So much awesome-ness happened last night that I can’t possibly fit it all into one blog, so I’m just gonna talk about the best parts. I won’t even go into the opening bands other than Mark made a cameo appearance on the last song of Merriweather’s set and Jonny and Devin made cameo apperances during the last song of TheLastPlaceYouLook’s set. Oh yes, and while I was watching TLPYL I felt a little kick in the back of my knee. I turned around to see who it was and it was Mark! He gave me a hug and we talked for a little bit. He said he was “so fricken excited” for their set. So was I, of course. So okay, TLPYL finishes and Nothing More starts to set up. They set up pretty fast actually and then go off the stage and the lights are turned down. So everyone starts flipping out because we’re all “fricken excited”. No one comes on the stage for awhile though. Then this bald dude comes on, picks up Mark’s strat and starts talking. His name was Joe and he does all of NM’s merch. Joe the merchguy! Okay, so he says that he’s so in love with this girl and he wants her to come on stage. So she walks up towards the front, right next to me, and some dude helps her up. And then Joe tells her that he loves her and that he wants to sing her a song. The song was “Rest of My Life” by Unwritten Law. It was sooo cute. And at the end of the song, he busts out a ring, gets down on one knee and proposes!! She said yes too. It was the most adorable thing I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life! Okay whatever, finally NM comes on. Everyone went crazy. Some special things they did during their set, well for one, it was Dan’s 25thbirthday. And he said all he wanted was to crowd surf. So after he was assured the crowd would catch and not drop him, he got his wish and crowd surfed. Then he took a shot of Patron. Mark had a little guitar solo in between songs. It was pretty sick especially because he played it withhis mouth. Yeah that’s right. Oh they played “Bring Back the Day” which was cool considering I’ve never heard them play it live. They finally brought back the drum routine and Blake and a couple other guys did it withthem. At one point, it was Devin on the regular drums with Blake, Mark, Dan and the other guys on Jonny’s auxilary drums. Jonny was gone and all of a sudden he was in the back of the room by the sound board playing drums. It was really weird, but really cool. And it was a long drum routine, but long in a good way. They closed with “Vesica Piscis” before coming back for a two-song encore of “Fat Kid” and “Gone”. Everyone was yelling for “Fat Kid” and then Drake comes out eating a twinkie and talks about being fat. Then everyone’s favorite former fat kid, Dan, comes out eating a twinkie and then the lead singer from TLPYLcomes out with a box of twinkies and throws them out to all the fat kids in the crowd. Then it gets to the very last song of the night, and I think the most important. Jonny talked about the song and how it’s for his mom. His mom just passed away a few weeks ago and this was their first show in SA since. To say the song was emotional would be an understatement. I almost lost it several times during the song. Jonny had to stop singing at times and he kept wiping his eyes. Dan and Mark too were both very…I don’t know how to describe it. Just really into the song, but differently than they have been before. It was very touching. At the end of the song, after Jonny sung the last “gone”, he literally just threw the mic down and went straight backstage and was wiping his eyes. Poor guy. If you didn’t have at least a lump in your throat during the song, then you’ve really got no heart. After the show, I bought myself a new shirt and went to find Mark for a post-show hug. We talked for a bit and then I took off because it was after 1 and my feet were killing me. It was the best show yet. And I’ve gone to eight shows. It was one of those where, on the way home, I turned off the radio and drove home in silence because nothing could compare to what I just heard. It was sweeeeeeeet!
