March 14th 2005
9:31am: I walk past a marquee out front of the high school on my way back from 7-11 and almost miss the writing. "Saturday 7 PM one night only, live music featuring Bach....Admission FREE" ...I drop my slurpee.
9:54am I hear fuzzy voices in the background laughing and jeering "Stoner peed his pants" and "you dropped your stoner shake stoner" as I realize I have blacked out. My brain must've hit the reset button before I had time to die from over excitement....and yes I peed myself. But this didn't matter....Sebastian Bach was coming to MY town, and I was going to see him....for FREE
Time and space hold no sway over an existence in which a person is about to attend a free concert featuring the wailings of a musical grand master the likes of Sebastian Bach. I tell you the next few days took no less that 7 months to pass. The passage of time so slow and painful each passing second felt like a rusty nail being forced under my fingernail.
At long last, Saturday night was upon me. I don my Slave to the Grind Tee shirt, and affix a black bandana over my glorious locks.....Lets do this. I walk the 8 blocks to the high school. I'm a bit taken aback to see the crowd of fans that have gathered for the show. Old folks, kids wearing ties and slacks, a few teenagers. I can't help but notice I'm getting a few looks myself, but I'm sure it's just jealousy. But this is death metal...if you're here to salute the one eyed monster of musical mastery, I don't care if you're wearing a banana hammock and a whirly cap. We're all brothers. The doors open and a short dude with a suit announces "this way please ladies and gentleman"...swanky. I press my way through geriatric bodies and nerdily dressed youngsters to the front row. The house lights come down.....my life is about to change.
So, it turns out there is some european boner named Bach. Is that even legal? How does someone who was born hundreds of years ago steal the name of a rock icon of today? And what's worse, his music is the very antithesis of the face meltingly awesome rock I had come to listen to. Fast forward some 3 and a half hours of the most excruciatingly dull music of my life. The smiling withered faces of those around me mocking me like some sadistic clown balloon. I get dirty looks as people who recall the various times the conductor asked me to lower my lighter or trying to get the old fogies to mosh with me, this only worked twice. At one point, before I realized this lame group wasn't the opening band, I was so amped up I wanted to stage dive. Upon further consideration I couldn't find a landing zone that looked robust enough to catch me without breaking a hip.
So in conclusion my friends, Be aware that not all that glitters is rock.
Until next time......V
2 comments:
I had a similar experience myself. I was quite excited to get an email from Ticketmaster (which after this experience I have other names for them which I will keep to myself in this forum) telling me that one of MY favorite performers, CINDERELLA, was going to be appearing in Long Beach. How thrilled was I to believe I am to get to rock out to Cinderella again at the very same venue I saw them at back in '89 (along with Kix which ironically, search of Brian Forsyth is what brought me to this website tonight!)
You can imagine my further elation upon obtaining orchestra seating for only $15 a ticket! I was so ecstatic I bought 4 tickets and vowed to treat my friends to the concert of the decade!
You can also imagine my dismay when I learned the day of the concert, and we're all dressed up in our mini skirts, boots, teased big hair, all the encrouchments one would expect of rocker chicks hoping to catch an eye from an axeman on stage...to find that it was a theatrical version of the story of Cinderella and her flippin glass slipper! I had a shoe for Ticketmaster! Refusing a refund, the manager even said, they're not even together anymore...when's the last time you've ever heard of them doing anything? Well I was happy to see them just a few months later at Glen Helen with Poison and Slaughter! Cinderella, THE BAND, was still alive and kickin! I make sure to do whatever I can now to avoid using them!
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