when i wrote the following or rather the bulk of them, it was 4:31 AM
and i had just gotten home, with NO sleep the previous day, nor that day actually, and just coming from a serious rock concert, please excuse any mistakes, also, ill probably re-edit this later ps, some
COOL FICKIN PICS AS SOON AS I SCAN EM:
ok I finished, and its 7:00 am, its really long so read on at your own risk
so, we got to the pavillion at 12:30 pm, (theres many big grass hills in the area and some kids carved a big W in the side of one)NO body was there, one turquise tour bus (i think rooneys)
so i thought wed snoop around, so we ended up finding the stage, where
some roadies were settin stuff up,so we walked past the stage, we got a few looks but no one stoped us, we walked passed the dashboard dude, i was gonna pay tyler a buck to walk up and say "arnt you chris from
dashboard?"...."why yes, yes i am"....."yea so, you know where weezer is?", but he was on the phone, we passed the ever so tempting dressing rooms, but you know if we walked with in a yard of rivers door sheeny woulda busted a cap in our ass, so we walked passed some buses, then went back to the stage, since pats drums were being set up, we figured we get a special treat of a sound check, so instead of going back in 10 mins to my sister, we hung out fearing not being able to get back in. so we were gone 2 hours, pj called security, we saw a techie who look EXACTLY like Billy Jo (greenday..duh) and after a long time Atom walked out and i was like Sweet! thats Atom! after jumping at every entrence, i was rewarded, for there was Pat(!!!!!), however, to my dismay, a security guy was right behind him, so we looked on with hopefull
eyes that hed see us and wave. he was tuning a gutiar. then scott came out and played a bit. and the dudes at the Sound board had the most freaking loud annoying static/buzzing thing going on for a while. poor atom was on the phone, while playing pats drums. and we saw some guy do a light checked and he climbed this scary latter. so then i met 'FairyFriend' cause she had the same "pat thinks___ is super great!" board tag on as me, caring a few bags and having a small lamentated pass, she looked like staff. (meanwhile as we would later learn security thought we were posing as staff with the tags and interupted a meeting with the pavillion guys and (dun dun dun) rivers) so we got Escorted out of the stadium all the way to the
outside. where teh cop guy had made my sister leave swearing no kids were inside (heh). and ill be damned if right when we got out of eye shot if we didnt hear the sound check commence. so waiting took place, with more than enough small talk with the security and passing by whoevers ( i must say all the staff and stuff were super nice except like 2 people)
then i saw scott walk
out and get his bass from a van i think so, seeking entrance, i yelled
"SCOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT" so he turned and waved, we yelled out that we
wanted a foosball battle and he was chicken and stuff, i dunno what he said but it was probably something like ill be back or whatever, so then atom came out posting TSG flyers for kids who didnt know about them playing, he was nice and cool, but couldnt help us much. then we spotted scott again, so yelled again, and he started walking alllllllllll the way down to us, so we met him half way. he shook all our hands and asked our names(something you hear almost every important review) and asked how we were doing, then some chick who joined the trio asked about his bass and stuff, she was saying the
cords were all clean and it was all de-painted and scared up, which is
cool aparently since this dude or whatever blah. so then he turned to me and said " how are you silent one" which i didnt think fair since i just didnt have a chance to talk, but i said a few things he probably couldnt hear (cause im quiet and im sure his hearings shot) "good, hot"
(btw he took off his glasses and his eyes were really weird they were
REALLy white with like a few shots of light blue weiiiiird, oh and he said his sunglasses were perscription, so probably not contacts, he was really buff too, but it looked all weird, anyway he has a cool tattoo of a skull on his left cafe) so then he told us to stay in the shade and drink lots of water, and that hed be playing bass fer tsg. i took a picture with him too after 3 attempts of asking without being heard. so then more waiting and worrying about tickets from recall and pj (sis) an stuff(meawhile we heard tsg and others playin around for a while on the nearby sound stage) but we got our tickets and were still first in line, i saw a dude with a bouncing souls shirt, that was awesome. some guy (maybe karl) from far away took our pic of being lined up. and we saw pat walkin, yelled, and he waved.
so then we get
in, and the gate to behind the side stage is open and atom are right
there so we walk in and said hi (we couldnt stop saying super great either) he was like "theyre letting people in now?" i kinda fumbled out of freaked outness or whatever and said "your my favorite drummer" "thanx" "well, you didnt used to be" *stop and looks* "er i mean until i found =w=" (which i later realized makes me sound like a newer fan, oh well) he signed my ticket (WOOOOOO!!!!!) so i asked him for a hug (which i oddly dont remember any detail about) he also signed "fairyfriend"'s shirt. then tyler asked for a
hug,(heh) so he gave one to "fairy" too. he asked us to close the gate for him and off we were around the corner to watch em play (which was
freakin cool) i have no idea what their set list was, but it was written on a piece of card board and a drum head ( i really wanted the drum head, so after i asked pat (since i was right on front, "can i have your set list?" "ask atom"..."ask him"..so some dude throws it out in the crowd instead of forkin over the goods, but i guess i shouldnt be selfish haha fish......)
INFO ON TSG SET:
scott stared smokin while playin which i found amusing, totally rocked,
me and "fairy" were rockin out and everyone else was kinda just diggin it, scott was blockin the sun from my eyes which was cool, Atom totally rocked on drums it was rad, pat was amazin as usual heres some quotes;
scott- lets have a hand for atom *cheers*
and of course pat wilson everyone *cheers*
pat- yea but hes scott shriner *cheers*
me-and im kelli! *cheers*
*playing some like square daning music* *pats shakin it*
scott-*hands dangerously close to pats rear* see that everyone? i see
that
everynight! *smacks his arse*
pat- its the last show and i wanna thank roony and (?) for blah blah
some kid- whos roony?
so i bought da soccer shirt, water, and on to sparta, well i wasnt
paying attention sorry
dashboard- we snuck down to pit seats (dammit no pit!, just seats) and
watched and met two REALLY ANNOYING dash fans totally ga ga over
chris, heh when we told them we saw him, they really freaked. eh, his voice was way annoying and they were all "ooh he dedicated a song to all the fans so were all ooo over this song"
fairy-we had a whole album dedicated to us (hah)
they let paper airplanes fall during their set, and one hit the bass player.heh
chris quote-sorry if you heard this song already
and then. drum roll please...thank you WEEZER!!!!!!!:
Set List
( not in right order probably)
haspipe
no one else
only in dreams
no other one
IITS
getchoo *uh-huuuuuh*
simple pages
burndt *woooo! we heard em sound check this one too* jamb
why bother
buddy holly
"del" scorcho
say it aint
good life
surf wax
dope nose
QUOTES:
rivers- common thank you lord for this rock brothers and sisters my
children blah blah why am I acting all christain weird blah.
“kick butt….kick el butt”;
“you guys crack me up, all singing along, especially foxy ladys”;
*after first song removes jacket* “its toasty in here” “can you guys
turn down the out-put on this guitar?..thanx…tech stuff people”
“sorry for (insert many bands) that couldn’t make it (he mentioned janes addiction)
fuck (bands) fuck (limp bizkit) us mother fuckers are gonna bring on the rock”-not exact; he was laughing cause everytime he said “wooo” we went nuts
scott- id like to thank (insert bands) for (blah)
brian-id like to thank me, cause ive been playing really well tonight
pat-story time! (have you guys heard this one? .ooohhh weeellll-that’s
me, not pat) we went to del taco, where they sell tacos, cause we were
hungry, (rivers-I got sick from the food too) and they had this hot sauce there called “del scorcho” *plays el scorcho
on the encore they came back and pat started playing, so brian started
playing, and they weren’t supposed to start yet I guess, so rivers
turned around with finger over mouth shushing pat
rivers busted out an animal muppets doll and threw it out ( it was
slinky and was wearing a =w= shirt! I saw the girl who caught it, I touched it, twas cool) “the muppets love you”
it’s a freakin rad show, seemed A LOT longer than the last one ive been
to, light show wasn’t as cool though, rivers was jumpin around a lot, that was kinda weird, total sing alongs, I got some rad pix despite the 2 security guys right at my feet (fairy got her cam taken! After pat and scott pix!) and you could hear REALLY WELL!
the ending was great! brian walked off, while rivers and scott went nuts and pat all cool like walked off . Rivers just left his guitar going all crazy, and casually walked around scott on the floor switchin the dial on his bass so it was all rrrrRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRrrrrrRRRr rivers tripped on him (fogginess) pat came back and shredded it out while rivers jumped on teh drumset (or chair whatever) and just stood there with his fists in the air…and scott was left alone for like 5 mins on stage just makin a cool rrrrrr sound with the dail
heh my fav quote of the night:
tyler-when they raised the =w=, I felt like I was looking at the
American
flag after September 11
so theres only 2 subjects left, almost done
we thought wed sneek back to backstage, so we went around behind the
parking lot and went up this dirt road that we thought would take us to the buses so we could wait there (bad plan last night show party=long stay) so we took wrong turn and couldn’t see a damned thing until we realized we climbed a freaking mountin hill thing and I could see far away and below the pavilion…heh I took a pic. So we went back and on the way out of the parking lot i saw the keyboard guy (what the hecks his name? I totally forgot) and sheeny and sarah walk by so I waved and smiled and he said something I don’t remember I think it was “recignishion” (however you spell it) and threw me a rock sign.
Ooook. Last thing, we were the last ones there, there was like 5 more
people backstage (pj got lost) we were there till about two AM and we were talking to the last cop guy who waited with us, and he told us a lot of creepy stuff people demand of the pavillon. Ok so the bands request stuff, and if the venue dosent supply they have to pay a penalty, they had to pay penalty on breech of security (heh) ( and since went over the time limit they had to pay a lot, man we reaked havic on concord all day!)
He told us a few things about rivers and sharel crow and mary j and the dude from train, (btw, mary j requests a new toilet seat in the box and a screwdriver to put it on herself) (and btw he gave me a backstage pass, toooo late) ( he said there was a bunch of ugly asian girls with em too, how mean! But it still made me laugh, and we saw these to blonde chicks he said were friends of the band, one was kinda….um…like shed send her food back and shes always right kind of person )( he also told us roonie gets the teens wasted takes em in their bus, fucks em, and throws em out "harsh") but I don’t think itd be nice for
you guys to tell the boards about rivers stuff ok? So he said rivers
requests all his silverware and everything wrapped in plastic wrap, and
no one can touch it and no pictures, and he kicked like 15 people out of that meeting (he could have been exaggerating) heh he called him anal, he said Hes never going back to this one venue just cause between encores some staff guy said it was an amazing performance…I think ive heard that one, but of course we knew our rivers is a little bitch, I had just finished a talk with fairy before she left about the certain feeling of being a weezer fan, and about how even though rivers comes off all tuff and bitchy, that he wouldn’t do so much for us that he does, and how much he does care, how much creative control, us as the fans, actually have, its like a family, we feel we know
weezer almost, and we constantly critize eachother for mutual benefit, but we need that, I mean there wouldn’t be this big….group thing if one
little thing had changed , like if he didn’t have control, or didn’t write the music or lyrics. We talked about how the music inspires us and what we would have to go threw if they broke up. Since these feelings can only be shared between true weezer fans, what could I tell this guy? When he asked what we thought of our rockstar now, one who only saw the unmerciful bitch side of rivers, huh what?
“yea, he’s a jerk sometimes, but we love him anyway”
-Shoes
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