Recent show fun
NitpickR
Hello 41-
Most aspects of these show have been covered, but I'll just relate some of
the road trip fun I had...
DE: This show was just normal disapointing. We get to the place while
Lincoln is playing. I knew the show was 21+, but figured since I was on
the guest list, I could go in. Ha. There were two bouncers and a cop
outside just chatting, as I went up. I told them what was up, and I said I
couldn't go in. I would have begged more, but since the cop was there, I
figured it wasn't a good idea. I also didn't want to sit outside an listen
either... So we went to my girlfriend's brother's place. He got a new
computer and games, and I borrowed some of the games. Cool. It turned out
not totally bad. Norfolk, on the other hand, was an entirely different
experience.
I'll sink Norfolk: I didn't like this entire thing. It was a bad idea.
I left around 3:30 or 4 to pick up a friend and go to the show in Norfolk.
It was supposed to take around 4-4.5 hours. It didn't. The stupid
Boathouse gave me, confusing, vague, wrong directions that took us over too
many bridges, under too many tunnels, got us lost, wasted our time,
frustrated us, and wasn't cool. Eventually, we get into Norfolk and drive
around for a bit, not finding the street we were supposed to turn on. More
people give us directions, and we go in the right direction. Right then a
train comes. It was moving about 20 mph. and had 173 cars. That sucked.
We finally found the place, which you don't really know is the Boathouse,
because it's not on the street and there is no sign. We go in to find out
that people under 21 can't even go up to the front of the stage. We had to
stand at the metal gate towards the middle. It was very interesting. We
also only saw half of TMBG's show, and were very upset when we found out
that someone made a change in the schedule, and made TMBG go on a lot
earlier than expected. We got there at 10:15, and TMBG was supposed to go
on at 10:30, but they really went on at 9 something. Urgh. The ride home
was also an interesting experience. Sick to death of Norfolk and the
stupidity of stuff, we take off down I-64, only to find everything stopped.
We parked the car and got out. Everybody else did too. The aftermath of
it, was that there was a 7 car pile-up, which included a pick-up truck
being wedged under a semi. Ouch. So we take off again. This time, we
stop again. Get out of the car. Apparently there is something wrong with
the tunnel we are about to go throught. Two hour delay. It was not fun
either, but this time we found people from the show. From everybody we
talked to, we were the only ones to be caught in both of the delays.
Figures. We finally get out of Norfolk and stopped at a Waffle House for
some dinner and go back to Baltimore. I got my friend home at about 6 AM,
right in time for school. I got to sleep a bit, but was tired anyways.
What a night.
Charllottesville was much better in comparison. The drive down US 29 was
much more interesting than endless I-95 that I have been down so many
times. Charlottesville doesn't strike me as a particularly interesting
town... Bunch of corporate stuff on the outskirts, and a college town
inside. Oh well. The show was pretty cool though. The electricity went
out, which was funny, but ended up cutting an encore. The crowd was pretty
cool. No crowd surfing, not really any moshing. It was pretty hot there,
but I've lived through worse. My tape turned out pretty well.
Pennsylvania was fun as well. I spent some time in Philly, which is
always cool. Communications got a bit messed up before the show, and
though money was spent, the shows were seen. They were good shows too.
John and John talked to the crowd more than in the past shows, and some
funny stuff went down, as previously stated. I met some people I didn't
know at the show, some that I did and it was fun. The drive back wasn't
the best, however. I ran out of gas on the top of 395 in Baltimore, and
walked all the way to Lexington Market (kinda far) to find gas. The guy
wouldn't let me borrow a gas can, but a nice guy there let me borrow his
and took me to my car. I don't know if he was tired or not paying
attention, but we took a very round about way to get there. It didn't bug
me, but he went through the Fort McHenry Toll Tunnel twice. But I got home
and got sleep. Huzzah.
I am not going to the Lancaster show, nor the 9:30 Club one, which is
truly putting a bind in my panties. I am, however, seeing Monopuff and
TMBG on my birthday(!) in November. So life is fine. Advice to younger
people: See TMBG as much as possible.
Adam
Fluglweilt
>We finally found the place, which you don't really know is the Boathouse,
>because it's not on the street and there is no sign. We go in to find out
>that people under 21 can't even go up to the front of the stage. We had to
>stand at the metal gate towards the middle. It was very interesting. We
>also only saw half of TMBG's show, and were very upset when we found out
>that someone made a change in the schedule, and made TMBG go on a lot
>earlier than expected. We got there at 10:15, and TMBG was supposed to go
>on at 10:30, but they really went on at 9 something. Urgh.
I was there as well - the whole metal gate thing is new, and not a very
welcome change. And I'm not sure what happened with the times - we got
there at about 8:30, in the middle of Lincoln's bit. We were originally
told that They Might Be Giants would go at 10, but luckily my friend
heard some guy on the radio say that they were scheduled to go on around
9:00. I'm not at all surprised that the Boathouse gave you confusing
directions.
I did enjoy the show much more than their Boathouse show in '95. The
crowd was much more mellow - last time my friend and I emerged from the
concert with a wide variety of cuts and bruises and my brother's glasses
were broken by a crowd surfer. This year a girl in front of me actually
asked me if I could see the stage okay, which I thought was lovely. In
1995 they played on a Friday night, so the crowd was probably roughly 20
percent people who had actually heard of the band (the rest being, of
course, teenybopper high school kids from Norfolk who were there simply
because it was Friday). Mr. Flansburgh and Mr. Linnell were really annoyed
last time; this time they seemed a lot happier. I think this year's
concert was a much better experience for everyone.
I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to see the whole concert, but I guess
you've seen them enough times to make up for it.
Emily (who is new here. hello.)