place: REVOLUTION

year: 2005

shirt worn: ATREYU

type of show: official

bands:

ATREYU

UNEARTH

Norma Jean

Scars Of Tomorrow

went with: Ryan Barker, Chris Golding, & Brian Hession

show was: un-fucking-believable

entry:

Let's see..... how do I put this.... this was the best show I've ever been to in my life other than Ozzfest. Seeing ATREYU in concert is just as exciting to me as seeing KoRn in concert (I am infuriated with the fact that Head left KoRn Tuesday). It was the first show of 2005 I went to. It was in the second semester of 11th grade. It was on 2/23/2005. Since it was on a Wednesday, my parents said that I would only be allowed to go if I was working diligently in school and on my Eagle project, (yes I'm a Boy Scout, laugh it up) which I was. So, on that day, Ryan took me, Chris, & Brian down to Ft. Lauderdale, crunched in his MUSTANG, to see this phenomenal show. On the way down we listened to my incubus and COLD C.D.s......... I don't like to listen to whatever style of concert I'm going to on the way there. Once we found the venue we went inside. Oh, just for a little scene history, the REVOLUTION used to be a venue called the Chillie Pepper until it was burned down by skin heads. So, anyways, we go inside and it's open area with this outdoor stage. There's a building next to this area with a balcony around it. We're standing around and there's nobody there. So, Brian's just like "I gotta go to the bathroom." So he walks into the building next to us. Two seconds later he comes out and sais, "dude, the show's in here." So then we went inside and it is packed like a mother fucker. This was probably the fanciest indoor venue I've ever been to. It was huge, and there's like this floor below us  where everyone can pit, and then there's another floor above us. So, Brian goes down onto the lowest floor where all the pits are going to be. Scars Of Tomorrow plays. They did fuckin great. They did much better than they did at THE KELSEY CLUB. The pits started going crazy. The dancing was extremely fierce during their break downs. After that I ran into Chudi and Marcus from tomorrow holds forever. Then I went back to my spot. Then Norma Jean played, and they did fucking great. Corey was actually pretty good, just as good as their old vocalist. The pits were getting even worse. In fact, they started dancing right when then Norma Jean made the first noise of their intro. Even the security gurads were dancing which was funny as hell cause they were tearing everyone up in that pit. I saw that fat skin head down there that I've seen at every official hard core show I've been to that told me to punch the singer of FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES in the face at that UNDEROATH show. So after they finished UNEARTH came on. People started dancing at the first noise of their intro too. Let me tell you something boys and girls. During their entire set, that entire bottom  floor was one giant dance floor massacre. I've never seen such carnage before. The funniest part is that Brian was trapped in the middle of it. I swear, that kid dies at every show we go to. UNEARTH did amazing. They were just as good as at THE KELSEY CLUB. They played the same set but they actually played One Step Away this time. OMFG they are always so good. Then Ryan went outside and started hanging out with the guys from Norma Jean. Then the greatest moment of all came. ATREYU hit the stage. Their set list was as follows

1. BLOOD CHILDREN

2. BLEEDING MASCARA

3. A Song for the Optimist

4. Aint Love Grand

5. THIS FLESH A TOMB

6. Someone's Standing on my Chest

7. THE REMEMBRANCE BALLAD

8. Deanne the Arsonist

9. RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED

10. THE CRIMSON

*. YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME

Alright let's go through it. They did their set exactly how I wanted them to. They opened with BLOOD CHILDREN as their intro. Then of course they broke right into BLEEDING MASCARA. During every song, so many people in the audience were sing the words that you couldn't even hear Alex's voice, Brandon's mike was turned way up for some reason though. It was one of the only times where I actually knew every word to every song. After BLEEDING MASCARA they went into A Song for the Optimist. Then Alex said something about this being the best show in Ft. Lauderdale they've ever played. After A Song for the Optimist., Alex was like "this one's called RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED" but they actually played Aint Love Grand instead (which is a much better song in my opinion). Then Alex was like "this one's called THIS FLESH A TOMB" and thne the band huddled together and started talking, and then he said "or whatever the hell we feel like playing" but they played that song anyways. After they played that he said "today was my first time being in the Atlantic Ocean......... and it is much better than the Pacific." Then they did Someone's Standing on my Chest........FUCK YES. Travis, Marc, & Dan were doing synchronized movements during the shredding parts.  Then THE REMEMBRANCE BALLAD. Then Deanne the Arsonist. Then he was like "we're playing RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED, I really mean it this time." Then they played that. Then they played THE CRIMSON. They saved Lip Gloss and Black for last just like I wanted them too. It made me really sad though cause he said something about "grab you're lover cause this your anthem" and I didn't my Dana but ok. SO, anyways, it was awesome hearing the entire place go "Live, Love, Burn, Die." During the last shredding part of the song, Travis & Dan stood on top of the 10 feet tall amps and played their guitars behind their heads. After that they left the stage and everyone kept demanding for an encore. So they came back out and covered YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME by BON JOVI. During the last chord of the song. Ryan comes out and is like "dude, I just came in." Me and Chris started laughing are asses off. He was like "well, did they do good?" and I was like "it was only the best performance I've ever seen in my life!' He was like, "oh I was busy hanging out with Norma Jean". I was like, "Why would you hang out with famous people, if you could be with losers like us?" So, on the way home, we put in my backstreet boys C.D. (which I know all the words  to, go ahead laugh your ass off) and blast out the windows. It was so fucking funny. We went to McDonald's and when we pulled up to the window where they give you food, Ryan's like "you guys like backstreet boys?" and then the black ladies that work there were like "of course." He turned it up, and all the workers came over and started sing with it. Then we had to go get gas, so when we left the gas station we speed out blasting the backstreet boys and all these Spanish gangsters were looking at us funny.