Friday, August 12, 2005

   Gigantour 2005 -Dream Theater- (& Megadeth?)
Nice mile long line to start this story the rational way. Flocking, milling throngs of drunk happy people ready to see the show. The doors opened at 2 and we were in by (?) [exit mind bomb] So many people.

The opener on the main stage was Nevermore, they weren't bad for the opener, though their singer was drunk as shit. We'll call him Mr. Stumbly. : ) The opener for the second stage (just a pitiful little thing out in the parking lot, that you could just shove your way to the front of) was a Bobaflex. It was best described as "Boba Fet Jazzercising", they had a promo van playing their crappy music before they went on. Bad Idea.

It didn't help that Dry Kill Logic was on right after that on the second stage (can't even describe my dislike for that band). Second on the main stage was Dillinger Ecp. Plan, I could kind of hear them, sometimes. I wanted to see them but running back and forth between the two stages got old quick in the boiling humidity and Symphony X was thrid on the second stage: D

Symphony X ruled, I was right at the front and Russell Allen looked like he just got done drinking a beer in the bus. Michael Romeo is a squat man that loves his guitar. They played Smoke and Mirrors (I think that's what it's called), I really enjoyed it, thrashed like whoa and then went to catch what was left of Fear Factory's set. : D

OH, the wonder of the Mosh pit, on the side of a really steep hill at an outdoor amphitheater. A few words here: thank the gods for human padding, there would have been quite the incident had there not been all those people standing by the rail that separates the lawn from the sidewalk and pavillion. I would have been in that pit had I not been in a mini skirt, don't need to give out free shows now. Burton was extatic about the pit and welcomed all the FF fans back and welcomed all the first FF show people "to the family", that made me a happy kitty =^.^=. They rocked out, it was a solid set and there were songs that I recognized but couldn't think of the name, they closed with the title track of their new CD Transgression, it was a badass song.

Somewhere between there, there was another band on the second stage called Life of Agony. I was way too hyped for Dream Theater to check them out, I sat in wild anticipation, smoked my lungs out and had a helluva lot of fun people watching. "I'm fat. Fuck off!" "I play air guitar in an air band." and "I'm fat so technically it's a threesome." were the shrits that made my friends and I laugh the hardest. So many drunk people it was suprising that I didn't see more people falling on their faces. Some guy really liked drunken skipping and spinning, I saw him about 24 times throughout the day. Too many mohawks and not a single pair of hair clippers for me: (

Dream Theater live is the best show I've ever seen. Just absolutely amazing . I don't think I've thrashed so much in all my life, they opened with The Root of All Evil. They played The Glass Prison, Panic Attack, and Never Enough and I am proud to say I did not lose my voice to singing and screaming ... a lot. Jordan Rudess looks like an alien with no hair and he played around with a Chaos Pad for a solo.: ) James LaBrie did the Super Power Metal Scream, I was impressed, I didn't think he had it in him really, he can be such a pud sometimes. I love how Petrucci and Myung do that whole guitar love thing in the middle of the stage. Petrucci has crazy hair, I miss his long hair but it looks sweet with the bleached tips and the spikes. I love how insane Portnoy is, he was grunting into the mic like some weird animal (mating), hitting himself in the head with his drumsticks and all around just exsessive. John Myung short Asian man with big hands, still has long hair and is still one of the best bass players ever. I spent a lot of the time in awe or/and headbanging. Paying for it now; my shoulders, neck and head hurt but it helps the memories.

Happy Kitty =^.^=

We didn't even stay for Megadeth, Fuck Megadeth, Dream Theater makes them seem so bleakly untalented.
Megadeth fans may always be broke but Dream Theater fans like to eat flowers. EAT IT, DRUNK!

I don't think I've ever orgasmed so many times in a public place.

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