By: Jill
First, the club "Life" sucks shit. It's a disco club trying to turn itself into a hard core type place. I think this was the first show of it's kind playing there, nobody knew what the hell they were doing, they all had their thumbs up their asses. I think Suicidal is playing there later this month also. Mind you, this is the club that Leonardo DiCaprio supposedly hangs out at, and now bands like Type O and Suicidal are playing there. Pretty funny.
The show was great, the band had their halloween masks on and Peter had his arms done up like they were all bloody and ripped up. I was on the side of the stage but Peter was right in front of me, he had his bottle of wine on the speaker and everytime he took a swig, he was looking right at me (or probably right past me). I could see the people that were right up front directly in front of the stage and they were literally getting hammered. Whenever somebody would crowd surf, the bouncers would grab them and literally throw them as hard as they could back into the crowd. I don't know if anybody got hurt, I was just thankful I was standing where I was.
I was standing next to the guy in charge of Peter's bass, etc., his name was Jerry. At the end of the show, he gave me the song list that was inside Peter's bass case. I'll list the songs at the end of the message. I'll probably get bashed for saying this, but I have to agree with Powderkeg that the sound was really really awful. Yes, I was very grateful to be there, it was a thrill in itself, but it would have been slightly better if I could hear Peter singing. It just wasn't happening.
In the middle of the show, Peter decided he had to take a leak and stopped the whole show, everybody was panicking, they didn't know how to get him off stage without being mobbed, I saw the guy Jerry trying to show Pete with his flashlight, the direction to take to get to the bathroom. Finally, Peter gets on the mic and says something about how it's better to suffer once in a while and they went on playing.
At the end of the show, a couple huge boxes of toilet paper were brought out again, Charmin to be exact. They also brought out these stage props that were makeshift trees with a few leaves on a branch here and there.
Peter and Josh entered and exited stage right, Kenny and Johnny entered and exited stage left. Anyway, not to jump ahead, but when Josh was leaving the stage at the end of the show, everybody was screaming his name, holding out their hands to him and he decides to stage dive right on top of us. Yes, I went DOWN. Luckily, there were some very nice people around me that helped me back up or I would have been trampled. I wasn't the only one to go down, a bunch of us did.
So, Jerry starts handing Pete rolls of toilet paper and that was it. The place went nuts, everybody except Pete left the stage and he was up there getting whaled with rolls of toilet paper and he just kept slamming them back into the audience. All the lint from the toilet paper was in the air, it looked like it was snowing. So, he was the only one up there, having a toilet paper fight with the whole audience. Oh, and earlier on he threw his bottle of wine (half full I might add) out into the crowd. I didn't see the chick who got it, but my friend did. They also gave away the trees at the end of the show to whoever wanted them. I got a big piece of a branch with 2 (cloth) leaves, I wasn't about to lug a tree all the way back to Jersey, besides, people that were walking through the crowd with them had people reaching up and breaking off branches, trying to get a branch with a leaf on it. Most of the trees that I saw after the fact, once we were outside, had no leaves on them, they just looked like a bunch of dead branches attached to a round piece of wood which was the base of the tree.
Here's the song list. I must say I don't even remember the first song being "Pink Floyd" as it is listed. Anybody else there that remembers? I was too much in awe, it's all a blur..
That's all for now I guess,
Jill
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