It's a little late. :/ Backdated for lack of interwebz

Nov 19, 2007 16:56

So basc, tonight was my first a7x show. Well, technically last night. It’s now 5:35 Georgia time. Or no, I think that’s home time. I’m not sure. But basc, I can’t sleep because I’m still all full of adrenaline and I’m all spazzy/twitchy/nauseous/exhausted. It’s not so fun, tbh. But whatevs.

I got to ATL at about 11:30 this morning. Fucking drove around the same 8 block radius for about two fucking hours, lost. Not lost so much in that I didn’t know where I was. I just couldn’t figure out where I wanted to go. So, that wasn’t so fun.

I was supposed to be meeting up with invader_julie and she ended up getting to the hotel before I did. Which was kinda lulz. She ended up helping me find it. Then my mom met up, we checked in, I showered, we got ready, we went out and got food at some place we found on the way.

At that point, we split from my mom and she went back to the hotel and Julie and I went on to get in line. It was about 3:30 when we got there I guess. They opened doors and 6:30. We met some cute guys in line, but no one so amazing I’m going to go into detail about it here. I will say that this one dude we were chillin’ with, who was obv the hottest dude in line, had a friend come up way later than was equally hot. And they each had a lip ring, on opposite sides of their lip, so I pretty much wanted them to make out. Because 1) it’d be hot and 2) I wanted to see if their lip rings would stick together.

While we were in line, we played with Julie’s sharpies, and I wrote “Happy Birthday Johnny Christ” on my left arm and Julie put “Zacky Vee” on my other arm. She drew a deathbat on my hand, and she put “Val” on my chest inside a big heart. I pretty much really wanted it to still be there when I met Shads,but no luck.

So they finally let us in and we went straight to the merch booth where we met up with the lovely Mr. Matt Berry. He’s way hotter in real life, and super super sweet. Julie slammed me against his merch booth, and I think I would have liked it more if it’d been Matt to slam me around, but oh wellz.

Once we got our merch we headed to the floor, where we actually got really good spots, considering the fact that we hung around the merch booth while people flooded in. At this point I decided to just go ahead and apologize to Julie in advance for the fact that it was her first floor show.

And let me tell you, it definitely wasn’t my first floor show, and a crowd has never beat my ass so bad. Right off the bat with Black Tide, the floor was fucking nuts. Nuts nuts nuts. Not untolerable. But right on par with the headliner for some shows I’ve been to. Hell, MxPx’s floor was pussy compared to Black Tide’s.

Oh, right. And the lead singer of Black Tide was 15 fucking years old. He was fucking amazing. I’m pretty much dead.

The Confession followed them up, and the floor just got a little crazier. After was Operator, still crazier. The dudes from Operator are pretty much unoriginal, tbh. Whathisface the lead singer acts just like Shads on stage. Only more like old school Shads I guess. M has gotten less toolish over the years. A little.

So pretty much by the time Operator got off stage, I was exhausted. Dudes outnumbered girls on the floor probz like 20 to 1. I was squished and short of breath, but I didn’t really care that much. But I swear, dudes are even meaner than fucking fan girls about getting to the fucking barricade, which is pretty nuts. So the already slim number of girls was quickly decreasing as they all got worn out and got pulled out by security.

Avenged took for. Fucking. Ever. To get on stage. Like, seriously. So long. But when they did it was good. After about four songs, in the middle of Afterlife, I had to leave the floor, because about four dudes with a foot on me and at least 50 pounds all decided to just use me as a prop or something. I had arms around my neck, in my eyes, on my shoulders, digging into my back, covering my mouth and nose. It was ridiculous. I couldn’t move or breath or even SEE. It was pretty much lame. I was pissed off that they were ruining the show for me, because I could have dealt with all of it if I’d at least been able to see.

From what I did see though. Jimmy seriously makes my jaw fucking drop. Just LOOKING at his trap set is scary, tbh. 3 fucking bass drums. Omg, you talented mother fucker you. Johnny was looking all adorable and Johnny like. Zacky’s costume for Critical Acclaim is just too cute :( I wish he’d wear it longer than one song, but I can imagine it’s hot and uncomfortable as hell. Matt is a tool, but it works for him. Synyster Gates is gorgeous.

So when I got pulled out, I headed back around towards the merch booth cuz if you can’t see the pretty boys on stage, might as well be able to see pretty Matt Berry, I say. Somewhere in the process I lost my hoodie that was tied around my waist. I didn’t really care at the time, but it ended up sucking later.

From where I was I couldn’t’ really see. I could hear though, and as expected, they played fucking flawlessly. I eventually refound Julie, because we’d gotten split up. We got some water and chilled for a bit, and then Matt goes “So, just so you guys no, we have a birthday in the house” which commenced me flipping out and squealing about my love for Johnny Christ and dragging Julie into the balcony so we could watch what was going on for Johnny’s birthday. He got a lapdance from these two scantily clad girls that, tbh, weren’t even that hot. And then the guy’s personal trainer came out and gave him a much more entertaining lap dance that had Johnny in a little fit of giggles, even though I’m sure he’d argue that he was ‘laughing’ not ‘giggling’ Personal Trainer = Danny = Hottie. Mhm. It’s just a fucking swarm of pretty people on that tour.

Then a7x played Bat Country and Shads made jokes about Johnny having a semi and all that. Then they left the stage. Julie and I headed outside to get a place by the buses while they played their encore. We were both soaking fucking wet with the sweat of the floor, so we got outside and basc froze our asses on. Because Julie is obv the better friend, she let me use her jacket, and I also put on both of the shirts I bought from Matt, but they were wet so it didn’t really help THAT much. But it did help some.

We were just chilling with some other kids, basc watching the roadies lug shit around. Zack from Black Tide came out and chilled with us. He was really really ridiculous friendly and nice.

When the a7x crew actually started moving Avenged’s equipment around, JB made his appearance and I found it necessary to scream at him across the lot that he was sexy, which led to him turning around and giving me an adorable little smirk. And then about 30 minutes later he walked by and I screamed “I love you, JB.” And he literally turned around and said “haha” and then walked off again. I’m like…awwww. Which I’m pretty sure isn’t a normal response to being laughed at when you say “I Love You.” But oh well.

We stood out there for like 2 hours. And there wasn’t much else interesting that went on. We just stood and froze our asses off and talked to the kids around us. Met this really awesome guy from Colombia. His English was so good! He helped Julie out when her camera fucked up, so that she could still get a picture with Jimmeh.

Anyways. Getting back to the story. Johnny came out before any of the others, and he was still surprisingly sober. He came out lookin all cute and smiling and we all screamed happy birthday at him as he walked down the ramp. Then he just kind of started at one end of the line and came around to talk to everyone. He was super friendly and talkative, which is awesome since he’s so quiet around cameras.

Pretty much from the beginning, there was some Sharpie confusion, because Johnny didn’t have one on him, so everyone was trying to use Julie’s. And then he sent someone to get him one, cuz he’s ~*powerful*~ like that. So he got to us and Julie gave him the beer than she drew for him. He looked a little confused at first. Like, he smiled b/c obv he’s not gonna be all rude and be all like yo I don’t want this shit. But when she explained that she wasn’t old enough to buy him beer, he laughed, and he gave it to his little roadie bitch to hold for him. Then she pulled out her little Mini-Sharpie for him to sign her vinyl, even though he already had one in his hand at that point and he was like ‘oh okay, you want me to use that one’ and he put the one he had aside and took hers and I was like *grin* ‘it’s cuz it’s short’

And Johnny just stops and looks up at me with this look of like…shock/offense/amusement. At first it didn’t seem like he knew what to say and then he just smirked a little and was like ‘did you just pull a fucking short joke on me? You Mother Fucker.’ (Note: he had to look UP at me to say this, obv)

It was pretty much the most win moment of my life tbh. Johnny Christ called me a mother fucker. I can die happy now.

And I just smirked and was like “give me a huggggg, Johnny!” and I leaned over the barricade and he gave me a hug and I was all melty and stuff and I was like “Happy Birthday, Johnny.” And he was all *smile!* “thanks!”

And then he leaned over to take the picture with Julie, and he was all cute cuz he was holding a cigarette and he kept apologizing for the smoke in her face. And he got all fumbly cuz he couldn’t figure out how to hug her while holding the cigarette. :( it was so cute.

So he went off down the line and I stared at his cute little ass some and talked to the Colombian dude some more, and around this time Danny walks down the ramp with some dude and I’m all like oh hai Danny *checks out* cuz he’s FUCKING gorgeous. And then for some reason, the kids all start going nuts and screaming and clapping and stuff. And I’m all like, okay, well yeah. Danny’s hot but he’s not that hot. And he’s been coming through here like every ten minutes. Why clap for him now?

Upon further inspection, I realize that ‘dude’ that came down with Danny was actually M. Shadows. Oh hey, what do you know? Obv he looked like a douche and I didn’t deem it necessary to recognize his presence. He waved at everyone and promised he’d be back out shortly. Jimmy and Brian came out, separately, and both waved and said they’d be back. Zacky came out a few minutes later and just waved and nodded a little.

So then Matt makes his way back through, still with Danny. And Danny’s all like *puts on tough voice* “RAWR RAWR YOU ONLY GET ONE AUTOGRAPH AND IF YOU’RE GETTING A PICTURE TAKEN YOU BETTER HAVE YOUR CAMERA ON AND READY WHEN HE GETS TO YOU.” It was pretty cute. I giggled a little.

Matt was actch pretty friendly, I guess, but I barely paid attention to him. He signed Julie’s vinyl and I took their picture and he moved on. Then Jimmy came back to start making his rounds and Julie was pretty much orgasming all over herself. Jimmy was so fucking wasted that he couldn’t walk straight. He’s put on a lot of weight this tour, which IDRC, as long as it’s not like…you know. Killing him. He was carrying a mostly empty bottle of Bacardi and still signing shit and hugging people. He was a fucking champ. He got to us and Julie tried to hand him her marker to sign with and it confused him because he already had an open sharpie in his hand. It was kinda cute. It took him a second, but he figured it out and babbled on about something. IDK, I wasn’t paying a lot of attention. And then he hugged her real tight and it was cute. Julie’s camera was fucking up, so the Colombian guy took their picture and promised to email it to her, so hopefully that goes through, because that’ll make her happy. And then before Jimmy walked off I was like “so, just for the record, dude. The songs you wrote on the new album are definitely my favorite.”

And he was all *wide eyes* *drunkenly babbles* ‘thank you. That really means so much!’ and Julie is all like “A Little Piece of Heaven is my favorite song ever!” or something like that and I’m like, “Yeah, I fucking love Afterlife,” and he babbled something about Oingo Boingo.

I recall him saying something about a new side project he’s doing, but it was Julie talking to him, not me. So maybe check out her update for more on that?

So, those three went through, and we’re all chillin cuz we’re expecting Brian and Zack to come out. And it’s freezing so everyone’s kinda whiney after about 20 or 30 minutes of waiting. We all pretty much agreed that if they didn’t want to come out that was cool, except for that Brian promised he’d be back.

Then the people standing where they could see beside the buses were like ‘yeah, brian and zacky are just sitting back there smoking and drinking’ so everyone was a little like -.- cuz there weren’t even that many of us left by then. It was almost 3 am. A few more people left because they started up the buses and the people said that Brian and Zacky had both gone back in the buses. But then Brian came out another 10 minutes later and told them he’d be right there, he had to take care of some stuff.

So, true to promise, he shows up with Danny and starts signing shit and taking pictures. He was kind of in a hurry, but he was really nice and talked about how much he appreciated us waiting and understanding and that the band would be nothing without the fans. The usual Brian spiel. It was cute.

So he got a little closer to us, and the guy next to me asked if Zack was gonna come out and Danny was like ‘nah, man. Not tonight.” And he said it nicely. Kind of ‘sorry, but no’ kind of tone. And the guy was like why not? And Danny was like, well, he’s half asleep in his bunk and shit.

Syn wasn’t really paying attention at this point, but Danny was, and the guy goes ‘well that’s kind of a dick move.’ And I just looked at him and I was like ‘well, you know, he is fucking human, after all.” And Danny looked at me and smiled a little and was like “yeah!” And so when Danny spoke up on it, Syn kind of started paying attention and pieced it all together and was like ‘yeah, he’s a fucking person. He’s my best fucking friend dude, and he’s the greatest guy you’ll ever fucking meet. He’s been up since 6 am doing press and shit and he’s fucking tired,’ and he just kind of continued to ramble on about how Zacky wasn’t a dick and that that kid had no right to say shit like that. And so obv the kid was all like ‘yeah, yeah, you’re right man, I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I take it back.” But by this time Syn was just annoyed with him. He was polite and all, and he signed the kids shit, but still. You could tell he was even more pissy than when he’d started. But he pretty much melted me, because awwww, Brian. He lurves his Zackers<3

So, I was pretty bummed that I didn’t get to meet ZV, cuz I really just wanted to hug him really bad. But it was cool. He needs his sleepies. Little cutie. ILHSM! Anyways, I’m pretty sure that if I’d gotten to hug up Johnny and Zacky in one night, I’d have died.

That was pretty much it. We told everyone goodbye and then we walked our cold asses back to the hotel. Good stuff. If you actually read all of that. LMFAO. Wow.


The morning after the show. Exhausted, obviously, but happy as can be!



I failed at aiming the damn camera




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