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well well well. where to begin?
i know--incubus concert on friday september 16,2011 @ verizon wireless ampitheater in Charlotte...
i got hooked up by matt @ alan from 100.3 and i am forever indebted, cos i didnt think it was ever going to happen. getting tickets that is...
took my 12 year old daughter, Mai, to her first concert ever...crazy cool...so we are in line forever and a day hearing ==="welcome to verizon wireless amphitheater where tonight we present incubus and young the giant-after a very long list of what bands are coming and where it finished with--as always be cool, be courteous, and be careful...it was on loop so mai and i were messing with one another over it...
so in we go...ready with water, food, and blanket for the lawn..as we are walking on the lawn, an employee looked at our ticket and gave us seats right in front of the lawn..which was cool...so then we decided to check out memorabilia and such when we saw the www.incubushq.com tent...
there was a super chill guy setting up a live stream of the concert..but b4 that he was interviewing and talking to fans on tv...so mai and i were first(of course)and we answered some questions and showed my tattoos...he gave us pit passes...how flippin lucky was that...i had to go back to the tent to give my sister k & her kids hello from the concert(cos she was on incubus headquarters watching it...super cool..
so mai is giddy of course, i got upset that the ushers used a sharpie to x out the ticket...they said our armband was out ticket now..well it happens..
first young the giant..they were chill...i hadn't heard of them until before the concert, wait yea i heard one single...but i must say this, i love bands that have the enthusiasm and just send it out onto the crowd...good music good times...
then we went to walk around again but when we got back it had,what you would say three rows, away from the stage in the pit...super mother protective...but the lights went out and out came incubus...
all i kept saying was can u see? can you see? a little bit or yeah or no where her answers every 10 minutes when i asked her...started with megalomaniac..it was cute cos whenever any song started she was like which one is this? and I'm like i don't know(don't know the new album except for promises, promises and adolescents..i had to let her know they are known for just making some music as a different intro...
the pit was not aggressive at all...until certain shade of green came on...now that is my all time favorite song...i think i may have started the moshing...but i will not admit to it...tho on youtube, that part of the pit was the only one moving...lol
it was amazing, beyond words...
this is my 5th incubus concert...the members-brandon is lead, ben is on bass, mike on guitar, kilmore the dj, and jose the drummer...they should feel honored...they are tied with nine inch nails shows...and 18 years ago that would not have even be fathomed...
i am attaching some pics from my phone, mai has good ones on her phone and have yet to transfer the camera ones, but i will update it..
this is not really a review because for incubus they can do no wrong...well-if they didn't show up then they could do wrong..
thanks for stopping in...I'm going to try and keep up with this...i really want to blog about music...i dig it quite a bit...
the "books" i write are for children...tho i get to intricate for little kids...
maybe if i learned to use capital letters, punctuation and less ellipses, then i would be taken somewhat seriously...
i don't think the use of my name is hel, what else would you expect, hasn't worked out that well for me...
