place: Bank Atlantic Center

year: 2006

shirt worn: Ozzy

type of show: official

bands:

MEGADETH

lamb of god

Opeth

ARCH ENEMY

OVER KILL

into eternity

SANCTITY

the Smashup

went with: Brian Hession & Taylor Wertz

show was: chill

entry:

Um..........It was on 10/7/2006, during my first semester of college. I walked over to Brian's house. We got into his car which is all fucked up due to that red neck after FAMILY VALUES. We stopped by my bank so I could cash my latest check. Then we stopped by Brian's work, the Tiki, so he could get his latest thing of tips. Well, basically someone stole Brian's ticket. So, he had just found out that Mike's work, George's Music, was giving away a certain amount of free tickets, so we headed to the Palm Beach Mall, talked to Mike, and they gave us four free tickets. So, I knew that Taylor had been dying to go to this show. So, we figured, hey, let's give one to him. On the way out of the parking lot we started freaking out, cause we saw the exact type of car from Counter Cops. I called Dan up (I finally have a cell phone. I hate those things) and I was like "DUDE! I JUST SAW THE COUNTER COPS CAR! A LIME GREEN CATALAC WITH 32 INCH RIMS!" So, we went to the Gardens Mall. Brian sat down and ate his pizza in the food court while I took care of the business. I went to Quicksilver, Taylor's work, and I gave him the ticket. He was stoked. He asked his manager if he could take off early, and she let him. So, I got a pizza nad a Mountain Dew and we left. Taylor got in his truck and parked it at my house. Then he got in Brian's car and we hit the turn pike. Brian and Taylor smoked marijuana out of a bubbler on the way down. Somewhere in Gardens there was a guy standing on a median wearing a sign that sais "JESUS LOVES YOU. REPENT OR BURN." So, I as we drove by him, Taylor yells out the window "I'll be the one to greet you at the gates of Hell." Eventually, we got to Ft. Lauderdale (well, Sunrise actually, but am I gonna tell someone out of state that I'm from Palm Beach Gardens? No, I'm from West Palm Beach). Well, it was the first time that I've ever been to a show in a an arena before. The Bank Atlantic Arena is where the Florida Panthers play hockey. RRRR ROW ZZZZ. Anyways, it sits 60,000 people or something. How much did the show sell? Definitely not that much. That's for sure. When we got there we noticed something that sucks. My ticket is floor, which is bad ass, but Brian's and Taylor's are seats. Bummer. We got there during SANCTITY. I went down onto the floor, while Taylor and Brian sat in the seats. It was pretty cool. I liked just being down there looking around at all the people in the seats surrounding us. If you stick your fingers in the cracks of the floor you can feel the ice. That was fun. I walked over to the side of the rink (right word?) and I saw Ciera and her boyfrien, Mike, were sitting in the front row so we were yelling (to talk) at each other. Everyone down on the floor there was either fifty of fourteen. They were all annoying fucking douche bags. into eternity was so fucking bad ass. I love those dudes. OVER KILL absolutely killed that shit. They were so fucking bad ass yo. I love those old dudes. By the looks of it, the guitarist from our local boys, RESPONSE NEGATIVE, has rejoined the band. The pit actually got pretty big. Now, Brian really wanted to be on the floor for ARCH ENEMY and Opeth, even though we've both seen them, but I decided to be nice anyways and let him have it. I went up, and I found them out on the pattio where people smoke. we were talking to some family that was there, lol. They were pretty cool. The mom, dad, daughter, and son were all cool as fuck. So, me and Taylor sat in the seats. ARCH ENEMY was the shit. For some reason my ability to remember a set list really excelled this night, because I can remember two bands' set lists. That's a fuckin record. ARCH ENEMY's set list was as follows:

1. Nemesis

2. Dead Eyes See No Future

3. Ravenous

4. We Will Rise

It was weird that they only played like four songs because OVER KILL played like a million. After they were done, me and Taylor went outside again so he could smoke. I had a hot dog. We ran into Ciera and Mike. I had to sit there and listen to her talk shit about Alena for a while. She gave me the rest of her cheese fries though! and they were goood. We went back to our seats to watch Opeth. There was no action on the floor obviously, it's like prog death metal. They were good though. Now, me and Brian have both seen lamb of god at least twice, and Taylor was absolutely ecstatic cause he hasn't seen them yet and he was just stoked to see them, so we let him have the floor ticket for them. It's funny, I remember us listening to them in the back of Abercrombie. As always, you better believe they kicked ass. There was one point where Randy Blythe went on a short rant about "Our new record Sacrament came out a couple weeks ago. Something really weird happened. It debuted at No. 8. That means you, you, you, and everyone who bought that record told the billboard that we are sick of the pop and the shit that they play on the radio." There were bad ass pits through their whole set. I felt like I was in a coliseum and the people in the seats were the spectators, and the people in the pit down on the floor were the gladiators. During the last song, Black Label, there was a massive kidney shaped circle pit. Taylor came up and made me feel his shirt. It was drenched with sweat. Nasty. I noticed he had big defined mother fucking scars on his chest and stomach. I asked what happened. He told me. It was fucked up. He didn't tell anyone else that night though. We went on that pattio and talked to that family again.  I didn't feel like MEGADETH was worth me being on the floor by myself. So, I decided to stay with Taylor and Brian in the seats. They were bad ass. Their set was as follows:

1. Blackmail The Universe

2. Skin O' My Teeth

3. The Scorpion

4. Wake Up Dead

5. In My Darkest Hour

6. Die Dead Enough

7. She Wolf

8. Reckoning Day

9. Angry Again

10. Trust

11. Hangar 18

12. Tornado Of Souls

13. Kick The Chair

14. Symphony Of Destruction

15. Peace Sells

16. Holy Wars 

Of course they had all the incredibly cheesy 80's pyrotechnics and fireworks. On the way home back we invited Taylor to come with me, Brian, Dan, and Nicole to Vegas over spring break. I hope he does. We stopped in Lake Worth and ate at this really good twenty-four hour Cuban restaurant. I texted Tess and was like "I'm like down the street from you" and she was like "You can't come over" and I was like "Okay dokay." I got home at like 1:30 inthe morning. At about 2 in the morning, Tess calls me and there's some sort of an emergency and I call up Brian and he takes down to Lake Worth, and then I talked to her, and then we came back and I went to sleep. I woke up at three in the afternoon today. That's fuckin crazy.