Hoodwink 4.3.09
….The birds have flown the Coop
I actually just deleted a page long rant about this show. I’m going to try and be professional about it. So I got there about one because my roommate was moving out and it was either stay and watch her pack or just leave. So I left. Megan wasn’t there yet. So I was chilling by myself. I pulled out my phone to distract myself and ap . net said that FTSK had pulled out. O.O Score.
That made me get up to buy $15 worth of shit because I thought it meant The Cab would be bumped up and there’d be longer set times.
Wrrrrooong.
FTSK kids decided they would play after all and somehow, somewhere Eye Alaska got added at the last minute. -_-
But Megan gets there and the Mother/daughter I met at the take action tour that gave me the ticket were eating lunch behind me actually then came and stood with me. I’d seen Cash earlier with Play for Keeps, his little protégée band. I didn’t go up and say anything though, that’s … I just can’t do that shit.
I was super excited to talk to him though, Sonny too.
We get let in and I’m barrier, right where I want to be. And…Eye alaksa is singing Kayne West. Uh? They weren’t bad, but they’re not songs I know. Most of the crowd…didn’t know these songs. I made it through that set, then Mercy Mercedes came out to do Midtown, which I knew a few of? I’m not enough of a Gabe fan girl to go listen to his old band. Moshing got intense though and there was still NeverShoutNever and FTSK to go before the cab and WTK. So I left part-way through Mercy Mercedes set.
I decided fuck it and I’d go up and get my Cab merch.
I went up there and Sonny’s on the phone and Johnson’s on his laptop. I figure, well ok, I’ll go outside smoke a cigarette and they’ll be done with what they’re doing.
Yeah no. I lingered up there for awhile and Sonny never got off his damn phone. I’ve mentioned before how Johnson’s the only one I can’t just walk up to … so I went back down, finished watching Mercy Mercedes, catch part of NeverShoutNever, then I went upstairs again, to see if Sonny was free *yet* and he was. So I went over to ask - I’d heard rumors they were selling exclusive merch just for bamboozle and he was all O.O are we? I don’t know anything about that, you’ll have to check the FBR tent, then he keeps getting called on his walkie talkie, then this other merch guy comes and they’re talking and I’m like, ‘uh? I just wanted to buy a shirt, really’ Sonny did apologize and it’s not his fault, but I’ve never seen him like that before. He was like constantly stressed out and running around and not the Sonny I knew at all.
So I went back to watch NeverShoutNever. Who actually… I don’t know. But Cameron, Jace, and Charles(?) from Play for Keeps were standing next to me and I felt odd so I asked them how their acoustic went, it was the day before and I’d been flying from Chicago to La and missed it.
They looked surprised and I winced, apologizing I wasn’t there, but they were so excited to talk about it. Cute little band.
NeverShoutNever was covering the Beatles. To me, it’s kind of hard to fuck up the Beatles, I mean everyone knows how it goes, they’re perfect for singalongs, but a lot of people really fucking hated his set. I thought it was fine. The Cab was actually after them and I really regretted leaving the front.
I couldn’t fucking see.
I was literally standing on the railing of the staircase because I’m so fucking short. But I could see and they were good. It was weird to see guys younger than me singing Queen, but it wasn’t bad. They really can pull anything off on stage. They’re fucking something else.
So they play and alex promises - hey we want to meet each and everyone of you, come up to our merch table we’ll be hanging out there.
It’s not like I want to see FTSK.
So I go up stairs and it’s like, a mad rush. But there’s nobody at the merch table, not even Sonny, but it’s fucking crowded. So I figure I’d check back after FTSK and went and got some water and sat down at the balcony for the first time ever. Kind of glad I did because FTSK…
They were…really bad.
I guess Jonathan had the lyrics taped to the amps?
It was fucking avril lavigne, how do you need lyrics?
It was bad, but the people around me and I had fun.
I guess I went back to check the Merch table after FTSK and I ran into Megan and we waited for a bit, but Sonny was still mia and so was everyone, she’s taking pictures for WTK so we’re on a time limit, but they don’t come and we went to leave and almost ran right into Ian.
I love that boy, even if he is taller than I am. I swear he looks so little until I stand next to him. : ( But we’re talking and I honestly can’t remember because he makes me all flustered, but I said something and he was all you see us at Sub-T? and I’m like -_- You did not just call it that and he wrote “Thank you Nikki” on my ticket, cos he’s awesome. Seriously. We got hugs but Megan was running down to catch WTK and Marshall was hanging out in the balcony in front of the balcony? Apparently there’s a vip balcony, but I was tired and there was an open seat, so I sat at the balcony again to watch WTK.
I know there’s a reason they’ve blown up this past year and jesus, they didn’t disappoint. When they’re on, they are so fucking on. I was shocked to see Drew, I didn’t know he was playing again, but that’s what I get for not following along closely enough. Everything was just, awesome. Except poor Travis, he and Tfair, I think, right? Got hot dogs earlier and Travis broke out in hives, and felt all shitty and so it’s understandable why they didn’t come out.
But after WTK we went back up to the merch table, sonny’s still gone, but another dude’s there, so I buy my shirt, Megan buys her thing and the merch guy basically tells us, well the Cab’s girlfriends are here, so they probably won’t be coming out. Regardless of this, we waited. It’s the Cab? I’ve never…never not met them after a show. FTSK comes up, girls swarm us, Megan and I are all O.O air!! So we’re trying to get back in the venue, and suddenly there’s this hand that started on my shoulder and slid down to my ass and it’s Jonathan as he’s walking by and I’m all O.o excuse me? I’m grossed out, so we head back outside the confusion, we linger and linger.
Marshall finally comes out, which is the only one Megan really cared about meeting, I’m always down to talking to Marshall. So he like, gets in the body guard with him, looks around, announces 5 mins and Megan and are all, excuse me, what? So we’re pushing our way towards Marshall, his back is to us, the security guard is telling him to get out, but we’re like, uh? So he ignores the security guard, gives us hugs, signs our stuff, takes pictures and tries, he really did fucking try to hold a decent conversation with us, but the guy was not having it. I promised to be there tomorrow and he promised to talk to me then, so we let him go. We linger more. Every one and their brother whose not in the cab is fucking out on the patio. Never saw Sonny again. We got kicked out, so we’re waiting outside.
I think we were there for an hour or so before we hear singing that huh, sounds suspiciously like Singer, and he comes walking around the corner with his girlfriend, head down, ignores every single one of us and leaves. I think Marshall was with him too.
Never saw Johnson, never saw Cash again …saw the PFK boys, but not Cash.
FTSK came out outside, … as much as they suck, they took so much fucking time with their fans.
I don’t know.
I was really really upset after this show. I’m trying not to be.
It’s just, it wasn’t like the Cab had just gotten off tour, they’d been off tour for over a month, I think, that they’d been at home, with their girlfriends, and I know they were launching into a tour …but we fucking pay for that hour of their time a night. I don’t know. It felt so fucking disrespectful at the time. Like you honestly can’t separate yourself from your girlfriend for ten minutes to take some pictures and write your name a few times?
Don’t promise it on stage if you’re not going to follow though.
I don’t know.
I was really upset and the first draft of this had me wondering if I’d ever go to a cab show in California again. I definitely don’t want to see them in Vegas if they’re like this here.
BUT goes to show… I’m fucking hopeless because I bought presale tickets to The Cab’s show. In Anaheim. Cos I’m clearly sadistic sometimes. I just got to go for the music and not for anything else. Expect nothing, right?
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I actually just deleted a page long rant about this show. I’m going to try and be professional about it. So I got there about one because my roommate was moving out and it was either stay and watch her pack or just leave. So I left. Megan wasn’t there yet. So I was chilling by myself. I pulled out my phone to distract myself and ap . net said that FTSK had pulled out. O.O Score.
That made me get up to buy $15 worth of shit because I thought it meant The Cab would be bumped up and there’d be longer set times.
Wrrrrooong.
FTSK kids decided they would play after all and somehow, somewhere Eye Alaska got added at the last minute. -_-
But Megan gets there and the Mother/daughter I met at the take action tour that gave me the ticket were eating lunch behind me actually then came and stood with me. I’d seen Cash earlier with Play for Keeps, his little protégée band. I didn’t go up and say anything though, that’s … I just can’t do that shit.
I was super excited to talk to him though, Sonny too.
We get let in and I’m barrier, right where I want to be. And…Eye alaksa is singing Kayne West. Uh? They weren’t bad, but they’re not songs I know. Most of the crowd…didn’t know these songs. I made it through that set, then Mercy Mercedes came out to do Midtown, which I knew a few of? I’m not enough of a Gabe fan girl to go listen to his old band. Moshing got intense though and there was still NeverShoutNever and FTSK to go before the cab and WTK. So I left part-way through Mercy Mercedes set.
I decided fuck it and I’d go up and get my Cab merch.
I went up there and Sonny’s on the phone and Johnson’s on his laptop. I figure, well ok, I’ll go outside smoke a cigarette and they’ll be done with what they’re doing.
Yeah no. I lingered up there for awhile and Sonny never got off his damn phone. I’ve mentioned before how Johnson’s the only one I can’t just walk up to … so I went back down, finished watching Mercy Mercedes, catch part of NeverShoutNever, then I went upstairs again, to see if Sonny was free *yet* and he was. So I went over to ask - I’d heard rumors they were selling exclusive merch just for bamboozle and he was all O.O are we? I don’t know anything about that, you’ll have to check the FBR tent, then he keeps getting called on his walkie talkie, then this other merch guy comes and they’re talking and I’m like, ‘uh? I just wanted to buy a shirt, really’ Sonny did apologize and it’s not his fault, but I’ve never seen him like that before. He was like constantly stressed out and running around and not the Sonny I knew at all.
So I went back to watch NeverShoutNever. Who actually… I don’t know. But Cameron, Jace, and Charles(?) from Play for Keeps were standing next to me and I felt odd so I asked them how their acoustic went, it was the day before and I’d been flying from Chicago to La and missed it.
They looked surprised and I winced, apologizing I wasn’t there, but they were so excited to talk about it. Cute little band.
NeverShoutNever was covering the Beatles. To me, it’s kind of hard to fuck up the Beatles, I mean everyone knows how it goes, they’re perfect for singalongs, but a lot of people really fucking hated his set. I thought it was fine. The Cab was actually after them and I really regretted leaving the front.
I couldn’t fucking see.
I was literally standing on the railing of the staircase because I’m so fucking short. But I could see and they were good. It was weird to see guys younger than me singing Queen, but it wasn’t bad. They really can pull anything off on stage. They’re fucking something else.
So they play and alex promises - hey we want to meet each and everyone of you, come up to our merch table we’ll be hanging out there.
It’s not like I want to see FTSK.
So I go up stairs and it’s like, a mad rush. But there’s nobody at the merch table, not even Sonny, but it’s fucking crowded. So I figure I’d check back after FTSK and went and got some water and sat down at the balcony for the first time ever. Kind of glad I did because FTSK…
They were…really bad.
I guess Jonathan had the lyrics taped to the amps?
It was fucking avril lavigne, how do you need lyrics?
It was bad, but the people around me and I had fun.
I guess I went back to check the Merch table after FTSK and I ran into Megan and we waited for a bit, but Sonny was still mia and so was everyone, she’s taking pictures for WTK so we’re on a time limit, but they don’t come and we went to leave and almost ran right into Ian.
I love that boy, even if he is taller than I am. I swear he looks so little until I stand next to him. : ( But we’re talking and I honestly can’t remember because he makes me all flustered, but I said something and he was all you see us at Sub-T? and I’m like -_- You did not just call it that and he wrote “Thank you Nikki” on my ticket, cos he’s awesome. Seriously. We got hugs but Megan was running down to catch WTK and Marshall was hanging out in the balcony in front of the balcony? Apparently there’s a vip balcony, but I was tired and there was an open seat, so I sat at the balcony again to watch WTK.
I know there’s a reason they’ve blown up this past year and jesus, they didn’t disappoint. When they’re on, they are so fucking on. I was shocked to see Drew, I didn’t know he was playing again, but that’s what I get for not following along closely enough. Everything was just, awesome. Except poor Travis, he and Tfair, I think, right? Got hot dogs earlier and Travis broke out in hives, and felt all shitty and so it’s understandable why they didn’t come out.
But after WTK we went back up to the merch table, sonny’s still gone, but another dude’s there, so I buy my shirt, Megan buys her thing and the merch guy basically tells us, well the Cab’s girlfriends are here, so they probably won’t be coming out. Regardless of this, we waited. It’s the Cab? I’ve never…never not met them after a show. FTSK comes up, girls swarm us, Megan and I are all O.O air!! So we’re trying to get back in the venue, and suddenly there’s this hand that started on my shoulder and slid down to my ass and it’s Jonathan as he’s walking by and I’m all O.o excuse me? I’m grossed out, so we head back outside the confusion, we linger and linger.
Marshall finally comes out, which is the only one Megan really cared about meeting, I’m always down to talking to Marshall. So he like, gets in the body guard with him, looks around, announces 5 mins and Megan and are all, excuse me, what? So we’re pushing our way towards Marshall, his back is to us, the security guard is telling him to get out, but we’re like, uh? So he ignores the security guard, gives us hugs, signs our stuff, takes pictures and tries, he really did fucking try to hold a decent conversation with us, but the guy was not having it. I promised to be there tomorrow and he promised to talk to me then, so we let him go. We linger more. Every one and their brother whose not in the cab is fucking out on the patio. Never saw Sonny again. We got kicked out, so we’re waiting outside.
I think we were there for an hour or so before we hear singing that huh, sounds suspiciously like Singer, and he comes walking around the corner with his girlfriend, head down, ignores every single one of us and leaves. I think Marshall was with him too.
Never saw Johnson, never saw Cash again …saw the PFK boys, but not Cash.
FTSK came out outside, … as much as they suck, they took so much fucking time with their fans.
I don’t know.
I was really really upset after this show. I’m trying not to be.
It’s just, it wasn’t like the Cab had just gotten off tour, they’d been off tour for over a month, I think, that they’d been at home, with their girlfriends, and I know they were launching into a tour …but we fucking pay for that hour of their time a night. I don’t know. It felt so fucking disrespectful at the time. Like you honestly can’t separate yourself from your girlfriend for ten minutes to take some pictures and write your name a few times?
Don’t promise it on stage if you’re not going to follow though.
I don’t know.
I was really upset and the first draft of this had me wondering if I’d ever go to a cab show in California again. I definitely don’t want to see them in Vegas if they’re like this here.
BUT goes to show… I’m fucking hopeless because I bought presale tickets to The Cab’s show. In Anaheim. Cos I’m clearly sadistic sometimes. I just got to go for the music and not for anything else. Expect nothing, right?
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