Posted 10 February 2005 - 4:06 AM
I love being up at the front during a show. It makes me feel young. ;)
The 2 times I saw the Chems live at Coachella, we were in the middle, near the mixers. Though I would've liked to have been front and center, being in the middle was was actually great because it was like being swallowed by this enormous sound all around you. Lost completely in the music.
At the last Coachella event, a friend of mine who we involuntarily got seperated from managed to get up front and center because she thought for sure we'd have fought our way to the front. Poor thing, she was up front all by her lonesome. Anyway - she said the sound was actually a little too much. The way she described it was like she was trying to keep afloat while this huge, noisy wall of sound kept crashing over her.
Still, I would love to be up front for a live gig, like where chi and Lita were. Imagine that, imagine being up in front of a huge mass of people. The idea is kind of scarey but really exciting, too!
The 2 times I saw the Chems dj, I was up at the front (though the first time mid-set I let a couple people in front of me because one of them had his little boy on his shoulders, and I thought that was so adorable.) The sound was good, and you keep an eye on what's going on on stage (not like I know what Tom and Ed are really doing with all that vinyl.) It's still cool, being right there up front is the fountain of youth for me.
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