:: The 451 Family ::

:: Friday, June 07, 2002 ::

Monster Blog Time: (this is for my own memories as well as your entertainment, hehe)
Thursday 12:30- Anna and I leave Fredericksburg with a trip of about 300 miles ahead of us. It was a pretty good trip except for the rain in PA and that damn PA turnpike-walls of death if you ask me.
Thursday 5:30- reach Pittsburgh, can bareyl see the skyline thru the fog;) Get a little turned around as mapquest sucks at life and tries to have us turn onto a one-way road. erg.
Thursday 6:00- Have parked in a garage and are walking to the crosswalk when I spot Conrad. *sigh* Anna gets his attentionand he waits for us to cross:) We chat for a minute or two and he says he'll put us on the guest list- he's SO nice. It was funny because the same entrance to the club (which was on the second floor) was a tanning salon, haha. And I kept imagining Neil walking out of there all tanned and ready to play. Well, we did see Jason as he was walking down the stairs and someone recognized him (yeah its funny how noone really realized it was them:) and said hi and he said hi in passing and then Anna said "Hey Jason!" and he did the same "hi" then realized it was us and stopped and talked to us about his broken rib.
Eventually we get up into the club and it's a good thing we got on the guest list bc we got to go ahead of the non ticket holders and get a spot up front. The Secret Machines were good, just based on their original set up (piano and drums in front facing each other!) I knew they'd be inventive and interesting. They played for about 30 minutes and I enjoyed it but I was so excited for Trail of Dead and the boys were over on the side watching TSM and that made me even more excited.
We were on Neil's side this time which is stage right maybe? I never understand that...facing the stage we were on the left. Whatever. It was nice to be on the opposite side and I'm glad we weren't in the middle because that is where the lame-os were who started MOSHING during Another Morning Stoner. I'm glad people are hearing the single but puhlease-don't make me break out my incredible snobbiness and hate you. (Hey, at least I realize I am incredibly snobby where TOD is concerned=) Anyway, the set was amazing, as usual, and basically I'd be happy hearing anything they played. We really wanted to hear Days of Being Wild but that's ok, there *will* be another opportunity. I was a little worried the show would be more subdued because of Jason's hurt ribs but he must have been doped up good bc they didn't hold back at all! At the end Neil's amp fell on him and then he slipped and fell-he's always really into getting feedback. And I had never realized that he records their extra sounds right before the show, so they're always different which is cool. I decided I need to get an amp ASAP. Oh and Jason must have thought the crowd was as hot as they were because he definitely poured water on those up front (mainly me and Anna-we both had our cameras out, scary) and I heard later that the second bottle he threw bounced off of someone and fell on the lighting board! whoa. There were some annoying guys who ran up on stage after the guys had destroyed the drum set and were hitting the cymbals....I just wanted them to move out of my pictures. Blah. Then Jason was shaking hands with the people up front but when he got to Anna he was like "oh hey!" and patted her shoulder and then saw me and patted my head.
There were a lot of people who stuck aroung after the show but we got to talk to the guy from The Secret Machines and then I got Neil, Jason, Kevin and Conrad to sign Ali's CD (she didn't know I took, I'm such a cool sister;). We talked to the boys some more and they all thought it was so awesome that we drove 5 hours to see them, I think we got some major cool points.
This one obnoxious drunk woman came up to Neil when we were talking to him and said "Who are you with?" and he said, "Um, Tr Tr Trail of Dead...?" and she was like "OH MY GOD, come sign this! Where is Conrad!?!??!?!" Oh man, she needed to go away. Jason then walked by and said, "Do you girls want to come backstage and drink some beer with us?" Ok, this is where I had a mild heart attack. Backstage was definitely cool. We saw the R2D2 thingy (Ok, I am almost 99% sure thats the wrong name....) they stole that is a cooler, it was neat. And Jason got me a Corona and opened it with a water bottle *sigh*. AND he was telling me how they're going to be touring with Queens of the Stone Age and I said that if Dave Grohl is drumming he has to remember me and introduce me and he was like "Haha OK" AHHHH!!!!! And on their week off they're playing on Letterman, yayay! I asked if I could go, teehee. And he said "Should we do Carson Daly? Or should we just fuck him?" Hmmm...Carson's lame. Jason also talked me into getting another beer, I said "But I have to drive home" and he said "You'll sober up by 12" and I said "But what if I get kicked out of here?" and he said "You won't...You're with us" *Note: This is when I had my second mild heart attack* So he got me another Corona=) Then they all decided to go to a bar and wanted us to go and we said we had to get going probably and they were trying to talk us into it. I think if Jason had asked us for a ride we would have gone but Anna stepped as the responsible one and thought we should get going since it was late and we had to drive 5 hours. It was the right decision but I also wish we would have stayed. We did get a hug from sweaty Jason though. Muhaha!
Then, we were sad...and left...and drove 5 hours...and I got home at 4:30AM.

It ranked on one of my Top Ten Nights Ever.....(3 of the others being when I saw Trail of Dead in Baltimore, DC, and Philly, hehehehe).

Oh now I wish I was back there...BUT show at my house on July 4th! YAYAYAY!
XXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,
Scarlet

:: Miss Scarlet 10:50 PM [+] ::
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