place: Sound Advice Music Ampa Theatre

year: 2004

shirt worn: SlipKnoT

bands:

SlipKnoT

FEaR FactORY

chimaira

FULL BLOWN CHAOS

show was: (Sic)

went with: Brian Heshion

entry:

This must have been the most overestimated, disappointing official concert I have ever been to. It was in the second semester of tenth grade. It was on 3/31/2004. My parents allowed me to go because it ended before curfew. So me and Brian got there right when the show started. It started off with a surprise performance from FULL BLOW CHAOS...... ooo how nifty, I hate that band. Everyone there was a  bunch of pussies that thought they were all tough. EVERYONE there was a bunch of seventeen-year-old HOT TOPIC posers there to worship SlipKnoT. chimaira got on and they're one of my personal favorites. The band played great but the crowd was just gay, stupid, retarded, etc. They did no where near as good as they did at Ozzfest. Mark Hunter says, "How many of you went to Ozzfest? I hear they're calling me the Metal Moses. Right now, just as Moses parted the water, I'm going to part the metal." Mark Hunter split the crowd again. Ok so they finished, and one of the moments I have been waiting for like five years to happen occurred and it was ruined by the crowd. FEaR FactORY has been one of my most top favorable bands since I was in sixth grade, and I have been waiting forever to see them. They get on the stage, and I could barely enjoy it because all the stupid HOT TOPIC posers practically booed them off the stage. Burton C. Bell was so nice and they were giving just giving him bullshit. He'd be like "You guys sound like you wanna go home," and the people would be like, "You go home, mother fucker!" He'd say "Do you guys want one last song?" Everyone would be like "Hell no," and he'd be like, "Are you sure?" and they'd all be like "Fuck yah." So he'd be like, "Well, we're gonna play one last song anyways." They finished and at this point I've never been so pissed off in my life. These people were retarded. SlipKnoT gets on and everyone goes crazy and starts having a wonderful time and I'll admit, they did great. Corey Taylor was awesome. So they started off with a cross between the intro on Self-entitled and the intro on IOWA. Then all of a sudden the band creeps out on stage and the crowd goes wild and they broke into (Sic). Every fucking person in that entire place yelled the famous line, "Here comes the pain!" I swear that anyone fifty miles away could have heard us. After (Sic) they went into eyeleSS. So then Corey Taylor was just talking and then all of a sudden he stops and there's this guy in the front row video taping the whole performance. So Corey Taylor picks it up and says, "God damnit, give me this mother fucker. How are yall doin tonight?" and points it at the crowd and everyone's like "YAH!" He gave it back and was like, "You know why I decided to kick this tour off in Florida? Because Florida's the best place to kick off a tour! Anywhere! ANYWHERE! ANYWHERE!!!" and everyone just kept cheering louder and louder at everything he says. He then stopped and said, "Ya know. I grew up in West Palm before I moved to IOWA. I used to hang out right fuckin Military Trail." Everyone just exploded and then he's like, "All I can say is, it's good to be home mother fucker." and everyone's like, "YAH!" Then they'd play Three Nill followed by like four songs from The Subliminal Verses. Then he's like, "Does anyone know how long it's been since we last played a concert before this tour?  Everyone says, "TOO FUCKING LONG," and he's like, "Yes, that's right. Two fuckin years. It's nice to be back for all you crazy mother fuckers," everyone cheers and he continues, "If it wasn't for these eight young men on stage, I would not be the man I am today, and if it wasn't for all you mother fuckers, we would not be the band we are today!" and everyone cheers even louder. Then he's like, "So, would you like for us to play a song we've never played on stage before?" and of course everyone says "Yes." Then they actually played that really long slow track at the end of IOWA. Then they played MY PLAGUE and HERETIC ANTHEM. Then Corey's like, "How would you like if we turned it down two notches?' Everyone responded, "Hell no, fuck that!" He says, "Let me ask you again. How would you like for us to turn it down two notches?" They gave him the same response and he says, "I promise it'll be worth it." Then the crowd just silences and he says, "How would you like if we turned it down two notches?" and half the crowd goes "Yah," and he says, "I'm not gonna give it to you unless I know you really want it." Then all the corwd says, "Yes" and he says, "Alright, this next song is about a girl in a box. It's called PURITY." Then after PURTIY he says, "Now how would you like for us to play an old song?" and of course everyone cheers, "Hell yah!" They then broke into SpiT iT ouT. After that he says, "You all know the words, sing it" then they went straight into waiT and bleed. After that they left the stage. For ten solid minutes everyone was cheering, "SlipKnoT, SlipKnoT, SlipKnoT" and finally they crept back out on the stage and played liberaTe. Then Corey Taylor says, "This is our last song. So put those middle fingers in the air. Let me see em! Let me see em cause this next song is going to be your national fucking anthem!" and of course they ended the show with Surfacing.