Whoever She Is

I woke up at 6:30 and then at around 7:15 my mom dropped me off at the subway stop (in LA public transit sucks so yes I was driven to the subway) got off in Hollywood and took a bus to the Roxy. I missed my stop (smart I know) and had to walk about a mile back to the Roxy got there at 8:15. There were 4 girls in front of me who had been there since 5 am. At 9 another girl showed up then at 11 4 more did the 5 girls behind me all knew each other and from 11-3 ish we all talked and hung out then at 3:45 the Cab pulled up and started unloading The Summer Set cam about ten minutes later and me and this girl Sarah went over and said hi she told Josh that I had been there since 8 and he called me an inspiration. I talked to him, Jess and Stephen for a little bit then went over to Singer and Brian and hugged them and talked to them for a little bit before going back to Jess, Josh and Stephen. Chrissy and Codi showed up at 5:20-ish and had subway for me. Jess and Josh went to go get lunch (Dinner?) and I took out my sandwich but felt really awkward cause I was still talking to Stephen so I offered him a bite and he took 3 HUGE ones. After a while I went and got back in line with Chrissy, Codi and Sarah.

Doors were at 7 but around 630 a huge car accident happened in front of the venue. 4 cars one was totaled and a lady had to be taken out a stretcher. It all happened in front of The Summer Sets van so Dylan and Stephen came running out and me and Sarah just go “they didn’t hit the van” and they both turn around and go back to sound check. 5 minutes before doors Brian and John show up (they had been at the studio) and the guy from The Secret Handshake walked through the line. We explained to him that there was a 2 drink minimum and he said it sucked but there was nothing he could do about it.

Doors opened and since there were inly 50 people with early entry plus the 4 people in front of me I was able to walk up to the stage and get front row, center with no fight. Anarbor was first and they KILLED it, amazing show, Slade stepped on my hand twice and got his sweat on me. They had the entire sold out room dancing. I got a lot of pictures of them.

Eye Alaska was next, they were really good, the lead singer bent down in front of me and sung like in my face, pretty incredible. Some girl tried to pull him into the crowd so me, Sarah and Chrissy pushed him back up and pulled her hand away. They also had a great show. The singer had great crowd interaction but the rest of the band was pretty stationary, still a great show. Brian from the Summer Set came out on their last song, it was pretty cool.

Next was the Summer Set. Ah-fucking-mazing! Oh my god. Stephen was pretty much in front of me the entire time. Brian killed it but didn’t really interact much which kind of made me sad. Josh was having a hard night because he had missed sound check but it’s ok. Jess lost her head phones at one point and the cord got rapped around her neck, but she recovered. When that happened Stephen was trying to play while not falling over laughing, it was fun to watch. All in all a great set, and I can’t wait to see them again.

The Secret Handshake. SUCKED!!!!! I hated the set, the huge light up speakers were flashing, and not even in time with the music, the music was terrible and I just couldn’t get into the set at all. One good thing did happen though. Kyle Burns and J-Cook showed up during their/his set.

The Mother Fucking Cab, as Slade put it, was amazing. The entire set was just full of energy the entire room was singing and dancing after about 7 songs everyone but Singer and Brian left and The y played Vegas Skies and part of High Hopes in Velvet Ropes acoustic. During Vegas Skies, Singer walked over to us when I reached up to touch him, he grabbed my hand looked down at me and sang “so lets make one more wrong turn tonight” making me melt. They played 3 more songs then left. They barley made us work for an encore and played Disturbia and Bounce. During Disturbia Marshall gave me a guitar pick and closed my hand around it, before I could more my arm a girl and 2 of her friends grabbed my arm and clawed me to get the pick out of my hand. Pretty insane, but Marshall saw so he gave me his towel after Bounce. I now have Marshall sweat : ).

I went and stood next to the Summer Set’s merch booth after the show and me and Josh were taking bets on how long until Dylan died because the booth was WAY crazier then he was used to. I bought the Summer Set’s new tank top that says “The Summer Set For Your Health” and put a 5 to free Taylor, Dylan gave me a poster as a thanks you and I had Jess sign it then told her she was a super hero for putting up with the guys cause Josh to yell “Hey, we’re not THAT bad” and me and Jess to laugh. I bough the Cab shirt that picks on the old Run DMC shirts and a tour shit and since it was cheeper then normal had enough money to get an Anarbor shirt and EP and an Eye Alaska EP. Out side I had Singer and Cash sign the towel and Stephen, Josh and John sign the poster.

Now the damage. My neck, throat and back hurt like heel. I have a 3inch but 3inch bruise on each thigh from being pushed into the stage (there was no barricade) and I’m still dehydrated. Possibly the best concert I’ve ever been to.