Rockstock '97 09/05/97

I got to the new world music theater like, um around like.. 1:07 I think, so I walked in, I didn't get my camera taken!!! (go me!! woo hoo!) so I looked at the program listing thingie or whatever which was like this:
MAIN STAGE:
nixons
7 mary 3
cracker
local h
veruca salt
megadeth
faith no more
2ND STAGE:
tea party
brother cane
helmet
days of the new
silverchair
gravity kills

3RD STAGE:
limp bizkit
cool 4 august
tenderloin
jimmie's chicken shack
fat
soak
so, here's the problem. veruca salt gets over at the exact same time as silverchair begins! so I decided to see silverchair, cause they are my favorite band and all, and as much as I love veruca, I love silverchair more! *heh* okay, so first of all I checked out my seats which sucked so I got up and walked around, I went to the second stage, listened to like, I dun one seconded of tea party and didn't really like them, I don't like the nixons much so I didn't watch them either, so I went and checked out limp bizkit, who I’d never heard before. they were cool! I’m gunna buy their CD. and they said something like "we've toured with Korn, and soon we'll be going on tour with deftones, and if anybody sees one of the boys from silverchair send them over, cause we've never met them." then I decided to go look for my friends, I did a few laps around the place, and I didn't see Christy or Jenn, or any of the other people they were with, and I didn't see Sarah yet either. so I went and bought my self a silverchair, burgundy with the abuse me freak on the cover and a blue helmet shirt. then I finally found Sarah, and her friend Julie, who was pretty cool as well. then the three of us stood at the place that separates backstage from the outside and made fun of the teenies and talked about silverchair and other stuff, it was cool. then this guy walks pass us in the backstage area and stuff and I’m like "wait who was that guy?" and then it hits me.. "OH MY GOD THAT WAS PAIGE HAMILTON!@!!!!!" and I was like shit I missed him and stuff. but then Sarah, Julie and I went over the the 2ed stage area (which wasn't far from where we were standing, and we found some good spots, so we waited a while, but then, a bad thing happened, I was feeling really dizzy and began having one of my low blood sugar problems so I told Sarah and Julie that I needed something to drink and eat and so I went off, as I left I faintly heard "William’s rainbow" begin and stuff. so I go in line and there's a bitch in front of me and blah blah blah, then I hear my self proclaimed helmet song "birth defect", barley but I was still in line, finally I get in front and get my stuff, but this time of course helmet is over. then I go find Sarah again and I am informed that silverchair, well actually just Daniel and Ben were just their, and appeared out of like, no where, so we wait a bit more wondering what happened to them, and then Julie joins us again, and this strange teenie girl asks us if we'd mind going to get something she left back at her seat that she wanted to give to Daniel, and we're like "no, we aren't going to do that" so she went and we were laughing about her and stuff. then long haired guys would come by, and people would think they were Daniel, ect ect. then we found out this stupid little girl that couldn't have been much more then 8 or something with a sequined shirt on and a garfeild sweat shirt on around her waist and purple hair, was planing on asking Ben out, she was with her mom. what an idiot? first of all, she's 8, Ben’s 17, and why the hell would he want to go out with her?! it was crazy. then after some time, a van pulls up through the gate that was right next to us, and I look into the font window, and sure enough I see Chris looking confused and Daniel doing his now famous pout. I couldn't spot Ben though.. so that was followed by screaming. and then Sarah and Julie and I were devising some sort of plan to either a.fool the teenies or b.get backstage. of course neither really worked, but then we see Ben coming up to the behind the stage area which we could see all of, he was wearing his blue billabong shirt(big surprize!) and long baggy khaki's. and he does have a mohawk for all those non believers, it's kinda cute actually, not at all as bad as I thought it would look. and like not really many people around us cared. I heard some girls go like "oh my god! isn't that um... Chris or something?" I felt so bad for him.. it sucks that not really very many people like him you know? so Ben was trying out his drums and watching Joan Jett (who was btw playing now) and then the little girls mom actually came and talked to him, *lol* i wonder what she said, and how the hell she got backstage!! heh, then Chris came out who was NOT wearing his normal attire of long shorts and a short sleeved Korn shirt, but he was wearing the shorts, just a different long sleeved t shirt, it was white I think. and he looked VERY confused, as did Ben, but Chris did more so I believe, and he just stood there watching Joan Jett as well, and drinking some water and then some girl came up to talk to him and he looked surprized and wanting to get away from her. so then I got some pictures of Chris, and more of Ben as well. then, still no sign of the teenie favorite, Daniel, and it was almost show time, so we go find places in the pit and hear veruca salt playing at that moment over the loud speaker. they played:
spiderman '79
benjamin
shutterbug
seether
earthcrosser
venus man trap
victorla
volcano girls
and
shimmer like a girl
weird thing was, when Ben came on stage to try out more drums and stuff Benjamin was playing which goes to prove even more to my theory that veruca loves Ben! (you know the whole they have the song Benjamin, they thank the gillies family in the CD booklet, ect. it's quite stupid but oh well! heh) oh yeah, and Nina said "I put some M&M's in my bra today cause I wanted to give you all a treat, but now they're all melting, M&M's the candy that melts in your bra, not in your hand." or something along those lines. then there was a fight in the pit and then the gards through water on us, and then the show started off by the strange music they play now at the beginning, I really don't know how to describe it, it's like kinda tribal, kinda tecno, kinda weird.. and then Ben and Chris came on and then Daniel the crowd went insane, I really really really mean it, they broke into "madman" and I thought I was truely going to die, it was hell, the mosh was horrible, worse then anyone I’d ever been in, so I am like "I want out" and so this security guy lifts me up, and the crowd pushes me a bit, I wind up with my long skirt kinda over my head(meaning my underwear was totally visible, I was modified) and there I was in front of the stage, right in front of Chris, and like it was so weird, I just had this urge to either pass out or to jump on stage, of course I did neither and then I was asked to be moved to the side of the stage, which was fine by me, cause then I could see like fantastic! it was so awesome!! I loved it, I could totally see Ben and Chris, which normally I can't see, I mean Chris I can normally see but Ben’s usually hidden behind the drums, it was so cool watching him drum you know? oh btw he changed into his normal out fit (no shirt and long shorts) and so did Chris. I don't remember what Daniel was wearing.. b'oh well! I don't really remember much of which Daniel said I think he was like "Chicago is a lovely little American community" at some point and um I dunno what else really.. the set list went like this:
madman
freak
abuse me
pure massacre
tomorrow ("the water in Chicago’s very hard to drink, you think you can keep on going living like a _______" I don't remember the word he said, in place of king, and he introduced it as "this is a song about peace, love and happiness" so I thought it'd be like learn to hate but it wasn't..)
the door
no association(really cool)
SPAWN!!!(Daniel goes "this is a silverchair song" and I was like what is this? OH MY GOD IT'S SPAWN! it was soooooooo fantastic! and you could really tell the teenies from the TRUE fans like us! *heh*)
and
Israel’s son
I swear to god, Chris got into like a vat of sugar or caffeine or something cause he was SOOOO hyper! like really really like jumping around and doing lunges and running around the stage, I’d never seen him ever do that before it was cool to see him like getting into the songs and everything. oh yeah, so at like about pure massacre I think it was (and I took a bunch more pictures btw) Julie comes up to me shortly followed by Sarah, who had both gotten out of the pit as well and we just all found each other. unfortunately Julie was pretty hurt and stuff, so we took her to first aid. oh! after silverchair was done, Ben goes off stage, followed by Chris, and Ben talked to some handicap girl which I thought was really nice of him, and then him and Chris talked while Daniel rambled on on stage, and then he walks out all hunched over and two gards come and whisk him past the teenies and into this golf cart thing or something, and Ben and Chris just went alone to the gold cart, so special treatment for them or anything. then we went to the first aid place, we meant some really asshole gards, I got some cool stickers, I met Christy’s friend Amy, and um that's about it really, it was a cool day! except for the hellish mosh pit and stuff...if anybody wants to do a photo trade with me that's fine! I’ll make up a copy for them if they have some good live silverchair shots as well. k that's if it's the end.

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