So, tonight I went to see the Blue Scholars at the showbox with a friend of mine. I thought he would be rather excited to go see them, but I keep forgetting he's really not that into music. Anyway we get down there and before the blue scholars even came on stage, my buddy says "hey, why don't we just go blaze and I'll wait in the car, this wasn't really what I thought it be" I was literally thinking, wtf, asshole, I invite you to this concert paid for your ticket and now you just want to go sit in the car. Which I did say all of that to him, and just kinda said he didn't want to stand around all night. Which pretty much the whole time he just stood around looking like he wasn't having any fun, almost as if he was trying not to. I'm pretty pissed at this point, cause even though he screwed me, I didn't want him sitting in his car in downtown waiting for me to get out of a concert, there's just something not right about that. So, I bought tickets to go see them again on sunday. Since I never got to see them tonight I don't know why I let my friends dictate my decisions like this. I should've stayed and had a good time on my own. This is the kinda shit that pisses me off about my friends and trying to go to concerts. It's odd going to shows by yourself, but you know what the one time that I did just because I had no friends that wanted to go or that I cared to go with for that matter, I had the best fucking time ever. I'm the type of guy that when I get to the center of the crowd I'm able to just cut loose and have a great time. Everytime I go to a show with my friends we just stand in outskirts and watch. BORING!!!! I like to be as close to the stage as possible. I have this Muse concert coming up and I wanna have a great time but I don't wanna drag somebody along and most of my friends don't like muse anyway. So I'm gonna solo it, I mean once I'm in the center of all the insane madness, I wouldn't know where my friends were anyway. Or I'm just a loser....sorry for the longish read...I needed to vent about this. cliffnotes friend pussed on concert, didn't get to see blue scholars pissed no more concerts with friends.
I think at a large concert like Muse for example, it wouldn't be that bad going solo since you'll probably lose your friends anyway if you're on the floor. But at a smaller venue its pretty nice to have a friend or 3 there to hang with. For example, I'm a punkhead as are all of my friends, but I also happen to like some softer bands like Radiohead and 311. I've seen them both and they were both large concerts, it wasn't that bad at all since I would probably have lost my friends on the floor. But then theres smaller concerts like NoFX coming up in a month, I've got almost my whole group of friends going.
Yeah i'm the same i always have to be on the floor really going for it when i see any band, just like most of my friends. Btw i saw Muse in November and they were soo good.
Yeah, every time I go to a concert, my friends and I lose each other within minutes and find each other back at the car a few hours later. I don't think it makes a big difference whether you go with friends, because it's not like you talk to them, or even look at them, during the concert, but it's cool just to have them there so you can swap stories and all. Personally, I wouldn't go alone. But that's just because I'm a girl and I'd get freaked out if I was by myself ha
i tried to take some asshole to a nine inch nails concert once and he ended up falling asleep. i mean, i knew he didnt want to go, but since he woudlnt just say it, i fucking made him. actually i didnt really make him, i just asked him, and he said yes even though it was clear he didnt want to and i just let him anyway, didnt argue, even though i knew he didnt want to go, bc thats what he gets for not just saying naaaa... that guy was such a pushover. and its not like he really ruined it for me. i mean ive been to plenty of concerts alone so it was kind of like that.
didnt want to go to a nine inch nails concert?? fell asleep? I saw nine inch nails for the first time last year and it was something I wouldnt just take a nap through..
I got drug to a No Doubt/Lit/Black Eyed Peas show because me and some friends were on our way to see Deftones the next night and they wanted to go to this concert to. Being as I was riding with them I didn't have much of a choice. The tickets were free, right in front of the stage but I just wound up sitting there bored out of my skull for three or four hours. It was worth it for the next night though.
That's exactly what I'm talking about, it's such a fuckin waste. My buddy, I kinda knew he wouldn't really want to go, plus he did see some girl that's in his treatment group and he said he felt uncomfortable with her there while he's all high and shit. I was like dude she's not even gonna know where you are in the crowd. If he would have just told me he didn't really want to go in the first place I could've given the ticket to another friend of mine that would've had a good time there. I agree with those that said there are some shows where it's nice to have somebody with ya or a few people. I went to see The Temper Trap at the new Hard Rock in seattle, well nobody (once again) didn't want to go....it was a free show, free for me and free for them. Why wouldn't you go? Well I went by myself and that was sooooo awkward, cause it seemed like everybody brought there girlfriends. So there I am standing in a crowd of pairs. I ended up bailing on that one, just cause you could cut the awkward tension with a fuckin knife...so I had to leave. A lot of my friends and I quote "just aren't into shows." and the ones that are aren't into the same types of music as me therefore they have no interest in going to the concerts I like to go to. Yeah, I'm for sure gonna solo this Muse show, it's gonna be so insane packed and just flooded with people. I'm pretty sure that it's a sold out show, any seats left are gonna be really worthless. It's a lot easier to push your way through a crowd as just one person too.
What a dick! I've seen NiN before but I wouldn't miss seeing them again for anything, they're just too unreal to miss.
That's funny, I saw Muse back in December and I agree they were hella good, They werren't even really headlining, it seemed kinda like in the neighborhood type thing. But this show is all them...Silversun Pickups and Muse. So this show should be epic. I'm super stoked. I've heard Muse is like life changing when seen live.
im glad my friends and i share the same taste in great music, havent ever gone to a show alone really. well saw some shows at festivals by myself, but that doesnt really count. one of the first shows i went to, brought a buddy with me and hed never listened to them to much but figured why not. ended up being a sick ass show. saw tantric at a small but sick bar and there ended up being only about 50 ppl at the show