Bring Me the Who? is the question I asked Bob when he proposed going to this sold out show. The name sounded familiar but in reality I had no idea what their music sounded like or anything about them. They were touring for their newest album called Amo released just a month before this show but did not schedule a San Diego show. Bob wanted to go so bad that he offered to drive, buy my ticket and pay for a hotel if I would join him. If I didn’t know Bob as well as I do this would sound an awful lot like an attempt to get in my pants. All jokes aside I am always down for an adventure, hanging out with Bob and possible amazing musical experience so I agreed to go back to beautiful Inglewood for the second time in less than three weeks.
Our story begins with a stop at BevMo in Huntington Beach to load up on beers. Right as we were about to walk in a homeless fellow that we did not previously see rolled up on us with his bike. I turned just because I sensed someone close to us and once I saw him just turned back around to walk in. This is when he said “Fuck you you white BITCH!” My brain could not process what was happening so we just continued walking in and he left. I could not stop laughing or saying “you white bitch” the rest of the day.
We arrived at the same hotel that doubles as a hostel that we stayed at for Temple of the Dog at 2 pm but they were strict about not letting us check in until 3 pm. This lead to the commencement of drinking said beers procured from BevMo. So 3 o’clock rolled around, we were assigned a room and learned that our room keys did not work once we showed up. By the way it was cold, windy and starting to rain and the rooms are the kind you enter from the outside. After multiple attempts a woman surprised us by opening the door and saying “this is my room.” Back to the front desk! After we finally got an actual room we sat around and drank some fairly stout beers which made us lose track of time which lead to me skipping dinner which lead to your everyday shitshow. I would like to tell you that I remember all or even most of the show but that would be a lie.
Remember those glasses that have built in cameras to record that I thought of while at the Forum watching Elton John a few weeks earlier? I bought some and used this show as my guinea pig show. Had I figured out how they worked maybe I could have reviewed the footage to have a better idea of what happened. What I do know is we were in the general admission floor section, we lost each other multiple times and we kept drinking. I remember a little of Thrice and I remember that Bring Me the Horizon was good. They have a wide range of musical styles from atmospheric to downright heavy. Yes this post is more about what happened leading up to the show than the actual show. Sue me.
