We are accidents waiting to happen

Getting there was half the battle. Let me explain that the Verizon Wireless Music Center sucks. First, you have to find it. It is right in the heart of Indiana. By the heart of Indiana, I mean it’s surrounded by farms. Truly the middle of nowhere. There is a highway sign to exit for it, and signs to turn on to 146th street for it. However, there is not a 146th street. There are signs that say “146th St. Ahead”, but no, no no no. There is a road, but it isn’t 146th street. You have to turn on it too, but it’s not the right one.
Secondly on my rant, once you get past the parking lot, it still sucks. There are about 10 entrances. Two of them are reserved for special needs people. By special needs people I mean Verizon cell phone owners. If you own a Verizon cell phone, and show it to the person working in line, you get in about 15 minutes earlier than everyone. Not a problem at all if everyone has a ticket for an assigned seat. I see a problem with the GA crew, crew like me. I was pissed at the exact moment I knew that was happening. The first thing I thought was, “I must tell Radiohead the corporate shenanigans that are happening!” Right when I thought that, I saw a guy dressed as Captain Morgan walk across the inside of the venue. This was bullshit. What a sell-out venue. I expect that for someone like Aerosmith or Bon Jovi, but Raiohead?! They must not have known about it. I still think I need to personally tell them about it. Maybe next time I will. Sit down, stand up, have a nice chat with Thom about the way things are.

Oh, I also saw a show. It wasn’t all about complaining about a shitty venue. The seating is actually decent. I guess it’s decent; I was in the pit. No seating there, only standing. The way things ought to be.
As you can see by my pictures in the last post, the lighting was amazing. The high point was during The Gloaming- It should be raining, it should be raining – the lights poured down with green “rain”. Well of course everyone cheered at this. Why cheering? Shit, it was frickin’ awesome! Yeah, I cheered too.
The sound was incredible. I wondered how it sounded in the back for all the people on the lawn. I only wondered that for a second, I stopped caring about that very quickly when Climbing Up The Walls was played. I think that may have been the best thing I’ll ever see in my life. Jonny playing with the radiobox-thingy was outstanding. There is a video on Youtube of it, but it does not do any justice to seeing it in person. I got the same feeling I did when I hear The Imperfect List and everything turns red. That good. As soon as they started playing I got the feeling of “oh shit, this is going to be fucking amazing” Oh, and it was, to the full extent of the definition of the word ‘amazing’. Also look up ‘fucking amazing’, because it was that too.

Keeping this short as not to ramble on too much. Snap, too late for that. Truly though, it was possibly the best show I’ve ever seen.

Also, leaving was the other half of that battle I mentioned earlier.

But the war isn’t over. Not even close.