place: Bayfront Amphitheater

year: 2008

shirt worn: ATREYU

type of show: official

bands:

AVENGED SEVENFOLD

ATREYU

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

blessthefall

FICTION PLANE

MUCC

D'espairsRay

the Underneath

went with: Brian Hession

show was: a waste of money

entry:

OK. uhhhhh. Let's see. It was 3/28/2008. I hate this tour to begin with. Wow. That was from left field. Anyways, here's the deal. Dan picked me up. We went to McDonald's and talked about comic books. Then we went through the car wash. Then he dropped me off at Brian's house where I discussed religion and politics with him. So, we drove down to Miami. I love that city. I love huge cities for some reason. We ate at BURGER KING. So, we park in a parking garage downtown and then walk to the fuckin Bayfront Amphitheater park place. We missed FICTION PLANE and we had missed all the Japanese bands. Boohoo, I've heard better J-Rock anyways.   We get there when BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE has like two songs left. That's unfortunate cause I was looking forward to them. Their new shit is way more metal than the last two albums. It's like old METALLICA.....it's like TRIVIUM. LOL. Anyways, So, they were pretty cool. Brian and I were approached by these hot Hispanic chicks who had a cool offer. Basically, we filled out this information. The we put cotton swobs in our mouth, rubbed em around for a couple minutes and put em in these envelopes. Then they gave us white wrist bands. So, voila, we donated our DNA to a blood marrow transplant organization in exchange for wrist bands to the after party. So, apparently the second stage was....just on the side of the stage. It was weird. So, we caught blessthefall play on the side of the stage. They were good. Brian and I walked around. What's weird is, there wasn't a lot of people around, the tickets were way overpriced, and there were extravagant sponsors and shit. I mean, I've been to a lot of fuckin shows, and I've never seen merch tents like this. There was one that was selling equipment. EQUIPMENT! Guitars, bass, keyboards, and shit. There was anime tent. There was jewlry tent, and ofcourese there were all the music merch tents. I really hate this venue. What's depressing is that it's right next to the Bicentennial Park, which I love. S, from front to back, it goes: stage, concrete benches, lawn, concrete sidewalk. ATREYU got on. I must say, it's nothing like it used to be. They played one song from the first CD, two songs from the second CD, one song from the third CD, and like seven from the new one. It was pretty fucked up. Me and Brian were standing on top of a concrete bench watching all the nu-metal fags act completely retarded. Fuck them. Alex tried to pump up the crowd and went something like this:

Alex: Is everyone having fun?

Everyone: YAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Me: No.

Alex: Do you guys wanna hear some new shit?

Everyone: YAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Me: No. Please. God no. Please play old shit.

Alex: Well, we need everyone to go fuckin crazy in this place. Mosh everywhere. Yadayadayada

Everyone: YAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Me: I'd like to see you try in this concrete jungle.

At least they saed Lip Gloss and Black for last. How sweet. I went to the bathroom and all these Spanish guys in there were like "305 BOY! Yah! It's all about Dade County!" So, just staring into my urinal, Iyelled out in my deep ghetto voice  "561! Palm BEACH!" and some guy's like "WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT!" and everyone was laughing. I continued "561! THE DIRTY SOWF! S-O-W-F! THE SOWF!" and then another guy was like "You're in the wrong area code!" and I was like " ONLY RICH BALLERS COME FROM PALM BEACH!" And then they were just completely like "Palm Beach is cool as fuck." It was so retarded. Anyways, AVENGED SEVENFOLD got on and those bastards pulled the same shit that ATREYU did. In fact, I don't even think they played a single song from the first CD. So, after the show, it as time for the after party. So, Brian and I walked over to the Hard Rock Cafe. We showed our wrist bands were let in. We get inside and there's a lot of older indie peole, and there's some Japanese guys, and there's ATREYU, and HOLY CRAP! THAT'S ATREYU! They were all there except Alex, the singer. First we talked to Dan. I told him how it was my sixth time seeing them, and I asked him why they never play stuff from the first album anymore. He said" You know, we get requests for that from people all the time, and so we're like 'OK! We're gonna do it this time! We're gonna play Tulips or Deanne or Someone's Standing, and we play it and everyone's just like," and he imitated someone frowning up at the stage completely clueless. "No on knows the old stuff." He's so fucking buff for a little guy. You don't realize it till you're talking to him in real life. It's so weird. Travis walked by. I was like "Travis!" and he walked over to us, and I was like "My name is Travis too. Welcome to the coolest name in the world club." We talked to him for a little bit. One of the Japanese bands came in and they were all like "Travis!" and he was like "Zen! Ping! Li! etc." Then he turns to us and goes "The Japanese guys. They don't speak English and we don't speak Japanese. So, we just yell each other's names out." We talked to Brandon but he was just kinda implying "I'm a dick and I'm with a hot chick. I don't have time for fans." There were so many hot chicks on Dan too. Mark was the coolest of them all though. He talked to us for about an hour and a half. He was really cool. Brian kinda stumbled on himself though when he tried to impress Mark by being like "Sometimes I just wanna shout 'Play Hometown Revenge!'" to show that he knew stuff from the first EP, but Mark looked very confused and I was like "He wasn't in the band until the second LP'" and so Brian was liek "Ohhhh. Wrong bassist." So, then we got out of there. It was awesome. The show itself was a waste of money, but I'm so happy I got to meet ATREYU afterwards. It was funny. It was like woa.