last night i threw caution to the wind and went downtown chicago and saw a rock concert! it was a bit crazy because it was a tuesday night, and i have an actual job to return to at a resonable hour the next day. but here i am, almost done with the day, and im still chugging along! ive wanted to take a nap many times today, but i have sucessfully resisted... so far.the concert was a blast! it was at the metro downtown chicago, which is the place that the smashing pumpkins started off and also where they performed their last show. so, the place has some cool history to it. once we got there (after getting a little lost) we hung out until the bands started playing. the first band, i think it was called 'transition' or something like that, was not very good at all. actually, it was kind of embarassing. the only time they could get any somewhat possitive reaction from the crowd was when they covered 'walk like an egyptian' poorly. i almost felt sorry for them.
the second band was called 'treaty of paris'. they were kind of cool. they had three singers and often harmonized during the choruses, which was really cool and gave them a very unique sound. their cds were only five bucks, so i picked one up. ill listen to it a bit and figure out if they are actually any good.
finally, mxpx came out on stage! ive seen these guys three times before and each time they totally rock it!!! they certainly have a strong command of the stage and a huge amount of awesome songs. about a half our in, mike (the lead singer) said 'look guys, it gets boring for us to just follow a set list, so instead we would like to take some requests" and they proceeded to play four requested songs! how awesome is that? ive never seen a band do that before- and then after a handfull more songs mike took three more requests! mike himself actually said that they have never taken so many requests before. one of them they played he had to take a minute or two to remember the words before they could start playing, which made it that much funnier. there were many awesome moments during the show, from inviting an audience member up on stage to play base on 'punk rawk show', to having another audience member tell everyone a joke. it was totally obvious that those three guys up there were having a blast- and that made it even more fun for the rest of us!
