Yes, Gina and I went to LA again to see EBE, because we love them, and mostly we love their music. (haha, we keep telling ourselves that)
They were headlining, which is a first for us to see them play a headlining show and they sent out a bulletin saying that they would be playing their whole album and a few extra songs. That was too good of an offer to pass up.
1 December 2007
We left around 830 because we had to get some money and gas. That drive is soooo boring and we always make it a tradition to stop at this gas station in Quartzite, exit 19 to be precise. Since Arizona is dumb and doesn't do the whole fall back/spring forward, we gained an hour when we drove there, so we arrived in Los Angeles about 1 pm, still a total of 5.5 hour drive. I changed in the car when we parked because I was nasty looking and we got some food. Gina and I were hungry and her friend Anthony was still sleeping so we got some Toi Thai by ourselves and had foodgasms. We then drove over to Anthony/Tony/Travis' house near Amoeba. They're cool guys and we mostly just watched Travis play Zelda while Gina caught up with her friends and the local drama going on. We then walked around while Tony did his errands and him and Anthony got some food. We left around the same time Tony left for work and headed to Gina's aunt's house to unload our stuff and to relax. We sat around watching the disney channel because Gina's niece was over because it was her birthday. We got drooped off at this AMAZING bookstore, Book Soup, about a block away from The Roxy. I love bookstores, especially this one because it had NME with the boosh on the front! They even had the british tabloid magazine, Heat, which I know from watching The IT Crowd (go watch now). I used to get NME at Tower but since they decided to be lame and close down everywhere, I have to source to get NME, except online. When I was wandering around looking for a book, I remembered Paton really liked that Taoism book and luckily they had it, The Tao Of Pooh. It is excellent, I recommend it to everyone. Gina and I then headed over to Coffee Bean across the street and drank delicious holiday inspired coffee. We weren't exactly sure when the doors opened so we headed over around 7:45, hoping the doors would have been opened by then. Nope. We had to wait in line and we were behind some girls who took part in their costume contest they had going on. I think they were just a tad jealous that we actually know the guys. We still had to buy tickets and that line wasn't moving and I was saving our spots in the regular line, but that was moving, so I joined Gina. On the website, it said tickets were $12.50, cool. EXCEPT when we go there, oh they happened to be $14. That was shitty. THEN we had to pay bloody three extra dollars because we were under 21, which was basically charging us for a drink that we may or may not use. What if we only came with enough for tickets, what would that little rat man (who looked like the red head from that camp anawana show on nickelodeon) do then? I was angry, molto angry.
Girl in a Coma and The Hanks were good, I really liked the lead singer of Girl in a Coma's voice and they were named after a Smiths song, so how can they be bad? The Hanks and some pretty awesome christmas sweaters, which they commented on it probably not being a good idea, since it was quite warm on stage. We saw Mikey as The Hanks started their set and we said Hello and I recieved a slightly awkward hug from Mikey, since we don't normally hug (thats more of a Gina/MIkey thing). We immediately felt better, since we were standing around, feeling unsure about our decision to come, but once we saw Mikey, those feelings of doubt went away. And even after the show, I was glad we came. Big City Rock came out and Andy, the guitarist who Paton fancies, was looking goooooood. His hair was longer, which is a good look for him. They played some new songs, some old songs, and covered Black Betty again. That feeling reminded me of Rooney: predictable and it was not enjoyable when some of the set list is the same, EXCEPT in EBE's case. They can play the same songs, in the same order every time I see them (which they don't), and they will NEVER get old. It's part of the appeal Gina and I love so much. Anyway, Everybody Else came on. They started out with an oldie, "Wake Up," I didn't know it, I only know about 5 old songs that aren't on their album. They played their whole album, which was pretty magnificent. Gina and I stood in the back because, well, I, don't like being in the crowd for their shows since we first saw them as merch workers, in the back. Being in the back is good because you can see everything going on; it reminds me of playing defense at soccer games. Gina and I noticed Austin looking and recognizing us, since he was the only one who didn't know we were there. I told Gina that I saw Mikey looking at us, but she didn't believe us. Carrick knew we were there, but in typical fashion he ignored us. That's fine because we ignore him just as equally. They also played "Always" and they covered a Hollies song, "Just One Look." It was pretty fantastic and absolutely adorable. They were huddled around one mic and Austin played acoustic guitar and sang back up with Mikey. Here's the video I took:
For "Button For Punishment," Austin and Mikey left the stage and it was just Carrick singing and playing acoustic. I'm pretty sure this is when the fan girls screamed at him to take off his shirt. Gina and I were disgusted and praying that he didn't. Thankfully he never did. I have to say, for "Alone In The World," there is this awesome bass part that I've come to love once I carefully listened for it during the song. I can't explain it, because I'm horrible at doing that, but I will say that it's ka-blamo. The show finally ended and we just wanted to say hey to Mikey and Austin again, but we decided to say hey to Carrick. He was being bombarded by people coming at him from every angle, so we paitently waited and he said he was sorry about not being able to get us on the guest list, which was nice he mentioned that. We then, stupidly, went outside and waited. Wrong idea. We snuck back in and lied about losing a wallet, because as it turned out, the boys were still inside chatting to some people. We walked over to Austin and said hey and talked about the typical things, like new years resolutions and everything. We got forced to move outside and Gina and I were standing there and since we were massively exhausted, decided to say bye to the boys, well just Austin and Mikey. We got us a cab and the cabby was mean and wouldn't let us use our credit card to pay, since we both had absolutely no cash from the asshole Roxy ripping us from our earnings. We slept and left the next morning/afternoon and were on our EBE high as usual.
peace and chicken grease.
