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My entire body aches, I can't hear anything out of my right ear except a constant, high-pitched ringing, and my feet feel like people were jumping up and down on them. Actually, now that I think back on it, people were jumping on my feet. And hitting me. And pushing me all over the floor. But aside from that, the Sum 41 show rocked. There were crowd-surfers and mosh pits galore, and I almost lost my shoe when someone stepped on it and it came untied. Also, for reasons not entirely clear to me, I have a large amount of gold glitter all over my left arm. I first thought the opening band was fairly bad, but I revised my opinion after doubling over with laughter when the lead singer spent a good minute exchanging expletives with some tools near the back of the floor at Mississippi Nights. Let me offer some friendly advice to all of you who might want to get in an argument with bands at concerts: the guy with the microphone will usually win that argument without much difficulty, since your shouts will be drowned out by his request that someone in the audience hit you repeatedly in the face. I would have obliged him (the singer from Unwritten Law), but I was too far away from the gentlemen to assist. So I just laughed instead.

During Sum 41's performance, one of the band members from the first opening act (Gob, which we missed) came on stage and took his pants off. I could have lived a full and happy life without seeing that, I assure you. At the end of the show, everyone from all three bands were onstage, and the Gob members were only wearing underwear. Again, I don't think anyone was all that impressed. But Sum 41 rocked; an excellent, excellent show.

Posted by on 1 November 2001 at 12:49 AM