The Seether and Trapt concert came and went. Venue quite small and dark, maybe 1000 people there if that. Seether had some cool stuff up their sleeves, particularly their cover of Nirvana's "You Know You're Right" which was to a tee and took everyone by surprise. I worry about the dudes in Seether though. They seem like they may have been influenced by Kiss, 'cause the drummer had on a Kiss shirt and the lead singer had on some face paint that you couldn't see except up close. (Oh well, wouldn't be the first time I liked a band that liked Kiss--Rivers was a diehard Kiss fan before forming Weezer.)
Trapt, or Frapt as I will now refer to them, somehow got lead act. Presumably because of the incessantly played Headstrong. They were just a bunch of frat boys though, didn't have much on Seether, and the lead singer was this annoying good-looking Oscar de la Hoya pretty face. There was some young screaming girl hysteria when he first came out (yuck). In between songs he said some hoakie junk about how he could tell everyone was "feeling it in their hearts." Later he commited the ultimate unforgivable wrong and ordered people to jump. I hate it when bands do this. Just play your freakin music, and if it's actually good, people won't be able to stop jumping.
The mosh pit started small but got progressively worse. During the last two songs of the night I got thrown to the ground 3 times (slippery beer floor) and clocked in the face hard enough to make me head for the sidelines. Felt like I almost got my teeth knocked out. Whole nose sore today, luckily must have hit beneath the bridge otherwise it would have broken. People however were courteous and helped you up immediately--apparently, everyone has seen that devoid-of-content VH1 special on the history of moshing that talked about mosh etiquette, so now we can mosh proper just like Emily Post would.
But hey I shouldn't complain about that, fellow-feeling is a good thing and the Disturbed concert definitely could have used some.
Shopping for freaky alternative girls thwarted, there were none around sadly enough, all the chicks there looked like copies of each other cloned in sorority land. But that's an Arizona-wide problem from what I understand. Will continue to keep eyes open.
Posted by Alan at June 21, 2003 10:36 PM