Mostly C/P-ed from LJ.
We get a call at 3:30 telling us to be at the MTS Centre by Moxie's for 20 after 4, where we would meet someone who would bring us to meet Papa Roach. So she leads us downstairs, we wait around for a bit, then we're let in. There are six of us. We're told we're meeting Buckcherry first, and some pro photographer is gonna take a picture of us with them. We get a picture signed, two of the band members seem really egotistical, one of them seem sreally cool, picture's taken, drummer plays Rock Band with one of the other girls (and fails miserably which is hilarious), then leaves. We're directed outside again, and told that with Papa Roach, we aren't allowed to pose with them for pictures or anything because there isn't enough time. We go in, some girl gets her purse signed by Jacoby and he says he's signed it all from "boobs, to dildos, you name it." :p. Tony's first, he's all easily distracted, we have a minor moment of confusion when he asks where I want him to sign on the CD booklet (eventually we wound up choosing the front). Going down the line, I exchange a few words with Jerry and Tobin, then my Nightwish "conversation" with Jacoby ensues.
Him: *grabs pic to sign, looks at my shirt, looks down to sign, hands me the picture* Nightwish.
Me: Yeah, you know them?
Him: Yeah, with the girl singer, right?
Me: Yeah!
Him: Yeah, we toured with them in Europe!
Me: Are you serious?! That's awesome! (at this point I briefly think of telling him that I saw Nightwish in May, but decided it was lame.) *grabs CD booklet* Thank you so much!
Him (or possibly Jerry): Thank you for supporting the music!
Me: I have been for four years and don't plan to stop. (side note: WHY DID I SAY SOMETHING SO LAME?! >.<)
We get a call at 3:30 telling us to be at the MTS Centre by Moxie's for 20 after 4, where we would meet someone who would bring us to meet Papa Roach. So she leads us downstairs, we wait around for a bit, then we're let in. There are six of us. We're told we're meeting Buckcherry first, and some pro photographer is gonna take a picture of us with them. We get a picture signed, two of the band members seem really egotistical, one of them seem sreally cool, picture's taken, drummer plays Rock Band with one of the other girls (and fails miserably which is hilarious), then leaves. We're directed outside again, and told that with Papa Roach, we aren't allowed to pose with them for pictures or anything because there isn't enough time. We go in, some girl gets her purse signed by Jacoby and he says he's signed it all from "boobs, to dildos, you name it." :p. Tony's first, he's all easily distracted, we have a minor moment of confusion when he asks where I want him to sign on the CD booklet (eventually we wound up choosing the front). Going down the line, I exchange a few words with Jerry and Tobin, then my Nightwish "conversation" with Jacoby ensues.
Him: *grabs pic to sign, looks at my shirt, looks down to sign, hands me the picture* Nightwish.
Me: Yeah, you know them?
Him: Yeah, with the girl singer, right?
Me: Yeah!
Him: Yeah, we toured with them in Europe!
Me: Are you serious?! That's awesome! (at this point I briefly think of telling him that I saw Nightwish in May, but decided it was lame.) *grabs CD booklet* Thank you so much!
Him (or possibly Jerry): Thank you for supporting the music!
Me: I have been for four years and don't plan to stop. (side note: WHY DID I SAY SOMETHING SO LAME?! >.<)
Jerry (or possibly Tobin): Enjoy the show!
Me: I know we will!
That was it. Better meet & greet than Nightwish's, though I think NW was just having a bad day or something. I'm so happy I got to actually talk to Jacoby though. So we leave and I buy a Papa Roach shirt at the nearby merch stand and we go up to the third floor, where our seats are, and go through security, etc.
First picture of just the band.
Second picture of Jacoby talking to me. I'm not in it though :p. But you can see the corner of the signed pic I'm holding. We're supposed to e-mail the guy from Universal to get our pics with Buckcherry. I'll have to remind Janice of that.I think I'm going to sell the signed pic I got of them on eBay or something, since I really don't care for Buckcherry.
TRAPT
Rating: No rating.
Review: We only caught their last two or three songs, because of the meet and greet. Their last song was their best and only hit "Headstrong". It was enjoyable. I found their other songs boring, there was also pretty much no one in the arena at that point. The people behind us really got into it, though. They must have been TRAPT fans.
Sixx:A.M.
Rating: 7/10
Review: It was great. Their opening track was "X-Mas in Hell", so we had to go through all that waiting for them to get on-stage. Their backdrop was really cool too, btw. It was really fun. DJ Ashba added in some cool guitar solos at random intervals, and Nikki Sixx and James Michael were pretty funny, when James got his guitar, and they were like getting in each others' faces, and then Nikki kicked James, and James kicked Nikki. It was really cute. The downside was that James was recovering from losing his voice, so he didn't do his awesome falsettos, and the one time he went really high in his belting voice, his voice broke and it actually sounded really, really painful and he went and drank a shitload of water afterwards. He got out a video cam during "Tomorrow" and recorded the audience. They'll probably use that in some video or another, since that was what their official video for "Tomorrow" is made of. Anyways, it was great. I heart James.
Papa Roach
Rating: 10/10
Review: Absolutely amazing. No words to describe it. Jacoby went down into the crowd for "Time is Running Out", he walked right around the arena, climbed into the stands and rocked out with a bunch of people there, crossed the floor, went to the other side. When the song was over, he was about to go back to the stage, when he suddenly jumps into the stand and goes up to this woman maybe halfway up. "Hi, what's your name?" he says. "Kelly," she says. "Hello, Kelly. Can you please tell me why you're sitting on your ass at a rock and roll concert?" It was so funny. He didn't give her time to respond, he just walked away, going on about how you shouldn't be sitting at a rock and roll concert. He gets back to stage and they start playing "Forever", there's the pink lights and everything, and Jacoby says, "Man, this song makes me feel like a pimp." The whole arena bursts out laughing. He's fucking hilarious. There were a few other moments of precious Jacobyness, like when he sang the line, "I know it shouldn't, but it's getting me off," in "I Almost Told You That I Loved You" and he did the little jack-off hand motions. Also when he put the microphone into his mouth, seriously, right into his mouth, and screamed into it at the end of "Between Angels and Insects". Jerry was going absolutely nuts too, headbanging like there was no tomorrow. I swear to god he headbanged even more than Emppu did at the Nightwish concert. And he kept running over to the drum riser and jumping off. It was funny and awesome. The entire building completely exploded for "Last Resort" too. And at the end, Jacoby got everyone going on a Papa Roach chant. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Buckcherry
Rating: No rating
Review: No review. Janice and I left for their set, went to Tim Horton's, and bought me some more merchandise.
Motley Crue
Rating: 9/10
Review: AWESOME. I don't even like their music, but it was fucking fantastic. Pyrotechnics (I didn't even think the MTS Centre was set up for that) and fireworks, really loud, really great to see all the energy in the crowd. Downsides being the soft porn playing on the videoscreens during "Same Old Situation", "Sick Love Song", "Dr.Feelgood" and "Girls, Girls, Girls". Plus Tommy Lee's Tit E. Cam. That was awkward. Seriously, I can't believe some of the stuff they showed there. It was an all ages concert at that. I saw quite a few little kids running around in Crue shirts. But then again, they are Motley Crue and that's their thing. Their opening little skit was quite funny. Silhouetted angel, silhouetted devil, then the silhouetted angel gives the silhouetted devil a blow job. Haha. "Saints of Los Angeles" was a personal highlight for me, because I love that song. All the singers from the other bands joined Crue on-stage for the song, and at some points, the audience completely drowned out the band with their singing. Nikki Sixx, whom I was admittedly watching the most, is very cute on-stage. He would stand at the edge of the stage, and you could see that he was looking directly at one particular person, and he would wait until he had a chance to reach down and grab their hand. He kept beating up his mic-stand too :p. And point at people in the stands. During "Motherfucker of the Year", he kept flipping people off too. It was funny. They finished off with a bow, and Tommy going, "Can I get a hell yeah?!" and when we all screamed "Hell yeah!" he's like, "You guys are great Motley Crue bitches." Or something.
I'm totally tripping over the fact that I met my two very favourite bands in the span of four months, and beyond that, that they know each other!! IF I get to see Nightwish in Montreal and IF I get to talk to them (I intend to get there very early, after all), I am definitely going to ask if they know Papa Roach and tell them that Papa Roach knows/remembers them.
My only regret from when I talked to Jacoby, aside from saying something so lame, is that I didn't ask if he'd heard their new album. But oh well. Maybe he'll check it out now that he's been reminded of the band. Oh god, you guys don't understand how happy I was. And how NICE Jacoby is in person. The whole band, they were really nice, all of them talked to us, so welcoming and happy. We had a pretty decent amount of time just to talk to them, I mean, it wasn't leisurely or anything, but it was still enough to say more than "Hi", you know? Then again, there were only sic people they had to meet, not like 20 like Nightwish. *sighs* I want to see both of the bands touring together. So badly.
Currrently Listening: Made of Steel by Our Lady Peace
First picture of just the band.
Second picture of Jacoby talking to me. I'm not in it though :p. But you can see the corner of the signed pic I'm holding. We're supposed to e-mail the guy from Universal to get our pics with Buckcherry. I'll have to remind Janice of that.I think I'm going to sell the signed pic I got of them on eBay or something, since I really don't care for Buckcherry.
TRAPT
Rating: No rating.
Review: We only caught their last two or three songs, because of the meet and greet. Their last song was their best and only hit "Headstrong". It was enjoyable. I found their other songs boring, there was also pretty much no one in the arena at that point. The people behind us really got into it, though. They must have been TRAPT fans.
Sixx:A.M.
Rating: 7/10
Review: It was great. Their opening track was "X-Mas in Hell", so we had to go through all that waiting for them to get on-stage. Their backdrop was really cool too, btw. It was really fun. DJ Ashba added in some cool guitar solos at random intervals, and Nikki Sixx and James Michael were pretty funny, when James got his guitar, and they were like getting in each others' faces, and then Nikki kicked James, and James kicked Nikki. It was really cute. The downside was that James was recovering from losing his voice, so he didn't do his awesome falsettos, and the one time he went really high in his belting voice, his voice broke and it actually sounded really, really painful and he went and drank a shitload of water afterwards. He got out a video cam during "Tomorrow" and recorded the audience. They'll probably use that in some video or another, since that was what their official video for "Tomorrow" is made of. Anyways, it was great. I heart James.
Papa Roach
Rating: 10/10
Review: Absolutely amazing. No words to describe it. Jacoby went down into the crowd for "Time is Running Out", he walked right around the arena, climbed into the stands and rocked out with a bunch of people there, crossed the floor, went to the other side. When the song was over, he was about to go back to the stage, when he suddenly jumps into the stand and goes up to this woman maybe halfway up. "Hi, what's your name?" he says. "Kelly," she says. "Hello, Kelly. Can you please tell me why you're sitting on your ass at a rock and roll concert?" It was so funny. He didn't give her time to respond, he just walked away, going on about how you shouldn't be sitting at a rock and roll concert. He gets back to stage and they start playing "Forever", there's the pink lights and everything, and Jacoby says, "Man, this song makes me feel like a pimp." The whole arena bursts out laughing. He's fucking hilarious. There were a few other moments of precious Jacobyness, like when he sang the line, "I know it shouldn't, but it's getting me off," in "I Almost Told You That I Loved You" and he did the little jack-off hand motions. Also when he put the microphone into his mouth, seriously, right into his mouth, and screamed into it at the end of "Between Angels and Insects". Jerry was going absolutely nuts too, headbanging like there was no tomorrow. I swear to god he headbanged even more than Emppu did at the Nightwish concert. And he kept running over to the drum riser and jumping off. It was funny and awesome. The entire building completely exploded for "Last Resort" too. And at the end, Jacoby got everyone going on a Papa Roach chant. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Buckcherry
Rating: No rating
Review: No review. Janice and I left for their set, went to Tim Horton's, and bought me some more merchandise.
Motley Crue
Rating: 9/10
Review: AWESOME. I don't even like their music, but it was fucking fantastic. Pyrotechnics (I didn't even think the MTS Centre was set up for that) and fireworks, really loud, really great to see all the energy in the crowd. Downsides being the soft porn playing on the videoscreens during "Same Old Situation", "Sick Love Song", "Dr.Feelgood" and "Girls, Girls, Girls". Plus Tommy Lee's Tit E. Cam. That was awkward. Seriously, I can't believe some of the stuff they showed there. It was an all ages concert at that. I saw quite a few little kids running around in Crue shirts. But then again, they are Motley Crue and that's their thing. Their opening little skit was quite funny. Silhouetted angel, silhouetted devil, then the silhouetted angel gives the silhouetted devil a blow job. Haha. "Saints of Los Angeles" was a personal highlight for me, because I love that song. All the singers from the other bands joined Crue on-stage for the song, and at some points, the audience completely drowned out the band with their singing. Nikki Sixx, whom I was admittedly watching the most, is very cute on-stage. He would stand at the edge of the stage, and you could see that he was looking directly at one particular person, and he would wait until he had a chance to reach down and grab their hand. He kept beating up his mic-stand too :p. And point at people in the stands. During "Motherfucker of the Year", he kept flipping people off too. It was funny. They finished off with a bow, and Tommy going, "Can I get a hell yeah?!" and when we all screamed "Hell yeah!" he's like, "You guys are great Motley Crue bitches." Or something.
I'm totally tripping over the fact that I met my two very favourite bands in the span of four months, and beyond that, that they know each other!! IF I get to see Nightwish in Montreal and IF I get to talk to them (I intend to get there very early, after all), I am definitely going to ask if they know Papa Roach and tell them that Papa Roach knows/remembers them.
My only regret from when I talked to Jacoby, aside from saying something so lame, is that I didn't ask if he'd heard their new album. But oh well. Maybe he'll check it out now that he's been reminded of the band. Oh god, you guys don't understand how happy I was. And how NICE Jacoby is in person. The whole band, they were really nice, all of them talked to us, so welcoming and happy. We had a pretty decent amount of time just to talk to them, I mean, it wasn't leisurely or anything, but it was still enough to say more than "Hi", you know? Then again, there were only sic people they had to meet, not like 20 like Nightwish. *sighs* I want to see both of the bands touring together. So badly.
Currrently Listening: Made of Steel by Our Lady Peace
I can be anything that you want me to be,
A holy cross, some sympathy
That reminds you not to bleed.
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