Canadian Tour

Tonight I went to see Three Days Grace, Theory of a Deadman, Mobile and Idle Sons. It was one of those concerts I didn't really care if I had missed or not, but I'm glad I went. It was a pretty wicked show. Even the opening band was pretty good and I haven't really even heard anything from them. Next on stage was Mobile. They did a great job. I really love their song See Right through Me. I also think Out of my Head is a pretty cool song. The cool thing both these bands did after performing was hang out in the back signing autographs. Then we get co-headliner Theory of a Deadman. I became a big fan of this band with the song No Surprise. I think it is one of my favourite songs of the last year. I still haven't got sick of it and I love to sing along with it. It also had a pretty cool video. Before hearing that song I was sort of indifferent towards the group. They had some decent songs but nothing too huge I felt. Then the singles Santa Monica and Since You've Been gone were released and those kicked ass too. So I became a fan of theirs. Two things I thought that were cool was they played their song Invisible Man which was released on the Spiderman soundtrack and they did a cover of Stone Temple Pilots 'Sex Type Thing' (STP just so happens to be one of my fav bands of all time). Then it was Three Days Grace’s turn to wow the crowd, which they did playing all their awesome singles. I haven't heard the entire new album but they played one song off it that kicked ass so now I have to track that one down. They did two cover songs. The first was an acoustic version of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game, and the second was Filter's 'Hey Man Nice Shot'. They slid from playing 'Home' right into Filters song then back into Home. I love that about seeing bands performing live. The only thing that would have been freakin ubercool would have been to bring Theory of A Deadman on stage and have them and TDG perform a song together.

After seeing so many big arena concerts in the last few years it’s amazing the differences I’ve noticed between a small venue and a larger one. First off the security at the door was quite lacks. They asked if I had anything in my pockets then only did a quick pat down on my front jacket pockets. After the security I've been through in bigger cities I was expecting a full pat down and with metal detectors. They also didn't care about the chain on my wallet. Some of the bigger concerts I've been to have made people check them. My friend Nicole said she got a pat down by a guy and in the bigger concerts guys had to get pat downs by guys and women by women. The next thing is no matter where you sit, it is a good spot in a small venue. I was in row 37 or something on the floor for Red Hot Chili Peppers and it seemed like I was the exact same distance from the stage at this concert. I was even sitting in one of the furthest seats away from the stage. Not only was the security lacks at the door but all over. At any time I could’ve hopped over the boards to get onto the floor and I wouldn't even had to be discrete about it. Also when Three Days Grace was on someone from the crowd was able to sneak on stage and hop around for a little while before he was escorted off. While the security might not have been doing anything thing it seemed like the paramedic crews were working overtime. Half the time I was seeing then run all over the place. Someone was even put on a stretcher and that was before the headliners hit the stage.

All in all I had a sweet time.