Monday was so much fun! I had a great time!!!
Did anyone remember Hyde saying something like "where's my baby?" and then "searching" the audience before they played Hunting? What a tease, lol.
The band seemed extremely gracious on stage! Hyde, KAZ, and Ju-ken seemed to have no qualms about getting close to the crowd and being touched (a privilege that i missed by mere inches!!!). Do you guys think that Hyde makes Jin let him do the black make-up around his eyes? I like to think so (I feel like I saw that in one of the documentary portions of one of the live DVDs).
That's awesome that people got to see the band around the hotel; color me envious. I did get to see Ju-ken briefly as he was walking from the room elevators to the casino area. My friend and I were walking the opposite way and when I saw him I practically stopped in my tracks and could do nothing more than awkwardly gawk at him which earned me an "...uh" type of glance. Wish I had played it off better. He was even taller than I expected.
I was about where someone else mentioned they were... a few rows back directly in front of Hyde. Crowd seemed OK where I was. I got my share of elbows to the ribs and collar bone and arms that came out of nowhere intent on taking up the space designed for my head. At times we were so packed that when the guard guy pushed the front row back I TOTALLY would have fallen if I had had room to fall.
All in all... not so bad really. A MILLION times worth it for me! I checked with the people to the front and side of me between the regular set and the encore and everyone seemed to be doing fine. A girl's hair got caught in my arm sweat while my arm was being forced (by other arms) into the air... She was cool with it though. I really had a good time!
That place was so cool! Though the smallness may have made the crowd even wilder (which I actually enjoyed), I thought that it was great that just about anywhere in the room was close to the band! The color changing cups were the coolest! Was that something that Wasted Space did?
Did the club actually fill completely up (the 300 max capacity)? Since I was near the front I couldn't tell how dense the crowd was behind me but it seemed thick. There were a good amount of people for such a small space. Did anyone else hear the male voice that screamed "ai shiteru, haido" soon after they first walked out?
That's a shame that iceybabes had someone mean next to her... I know she was really worried about that. I hope the other shows were more fun for you and I'm way jealous that your going to the Saturday show! Good luck!
(07-29-2009, 06:52 PM)malicious Wrote: [ -> ]The guy with the long braids was Sean. He was helping out the band.
Does that mean that he worked for the hotel and not the band? He was a really cool guy.
I can't wait for the DVD! I wonder when it'll come out. I see it making a great Christmas present to myself. I know that I saw crew holding up poles with cameras attached to them so I imagine that clips of our show will show up somewhere! Here I go gushing about that and the Wiltern show hasn't even happened yet.
Yeah!!