O...M...G!
Probably the most fun I've had in a day since going to disney world when i was 7! Bands *jammed*... Even the bad ones rocked out and gave all they had... Shows were insane, the crowd was awesome, souvineers were aplenty, and we spent half the day hangoung out and watching the other shows with the guitarist and bass player of A Quiet Mind, which was pretty much the best band to play the tour outside of the headliners...
Feel free to take a break from reading this to look them up... They ROCK!
I bought the demo album for A Quiet Mind, then got it autographed. Also bought an In The Trench (another awesome band you should probably check out) CD, and an In This Moment shirt. One of my buddies caught a drumstick from one of the decent bands (unPG name), and I caught a Shortfuse T-Shirt (another really good band, and when something is high in the air on it's way down, if Hatchy wants, Hatchy gets).
All day they were alternating stages for shows, and being strategic, I waited by the blue stage after a band had finished, and after everyone had walked off to check out the action at the black stage, i was left with a centerstage position, leaning against the barrier for the next band to come on the blue stage (In This Moment)! And I swear dude, they rock and rock hard in their CDs, but youtube them live, and you would be discouraged about seeing them live... But the videos do not *nearly* do the band justice!!! They jam sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo freakin hard live! I lost my voice and got a headache because i was screaming/headbanging so hard! :D and Maria Brink is ten thousand times hotter than any pictures when she's 3 feet away!
I hurt my shoulder in the pit during Nonpoint's "Bullet With A Name", and managed to break my camera and bruise my leg when i forgot to take it out of my pocket before jumping in the pit during Mudvayne's "Death Blooms." Luckily, 2 frineds were also using their camera phones, so i will have pictures soon, just not as many, and more of band and whatnot than anyone i was with...
To sum it all up in one word... AWESOME!
