whilst i wait for the hungover ladies i had the pleasure of spending the night with yesterday to recover i will recap the last few weeks of life:
Greenday Part 2
so about halfway through the show i decided that i needed to smash some heads. i scan the crowd (thank you height) and finally find some movement beyond the body on body sway that tends to occur in arena gigs. this guy who's about 2 inches shorter than me but slightly bigger is doing some polite thrashing - meaning he is somewhere between violent skanking and meidocre moshing - with 2 of his friends. you can tell he wants to get it going a bit more, but 3 people surrounded by wee punkers doesn't work too well. the bloke was good looking, facial hair and well, the 'dar was going off - he was smiling a bit too much for his own good (i do that as well me thinks). i show up and we get it going a bit more. no pit action quite yet, but a great elevation from polite thrashing to getthefuckoutofmyway trashing a few smaller guys got in on the action and i got a nice headbutt to the face and received a nice split lip. yay blood. it looked like one of the guy's buddies wasn't having a good time and a couple of more songs in they trickle their way out. on his way out i slap him on the ass and start looking for more socially acceptable violence.
i find the same sort of 2 guys moving more than most and get it going with them. one song later billie joe announces that he's playing an op ivy song. they start playing knowledge and now the socially acceptable violence emerges to its full potential. about 30 seconds into the song i notice that NO ONE knows this music, even dude wearing a rancid shirt (honestly, it was news to me a few years back that pre-rancid was op ivy, but if you're wearing the shirt...come on...). billie joe then grabs 3 kids from the audience and has each of them quickly learn the song and lets them finish it off - initially annoying, but quickly became one of the best pieces of showmanship i've seen at a gig in a long while. the rest of the evening was spent in this area, passing a joint around, tossing people up to crowd surf, thrashing and generally having a good time. when the gig ended i trouped back to the bushes to find all my gear still there, untouched and i booked it over to the train. on the way i tossed my final beer to some homeless guy and felt bad for everyone on the train as i STANK.
so, the answer to the question, what sort of guy is 'that guy'?
-that guy is the sort of guy who would do the YMCA inbetween bands led by one of the guys from NFG.
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