being useless cause we're all crippled and having heat exhaustion.
- randomly, and I do mean RANDOMLY running into Scary Kids Scaring Kids at this Walgreens in Las Vegas.
- eating at the blinged out McDonalds in Vegas.
- seeing Lynette run around a theater while connected to another person via underwear. Don't ask.
- Fluff My Boner.
- the House of Blue Balls (according to Sam). Meeting Sam for the first time in 2006. Showing up on the wrong day. Hating Cleveland. Tower City's bathrooms. Seeing Duke driving the RV around at 6:30 am.
House of Blue Balls
- THE CORN COBS.
Corn.
Cobs.
- weirdest looking House Of Blues ever in Chicago.
- guest list problems. They're a fact of life, and we've learned to embrace it. Missing Kaddisfly.
Waiting.
- snow on a rooftop in Chicago for 3.5 seconds. Not having to push Mom's wheelchair up that huge-ass hill.
- Bogarts. "There's a wall there!" Light switches. Haunted staircases. Duke stealing toilet paper. Being in the same hallway that Panic At The Disco once stood in (But I bet Spencer didn't have problems with that damn light switch!)
- "Bus air freshener". Almost having to have a smackdown with some skankasshoes in line. Having people recognize us from Myspace...people from Michigan, recognizing us in Ohio...weird. Barricades collapsing. Pouyan asking where to get food near Headliners. Us being like "Um, there's nothing but porn stores..." That dimwit that thought Duke was Ronnie.
- shopping for the band boys. Because they need soup and tissues and cough drops and rice crispies. Trying on Leprecauhn hats and making fun of ladies with bad wigs at grocery stores we've never even heard of.
- being Kroger shoppers. Because we OBVSLY have Kroger down here notreally.
- brushing my teeth in the sink at rest areas. sleeping in the car at rest areas. driving all night. living off of coffee. Finally getting a chance to sleep for an hour on the way to Cleveland, waking up, seeing 7 empty cups of coffee up front and thinking "What the hell happened while I was asleep?!"
- DUDE. FLUSHABLE SINKS.
- Coffee.....toffee! Sticky....Nikki! Pistachio...Mustachio!
- TRAVEL PLAZAS. Dude, travel plazas PWN rest areas. Because they have huge bathrooms and often include a 24 hour Burger King. and Fazoli's!
- that feeling you get when you're at a random rest area in like, Tennessee, and you're like "Damn, I've been here before! We had a picnic!" LOL.
- seeing tour buses and vans: along the way, on the road, at Pappy's Diner, at travel plazas, at rest areas, on the side of the road...pulled over by the cops
- rest area conversations with Jon Wilkes at 3 am in South Carolina. "They tour, and not even in a van!" Casey being in zombie mode.
- leaving a rest area, seeing an RV (with children on the side of it) go by, and saying "Hey! That's Red Jumpsuit's trailer!" Following them down the interstate. Pulling up next to them at the gas station and seeing Ronnie get this look on his face like "What the hell?"
- turning on all the hand dryers at the rest area.
- watching out for scorpions.
- lazy days in the pool in Las Vegas.
- "Is THAT the Grand Canyon?" "Can you touch a dust devil?" "Do Mexicans eat chicken?"
Click to view- Singing with Craigery..."Shredded by state lines!" "Hey, that's a fun game!"
- "The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable" Jason's booty shorts. "Stop throwing things! You're stupid!" "I'm like Spiderman!" "I didn't tell you you could put your Eminem hands down!"
- feeling the heat of the concrete seeping through the soles of my shoes at Warped.
- that life-size Ziploc bag we put our nasty Warped Tour clothes in. And being like "Hell no! I'm not opening it!"
- the joy of finding free water/water fountains/indoor bathrooms/water faucets/water trucks/the Monster Energy Drink area.
- group pelvic thrusts with The Matches. "1,2,3 UH!" Tunacorn.
- "Hey lady, hand me that Envy On The Coast poster!"
- Having my hair ripped out in Aiden's pit at Headliners. wiL coming to US for hugs.
- learning completely useless things about Aiden, like how Jake W loves Saves The Day.
- going to Pittsburgh to see The Matches. Just because. Having Matt remember us from Jacksonville.
- "How do you feel up your throat?"
- Gallows-brother hottie. Enough said.
- "Uh guys... I think I've been watching the wrong Gallows."
- Gallows circle pits.
- stalking Pete Wentz's house (oh yes, we did). The Breakfast Club school. The Ferris Bueller school. Millenium Park.
- beer run's with "Uncle" Lee and Justin. Macaroni and Cheese. Pizza and Coke. Laundry. 8 flights of stairs and a broken elevator. Elton John. The guys playing us the cd before it came out, and hearing them geek out over their special guitar parts and drum parts and vocal parts. "LOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!" weed pops. OMG. "Albatross rules!"
- sleepovers. Bathing-suit birthday cakes.
- Buffalo Wild Wings. Lemon seeds in the eye. Denny's. Shots of syrup. Steak And Shake.
- our first big concert-related out-of-state roadtrip to St. Louis. It was 76 degrees and it was the hottest day of the tour so far. Casey from Hawthorne Heights got heat exhaustion and threw up onstage. Realizing we ate dinner like, 5 tables away from Senses Fail at Dave and Buster's.
- Tyrone! "I'm gonna pee in your butt!" "Are you bringing the barbecue sauce?"
- Gangsta bathroom photosessions.
- Bamboozle injuries. Because it's just not Bamboozle unless one/both of us gets hurt.
- Confetti.
- texASS! Cacti. Jack! in the BOX! The Frontier. Tropical Smoothie Cafe (the one Brendon Urie worked at! Because I'm a stalker and I read the feature in Alternative Press where he talked about his old job and GAVE THE ADDRESS OF THE PLACE!). The Pacific Ocean. Vegas. Cali. The damn dam. Grand Canyon. Jack! in the BOX! The Tonight Show.
- Panic At The Disco acoustic sidewalk shows in Orlando.
- The Wall Of Death. That time I got the uber-close up picture of wiL's shirt because he landed on me and my camera when he jumped down onto the barricade. Being front row for them so many times in 2006. Then not seeing them for like, 2 years. wiL Francis. He's my hero.
- Metal Claws.
- "Hold up! Wait a minute! Put a little love in it!"
- being lost in New Jersey. Driving 80 miles when it should have only been like, 20 miles back to Lola's. Wondering where in the hell they were hiding the turnpike.
- the 10 feet of fuck. FUCK THAT SHIT.
- Hootie the owl.
- "Drop your insecurities!"
- Seeing bands so many times that you begin to recognize their roadies.
- seeing bands so many times they begin to recognize YOU. "I remember you guys! Don't think I don't, because I do!"
- putting my diamonds up, and standing for MY national anthem.
- the year Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance were both mainstage at Warped Tour. AKA "The Summer Of Like".
- heat exhaustion.
- Fall Out Boy and their stupid faces and their stupid voices. ♥ X 1 nillion. You have NO IDEA how happy this band makes me.
- Projekt Revolution being hot as balls. and then turning stupid and having severe weather. (the sky turned GREEN!) Fear of electrocution. Leaving before Linkin Park because I feared for my life. Mindless Self Indulgence making my ears want to bleed (I don't care if you did marry her Gerard! Her band sucks!)
- "Hello Love!" *golf clap* "Shizznasty"
- Layovers. Luggage Claim. Inflight peanuts. Rental cars. Shuttles. Double decker Vegas buses. Monorails. Subways. PATH trains. Ferries (that spelling looks stupid. I think it should be Ferrys.)
- defacing rest areas by sticking Red Jumpsuit stickers on stuff.
- mean snow.
- seeing band members at the Virgin Megastore in Orlando.
- pissing people off and having beer thrown at the back of my head. But I SO won that argument.
- learning enough to be willing to change your opinion about certain bands/people. Example: Cartel.
- making fun of how Coby from Papa Roach dances.
- hearing Adam Lazarra sound like a preacher.
- singing "whoa-oh-woh-oh-woh-oh-woh-oh-woh-oh-oh" before "Helena" at MCR shows.
- knowing when to clap. when to snap. when to keep singing. when to sing along.
- Rockin Reggie. If you go to concerts in Orlando, you undoubtedly know who this kid is.
- Us: OMG. Can we get a picture with you?
Kevin Lyman: You can get a picture if I can get a nacho.
Us: DUDE. Take as many nachos as you want!
- seeing a microphone with pink tape on it in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, and knowing exactly whose microphone it is. Because I've seen it 7 times during Warped Tour the previous summer.
- ridiculous rock n roll landmarks.
- Rita's.
- Boardwalks, malls, ponies, diners.
- fitting everything in the trunk. Magically.
- 24 hour pool in Phoenix. Hot Tub. Hellz yeah. Hot as balls.
- "Green Hatchet!"
- The Tortoise And The Hare. Racing Tisha to the rest area. LOL.
- That feeling you get when you see the first tour bus. Like, Warped Tour isn't Warped Tour until you've seen somebody's bus parked somewhere.
- MTV tapings at Hard Rock Live in Orlando. MCR and FOB.
- MSN tapings at UCF Arena. FOB.
- dream tours back in the day. Like that one time Panic At The Disco and Fall Out Boy played together. And that other time when Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is..., and Gym Class Heroes played together. Back before ANY of them were big.
- ordering sweet tea in Chicago, then realizing how retarded I am. Because they OBVSLY don't drink sweet tea up there.
- vending machines at rest areas. getting snacks out of the trunk. that stupid styrofoam cooler that lasted us the whole trip through California and Las Vegas and Phoenix.
- the feeling of seeing my friends on TV for the first time. Hearing their voices on the radio for the first time.
- that feeling you get when somebody you idolize remembers your name, or who you are.
- that fleeting moment when somebody onstage makes eye contact with you. Waves at you. Smiles at you. Gives you that high-five to make you stop crying, but only makes you cry more because you realize how much they care. Song dedications.
- that time we met Phil when he was just abducted from home and taken on the road to hang with his friends.
- getting Happy Birthday texts from someone you NEVER thought would remember your birthday. Because honestly, with a life as busy as theirs, they shouldn't have to remember superfluous things like that.
- "OLE! OLE OLE OLE! OLE! OLE!"
- "Waffles?"
- The sauna that was known as No Snow Show.
- Our first big in-state roadtrip for a concert: Next Big Thing 2004. Thank you MCR for having a sick Gerard and having Adam Lazzara fill in for "I'm Not Okay". Never let him do that again, K?
- Hillbilly-ass festivals in North Carolina. It was like BYOB or something. I swear. Middleburg was high class compared to this.
- Meeting some of my very best friends at concerts.
- Hating that suck-ass Warped Tour venue in Columbia MD. IT FAILED SO HARD.
- Laminate switchoffs. Stealth. Hoodies. Incognito.
- That feeling you get when you know you've changed from "fan" to "friend".
- taking kick ass pictures.
- once-in-a-lifetime opportunity shows. Yellowcard at Eclate.
- That first show back after a band has been recording FOREVER. You realize you missed them like whoadang. Hearing that band's new song at the show, and totally stealing the title of it and using the word in college admissions essays ("Disenchanted" anyone?)
- seeing a band for the first time, and never even thinking that one day, the people in that band will consider you their friend.
- loving merch/tech/roadie/managers as much as the band. Because they're underappreciated, but they make the whole thing possible.
- Concerts that will change your life. Whether you are aware of it or not.
- Seeing that little band you saw on Much Music (a little band called Fall Out Boy), being a diehard fan since the first time you saw their video for "Dead On Arrival", then watching said band become the biggest band this side of Green Day and Blink-182. Legends.
- feeling young. I've realized that I've been following the music in this "scene" since 2002. And that makes me an oldtimer.
- Fall Out Boy making me feel young. Because I turn into this ridiculous whooping, grinning 12 year old fangirl at their shows, and I sing so loud my throat feels raw, and it makes me feel alive.
- realizing that you've been friends with certain band members/techs/etc. for longer then you've been friends with your actual friends.
- knowing (not hoping, KNOWING) that something BIG was going to happen for them. They couldn't stay a local band forever. They were always meant for greatness.
- Punk punk shows. Like, running-on-the-walls punk shows.
- THEE IMPERIAL. How I miss your shitty bathrooms and lack of air conditioning! That feeling that everyone there knew each other and BELONGED at whatever show they were at.
- Freezing our tushes off at Taste Of Chaos that first year. The mulch-pit in Orlando. The venue was about as big as my dorm room. Blowing black shit out of our noses for DAYS. Underoath FAILING and breaking the lights. That wedding that happened during The Used's set.
- Randomly getting the hook up to work the Label Tent at Taste Of Chaos in Jax the next year. Street teams lead to wonderful things, kids.
- bands that I love that have broken up or are on hiatus. Next thing you know, we'll all be old farts and our favorite band members will start dying off. Kind of sad.
- the tightness of the Jax scene. Everyone is like THIS *crosses fingers*
- Inspection 12 Christmas shows.
- That feeling you get the first time you see a band you love in concert. Being like "Holy Shit! Gerard is real!" (I remember thinking this very clearly!)
- watching an entire band's set, then realizing you have not been watching the band itself, but instead have been watching their fingers fretting on the guitar, or their hands drumming.
- the feeling of awe you got the first time you EVER went to Warped Tour.
- the first time you ever met a band member.
- the feeling you got the first time you were ever in a pit. or felt a crowd surge. or held a crowdsurfer up in the air.
- getting knocked to the ground, and knowing that pit etiquette guarantees that someone will pick you up immediately.
EDIT:
Lindsey's Contribution:
hahaha that IS me in that picture! weird.
you forgot:
-$30 hotel suites on air force bases
-"honk if you love RJA" window signs
-random elk, deer, etc signs
-being stuck at the grand canyon in COMPLETE darkness
-taking pictures to find the car
-"it was the hotel from hell, it's name was economy inn
the floors were wet cause the roof was leak-in'"
-pimps and creepy wheelchair guys in doorways
-going up the down elevators
-hearing RJA over the speakers in vegas
-recording vans/buses drive by, getting caught by the driver, feeling retarded
-2 toilets in 1 stall in new mexico
-bees swarming garbage cans for water
-tuna crackers, pringles, and pudding picnics
-100mph minimum speed limit in california
-trying to find the hollywood sign.... failing
-getting our picture taken at the jay leno show for bloggage
-trying not to get violated by anthony green while waiting for RJA's set
-OMG trying not to throw up during valient thorr
-free shuttles from hotels
-"you bitch! do you have my confirmation number? i'm gonna kill you!"
-seeing real cowboys at walmart in new mexico
-stealing posters from the doors of port-o-potties
-trojan contests and free condoms
-organizing all of our free stuff after everyday of warped tour
-ending up with thousands of stickers and flyers saying "volcom stage @ 6:30" etc
-"i love boobies" shirts
-adam d from killswitch engage... "my goal today is to kill all the fucking emo kids, skin them, and make them into t-shirts... size youth medium!"
-crazy tan lines
-charging cell phones and batteries at rest areas
-10ft water hoses and wet wipes
My response to Lindsey's contribution:
AHHHH!
Lindsey, you rule for thinking of those!
-I'd completely forgotten about that guy!
"You bitch! Do you have my confirmation number? I'm gonna kill you!"
LMAOROTFL.
- not just elk signs, but ACTUAL ELK!!!!! That thing was gimongous!
- dude, having TWO TVs in our $30 air force base hotel room.
- The Grand Canyon parking lot FAILS.
- AHHHHH The Economy Inn! And we wouldn't even unload the car cause we figured our stuff would get stolen!
- I completely feared for my life when we went up the down escalator.
- Ha you would always run off screaming every time we told you there was a bee!
- I NEVER want to be in a car on the road in LA EVER again. Those people are nuts. Like, I just wanted to close my eyes and then not open them until we got back to the hotel.
- AH I just remembered about Mom driving around trying to find a bathroom in San Bernardino! *dies laughing*
- Valient Thorr UGH. Sweaty viking back hair. *shudders*
- That Wal-Mart was insane! We were the only white people there! I was like "Where's the bathroom? ALL THE SIGNS ARE IN SPANISH AHHHH!!!!!"
- Dude, that Fall Out Boy thing you swiped for me...it's definitely on my wall in my dorm right now : )
- Not all of us got EVERY FREE TRUTH ITEM KNOWN TO EXIST! (some of us just went by there to oogle Sean! *is guilty*)
- Remember that one rest are that didn't have a roof? We were like "WTF?"
- Dude, without that 10 ft hose, we would have smelled SO BAD. I loved that one rest area where all four of us just took over the sinks and started shampooing. All the other people who came through were probably like "WTF homeless people?" HAHA!
Lisabeth's Contribution:
- assloads of butter confused for whipped cream
- and one of my (Lisabeth's) favorites lynette::Oh there's their red van
me:::no lynette that's a hummer
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AHHH It's 2:23 am and my eyes are getting tired. I must cease my work for tonight. But have no fear, I shall go back and add in more random thoughts and pictures over time : )
Give me ideas. What do YOU miss?