My Metro story (finally!)
OK, here we go—The Metro!!!
Had a good and silly time at the pre-show! It was great meeting all of you, and seeing Claudia again, my partner in cross-country Marty trekking! ;-)
When we got there, some of my group went to the balcony, some were by the bar, and I went toward the stage with hubby and my friend from MC.org. (She is “Waiting4MC”, the girl who met Marty in NYC at the Franz Ferdinand concert, and her cell phone didn’t save the pic.)
I went up to balcony after a while to check it out and talk with the others, but I knew I couldn’t get good pics from my cell phone up there, so I decided to risk bodily harm and go back to the floor area. We were about 3 people back from the stage, right in front of center stage. After the 1st band, I went for a restroom break, then got back to my spot that the others held. That was the last time I left there until the concert ended. After the second band, hubby had enough of the floor, and went to the balcony. My friend and I stayed down there.
Dino watched the second band, Blackmaker, from the side/back of the stage for a while. He was wearing eyeliner, too, and looked hot! His hair was pulled back, so you could see his eyes. I liked that 2nd band best of the opening bands.
After last opening act, T-Bone and the rest were setting up the LH stuff, and Dino came out to help. Very cute! He probably won’t have to do that much longer!
They opened with “Ultrasound”. Smoke machines on, lights go down, and the crowd starts going wild. Bobby comes out, gets behind drums and starts pounding out that jungle rhythm. Then Dino appears, and starts the hypnotic bass groove. Then Billy, with the slippery, snake-like guitar intro.
Then…………………MARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CROWD GOES COMPLETELY BERSERK—LEAPING AND ARM PUMPING!!!!!
He appears through the smoke, and starts doing some sexy conductor moves. As soon as the light hits him, I see he’s wearing the most perfect eye make-up! OMG----SO F**KING HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His eyes are intense and burning.
He starts singing “WE CONTROL THE AUDIO---WE CONTROL THE VIDEO---WE CONTROL THE RADIO---WE CONTROL YOUR STEREO-----WHHHHHYYYYYY ARE WE ALIVE?
?” He sounds fantastic!!! Everyone is singing along at the top of their lungs. He’s wearing a grey corduroy jacket at first, along with a black shirt and his dark grey pinstriped pants. (He must loooove those pants!) Also a black belt with a silver cross-shaped buckle, and dog tags on a chain. He has bracelets and wristbands on both wrists, including an MC.org wristband. I think he was wearing his black Converse sneakers, but my eyes weren’t on his feet very much. ;-) After the first song, he took off the jacket, and I saw he had on his red armband. Shirt was long-sleeved, but the left sleeve was pushed up at first.
His voice sounded SO GOOD—no rough vocal-cord-shredding screaming. When he did scream, it was a non-damaging-sounding scream, or other times very loud singing. I think he’s brought what he learned from vocal training to his singing with Lovehammers.
My brain was turning to mush, so I can’t remember the song order, just that I was singing along with everything, and rocking out hard. He said several times that there are 4 people in the band, and that it’s not “Marty Casey and the Lovehammers”, it’s just the Lovehammers. They were all sooooo happy to be there and get that crowd reaction. Dino was smiling the whole time, Billy was very happy and delighted, Bobby was totally getting into it, and Marty was letting loose as his own unrestrained self. He was eating it up!
There was so much energy flying around the room while Marty was performing—it just blows the mind! During the show, he jumped down and came through the crowd in a half-circle out from the stage. He came right past me, and I got to rub his hair (felt smooth and soft), and pat his back. His shirt was hanging down away from his neck in back, and with the spotlight on him right there, I could see that there is a dusting of tiny freckles along his upper back and shoulders. That’s common for someone with fair skin like he has. Sexy and adorable!
He climbed the light tower and hung upside down from his knees and feet while singing. That’s amazing! Lots of belly exposure. As the show went on, his pants got lower and lower, so that when he raised his arms, the ‘love trail’ was plainly visible! OH YEAH!!!!! His skin is so beautiful, both on his body and on his face. He doesn’t need all that goop they put on him for the TV show to have gorgeous skin. Just that hot eye make-up, and he’s good to go!
Ladies, he does the eye-f*** to audience members!!!!! I got a good looooonnnng one during one song. He was in sort of a crouching position right in front of me, and saw me singing along with him and rocking out. (I’m just under 6’ tall, so I’m very noticeable in a crowd.) His eyes locked into mine with the full-on intense eye-f**k, and they just stayed, and stayed, and stayed……Must have been 5-10 seconds at least, but it felt like an eternity. I kept my eyes locked into his, and gave it right back to him. WHOA BABY!!!!! It makes you feel like your skin is on fire! SOOOOO HOT!!!!!!!!!!
I was trying to send pics to a friend on my cell phone, but it was very difficult to get good ones, because the crowd was moving so much that I couldn’t hold the phone still. Many were blurry—sorry about that! Finally I realized that between taking and sending cell phone pics, and taking film camera pics, that I was missing too much of the show, and it was going by too fast. That was when I stopped and just focused on the show.
Great performance of “Trees”, Lovehammers version!!! It should make a fantastic video. I hope they put the whole show out on DVD. My hubby said that from the balcony, the crowd on the floor looked incredible—just a sea of moving, jumping, arm-pumping mass of humanity!
They took a little break before coming out to tape another take of “Trees”, and that was when the mayhem started. When they announced that they would be filming the crowd, a pack of about 5 or 6 LARGE drunk college-age guys came shoving their way through the crowd and ended up smashing into me and my friend. They were rude and pushy, and kept shoving everyone around them to try to get their stupid faces in the video. They lifted one guy up and passed him over their heads, then they dropped him and he landed on my friend! She got a cut on her head, and a blow to the head, and almost had her earring ripped out through her flesh.
After they did “Trees” again, the last song was “This Town”. About half way through, some jerk who had gotten back stage came out from the behind the band, so neither they nor security saw him coming, and he took a stage dive into the crowd. The STUPID S.O.B. landed right on top of ME!!!!! I was knocked to the floor and my glasses went flying! He got up and left me lying there. I couldn’t get up because the crowd was closing in around me, and I was about to get trampled!!! I was screaming for help and pulling on the legs of people around me. They finally helped me up, and someone helped find my glasses. It was a miracle that they were in one piece, and only scratched. I would have been so scr*wed if they had been destroyed, because I can’t see a thing without them. It’s also a miracle that I was only bruised up, and nothing seems to be broken.
That was definitely the low-light of the night. I cursed out that stupid a-hole.
Thank goodness that I was back together in time to see Marty smash another guitar! He threw the pieces into the crowd, and my friend got a hold of a piece of the back. Some other girl grabbed the other end, so my friend broke it in half and gave her a piece. Then one of the rude jerks tried to take my friend’s piece from her, and the security guy told him to let it go, or he would be ejected. Ha ha!!!
The show ended with a thunderous ovation from the crowd, and the guys loved it!
I really hated to see it end—it went by WAY too fast!
BBE:
