Seattle : July 16, 1999

By Miriam (momostick@alloymail.com)

After a couple of weeks i convinced my parents to let me go to Edgefest, July14 in Vancouver, but it turned out i couldn’t go, then about a week before the concert in Seattle July 16, I convinced them to let me go to this one. The concert was at The Paramount Ballroom, and the doors openend 7:30ish, even though they were supposed to open at 8:00. Before we went to wait in line we were walking to the theater, at the corner by the tour bus, just when we got there we saw Chris walking across the sidewalk, and I got a Pic of the back of his backpack., then Heath, Daniels brother walked by, then some roadies etc, and fineally ben and Daniel. There was only like 10 people there so we got a good look at them. I said hey Daniel, cause he was the last one in, and he turned around and waved. We waited in line, figuring out how to hide our camaras, fineally tieing it to the back of our belt loop and hanging it in our pants, between out legs, and some film in my armpit. Got through th! e security check ok, almost lost the film. Sat down and the opening band Jollymon came on, they sucked, enough said. Fineally silverchair came on, Daniel seemed sort of nervous. The first song they played was Emotion sickness, which rocked, then Israels Son, which was when the stupid security guards came around and made me rip up my film. I was soooo mad, cause I had some awsome pictures on that. But my sister had 3 rolls of film with her and only one got taken. They played Pure Massacure, Slave, Madman, Abuse me, The Door, Ana’s song, Point of View, Suicidal Dream, Tommorow (the complete one), Miss You Love, Anthem for the Year 2000, Freak, Paint pastel princess, Madman, and No assosiatian and Satin sheets for encore. When they played Tommorow he said, This is the song that made us a teenage grunge sensation. HAHA. He was very talkative, He asked people if they had anything to say to Seattle, because he didn’t, and everybody started talking.. Daniel said something like t! hats ok, we can do some rock and roll stuff.. The concert w! as awsome and they lsaid some stuff abdout liking Canada a lot, which is cool, cause i’m canadian. When the concert was over we rushed outside to see a green minivan with tinted windows pull away, with some teenies screaming “ I was ten feet away from Daniel!” augh teenies. The security dude was like, They are all gone, they left right away, they are gone, you can leave. We didn’t believe him, and we had about an hour to wait to be picked up, fineally, about 1/2 an hour lateer Ben came out and some girl was like who was that who was that and was screaming...OMigod it was the drummer !! THE DRUMMER.... I mean, she could at least know his name since she was screaming about him! So he went to the tour bus... after a couple seconds we followed. There was about 10 people standing there, I don’t think any teenies, they were all too stunned, poor little things! He climbed into the bus, I thought he was leaving but them his hand was on the door two inches from my face, I was like like! ohh... i’m right beside Bens hand wow! he came out and i stood next to him while he signed stuff, he didn’t seem to mind signing stuff. , i got him to sign my KISW sticker, i forgot to bring my cd booklet thing. Someone asked him what type of gel he uses, he said soap... I gotta try that. Anyway we got our pictures taken with him, elissa on one side, heidi on the other and me beside heidi, with his arms around us. The stupid girl that was taking the picture had he fingure in front of teh lense and after elissa asking her like 4 times she fineally moved it. Bur only like a quarter of my face is in it. AAAAAAAAugh! SOME PEOPLE

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