Demon Moving Forward

God fucking damnit.

The battery on my cellphone is dead and I don't have the charger.

It's a small operation. Probably only 5 people answering the phone. If you wanted tickets guaranteed, you needed to go there.

 

My buddy got there at 3:45 and was 7th in line. By 9:30 there were 75 people there, probably all of whom will get tix.

 

For the White Stripes it took me an hour to get an answer and it was sold out by then. Luckily the same friend got in line for that one too.

 

I got tix in the presale, I'm just seeing if I can do better (by now, probably not).

Well I, unfortunately, had no way to get there.

Can't...fucking...get...through!

Well I'm constantly getting a busy signal...

Did anyone else get absolutely nothing for Wilmington?

Lucky bastard.

How is it that you got 2nd row and I got absolutely nothing when we were both clicking continuously?

I wasted a half hour of my life trying to get tickets for Wilmington. I got nothing, and now it's sold out.

I was on at 10AM for the Delaware show, kept getting stoned.

 

Ultimately got 4 tix in the nosebleeds at 10:10AM.

 

Unbelievable.

Well, it now says that presale tickets are sold out.

God damn it.

GOT 'EM FOR DELAWARE! keep trying everyone!!!

 

Anybody know where my seats are though?

 

Section LIFT, Row BB

HOW? I've been pressing continuously...

wow... there must have been a total of about 3 tickets for the DE show.

 

I wasn't able to get anything either...

Damn...was excited about Wilmington but then I realized that the R2 doesn't go there on Sundays...

Damn, Austin is spoiled.

Damn...was hoping it would be Philly. Still two good choices though.

Am I vain if I say my own band?

Ever since I've told my friend I was at the Wilco concert, he's made it a point to bring up that they suck every single time I run into him.

Which recordings should be in everybody's collection?

I'd like to see it open a show I'm at.

Damn, I knew I should've gone...I've traveled to the DC area for shows before, I could've done it again I guess. Then again, I did have a ride back to Philly last time.

That's hilarious about the girl throwing her bra onstage. I saw Lindsey Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac fame) at the Fillmore in Philly last year. Two girls threw their panties onstage; one landed near Lindsey and one near the keyboard player. The other guitarist said he was pissed off that he didn't get any thrown to him, at which point the keyboard player threw him the panties that landed near him.

I'm not sure what you are saying here. Are you saying that 20,000 frat/sorrority folk makes for a bad audience? How can that be?

 

How many Jeep Wranglers did you see that night?

I'm saying that the crowd there was fucking legendary.

Maybe it's Philadelphia crowds in general.

Dave Matthews Band 8.8.07 is all I have to say in response to that.

SSIA.

Also, there WAS a taper there. I saw him while getting into the venue. He said he would post the show on dimeadozen.

I had been trying to score a ticket since they went on sale with absolutely no luck, so as a last resort I decided to stake out the venue in hopes of finding somebody with an extra ticket.

I wasn't the only one. Among other people, I met a couple who drove all the way here from BUFFALO, NEW YORK (a 6-and-a-half hour drive) without tickets in hopes that they would score a pair. I told them that they could have dibs over me. Turns out that none of us had a problem getting tickets. I got mine for face value, and the guy selling it didn't even make me pay the Ticketbastard "conveninence" charge!

I also met another couple who had gotten tickets from a friend who works at the venue, and also got to meet the band and watch the soundcheck. The band members, they claimed, were very sweet. At soundcheck they played Heavy Metal Drummer and Impossible Germany.

The atmosphere where I was in the lower balcony kind of sucked. I think I was the only one standing there. I tried in vain to get the people around me into the music to no avail. Eventually I got so sick of it I left to watch from the area in between the lower balcony and loge. While there, I met a woman who claimed to have a horrible experience with security in which they asked her to leave her seat because they didn't believe she was sitting there, and told her to follow her. They proceeded to lead her all around the venue before going back to a seat two rows away from where she originally was. I find it kind of hard to believe, but I guess anything's possible, especially considering what I saw...

During On And On And On, a security guard went up to a bunch of people in the loge who were standing and actually ordered them to sit back down! I pointed out the ridiculousness of this to the woman standing next to me (not the same one who had the bizarre security guard experience) and she told me she actually thought that was illegal. During the encore I moved to the rail of the loge (surprisingly, security didn't do anything about it) where I remained for the rest of the show.

The set started off very heavy in folk-rock feel and eventually progressed towards an edgier rock feel. Sunken Treasures isn't that great of an opener IMO...I think something like I'm a Wheel would work better in that position. There wasn't a particular highlight for me, though I really enjoyed the Nels/Pat guitar duel in Hoodoo Voodoo. Nels's solo in Impossible Germany was perhaps a bit too similar to the studio version, but good nonetheless. I'm not gonna pretend I know a whole lot about the band because that's far from the case, but for what it was the show was incredible.

Just got back. I'm not extremely familiar with their live act so I don't know how good the show was in comparison to others, but for what it was it was incredible. Can't remember the set off the top of my head as I wasn't keeping track. Opener was Sunken Treasure, and the main set closer was OAOAO. Off the top of my head they also played (in no particular order) Kamera, ITMWLY, Impossible Germany, Jesus Etc., ALTWYS, and Handshake Drugs.