After the epic highs of both seeing and learning to love Love Arcade, Laura and I went to the Woodward stage to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at 8:15. I had fallen in love with Karen O, Brian Chase, and Nick Zinner at the end of my senior year of high school, and ever since I had been trying to catch one of their shows. Yet everything from being broke to a final exam to a lost ID had stopped me from experiencing their rock and roll freak outs. And Laura, being Laura, composed an epic metaphor about Karen O's voice, Rilo Kiley, and her great love for women singers. I would repeat it, but it would only make sense to, well...us.
Before the show started, adding to the weird mood of the day, we ended up meeting the bus driver for AFI. He was a grizzled man in his thirties who was going around talking to every unaccompanied nearby girl (or set of girls) he could find. While he never told us his name, he was an interesting man. Enclosed is a reasonable facsimile of some of the many life lessons he taught us:
AFI Bus Driver: Man, this business will chew you up and spit you out.
Laura: Have you driven for a lot of tours?
AFI Bus Driver: Oh man. I did Ozzfest... Warped Tour...
Megan: Which was your favorite?
AFI Bus Driver: Oh, totally Ozzfest!
Laura: Why?
AFI Bus Driver: Number one: the tits! Number two: awesome people! Number three: good money! I wish I could go back.
Megan: The tits?
AFI Bus Driver: Oh man, you see the most tits at Ozzfest.
Megan: Why can't you go back?
AFI Bus Driver: Because this business is not about you or you or me. It's about them. If you mess up, people who were once your friends will never speak to you again, because that's the business. A mistake is a mark that can spread to you and your friends. I was only ten minutes late for an hour early call time. Fired. Just like that. And now, I can never, ever drive for Ozzfest again.
That dude was a cool, weird guy, which was really the flavor of that day. After we finished talking to him, I headed into the photo pit to prepare to take pictures of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This left an excited Laura to once again write and dance by herself on the side of the stage. Even I had no idea how excited she was to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, until I read this later on...
Article comments
1 - Kristina
Great review,bravo<3
Yeah yeah yeahs and Love Arcade!<3
2 - AC3
AFI!
3 - Ally
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