What a day!
Apr. 11th, 2009 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revidI need to write this down quickly before it flies away.
So, Thursday afternoon I'm sitting around the house in my sweatpants being unproductive: surfing LJ, TWoP, reading a magazine, watching stuff on my TiVo, with no plans to do anything more exertion-al.
Now, normally I read my email through a client, downloading them all when I feel like it, but that day I happened to have gmail open in a tab for some reason and I noticed I had a new mail, so I clicked on it.
Hey Mary !
Green Day will be performing a gig at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco,
California (375 Eleventh St. San Francisco, CA 94103) TONIGHT (Thursday,
April 9th, 2009.) Doors: 9pm Show: 10pm
Head over to www.idiotclub.com to see how you can get your name on the
Will Call list to purchase your tickets. The clock is ticking....
Enjoy!!
--Idiot Club
This was at 2:21pm.
This hilarious IM conversation ensued:
2:23:02 PM![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
revid: JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE IDIOT CLUB
2:23:14 PMrevid: TONIGHT AT THE DNA LOUNGE
2:23:17 PMrevid: at 9pm
2:23:29 PMrevid: ,at 10 pm
2:23:39 PMfeels_like_fire: OH FUCK ME
2:23:46 PMrevid: like one minute ago.
2:24:32 PMfeels_like_fire: jkadfjklagdfklhaghkladsfjklasdfjklasjdf FUCK
2:24:34 PMfeels_like_fire: GET TICKETS WOMAN
2:24:37 PMrevid: fuck.
2:25:01 PMrevid: But I'd rather drive up for tuesday.
2:25:06 PMrevid: You can't go tonight.
2:25:14 PMfeels_like_fire: I... might try. FUCK
2:25:26 PMfeels_like_fire: I totally work in like, 2 hours, hahahaha
2:25:28 PMfeels_like_fire: shit shit shit shit shit
2:25:47 PMfeels_like_fire: see if you can get tickets!!! is there a link?! send me the link!
2:26:04 PMrevid: you have to be an IC member.
2:26:11 PMfeels_like_fire: I AM AN IC MEMBER
2:26:13 PMfeels_like_fire: OR I WAS
2:26:33 PMfeels_like_fire: oh shit I'm totally not anymore
2:26:40 PMfeels_like_fire: are you gonna sign up? you can crash on my couch!!
2:26:54 PMrevid: Can you go with me?
2:27:00 PMrevid: Can you call in sick?
2:27:01 PMfeels_like_fire: I WILL GO
2:27:06 PMfeels_like_fire: I WILL THINK OF SOMETHING
2:27:13 PMrevid: OK, I'll send the email!
2:27:16 PMfeels_like_fire: GO GO GO
2:27:23 PMfeels_like_fire: if you get your name on the list, I will trade to be a runner, or something, and leave early.
2:27:37 PMfeels_like_fire: I can't get out of it completely but I can go with you when you come pick me up at work
2:27:41 PMfeels_like_fire: I'll do something, anything
2:27:43 PMfeels_like_fire: I get paid on tuesday
2:27:45 PMfeels_like_fire: I'll get by
2:28:04 PMfeels_like_fire: *punches self in the face repeatedly*
2:28:07 PMrevid: OK, well we'll see if I'm one of the first 100
2:28:11 PMfeels_like_fire: Okay. :)
2:28:37 PMfeels_like_fire: HAHAHAHA it has already sold out on the DNA club's website
2:28:52 PMrevid: I forwarded the email to you.
2:28:55 PMfeels_like_fire: *runs*
2:29:14 PMfeels_like_fire: RESPONSIBILITY AND LEVEL-HEADEDNESS, WHAT'S THAT?
2:29:15 PMfeels_like_fire: IT'S FUCKING GREEN DAY
Meanwhile, I'm looking at my watch because it's about a 4+ hour drive to SF from my house, and I've got to feed the cats and take a shower and get in the damn car if I'm gonna make it on time. So after about an hour, I email them and apologize and beg for an answer BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO, and I get a very nice email saying "Yes, you are on the list."
(FINALLY, that $20 a year wasted on the Idiot Club is no longer wasted!)
I get in my car and hit the road around 4pm. The traffic gods were with me since I arrived at the venue around 8:15pm. Kat just got off work and was headed over in a taxi and she told me thatleighrowena and _somniac_ were waiting in line to see if they were going release more tickets. Kat also found out that mindfuckamerica was going to be there too.
The show started around 10:30 pm. The venue holds maybe 1000 people, tops. Although Kat and I were about mid pack on the floor before the music started, we somehow managed to keep getting closer.
You guys! For most of the show I was about 4 feet away directly in front of Billie Joe Armstrong! I could hardly believe it! I could read the writing on the bass/treble switch of his Les Paul Jr. When he raised his hands in the air and his shirt pulled up, I could see his 80 tattoo. As I said after the PHGP show, I could see his fucking fillings! Here's the thing: After the PHGP shows, I thought "OK, I've gotten to see Billie Joe Armstrong perform in a club, close up. It's not gonna get any better than this." Then the FBHTs came along, and I got to meet them, and chat with Adrienne, and get pictures with them, and for one show I was actually on stage with my arm around Billie, singing into the mic with him, and spent the rest of the show sitting on the edge of the stage 2 feet from Mike Dirnt thinking "OK, now for real, this is the peak fan experience! It can never get better than this."
But Thursday night, I got to go to a Green Day show in a small club for 2 1/2 hours, and I got to be in the second row, and I got to hear the new album in its entirety only the second time it's ever been played publicly. I say this in all seriousness, I've gotten all that I've ever wanted from this band now. Meaning that, if I only see them play from the nose bleed seats in a stadium from now on, I'll never complain. Because I will always remember 9 April 2009.
Some stuff about the show:
~They looked amazing. They have not aged in 5 years at all. The styling is sort of American Idiot lite. All black, just a light touch of guyliner, no ties, Billie with black hair, Mike has gone back to the brown hair which looks sooooo much better than the blond on him, and Tré's still rocking the fauxhawk.
~The new guy Jeff Markita was there, hiding in the back, but introduced by Billie, along with the Jasons, of course.
~ They sounded great. It didn't sound like a warm up or a rehearsal performance at all. The set list:
All of 21st Century Breakdown
~~
American Idiot
Jesus Of Suburbia
St. Jimmy
Give Me Novocaine
Burnout
Coming Clean
The Grouch
80
Stuck With Me
Blood, Sex & Booze
She
Worry Rock
Basket Case
Going To Pasalacqua
King For A Day/Shout/Stand By Me/
Minority
~ The new stuff sounds amazing. You know how sometimes you have to listen to a new record a few times to differentiate ths songs, or get into it? Not with this. This was my first time hearing it and i feel like I know it already. I was very frustrated because I wanted to sing along, but I didn't know the words. I CANNOT WAIT to sit down with the lyric sheet and listen to it. There are a lot of different musical styles and tempos, even compared with AI. I loved how a lot of the songs started soft or mid-tempo, then just rip into your soul. Amazing! If this album isn't bigger than AI, I will eat my CD of it. (And then buy a replacement.)
~At one point Billie leaned over to whisper something in Mike's ear, then gave him a kiss on the cheek. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
~Just look at that set list of the old stuff! They never play Worry Rock! I love that song so hard. And I thought for sure I'd never ever again get to hear JOS live, but oh, it was great to sing along with the band and the crowd. I think Billie adores St. Jimmy so he will play it whenever he can get away with it.
~Billie laughed after Novocaine, saying it was the best they'd played it in three years, even though he had to show Jason the chords. And he was just adorable fucking up the lyrics on Coming Clean, and The Grouch. When he brought the girl in the audience up to to sing, he did that "Knowledge" thing he does: "Who knows the lyrics to this song? You do? You swear to God you do?" The girl knew the lyrics, but couldn't sing for shit though. LOL
~Here's the part where I died, only to be brought back to life with happiness. When they started Going to Pasalaqua, I pretty much lost my shit. I have always dreamed of hearing that song live. I was already going absolutely batshit when Billie turned around and looked up at the VIP section and said "Davey Havok, get down here!" I actually didn't recognize him at first! He's got his hair cut in this David Lynch style with blond tips, but HOLY SHIT, does he look hot! I mean, he was absolutely gorgeous. So that's when I really lost my shit. They sang together in the mic (oh man, what a slashy OTP right there!), then Davey sang a part by himself---sounding beautiful. I don't know what's going on with AFI, but it's way past time for a new album from them too.) That might have been the highlight of the show for me.
~Minority was as usual, the perfect song to end with. The crowd went wild. No encore. Tré Cool was almost responsible for my death. He threw a bunch of drumsticks out right where I was standing, and I got knocked down on to the ground with about 3 people landing on me. And I didn't even get one, but Kat did. :-)
It finished up around 1am. We hung out inside for a bit and found Lorrin and chatted for a bit. I also managed to stick my foot in my mouth all the way down to my duodenum in front of someone's boss, but I think it's all good. Sorry about that, hon! We got kicked out then chatted with Marisa and Audrey, and of course, all sang Happy Birthday to Audrey, because it was the 10th by then.
About 20 people were hanging around waiting for the band to come out to the limo. Billie was pretty friendly according to Janine who waited. (Kat had to get up early so we split.) I must bow down to Janine, BTW. She found out about the show and got on a PLANE with 2 HOURS notice to FLY from LA to go to this show. Makes me feel like a poseur.
I crashed on Kat's couch but barely slept. Yesterday, Kat went to go camping this w/e and I hit the road back home. Now today, it seems like a dream, except that my whole body is sore from being assaulted in the pit for 2 1/2 hours. Totally worth it though.
From this NYTimes review. See that upraised arm in the lower left corner? My chin was perched on her shoulder. That's how close I was.
What a week. Between going to LA to see Adam Lambert on AI and going to SF to see Green Day, I've put 850 miles on my car. Adam was free (heh, it was only one song), and Green Day might be the best $20 I've ever spent. (Still waiting for Gale Harold to show up on my doorstep.)
Thanks for reading all that. :-)
So, Thursday afternoon I'm sitting around the house in my sweatpants being unproductive: surfing LJ, TWoP, reading a magazine, watching stuff on my TiVo, with no plans to do anything more exertion-al.
Now, normally I read my email through a client, downloading them all when I feel like it, but that day I happened to have gmail open in a tab for some reason and I noticed I had a new mail, so I clicked on it.
Green Day will be performing a gig at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco,
California (375 Eleventh St. San Francisco, CA 94103) TONIGHT (Thursday,
April 9th, 2009.) Doors: 9pm Show: 10pm
Head over to www.idiotclub.com to see how you can get your name on the
Will Call list to purchase your tickets. The clock is ticking....
Enjoy!!
--Idiot Club
This was at 2:21pm.
This hilarious IM conversation ensued:
2:23:02 PM
revid: JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE IDIOT CLUB2:23:14 PM
revid: TONIGHT AT THE DNA LOUNGE2:23:17 PM
revid: at 9pm2:23:29 PM
revid: ,at 10 pm2:23:39 PM
feels_like_fire: OH FUCK ME2:23:46 PM
revid: like one minute ago.2:24:32 PM
feels_like_fire: jkadfjklagdfklhaghkladsfjklasdfjklasjdf FUCK2:24:34 PM
feels_like_fire: GET TICKETS WOMAN2:24:37 PM
revid: fuck.2:25:01 PM
revid: But I'd rather drive up for tuesday.2:25:06 PM
revid: You can't go tonight.2:25:14 PM
feels_like_fire: I... might try. FUCK2:25:26 PM
feels_like_fire: I totally work in like, 2 hours, hahahaha2:25:28 PM
feels_like_fire: shit shit shit shit shit2:25:47 PM
feels_like_fire: see if you can get tickets!!! is there a link?! send me the link!2:26:04 PM
revid: you have to be an IC member.2:26:11 PM
feels_like_fire: I AM AN IC MEMBER2:26:13 PM
feels_like_fire: OR I WAS2:26:33 PM
feels_like_fire: oh shit I'm totally not anymore2:26:40 PM
feels_like_fire: are you gonna sign up? you can crash on my couch!!2:26:54 PM
revid: Can you go with me?2:27:00 PM
revid: Can you call in sick?2:27:01 PM
feels_like_fire: I WILL GO2:27:06 PM
feels_like_fire: I WILL THINK OF SOMETHING2:27:13 PM
revid: OK, I'll send the email!2:27:16 PM
feels_like_fire: GO GO GO2:27:23 PM
feels_like_fire: if you get your name on the list, I will trade to be a runner, or something, and leave early.2:27:37 PM
feels_like_fire: I can't get out of it completely but I can go with you when you come pick me up at work2:27:41 PM
feels_like_fire: I'll do something, anything2:27:43 PM
feels_like_fire: I get paid on tuesday2:27:45 PM
feels_like_fire: I'll get by2:28:04 PM
feels_like_fire: *punches self in the face repeatedly*2:28:07 PM
revid: OK, well we'll see if I'm one of the first 1002:28:11 PM
feels_like_fire: Okay. :)2:28:37 PM
feels_like_fire: HAHAHAHA it has already sold out on the DNA club's website2:28:52 PM
revid: I forwarded the email to you.2:28:55 PM
feels_like_fire: *runs*2:29:14 PM
feels_like_fire: RESPONSIBILITY AND LEVEL-HEADEDNESS, WHAT'S THAT?2:29:15 PM
feels_like_fire: IT'S FUCKING GREEN DAYMeanwhile, I'm looking at my watch because it's about a 4+ hour drive to SF from my house, and I've got to feed the cats and take a shower and get in the damn car if I'm gonna make it on time. So after about an hour, I email them and apologize and beg for an answer BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO, and I get a very nice email saying "Yes, you are on the list."
(FINALLY, that $20 a year wasted on the Idiot Club is no longer wasted!)
I get in my car and hit the road around 4pm. The traffic gods were with me since I arrived at the venue around 8:15pm. Kat just got off work and was headed over in a taxi and she told me that
leighrowena and _somniac_ were waiting in line to see if they were going release more tickets. Kat also found out that mindfuckamerica was going to be there too.The show started around 10:30 pm. The venue holds maybe 1000 people, tops. Although Kat and I were about mid pack on the floor before the music started, we somehow managed to keep getting closer.
You guys! For most of the show I was about 4 feet away directly in front of Billie Joe Armstrong! I could hardly believe it! I could read the writing on the bass/treble switch of his Les Paul Jr. When he raised his hands in the air and his shirt pulled up, I could see his 80 tattoo. As I said after the PHGP show, I could see his fucking fillings! Here's the thing: After the PHGP shows, I thought "OK, I've gotten to see Billie Joe Armstrong perform in a club, close up. It's not gonna get any better than this." Then the FBHTs came along, and I got to meet them, and chat with Adrienne, and get pictures with them, and for one show I was actually on stage with my arm around Billie, singing into the mic with him, and spent the rest of the show sitting on the edge of the stage 2 feet from Mike Dirnt thinking "OK, now for real, this is the peak fan experience! It can never get better than this."
But Thursday night, I got to go to a Green Day show in a small club for 2 1/2 hours, and I got to be in the second row, and I got to hear the new album in its entirety only the second time it's ever been played publicly. I say this in all seriousness, I've gotten all that I've ever wanted from this band now. Meaning that, if I only see them play from the nose bleed seats in a stadium from now on, I'll never complain. Because I will always remember 9 April 2009.
Some stuff about the show:
~They looked amazing. They have not aged in 5 years at all. The styling is sort of American Idiot lite. All black, just a light touch of guyliner, no ties, Billie with black hair, Mike has gone back to the brown hair which looks sooooo much better than the blond on him, and Tré's still rocking the fauxhawk.
~The new guy Jeff Markita was there, hiding in the back, but introduced by Billie, along with the Jasons, of course.
~ They sounded great. It didn't sound like a warm up or a rehearsal performance at all. The set list:
All of 21st Century Breakdown
~~
American Idiot
Jesus Of Suburbia
St. Jimmy
Give Me Novocaine
Burnout
Coming Clean
The Grouch
80
Stuck With Me
Blood, Sex & Booze
She
Worry Rock
Basket Case
Going To Pasalacqua
King For A Day/Shout/Stand By Me/
Minority
~ The new stuff sounds amazing. You know how sometimes you have to listen to a new record a few times to differentiate ths songs, or get into it? Not with this. This was my first time hearing it and i feel like I know it already. I was very frustrated because I wanted to sing along, but I didn't know the words. I CANNOT WAIT to sit down with the lyric sheet and listen to it. There are a lot of different musical styles and tempos, even compared with AI. I loved how a lot of the songs started soft or mid-tempo, then just rip into your soul. Amazing! If this album isn't bigger than AI, I will eat my CD of it. (And then buy a replacement.)
~At one point Billie leaned over to whisper something in Mike's ear, then gave him a kiss on the cheek. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
~Just look at that set list of the old stuff! They never play Worry Rock! I love that song so hard. And I thought for sure I'd never ever again get to hear JOS live, but oh, it was great to sing along with the band and the crowd. I think Billie adores St. Jimmy so he will play it whenever he can get away with it.
~Billie laughed after Novocaine, saying it was the best they'd played it in three years, even though he had to show Jason the chords. And he was just adorable fucking up the lyrics on Coming Clean, and The Grouch. When he brought the girl in the audience up to to sing, he did that "Knowledge" thing he does: "Who knows the lyrics to this song? You do? You swear to God you do?" The girl knew the lyrics, but couldn't sing for shit though. LOL
~Here's the part where I died, only to be brought back to life with happiness. When they started Going to Pasalaqua, I pretty much lost my shit. I have always dreamed of hearing that song live. I was already going absolutely batshit when Billie turned around and looked up at the VIP section and said "Davey Havok, get down here!" I actually didn't recognize him at first! He's got his hair cut in this David Lynch style with blond tips, but HOLY SHIT, does he look hot! I mean, he was absolutely gorgeous. So that's when I really lost my shit. They sang together in the mic (oh man, what a slashy OTP right there!), then Davey sang a part by himself---sounding beautiful. I don't know what's going on with AFI, but it's way past time for a new album from them too.) That might have been the highlight of the show for me.
~Minority was as usual, the perfect song to end with. The crowd went wild. No encore. Tré Cool was almost responsible for my death. He threw a bunch of drumsticks out right where I was standing, and I got knocked down on to the ground with about 3 people landing on me. And I didn't even get one, but Kat did. :-)
It finished up around 1am. We hung out inside for a bit and found Lorrin and chatted for a bit. I also managed to stick my foot in my mouth all the way down to my duodenum in front of someone's boss, but I think it's all good. Sorry about that, hon! We got kicked out then chatted with Marisa and Audrey, and of course, all sang Happy Birthday to Audrey, because it was the 10th by then.
About 20 people were hanging around waiting for the band to come out to the limo. Billie was pretty friendly according to Janine who waited. (Kat had to get up early so we split.) I must bow down to Janine, BTW. She found out about the show and got on a PLANE with 2 HOURS notice to FLY from LA to go to this show. Makes me feel like a poseur.
I crashed on Kat's couch but barely slept. Yesterday, Kat went to go camping this w/e and I hit the road back home. Now today, it seems like a dream, except that my whole body is sore from being assaulted in the pit for 2 1/2 hours. Totally worth it though.
From this NYTimes review. See that upraised arm in the lower left corner? My chin was perched on her shoulder. That's how close I was.
What a week. Between going to LA to see Adam Lambert on AI and going to SF to see Green Day, I've put 850 miles on my car. Adam was free (heh, it was only one song), and Green Day might be the best $20 I've ever spent. (Still waiting for Gale Harold to show up on my doorstep.)
Thanks for reading all that. :-)
