the music, amazing, the band overall amazing...the crowd...no feel at all.
I started off my night getting there basically as the opening act was done. My Cuz and I walk in and the place is empty...well...STP ain't on yet so no surprise, but man, it filled up fast. Before we even realized it we're like 3rd/4th from the stage and there's this Microphone stand right in from of us with no pics stuck to it...HOLY SHIT THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!
They come out and Silvergun Superman is great, lots going on, they guys seem really into it. I snap a few pics with my cam and everything is all good.
Wicked garden on next, so I get kinda bold and I pull out my brand fucking new, just got it on monday camcorder to see how it looks. I get about 3/4 through song and get a slightly more than subtle finger pinch of death on my shoulder...big fat hairy security guard giving my the hairy eyeball and telling me to come with him...FUUUUUCK...So he marches me upto the security office like I'm in grade four(or as they say in american 4th grade) and demands I show him all the footage and picstures I've snapped with the corder, which was only like 2 minutes worth. He takes my camera and gives me a ticket to pick it up after the show...
So now I gotta go back down to the floor and try and get back to center front 3 people back from the barrier...yea right...for most of what was left I was basically where I was for the Sarnia show, 10-12 back starting right at Rob.
I managed to get back up to the front closer to my cousin by the encore, so no biggie there. I go up for my cam after the show...security has confiscated a grand total of TWO cameras. Seriously...you take my camera 5 mintues into the show, and you take NOBODY'S??? The other camera was a digi SLR cannon with a huge telephoto lens on it, basically one step down from the guy who shot my wedding photos. All I saw the whole rest of the night were people recording songs on vid an NOT having their camera taken away and more importantly, not being pulled out of their spots...
Oh well, I suppose it's my fault for pulling it out early. I have to say, there is a policy in place, you can't record it, it's 'stealing'. To me, if you're only going to one camera away, what the hell are you doing it for.
As far as the rest of the show goes, I missed basically the end of Wicked Garden, Vasoline and most of Big Empty. I had a great time even if everyone there was sitting on their hands. I'm there for the band and they were great other than not completely enthused by the crowd and it is SO true that bands feed off crowds.
One nice thing came out of this all, my cousin was able to get one of Rob's pics, and not one of the ones he threw out after the show, one he actually used, which is super cool and yea, had a great time otherwise. So if anyone saw a dude getting escorted out during wicked garden wearing a blue sweater THAT WAS MEEEEEE!!!!!