place: Sound Advice Music Amphitheater

year: 2007

shirt worn: KoRn

type of show: official

bands:

KoRn

EVANESCENCE

ATREYU

FLYLEAF

HELLYEAH

NEUROSONIC

DROID

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH

Twin MethOd

Through You

bloodsimple.

INVITRO

went with: Chris Golding

show was: so fucking incredible

entry:

So, since every other show this summer was pretty disappointing, I expected the same from this. ri my surprise, this was the best show I've been to since Christmas Khaos 2005. When I wake up on 8/14/2007, Alena's trying to get everyone to go out and eat before the show since it's her birthday. It doesn't work out. So, me and Chris go the apartment. We're in there, chillin with Britie, Dan, Sean, Mike, and Cory. So, then BOOM!, we're off. Me and Cory jump into Chris's car, Sean and Dan jump into Britie's car, and we're off to see my favorite band----we drop off Cory to work at BEST BUY then BOOM! WE'RE OFF! Well, we stop at McDonald's. The one with the motorcycle and train inside. It was so fulfilling. Then BOOM! we're at the concert. So, we walk in the gates. There's Alena and Tess, with some guy who I sold a ticket to at fye. Then I ran into Robbie and the kid that looks like Zack Strode. Alright, let's see, what happened first? Either Twin MethOd or Through You was playing on the second stage. They used the old second stage. The one the gravel that I haven't seen in years. We just walked by. We ran into Hunter. Then we ran into Joe. There was our established group. Me, Chris, Dan, Britie, Sean, Alena, Tess, Hunter, Joe, and that one guy who I sold his ticket to all sat on a blanket in the lawn. We just laid there. NEUROSONIC got on the main stage. They sucked. Every song sounded like it was ripping off a different band. They're really not that great, but as some of you may know, they invited Fist Full of Yen Productions to create a video to their song "So Many People," as part of their lip-syncing contest. The winner gets a PS3, iPhone, and Wii. Our video really fuckin rocks, it's a legitimate music video, and all the competitors are high school and middle school kids singing into webcams. As soon as the song "So Many People" came on, we're all like "hey guys, this song sound familiar? Bet I know all the words." I hate how this band is using the gimmick of publicizing the fact that this song is calling out Ashlee Simpson. No shit, she lip-syncs, old fuckin news. Dude, that was so long ago and they're just getting pissed off about it? Like, they're treating the subject like fresh chicken pot pie, when actually it's chicken pot pie that everyone finished last thanksgiving and there's a couple crums left that no one cares about but the mice (NEUROSONIC). Make sense? Come on now. In all honesty, whether Ashlee Simpson makes her music or not, whoever makes it sounds better in my opinion than NEUROSNIC. Wow, you took all of two seconds to write this song. I'd rather hire people to write good lyrics for me that sing my own if they were that shitty.  Other than that, I want my prizes. So, then we went over to the second stage. bloodimple. played and they were so fucking awesome. The pit was going crazy. Me, Robbie, and Dan were hard core dancing in the pit the whole time while everyone else was trying to bro mosh. Sean was in there with his surgeon mask on. It was so bad ass. Then it started abso-fucking-lutely poring rain. TRIVIUM jumped on the mainstage. We jumped on the lawn. I couldn't even tell which songs they were playing cause the sound was all muffled under the rain. For a good while, all of us were hiding under the blanket. We created like a people tent out of it protect us from the rain, even though we were already soaked from it, but the body heat kept us warm, until we took it off. It would have looked really funny if you were outside of it and saw us, when we would all move to a different spot. You just see this big blanket with feet sticking out moving around. Since it was raining, they took down the second stage. They do that with that one. That really sucks cause I really wanted to see FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH. So, the rain stopped and all the lawn was just one big mud waste land. The grass was gone. Completely demolished. It was like that for the rest of the day. It was so cool, it was like a war zone. HELLYEAH got on. They were really fucking good. Damn I miss PANTERA. I'm a big fan of MUDVAYNE and NOTHINGFACE too. Too bad HELLYEAH isn't a good as any of those bands, but whatever. Adam showed up. Shannon and Brittany showed up. They all joined our group. I was two-steppin to Vinnie's drum lines. So, Alena spotted her ex-boyfriend (not me, Dan, Joe, or Adam). Long story short, the guy dated for a like five months cheated on her, he's a backyard wrestling juggalo wigger idiot poser who thinks clowns are menacing, and I fucking hate juggalos. Those are the only kind of people I discriminate. So, Alena wants us to beat him up. Sounds like fucking fun. He has some other juggalo friends with him. So, the plan was, Me, Robbie, Dan, Adam, and Sean were gonna go beat up him and his make-up wearin friends. Alena, Tess, Joe, and Hunter were gonna wacth and laugh.We're talking about and talking about it and talking about. So, finally when we're about to do it, the fact that the kid is seventeen is revealed, and everyone backs out. Anyone of us touch him, we go to jail. Yah, I konw, you were hoping for excitement. Sorry. FLYLEAF played. I don't remember a single thing about them cause I was too busy making fun of "Kasket" the malnourished clown. ATREYU was so fucking awesome, as usual. Their set was as follows:

1. Bleeding Mascara

2. The Crimson

3. Becoming the Bull

4. Ex's and Oh's

5. Blow

6. Right Side of the Bed

7. Doomsday

8. Creature

9. You Give Love A Bad Name

10. Lip Gloss and Black

So, basically, picture this. The whole time, Alena and I are like covered in mud with our backs against each other, playing air guitar, and we're hardcore dancing, and getting up in everyone's faces, and everyone around was watching. It was really cool. Me and Dan pretended we were drunk  annoying people when singing Right Side of the Bed. The BON JOVI cover was the most fun this time out of any of the four other times I've seen them. Lip Gloss and Black was the only song from the first album that they played. At least it's my favorite and they saved it for last, and you could hear everyone screaming "Live, Love, Burn, Die." Doomsday was the only new song that sounded descent, although it all had kind of a PANTERA influence to it. They're one of those bands where each album gets worse. Then darkness fell. EVANESCENCE played. I've always said that I like them on record, but I'd never really wanna see them live. They were better than I expected. Although, in comparison to every other band, Amy Lee's voice sounded a little too perfect. We're talking, it sounded exactly like the recordings. A little fishy to me. Maybe one of NEUROSONIC's role-models is guilty of their own biggest pet-peeve. The first thing she said when she got on stag was "How many of you went to elementary school with me?" and no one responded. She apparently grew up in West Palm. I felt bad for Dan cause all he sees is Cassie dancing around on stage. During her favorite song, Alena, Dan, Sean, Tess, and I stood in a circle holding each other....crying? For what reason, I don't know. As soon as the song ended, Cassie called Alena. We all talked to her. It was really weird. Damn, I miss her. Blah Blah Blah. Time for me to see my favorite band of all time for the fifth time. KoRn used some samples as the intro. Then they pounded the stage with "Here to Stay." Th set list was as follows:

1. Here to Stay

2. Good God

3. Starting Over

4. Dead Bodies Everywhere

5. Hold On

6. Bottled Up Inside

7. Ass Itch

8. Coming Undone

9. Falling Away From Me

10. Faget

11. Trash

12. Ever Be

13. Another Brick in the Wall

14. Twisted Transistor

15. Evolution

16. Freak on a Leash

17. Blind

That's right. They brought back all the great old songs we've been wanting to hear for so long. Joey Jordison was filling for David Silviera on the drums. I think he died his hair blonde. Jonathan Davis was wearing a CANNIBAL CORPSE shirt. I thought that was so fucking cool. I mean that's just fucking cool that he likes them. They were so fucking awesome though. I did rest from dancing to and singing every word of every song played. I've always wanted see them play "Good God", "Ass Itch", "Dead Bodies Everywhere", and "Trash." The last time I saw them play "Faget" was at Ozzfest 2003, the first time I saw them, the best show of my life. Right before they played it to, Jonathan was talkin about all the die hard KoRn fans out there (my friends were like, we got one here, talkin about me) and he was like "This song goes out to all the old school KoRn fans, and I'm not talking about the ones from 98', I'm talking about the ones from 19 fucking 94!" It was so awesome. I never wanted to stop using my energy. They heaveyed up some of the songs, like Joey Jordison added in some double bass at the end of "Coming Undone" and Munkey chugged it up. Jonathin Davis unleashed his real scream in a few parts of a few songs. They had green lasers making the triangle prism from "The Wall" when they played their cover of PINK FLOYD's "Another Brick in the Wall." Everyone went crazy during "Blind." I even saw Chris in the mosh pit! Then when we though the song was over, they added a whole new part and then finished it with Joey doing a solo. It fucking rocked. After the show, me, Chris, Dan, Britie, Sean, Alena, Tess, and the other kid who's name I don't know rendezvoused at TACO BELL. I went over to Alena's car and started fucking with them. Then as I was walking away I was like "Who the fuck's car is this? We got a juggalo next door." I took my soaked muddy ass sock and slapped against the car's juggalo symbol on the back and said "Fuck this car," and Dan goes "What a piece of shit." So, then he and I were sitting in Britie's mustang, and then Alena and Tess's friend got out of their car and he went to get something from the car we were talking about. So, we busted out laughing cause we didn't know it was his when were talking all that shit. After we were all done eating, I jumped into Chris car, Dan and Sean jumped into Britie's car, and Alena and Tess left in theirs. We raced through for a while. We met at each stop light, and every time me and CHris's team raped them. Chris's Cobalt pulls up to the light. Then Britie's mustang pulls up. Then Alena's Civic comes in between and I'm like "Get the fuck out!"