I couldn't believe it..how rude!

[Lessa of Pern]

my younger daughter was supposed to got to a concert with her friend and the friend's mom last night...Avril Lavigne at Jones Beach. the friend had a family emeergency, so tthey gave the tickets to us...so I took both of my daughters to the concert.

so we get to our seats and I notice there's a family sitting in front of us -- mom, dad, another adult, 3-4 kids. they take up most of the row. they're eating their pretzels, hot dogs, etc. while they talk with the family sitting in the row in front of them.

the opening act (some guy named butch walker) comes on stage, and sings for 45 minutes. then there's a 10 minute intermission.

just as Gavin DeGraw takes the stage, the whole family -- dad, mom, the other adutl and the kids -- get up and leave. seems that they weren't sitting in their own seats. they knew the family sitting in the other row and decided to socialize until the real owners of the seats showed up.

and they left all the garbage from their hot dogs, fries, etc. on the floor when they left.





btw, it was a great show. she sang all her hits. eveyr kid in the audience knew all the words.

had to laugh. she flirts with satanic symbols...there was a red pentagram on her banner...and she wore a headband with devil's horns for one song.

(but how edgy is it, really, when you can buy light-up devil's horns from the guy who sells the glowsticks?)

 

[Cebhfhionn]

Its fun to have light up horns.

Just curious though, was the 'Pentagram' updside down or right side up?

 

[Cebhfhionn]

I just realized that maybe I sounded a little mean in my last post.

I hate when people behave at concerts or any place for that matter like that family in front of you did.

I went to a Tori Amos concert last week and there were people smoking all over the place even though the No Smoking signs are all over the place.

 

[Lessa of Pern]

Its fun to have light up horns.

Just curious though, was the 'Pentagram' updside down or right side up?

bright red pentagram, rightside up...skull and crossbones on another banner...

it's supposed to give you an"edgy" feel...but the metal bands of the 70's and 80's make Avril's little pentagram seem almost Disneyish...

 

[Cebhfhionn]

Right side up pentagram isn't Satanic at all. Satanists turn all good things upside down.

Nice that you got to take your girls to the concert. I took my DS(7 at the time) to see Bon Jovi and he fell asleep. I told him that the band stopped the concert to ask who was snoring! He didn't find me nearly as amusing as I found myself!

 

[Lessa of Pern]

a lot of my daughters' freinds were at this concert. my sister joked that we should just move all these concerts to our high school auditorium...and save ourselves the ride to Jones Beach.

 

[Lessa of Pern]

we're going to see Green Day at Giants Stadium on thursday. that should be an interesting concert.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

That should be cool. Green Day's new CD is pretty awesome.

TOV

 

[Lessa of Pern]

my 13 year old claims she owns a copy of every CD they ever recorded...including CD's from before she was born.

I'm starting to feel old..if the hottest group at the VMA started recording before my dd was born...

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I was probably in my freshman or soph year of HS when they first started becoming popular and even I feel old when I see them on VH1.

TOV

 

[Tjaleks]

TOV- I have a question. My DS's 9&10 both like the Green Day songs on the radio and was going to buy their newest CD for them, but had an adult warning label. Is it really that bad or would it be okay for them?

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

That would be up to you to decide, tbh. I think it's fine...but you need to read the lyrics and make that decision for yourself.



TOV

 

[Lessa of Pern]

my girls are teens and I'm fairly liberal.

but I would not have bought this CD for either of them when they were 9 or 10.

 

[Tjaleks]

They understand that there are adult words that they can say. It is pretty funny listening to them sing and they edit the words they know they can't say. I guess I was wondering if there was anything raunchy, or sexually explicate?

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

You'd have to ask Lessa. I've really only heard 3 songs off the new album (American Idiot, Wake Me When September Ends and Boulevard of Broken Dreams).

TOV

 

[TinkerBelle2992]

I would have LOVED to go to an Avril concert. She came here on Halloween, and a bunch of us "we're going to go". But we had no ride, and no money. We would have had to stay overnight somewhere probably. But she is my favorite singer.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

I just realized that maybe I sounded a little mean in my last post.

You didn't sound mean! That was my first thought as well.

 

[Lessa of Pern]

TOV- I have a question. My DS's 9&10 both like the Green Day songs on the radio and was going to buy their newest CD for them, but had an adult warning label. Is it really that bad or would it be okay for them?

they tend to throw the "f" word around occassionally, but it's not like the songs are constantly filled with expletives. if you're ok with the punk rock image and the culturally alienated, anti-establishment, anti-redneck, anti-moral majority feel of the songs, then buy the CD.

example:

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

example:

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind *&%$ America.

example:

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends

and you know "boulevard of Broken Dreams", I suspect.

 

[CookieGVB]

(but how edgy is it, really, when you can buy light-up devil's horns from the guy who sells the glowsticks?)

I saw these last week...in Petsmart!! That's all I'd need in the house - a Devil Dog.

 

[mommytotwo]

That was really rude of them.