Rock Band Live!

Alright, so I'm told I have to blog about this concert, which is actually a good excuse since I haven't posted in a freakin month :P (been busy moving) :P

Before I get too far into this, the average age of the crowd was probably about 15. Totally guessing, but I haven't seen so many kids with braces on their teeth since middle school :P No chance to pick up a chick, since they're all jailbait :P

After obligatory pat-down (since the guy's metal detector was broken), the ticket guy sent us upstairs. Which really made me wonder, cuz we had FLOOR tickets. So I checked with the people at the bottom of the escalator - Indeed, floor tickets are upstairs. Whateva. Go upstairs. Find the upper level seats. Talk to a security dude who was totally confused about life in general I think, and eventually back down the stairs to the floor entrance (which defeated the entire purpose of being early.) When the show started, we were like 3rd back from the rail. By the time it was over, it was more like 5th back. Fucking assholes keep pushing their way in.

The Cab opened the show. No, not Death Cab for Cutie. A band literally called "The Cab." Lead singer looked like he belonged in high school at best. Like 5 songs was all he played, which was enough for me :P Not for Amber, but for me it was :) Ended with the lead singer taking a swig of water and spitting it in my general direction :P 'Course I wasn't paying attention and thought it was just some water... til Amber was totally pissed about it

Then, some 35+ year old came out to "run" the show (i think he called himself ReNickUlous, which I thought was uberlame). Being Rock Band Live, people were competing up on the concourse for a chance to be on stage between sets. Anyway, it was a slight distraction between sets while they swapped out everything on stage. He just introduced himself this first time - don't think they actually got the game going that time...

Then Plain White T's took the stage. And it seemed each member of the band was going for his own theme for clothing. One guy looked like a 70's high school male cheerleader (lead singer), one of the guys looked like he belonged on the Dukes of Hazzard, and none of them looked old enough to know what I'm talking about :P Another guy had a suit and tie on.... like he was in the mafia. And the last guy..... kinda looked like he belonged in a rock band :P Anyway, they did the obligatory "Hey There Delilah", where they didn't even really have to sing... Not a big fan of their other songs... except "Hate" :) Great song :) The basis of the song is "Hate is a strong word, but I really really really don't like you!" :)

Then they brought a couple of groups of people who think they can play Rock Band on stage to play between sets... and it was alright - passed the time... Seems the drummer sucked :P And an equipment malfunction stopped at least one of these 2 groups :P

Third: Dashboard Confessional. Great job :) The guy stopped singing during one of his songs, ran back to his bottle of water (while the crowd kept singing), jumped off the stage and gave it to someone in the front row who was apparently having some trouble... and when he handed the bottle of water to this person, security FINALLY woke up and realized something was up :P I always like it when the band does something like that - to make sure everyone's ok. Like at Blue October when he stopped the song to have someone kicked out :P

Again, more people playing Rock Band between sets. They got the crowd to jam out to the last song, then gave us our "prize" - the fact that we had just opened for Panic at the Disco. Lame :P

P at the D :) I heard what I wanted to hear :) They did a great job too :) I heard my god-damn door song and my harlequin girls song :P The rest was good too :) And they closed the show......... with a really really old song.... Shout. Yes, that one. "You know it makes me wanna SHOUT!". Yup. Really really.

Anyway it was a great song, well worth the $37.95 face value of the tickets. Plus $2 facility charge. Plus fucking $9.65 convenience charge. Plus $.72 convenience charge tax (I can't even make this shit up), plus $2.74 order processing fee. Yeah, yeah, I know, I shoulda bought the tickets at the Target Center Boxoffice instead of through Ticketmaster... Oh well.