This was my 5th STP show and it was amazing. Me and my boyfriend got to the venue around 9am. There was literally no place to hang out within walking distance in the area so we just decided to hang out at the venue all day. I have never been there but it was so pretty, it looked like a mix between a castle and a church.
Around 3pm other people started to get into line. At about 6:15 the security people told us to form a line for people with tickets, and another line for people without tickets that needed to pick them up at will call. Usually venues let the people with the tickets in first then make the will call people wait. Well this venue didn't, they did the opposite. All of us people with tickets who had been waiting for hours were pissed. Luckily though I had friends who came up from Rhode Island and they did will call so they held us a spot on the rail. Otherwise we would have been a row or two of people back and me being only 5 feet talk wouldn't have been able to see a thing haha.
The opening band rose hill drive was pretty good. I was skeptical about them after talking to some people in line who had seen them. But they were better than I thought they were gonna be. They came on at 8 and were done at 8:45.
STP took the stage at 9:30. The setlist didn't change. The crowd was a little rowdy at times. In my area the crowd was craziest during Still Remains, of all songs haha. The was a good amount of crowd surfing going on. And we had one huge guy behind us who just wanted to fight with everyone.
The band sounded excellent. I definitely noticed the slowed down tempos but i liked it on some of the songs. There wasn't too much talking in-between songs other than the introductions. All the guys were rocking out. Scott was moving around a lot more than I when I last saw them in September. My favorite songs of the night were Silvergun Superman, Still remains, and Down.
The highlight of my night was during Dead and Bloated when Dean recognized me and my boyfriend in the crowd and blew us kisses. Then after they finished Trippin Dean came over to where we were standing and told the security guards to bring us upon stage. So they pulled us over the rail and we got up there and we held up our banner we made for the show and then we got hugs from them.
So overall this show was fantastic,
and I can't wait to see them again at the end of the summer when they hit up the East Coast again.
I took some pictures but they didn't come out the greatest because of the flash and all the smoke. I will post them at soon as possible. I would have already, but I some how managed to take a 1000+ mile trip this weekend and lost my wallet 1 hour before I was getting picked up to go home. Luckily someone found me on Facebook and told me they found it, I have yet to find out if my money is still in there though
