MCR - 3/9/07
So after a night of about 3 hours of sleep (at least for me, anyway) Kitzya and I left my house around 8:30ish (yes, that is AM) and arrived at the arena at 9 and claimed our spot as 21st and 22nd people in line. Yeah, there were already 20 fucking ass people in line ahead of us at 9AM wtf? haha anyway, we waited in line for *counts* 10 hours (10 hours? holy shit) and passed the time by:
-Watching LOTMS on my brother's portable DVD player
-Talking to the girls in line around us
-Going over to the area where the busses are parked to try and catch a glimpse of our boys
-Playing Uno
-Searching for shade
-Playing egyptian rat screw
-just sitting and staring hahah
Anyway, Andrea showed her ass up with her brother at around 5. Pfft. And finnnaally the doors opened at 7:10. We ran in and got FRONT ASS ROW BABY! woot!
One thing I love about arena tours is that there's usually not that many opening acts, and in this case, there was only one! I've never seen Rise Against before, but I gotta say, they were actually pretty awesome. I loved how punk they were and they made me realize how much I miss it :(
Anyway, no cameras were allowed (sob!!!) so I don't have any photographic evidence of this, but the show was SO. FUCKING. AMAZING. I'm not gonna write out every detail, but here are the most parts that I remember and want to point out:
-I didn't really get the promotion crap for the tour bc everywere I looked it said "My Chemical Romance and The Black Parade" acting like it was another band or something. But once the show was nearly over, it made perfect sense and it was FUCKING GENIUS. (I'll explain more on that later)
-The show opened with Gerard being wheeled out on a hospital bed thing (complete with IV full of blood lmao) and him getting off of it in his hospital gown haha and after singing the first part of "The End" he ripped it off and all the guys came out in their marching band uniforms
-Frank = cum hxc, seriously. My god, I forgot how beautiful he was in person. He's growing out his hair again and he's got a new tattoo on his neck ack!
-"Welcome To The Black Parade" was so cute bc out of no where these 2 lil parade blimp things popped up from the sides of the stage hahaha then at the end they exploded confetti in our faces....then it went right into "I Don't Love You" and it just looked so amazingly perfect bc the way they had the lights made it look like it was in black and white and thru the whole song the confetti slowly floated down from the top... god, I wish I could have recorded it bc it was absolutely gorgeous!
-Mikey played in the front of the stage pretty much the entire time! Yay for him getting over his scaredness or whatever that was :)
-Oh yeah, haha omg there were a couple Waycest moments where Gerard came up to Mikey and started feeling his chest up lmao
-After "Mama" Gerard started fake crying like an idiot lmfao it was the funniest thing I've ever seen! I wish I could have taken video of that shit
-FIRE!! there was fire during several songs and all of it was near Bob lol I felt really bad for him, considering he recently had an INFECTED THIRD DEGREE BURN ON HIS LEG!!
-They started out with playing the whole Black Parade album and kept their personas as "the Black Parade" thru the entire set. Then when it was over they shut off the lights and their encore was them dessed as their old selves!!!!!!!! Sob! omfg they were all dressed in their regular clothes and they had the Revenge backdrop with the guns and Gerard had his leather jacket on and even Mikey put on his old glasses!! WAAAAHHH!!! I almost peed myself when I saw him wearing his old glasses lmao
That was pretty much the main things that stuck out of my mind that was interesting to post about... There was one other thing though, that Gerard said and I thought about it the next day and I pretty much broke down crying. He said something along the lines of "There are people here tonight for a lot of different reasons....some of you are here because this is the only place you feel like you belong..." I thought about it and just realized how fucking true it is about myself.
Its really hard for me to just be able to open up to some stranger and spark up a conversation so a lot of people (ie: people I work with) think I'm mean, or stuck up, or shy, ect... but at a show where I'm going to see one of my favorite bands, I feel completely comfortable striking up a conversation with anyone because there's already that common ground of a love for that band or even music in general. And then I thought about all my close friends and realized that I met every one of them thru music in one way or another... I met Andrea bc of Hanson and Nsync. I met Amanda bc of Nsync. I met Monica bc of Good Charlotte. I met Leti and Bri bc of MEST. I met Kitzya bc of Green Day.
God, I wish I could have fucking met Gerard so I could tell him how much what he said affected me... sigh. Stupid arena tour!
Anyways, yeah... Just. Fucking. Amazing. And they better come out with this tour on DVD!