Family Values Tour September 9th @ DTE (Detroit, MI)
Me and my uncle left at 11:15-ish and ate lunch and got to DTE at around 1:00. When we left it was warm and sunny. On the way there it poured (not back in Windsor though...) and the temperature dropped like whoa.
When we got in I went looking for the FYE tent and before I lined up, some girl said to me, "oh, another Dir en grey fan. We're not alone." Hahaha. So, I went up and it didn't seem like they had The Code of VULGAR[ism] so, I asked for It Withers and Withers and VULGAR. The girl getting the stuff for me was nice enough to tell me that I could only meet them if I bought a signed copy of Withering to death. So I did. My 3rd copy. Anyways, that was $100 right there x_x And I got a wristband with purple circles.
After that, we went and sat down. Our tickets were for centre JJ and I was worried about not being able to see anything, but I could see perfectly! Walls of Jericho were first on. I wasn't overly thrilled with them, but they weren't bad. Bullets and Octane were next and their vocalist's pants were so ****ing low! The guys sitting behind me kept yelling, "pull up your pants!" and "we don't wanna see your ass!" lmao. I liked them better because I have a thing against female vocalists. I suck, I know. Then it was Deadsy. What kinda name is that? I do not know. They kinda sucked hahaha. I heard Bury Your Dead were good, but I didn't really like them either. They got the crowd going though. And their vocalist went up into the lawn. Last was 10 Years. I thought they were really good. Oh, their vocalist came out in a winter coat and big, yellow... rainboots? He also slipped at some point. But, on the left side of the stage, they had the next set of drums there and at this point meant they were Shinya's. Then, he went over and tested them or something. Now, I liked 10 Years, but nothing they could do at this point would get my mind away from Dir en grey.Dir en grey.Dir en grey! (Thanks, Shinya XP)
It was so cold there, all I did was shiver through all those bands, but finally Dir en grey came out! I stood up for them and noticed some other fans close by me. They opened with G.D.S and after a couple times of "kill! kill! kill!" they finally came out. It was pretty surreal for me. I wasn't watching/listening to this on my computer or TV, they were right there. Kyo put the bucket on his head, but I'm not sure if it said anything. He did the blood thing and cut his stomach. Die and Toshiya seemed really into it and energectic :) When they started with Saku, I couldn't even tell what it was lol. Ryoujoku no Ame sounds so good live and the new song was really, really good! I was really freaking happy they played THE IIID EMPIRE and Merciless Cult. They were so completely ****ing awesome live, I can't even tell you. It seemed like it was over so fast, though.
G.D.S
Saku
Ryoujoku no Ame
Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku
Merciless Cult
dead tree
New Song (I haven't listened to the Budokan rip, so I'm not sure which it was)
THE FINAL
THE IIID EMPIRE
Right after that we went to the meet and greet. We actually wound up in the Korn line first but we figured it out soon enough. I knew there were some people in the pavillion, but the line for the m&g was ****ing huge! There had to have been over 100 people for sure. Die and Shinya were doing it this time. It's literally 2.5 seconds you're with them, lol. I shook their hands and said, "thank you" and that was that. I'm surpised I wasn't nervous at all. I was in line but by the time I got up there, I was fine.
Then, I went to another stand thing and bought a Dir en grey t-shirt with tour dates and a poster. Another $40 :) Me and my uncle took our seats again. We missed Flyleaf (who I really wanted to see) because of Dir en grey's meet and greet, but were in time to see some of Stone Sour's set. If I had more than $10 left, I would have bought their CD. They were awesome. They played Through Glass, which I love and Bother but they had some really heavy stuff too. At this point I was trembleing I was so cold, which made it hard to enjoy the bands as much as I should have. Finally after a while, Deftones came on. I used to love them so I was glad to be able to see them. I haven't been keeping up with their releases but all the songs they played were really good. At one point, Chino went into Justin Timberlake's Sexyback, lol. Now the seats were almost all filled and the lawn was getting crowded. They played Change, so I was happy about that and I'll probably look into their music again. After quite a long break, Korn were on. The seats were all full and the lawn was packed. It was crazy how into it everyone was. It seemed like everyone knew the lyrics. I'm not really big on them other than a few songs, but they were definitely great! As I said before, I was so cold I just wanted it to be over but every once and a while I remembered who I was seeing and payed attention. It was so loud hahaha. All of them are really energetic and they sounded amazing; and for someone like me who doesn't really like them, they made it easy for me to start to. I was hoping they'd play Thoughtless but they didn't, but they did play Got the Life <3. As soon as they walked off stage we got up and started to leave because traffic would have been insase. We were thinking they were going to do an encore, making it a good time for us to leave, but I'm not sure if they did or not.
Overall, it was one kick ass first concert experience! Well, minus the temperature and misty rain. I don't think you can argue with a list of bands like that. They were all really enjoyable, even though I went pretty much for Dir en grey.
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