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paisleytriceratops · 2 years

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so i saw the best band in the world last night and now i've got to do a writeup while everythings still fresh in my brain

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so first off i was like two sections back from pit so while i could see stage, i definitely missed some of the interactions between members. but i did see the Bonk, did see g and frank sharing a mic on helena, did see ray and gerard lean into each other like they were trying to meld into one form.

midtown is a fantastic opener and i'm so bummed more people didn't know who they were like girlies .... learn your herstory. gabe was indeed wearing a mikey fucking way shirt and mikey wore a midtown shirt. gabe also said that the reason they reunited was literally because mikeyway (you can hear the lack of space in the way he says it, i giggled) called him and asked if the band would get back together to open for my chem. im' not saying mikey's back on his scene whore grind but i'm also not NOT saying it. anways, give it up slammed.

screaming "GET! UP! COWARD!" at the end of foundations is exactly as wildly fun as i suspected it would be. that song just builds and builds and builds, there is no comedown with that opening, it just throws you off a cliff and into the fucking abyss, exactly as it fucking should.

but like lets talk about the setlist cause frank chose chaos with that one. i s2g i blacked out jumping and screaming during the first 4 songs, just back-to-back-to-back-to-back. like, thank you for the venom?? then im not ofuckinkay??? THEN VAMPIRE MONEY??? i almost certainly kicked the person in the seat next to me, if you were in section 15 and got kicked by a fat bitch in an mcrmy shirt i do apologize.

but i feel like every single line that i wanted to scream along with in a room full of people, they hit it. i mean, wttbp, mama, flw, i'm not okay, obvs, but like even the "if what you are is just what you own" in destroya, "you wanna see how far down i can sink," "hallelujah lock and load," "we spark and fade they die by threes," "that girl's not right in the brain," there were so many that i just lost count entirely like they got them, they got me, i got all of it.

also i knew i knew i knew they were going to be good but even with the highest expectations i could imagine i was still blown away by how magnetic gerard is onstage. like born performer and rockstar barely covers it, you literally can't look away from him when he's on. i found myself just following him across the stage constantly because you can. not. pull. your eyes away.

which is doubly amazing because ALL OF THEM are SO fucking on. the energy, the passion, the fucking presence from every single one of them is unparalleled. i wished i had four more sets of eyes just to take everything in properly. like i said, i was worried when i went in that i was setting my expectations too high but holy god they smashed through every single one of them and kept on going.

gerard's voice is so high in person. might have been my fucked hearing but i know others have said it was surprisingly high for them too so i have backup on this. also ray's mic was so loud, i could hear every harmony, like the vocals in flw hit me directly in the guts. that sound guy saw me coming into the venue and was like "make them hear toro all the way in the nosebleeds" and i thank him for that, blessings on his children.

hang em high hang em high hang em high. always had a special place in my heart for that weird fucking song. like what the fuck is it doing on revenge. and why does it slap most severely. firmly believe the cowboy outfit didn't arrive in time so g squeezed the cowboy song into the setlist. love that for them.

oh also before teenagers gerard said something like 'okay now here's the worst song we have for you tonight" and then as the guitar riff started hopped back on mic to go, "i'm not saying it's a bad song! it's a good song!" lolol

HOW DID I FORGET CEMETERY DRIVE, i got so amped for that song like everyone near me kind of hit a slowing down point and i was jus tlike "FUCK YEAH, WAY DOWN WAY DOWN WAY DOWN"

also you know i have to talk about duct tape scars on my honey. you know i must. the hand motion? stopped dead in the middle of the stage and climbed on a speaker to do it. legitimately i had to stop singing and put my head down for a second and just process. they Know. they Fucking Know. they mean everything to me, and They God Damn Know It.

House of Wolves. kill me. kill me. kill me. kill me. i always forget how that song is my favorite on tbp until i hear that opening drum and lose my fucking mind over it. genuinely could not cope. it was wild, i lost most of the lining in my throat just from screaming "GO! GO! GO!"

and then on top of that setlist we got a triple encore. triple!!! i was hovering near tears during vampires because all of them were going so fucking hard on it and i just had this moment of realizing that everyone in this room, including the band, loves this band so much. we're all here because this band changed our lives. it just got to me, man.

the sound that went through that crowd when the piano started on cancer, though. like we all realized in the same moment and it destroyed us before gerard even sang a note. people literally sobbing from word one. thiis was like the first time that i really understood what frank means when he says he can't just listen to that song. there's just so much in that song.

and i'm like that with a lot of things after this show. i just. i get it now. every word i've heard about how good my chem is live and how much they were born for this. like. I thought i got it before. and i did, in some ways. but now, i just. i get it. they're right, they're all right. this is the best band in the world putting on the best show in the world, bar none.

#my show #mcrdallas #i'm definitely still processing everything but oh my god #i legitimately feel like a new person. like i understand now #i was blind but now i see #this is so disorganized and rambly i'm sorry if you try to read this #i'm just tyring to get down my thoughts before i start losing stuff #also like #i'm so happy #i hope that comes across #i'm so thrilled and overjoyed and deeply deeply grateful that i can't even start to express it #i love this band so fucking much and i always will

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