Hey hey hey, what a wonderful Saturday Evening i had. It first start off with going into NYC, and obtaining a nice bottle of vodka, and few bottles of redbull. We preceded into Starbucks and asked for a BIG cup so we could have a bigger drinking cup to hold more vodka and redbull, which in turns equals more drunkness.
My friends and I wandered around NYC, and made out way into the David Letterman Late Now Show bulding. In there, my friends and I signed up for tickets to be in Dave's audience sometime in Mid-May.
After that, it was time for me and one other friend to go on meet the guy from Krock in a sketchy area. I decide to smoke a blunt on the way.
We meet the guy from krock at 5:45pm and he tells us that at 6:00pm we are to go on AudioSlaves TOUR BUS. Excitement overwhelms me. I AM GOING TO MEET THE BAND! The next 15 minutes were long. It was raining out but I didn't mind. We were with a few other LUCKY winners, probably 8 or so.
Then another STAFF member comes out, be he's not a staff memeber hes the TOUR MANAGER and he comes and starts giving us special BUS PASSES and tells us he is going to take us around the corner to the tour bus.
I didnt know what i was thinking at this point. All i know is i was going crazy. We walk around the block and then we have to cross the street. We have to wait for the crosswalk sign to tell us it was okay to cross. Man waiting for this damn crosswalk sign seemed to take forever. We could see the bus in our view. Finally the light tells us to cross.
We approach the bus, now I'm right behind the tour manager, and he opens the door to the bus. I climb in. My heart is racing. It's raining out.
I finish climbing the stairs and I am just awwwed. I look down the whole bus, which is really really long and i just don't know where to sit.
The TOUR MANAGER tells us, "You can sit anywhere but the beds. You can sit anywhere but the beds. I'll say it again. You can sit ANYWHERE but the beds.
So I'm walking down the bus, I see a mini-studio, a sick ass bathroom, THE BEDS, mirrors everywhere, a microwave, a pot of coffee, a table, blue leather couches, more tables, and i contiue all the way down the bus until i reach the LAST ROOM, which is the TV room.
The TV room had nice candles burning, nice smell, a table on the right side, and a couche on the left. Me and my friend Shane grabbed the table, my seat closest to the TV, VCR, DVD player, video games(man they had everything@!!!)
Then two dudes, who snuck Jack Daniels on the bus, grabbed the couche. Really roomy and home like. Man the seat were amazingly comfortable. Speakers were set up behind my head in a cabinet and there were speqakers on the beds. Our room was loaded with fucken speakers man.
The Tour bus manager tells us that we can take pictures BUT NOT OF THE BAND!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
So of course the flashes started. Our room was the more superior room, and im not just saying that, everyone else in the bus looked uncomfortable (i dont know why) but we had THE seats.
The tour bus manager then comes on the loud speakers and informs us that we are going to be on the BUS for 1 HOUR!! I lost it. I'm a little drunk and I'm going crazy. He then tells us we are going to listen to the NEW CD "Out of Exile" from start to finish. We cheered. We woo'd.
Then the manager tells us no to be shy and rock out and just go nuts. Take no shame he tells us. Hold no reserve.
Then he tells us he's going to get some of the band members and to sit tight. He encourages us to take some WATER BOTTLES from the bus and drink away. He tells us we can use the BATHROOM but no NUMBER 2's. He shows us how to use the bathroom. It's got some weird opening/closing button.
Shane and I had a box of tissues on our table, so we stuffed a bunch of them into our pockets. There seemed to be some ASHES from what looked like a CASHED OUT BOWL, so we wiped the ashes up with a tisses. LOL. I know.
So all of sudden the tour bus door opens in the front and I cant see who walked on. I'm going, "Who is it..who is it...who is it?"
And who was it you ask?
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Chris Cornell and Tom (The bassist)!!!!!!
WOOOOO!!!! CHRIS CORNELL. Now he's shaking hands with people, and since we're all the way in the LAST ROOM, the anticipation of meeting his is driving me crazy. Sooooooooooo finally he makes it into our room, and to our table. I stand up, put out my hand, and say "THANK YOU". He says, "NO, THANK YOU." And he smiled. We talke or a second (i gave a little 'my wave, my wave" to him, and then the bassist TIM came in!~!!!!
WOW HE IS A BIG MAN. I stand up to shake his hand and man is his hand huge. All his tats in person are even sicker than seeing him on stage or in a pic. Tim was the nicest man. I just thanked him for all the sick bass lines, and he chilled. It was nice chatting with him, but Chris quickly left the bus.
After the band members left, the tour manager came back on the loudspeaker and told us we were now going to listen to the new cd from front to back, track by track. The Cd running time was approx. 54 minutes he said, so we were gonna chill.
All I can say about their new CD: FUCKEN AWSOME. Go buy it. Everyone must have a copy of this cd. It blows the last one out of the water.
And man were the fucken speakers amazing. Better than any...any speakers ive heard(and yes i've heard $17,000 speakers before)......
I rocked out hard. Some people from MTV were filming our reactions on the bus. I was going all out to the music. The tour manager would say each track name before the track so it was mad cool. The song OUT OF EXILE is amazing...
Now..if that wasnt enough for me...we then got to go into the SHOW for FREE. We had General Admission seats because Roseland Ballroom is only general admission...but anyways me and Shane pushed ourselves up to the FRONT about 4 or 5 people behind the guardrail, RIGHT IN FRONT OF TOM MORELLO...
HIGHLIGHTS: Killing in the name of!!!!!! Fucken rocked the place. At the end of killing in the name Tom Morello put of two huge middle fingers out....and then SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE was amazing...Tom Morello was looking right at me and mouthing the words "I am the nina, the pinta, the santa maria, the noose and rapist...etc"
That got me so amped. Chris had the crowd in the palms of his hand. Chris: "We're gonna go off the map if ya don't mind...." And then SPOONMAN started. After the song he goes, "That was for the young ones..(points to a girl) You didn't ever get to see that...you were to young..." HAHAHA
1. SET IT OFF
2. EXPLODER
3. YOUR TIME HAS COME
4. LIKE A STONE
5. SPOONMAN
6. GASOLINE
7. DROWNING ME SLOWLY
8. DOENS'T REMIND ME
9. BE YOURSELF
10. BULLS ON PARADE/SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE (Bulls on parade was instrumental, just the opening and then the crazy SOLO, and then some other CLASSIC sounds from Bulls on parade)
11. OUTSHINED (I cant fucken believe i saw this..."GIVES ME THE BUTTERFLIES, GIVES ME AWAY, CUZ IM DOWN ON ME KNEES TODAY!!"
12. SHADDOW ON THE SUN
Encore
13. BLACK HOLE SUN "This song goes out to my wife Vikki. Before she knew who I was or anything about me...this is all she knew"(just chris acoustic)
14. I AM THE HIGHWAY(Chris alone accoustic for the first chorus then followed with the full band, but before the song started Chris sang a little RUSH, a song from 2112)
15. SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE "I'm not religious, and this song is about as religious as I get"
16. KILLING IN THE NAME OF (FUCKEN CRAZY!!! Tom Morello did the famous slow opening that he did with RATM)
17. COCHISE
I go see the Mars Volta Friday....wooo...and all this happened for FREE
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