Post by shou on Aug 27, 2006 2:19:26 GMT -5
my live reports really are way too long. and if anyone wants to read the Budokan report I wrote up I'll post that too later.
SO. family values August 20, 2006 in marysville, CA
Planned to leave the house at 5AM...we actually left about 10 minutes EARLY so we were on the freeway by 5AM. Abe sped like no tomorrow, we actually went 100MPH on the freeway ahahaha. We made REALLY good time and got there around 8-ish, a bit before then. We actually had gotten LOST, we took a wrong turn and had to backtrack xDDDD we finally made it to the amphitheater
They were liek, NO PARKINGS 8DDDD and we were liek, WTFS so the staff told us theres this spot where people were sitting around and tossing a frisbee but THERE WAS NO FRISBEE so we kept going back and forth from the middle of nowhere (cow and horse land) to the amphitheater and back again. Eventually we settled down near this bridge along with some Korn fans and a car of Dir en grey fans.
Me, Kiku, Grace and Christine went on a mad search for a bathroom caue we REALLY HAD TO PEE. we asked some lady in a pick up truck if there was a bathroom nearby but she said no so we were lIke LDAGHDSLGHDS and Grace relieved herself next to a railroad track that read JESUS. Me and Kiku opted to hold it and Christine didn't need to go period. aha.
So after more going back and forth, we started blasting Dir en grey through the car. Every time a car full of KoRn fans drove by we'd shut the ipod off and then when they left we'd turn it back on AHA.
Finally Abe dropped me and Kiku off in line, I met up with t3h Lala and her sister and sister's boyfriend and some nice girl named Megan and D-chan and Dice and these two girls from the same city as them and uh. yeah. Everyone liked my Die shirt. "OH YEAH THAT ONE CLIP FROM...THAT BAND, WHERE DIE'S SEXUALITY IS QUESTIONED".
Anywho we waited for about half an hour, this RV passed by, Droid was there, they passed out t-shirts and cd samples. Then we were more or less left alone. There was also a bus earlier with people so we waved to them (hoping it was Dir en grey). It wasn't but some fat dude tried to flash us his man-tits.
We were let in to the entrance, but apparently we were waiting in the wrong spot and had to join the end of an already forming line at the real entrance to the amphitheater which pissed a lot of us off (we were all wa iting at the staff parking entrance). But we lived, there was a little shade and I got to meet Nicole's(PrettyStupidGirl on FVT forums) friends, Tracy, Kry and Andrew "t3h fanboy". we all hit it off which was nifty. Also met Meimei from Myspace and her friend whose name I also didn't catch
wow I'm REALLY BAD with names.
Wei came too with .... a bunch of other people XD and Sonia and Tiffany were there too. Also met Bella Lunacy from Batsu, and ...uh... the girl with the nifty stickfigures-with-shirts-on Diru t-shirt forgot her username but she was ALSO from Batsu xD. Wow. I made a lot of new acquaintances.
So we were let in around like... 12:45 or so.. we made a beeline for the FYE merch booth and I bought an autographed (said autographs have since been like HALF scratched off, fuck.) Tour 05 It Withers and Withers overseas version for 50 bucks. WTF. I HATE YOU FYE TENT. The wristbands for the Dir meet and greet was white with purple polka dots
Then I got my wristband for the mosh pit and stood in line with Lala and her sister and her sister's boyfriend. We all went in together but Lala is a Kaoru fan and I wanted to be on Die's side so I ran to the other side and squeezed into a spot that was RIGHT UP FRONT in front of what would be Die's mic later and turned to my right and there was Tracy. Haha what good fortune!
The show started a little early... around 1-ish, setup was right quick. Tracy gave me a pair of earplugs, I was right in front of the goddamn speakers XDDDD
Droid: Okay they were the opener, not everyone had gotten inside the amphitheater yet and the crowd was really shitty. I didn't really dig them, too screamy for my tastes but I was polite and nodded along with the music. ALSO on the left side of the stage, KYO was there watching the set, he was wearing a white button down shirt and ... I couldn't see what patns he was wearing but he had on nice sunglasses. XD
Wall of Jericho: This band was pretty nifty, they had a female vocalist who yelled and screamed like the best of them. She was really cool *o* Kyo also stayed for this set, and was later joined by Die halfway through the set. Kyo seemed to dig them too, he was nodding along with the music. At one point, the vocalist told everyone to get crazy so these guys next and behind Tracy were headbanging which was all good but they had long dreadlocks and it smacked Tracy in the face. Unfortunately (or maybe not), Kyo and Die were watching as I made futile attempts to block her face from the dreadlocks with my arm. I saw Die mimicking me and laughing D: mean Die!!
the vocalist also tossed a water bottle she took just a sip of on the ground, I asked the security guard to get it for me since I was out of my own water and I couldn't give a damn if she had fucking strep throat, I was THIRSTY. xD
Bullets and Octane: ahahaha. this band. the band that Dir en grey hung out with. Their guitarist was actually wearing a Dir en grey t-shirt which was really nifty. They were a pretty good band, I was okay with them. Kyo didn't watch this set but Die did, poking his head out from behind a roadie.lmao.
Deadsy: These two Deadsy fangirls wanted to be up front so me and Tracy let them have our spots, just for the set. I was super tired, I stood still for this set XD They didn't really get the audience pumped or anything. Guitarist was hot though, I got a picture (of him) xD
Bury your dead: This band had a lot of energy, the bassist had a real nice fender bass guitar and he happened to enjoy standing right in front of me. ahaha. I got dumped with so much water, lol those guys really like to spit and toss water X___X it was gross. I was paranoid about my Die shirt.
10 years: out of all the bands I really liked the sound of 10 years best, they were mellow which is what I like. But sometimes too mellow, I actually FELL ASLEEP through some of their set, I was so tired having only five hours of sleep, barely eaten anything, etc. it was pretty bad. But I really really liked their music so ...
Dir en grey: OKAY. well. after 10 years went off stage Dir roadies started setting up... There was a really really hot roadie that tested Shinya's drums, I have a picture of him! xDDDD.
I was the only person in the front row that was headbanging. wtf!!!! And everyone kept screaming and screaming during their set and Dir looked really annoyed.
They opened with GDS. setlist here (not in order and some are abbreviated)
GDS
kodoku
clever sleazoid
NEW SONG!!!!!!!!!!
ryoujoku
dead tree
spilled milk
merciless cult
Then, they just up and left the stage. No goodbye, no "last song", just stopped playing, dropped their instruments, tossed the picks and LEFT.
So yeah I was pretty bummed. But from the songs I *did* see, I really liked it, I headbanged, waved my arms around, shouted lyrics and whatnot. It was really really COOL seeing ALL their faces so up close!!! I was really lucky with my spot.
We all trooped to the FYE meetandgreet tent, got sodas, waited around. The two band members arrived and it was none other than Shinya and Die XD my two favorite members, I was happy.
The line moved forward, Sun-chan asked me to go first cause she was scared so I marched right up to die and stoo din front of him. He kinda half heartedly held up his hands with this "well? shake it and go" look so I shook it while he got a good look at my shirt (and chest). I was like "Dai-san de~su" and he was like "ahahaha. yeah whatever". I just got this "fuck off" vibe from him, I don't think he liked me very much .___.;
Sun-chan said Shinya was looking over at me so I turned to him since he was next and Shinya got a *good* look at the stick figure of Die with his >D face. Shinya actually went "PFFT" and smiled, he was really amused.I shook his hand, he has a nice grip.
We left afterwards, we were tired and my neighbor didn't want to stay for KoRn anymore, he was wiped out from standing through six secondstage bands. Some girls at the parking lot were like OMG WE SAW DIR EN GREY so we chased him down but the security guard was like YOU CANT BE HERE and chased us out XD wtf. lol. Oh well. I didn't really want to go near Die much, lest I get the "fuck off" vibe again which is kind of uncomfortable.
There was a huge traffic accident on the way home so it took us about three hours (as opposed to two hours this morning) to get home, we dropped everyone off and here I am.
SO. family values August 20, 2006 in marysville, CA
Planned to leave the house at 5AM...we actually left about 10 minutes EARLY so we were on the freeway by 5AM. Abe sped like no tomorrow, we actually went 100MPH on the freeway ahahaha. We made REALLY good time and got there around 8-ish, a bit before then. We actually had gotten LOST, we took a wrong turn and had to backtrack xDDDD we finally made it to the amphitheater
They were liek, NO PARKINGS 8DDDD and we were liek, WTFS so the staff told us theres this spot where people were sitting around and tossing a frisbee but THERE WAS NO FRISBEE so we kept going back and forth from the middle of nowhere (cow and horse land) to the amphitheater and back again. Eventually we settled down near this bridge along with some Korn fans and a car of Dir en grey fans.
Me, Kiku, Grace and Christine went on a mad search for a bathroom caue we REALLY HAD TO PEE. we asked some lady in a pick up truck if there was a bathroom nearby but she said no so we were lIke LDAGHDSLGHDS and Grace relieved herself next to a railroad track that read JESUS. Me and Kiku opted to hold it and Christine didn't need to go period. aha.
So after more going back and forth, we started blasting Dir en grey through the car. Every time a car full of KoRn fans drove by we'd shut the ipod off and then when they left we'd turn it back on AHA.
Finally Abe dropped me and Kiku off in line, I met up with t3h Lala and her sister and sister's boyfriend and some nice girl named Megan and D-chan and Dice and these two girls from the same city as them and uh. yeah. Everyone liked my Die shirt. "OH YEAH THAT ONE CLIP FROM...THAT BAND, WHERE DIE'S SEXUALITY IS QUESTIONED".
Anywho we waited for about half an hour, this RV passed by, Droid was there, they passed out t-shirts and cd samples. Then we were more or less left alone. There was also a bus earlier with people so we waved to them (hoping it was Dir en grey). It wasn't but some fat dude tried to flash us his man-tits.
We were let in to the entrance, but apparently we were waiting in the wrong spot and had to join the end of an already forming line at the real entrance to the amphitheater which pissed a lot of us off (we were all wa iting at the staff parking entrance). But we lived, there was a little shade and I got to meet Nicole's(PrettyStupidGirl on FVT forums) friends, Tracy, Kry and Andrew "t3h fanboy". we all hit it off which was nifty. Also met Meimei from Myspace and her friend whose name I also didn't catch
wow I'm REALLY BAD with names.Wei came too with .... a bunch of other people XD and Sonia and Tiffany were there too. Also met Bella Lunacy from Batsu, and ...uh... the girl with the nifty stickfigures-with-shirts-on Diru t-shirt forgot her username but she was ALSO from Batsu xD. Wow. I made a lot of new acquaintances.
So we were let in around like... 12:45 or so.. we made a beeline for the FYE merch booth and I bought an autographed (said autographs have since been like HALF scratched off, fuck.) Tour 05 It Withers and Withers overseas version for 50 bucks. WTF. I HATE YOU FYE TENT. The wristbands for the Dir meet and greet was white with purple polka dots
Then I got my wristband for the mosh pit and stood in line with Lala and her sister and her sister's boyfriend. We all went in together but Lala is a Kaoru fan and I wanted to be on Die's side so I ran to the other side and squeezed into a spot that was RIGHT UP FRONT in front of what would be Die's mic later and turned to my right and there was Tracy. Haha what good fortune!
The show started a little early... around 1-ish, setup was right quick. Tracy gave me a pair of earplugs, I was right in front of the goddamn speakers XDDDD
Droid: Okay they were the opener, not everyone had gotten inside the amphitheater yet and the crowd was really shitty. I didn't really dig them, too screamy for my tastes but I was polite and nodded along with the music. ALSO on the left side of the stage, KYO was there watching the set, he was wearing a white button down shirt and ... I couldn't see what patns he was wearing but he had on nice sunglasses. XD
Wall of Jericho: This band was pretty nifty, they had a female vocalist who yelled and screamed like the best of them. She was really cool *o* Kyo also stayed for this set, and was later joined by Die halfway through the set. Kyo seemed to dig them too, he was nodding along with the music. At one point, the vocalist told everyone to get crazy so these guys next and behind Tracy were headbanging which was all good but they had long dreadlocks and it smacked Tracy in the face. Unfortunately (or maybe not), Kyo and Die were watching as I made futile attempts to block her face from the dreadlocks with my arm. I saw Die mimicking me and laughing D: mean Die!!
the vocalist also tossed a water bottle she took just a sip of on the ground, I asked the security guard to get it for me since I was out of my own water and I couldn't give a damn if she had fucking strep throat, I was THIRSTY. xD
Bullets and Octane: ahahaha. this band. the band that Dir en grey hung out with. Their guitarist was actually wearing a Dir en grey t-shirt which was really nifty. They were a pretty good band, I was okay with them. Kyo didn't watch this set but Die did, poking his head out from behind a roadie.lmao.
Deadsy: These two Deadsy fangirls wanted to be up front so me and Tracy let them have our spots, just for the set. I was super tired, I stood still for this set XD They didn't really get the audience pumped or anything. Guitarist was hot though, I got a picture (of him) xD
Bury your dead: This band had a lot of energy, the bassist had a real nice fender bass guitar and he happened to enjoy standing right in front of me. ahaha. I got dumped with so much water, lol those guys really like to spit and toss water X___X it was gross. I was paranoid about my Die shirt.
10 years: out of all the bands I really liked the sound of 10 years best, they were mellow which is what I like. But sometimes too mellow, I actually FELL ASLEEP through some of their set, I was so tired having only five hours of sleep, barely eaten anything, etc. it was pretty bad. But I really really liked their music so ...
Dir en grey: OKAY. well. after 10 years went off stage Dir roadies started setting up... There was a really really hot roadie that tested Shinya's drums, I have a picture of him! xDDDD.
I was the only person in the front row that was headbanging. wtf!!!! And everyone kept screaming and screaming during their set and Dir looked really annoyed.
They opened with GDS. setlist here (not in order and some are abbreviated)
GDS
kodoku
clever sleazoid
NEW SONG!!!!!!!!!!
ryoujoku
dead tree
spilled milk
merciless cult
Then, they just up and left the stage. No goodbye, no "last song", just stopped playing, dropped their instruments, tossed the picks and LEFT.
So yeah I was pretty bummed. But from the songs I *did* see, I really liked it, I headbanged, waved my arms around, shouted lyrics and whatnot. It was really really COOL seeing ALL their faces so up close!!! I was really lucky with my spot.
We all trooped to the FYE meetandgreet tent, got sodas, waited around. The two band members arrived and it was none other than Shinya and Die XD my two favorite members, I was happy.
The line moved forward, Sun-chan asked me to go first cause she was scared so I marched right up to die and stoo din front of him. He kinda half heartedly held up his hands with this "well? shake it and go" look so I shook it while he got a good look at my shirt (and chest). I was like "Dai-san de~su" and he was like "ahahaha. yeah whatever". I just got this "fuck off" vibe from him, I don't think he liked me very much .___.;
Sun-chan said Shinya was looking over at me so I turned to him since he was next and Shinya got a *good* look at the stick figure of Die with his >D face. Shinya actually went "PFFT" and smiled, he was really amused.I shook his hand, he has a nice grip.
We left afterwards, we were tired and my neighbor didn't want to stay for KoRn anymore, he was wiped out from standing through six secondstage bands. Some girls at the parking lot were like OMG WE SAW DIR EN GREY so we chased him down but the security guard was like YOU CANT BE HERE and chased us out XD wtf. lol. Oh well. I didn't really want to go near Die much, lest I get the "fuck off" vibe again which is kind of uncomfortable.
There was a huge traffic accident on the way home so it took us about three hours (as opposed to two hours this morning) to get home, we dropped everyone off and here I am.
