Alright, I'll type out what I can remember.
I got the tickets to Endfest from No Name at the Beach House on the last day. I went specifically to get the tickets and to hang out on the last day for the End-a-roke. As a bonus, I got a meet and greet with the Bravery.
No Name came through and I picked up my tickets and meet and greet info at the station a few days later.
I show up about an hour after they opened and got there to hear the last End-a-roke song and it was over. (That was THE last show, by the way, Jim doesn't have enough time to be in the band anymore) That's ok, I've done it a hell of a lot of times anyway.
I start greeting all my friends that I see around and my friend Travis (Who I met the week before at the Safeco Field Ivar's Clambake End-a-roke) comes up.
We chat for a bit and we each have a meet and greet. His is for the Smashing Pumpkins and mine is for the Bravery. He gets super excited, because wanted mine. He even brought one of the covers from their album to sign.
Meet and greets come in pairs, to take your friend with you and neither of us had anyone else to go to either with, yet. So we basically traded our spares with each other.
I later found out he got his by asking one of our friends at the station for one. (I don't want to name who, just in case)
Throughout the day we would hide our SP passes, because we knew the demand for them. It turns out later only 6 pairs were given out. Other one had DOZENS.
We watch a few bands, like Shiny Toy Guns, but start lining up for the Bravery MnG. Waiting... waiting... it got delayed. To RIGHT BEFORE the SP MnG. We're paranoid because we already missed a few bands we wanted to see and now we'd have to choose between the two?
Travis jokes about revoking our trade because of the high demand and we kill time by winning ourselves some free colored condoms, but no STDs. (planned parenthood wheel you got to spin. STD = tickets n prizes)
So after a long period of waiting, the time gets close and it turns out we can go to both. We got to go to the front of the Bravery MnG line, Joe (one of the guys at the station, the moderators' boss) hands us spare Endfest posters for the Bravery to sign if we didn't have anything else. Perfect.
Then we quickly get in line behind a bunch of the tour buses and a few more people join us, the SP MnG people. We knew like half of them. Kind of funny, because outside of 6, that means that people in know get more.
Some rules are given to us and in no uncertain terms stated that if Billy Corgan doesn't feel like doing this, he isn't doing this. Just having a CHANCE to be near him is lucky enough for us.
So the twelve of us are in a line. Two security guards get in the front and two in the back and they walk us out of the parking lot field. We go inside the stadium, and we're being closely monitored the entire time. Once we're about halfway inside the stadium, we're told to wait against this plain white wall.
The rules are stated again:
DON'T get over excited
Only ONE item to sign
Pictures YES, Posing with them NO
Don't touch them
DON'T get over excited
It's pretty serious. Eventually we hear a little golf cart running down the hall and the band is driven by. A lady tells us that Billy's writing the setlist right now and will be out shortly after. We all get handed Zeitgeist posters, but a few people already had some things, like the Zeitgeist LE Art Book.
Eventually they come out. We're all given pens, as are they and they proceed to work opposite sides of the line, to do it faster. I try to be courteous, while at the same time realizing the rarity of what is happening.
One kid next to me is completely ignoring the rules and he got to pose with everybody in the band in a photo, except Billy. When Billy got to him and the kid asked for the picture, Billy said "I'm not a fucking clown." and that was the end of that. Kinda scary because otherwise it went VERY smoothly and everyone seemed relaxed and happy.
So once we start breathing again, we're escorted right back out the same way we came in.
Then we just had to wait for the concert to begin. I was there nearly the whole day and my legs were killing me. At one point I sat down and one guard said to sit AGAINST the wall and another said to get AWAY for it. So I just walked away.
Anyways, I heard the important songs, had fun, and left like 2 or 3 before the end, because I was REALLLLLLY tired and didn't want to get stuck in traffic.
I got the tickets to Endfest from No Name at the Beach House on the last day. I went specifically to get the tickets and to hang out on the last day for the End-a-roke. As a bonus, I got a meet and greet with the Bravery.
No Name came through and I picked up my tickets and meet and greet info at the station a few days later.
I show up about an hour after they opened and got there to hear the last End-a-roke song and it was over. (That was THE last show, by the way, Jim doesn't have enough time to be in the band anymore) That's ok, I've done it a hell of a lot of times anyway.
I start greeting all my friends that I see around and my friend Travis (Who I met the week before at the Safeco Field Ivar's Clambake End-a-roke) comes up.
We chat for a bit and we each have a meet and greet. His is for the Smashing Pumpkins and mine is for the Bravery. He gets super excited, because wanted mine. He even brought one of the covers from their album to sign.
Meet and greets come in pairs, to take your friend with you and neither of us had anyone else to go to either with, yet. So we basically traded our spares with each other.
I later found out he got his by asking one of our friends at the station for one. (I don't want to name who, just in case)
Throughout the day we would hide our SP passes, because we knew the demand for them. It turns out later only 6 pairs were given out. Other one had DOZENS.
We watch a few bands, like Shiny Toy Guns, but start lining up for the Bravery MnG. Waiting... waiting... it got delayed. To RIGHT BEFORE the SP MnG. We're paranoid because we already missed a few bands we wanted to see and now we'd have to choose between the two?
Travis jokes about revoking our trade because of the high demand and we kill time by winning ourselves some free colored condoms, but no STDs. (planned parenthood wheel you got to spin. STD = tickets n prizes)
So after a long period of waiting, the time gets close and it turns out we can go to both. We got to go to the front of the Bravery MnG line, Joe (one of the guys at the station, the moderators' boss) hands us spare Endfest posters for the Bravery to sign if we didn't have anything else. Perfect.
Then we quickly get in line behind a bunch of the tour buses and a few more people join us, the SP MnG people. We knew like half of them. Kind of funny, because outside of 6, that means that people in know get more.
Some rules are given to us and in no uncertain terms stated that if Billy Corgan doesn't feel like doing this, he isn't doing this. Just having a CHANCE to be near him is lucky enough for us.
So the twelve of us are in a line. Two security guards get in the front and two in the back and they walk us out of the parking lot field. We go inside the stadium, and we're being closely monitored the entire time. Once we're about halfway inside the stadium, we're told to wait against this plain white wall.
The rules are stated again:
DON'T get over excited
Only ONE item to sign
Pictures YES, Posing with them NO
Don't touch them
DON'T get over excited
It's pretty serious. Eventually we hear a little golf cart running down the hall and the band is driven by. A lady tells us that Billy's writing the setlist right now and will be out shortly after. We all get handed Zeitgeist posters, but a few people already had some things, like the Zeitgeist LE Art Book.
Eventually they come out. We're all given pens, as are they and they proceed to work opposite sides of the line, to do it faster. I try to be courteous, while at the same time realizing the rarity of what is happening.
One kid next to me is completely ignoring the rules and he got to pose with everybody in the band in a photo, except Billy. When Billy got to him and the kid asked for the picture, Billy said "I'm not a fucking clown." and that was the end of that. Kinda scary because otherwise it went VERY smoothly and everyone seemed relaxed and happy.
So once we start breathing again, we're escorted right back out the same way we came in.
Then we just had to wait for the concert to begin. I was there nearly the whole day and my legs were killing me. At one point I sat down and one guard said to sit AGAINST the wall and another said to get AWAY for it. So I just walked away.
Anyways, I heard the important songs, had fun, and left like 2 or 3 before the end, because I was REALLLLLLY tired and didn't want to get stuck in traffic.
