Finally a good concert came to the Sovereign Center, and I took advantage of it. It was on Thursday Jan 20th. I'll try to keep a long story short. I originally bought 8 GA tickets to the show. A few people told me they wanted to go, and some others I figured would want to go. I had 7 of 8 taken about a month before the show. I started asking other people to see if they wanted the last ticket. 4 days before the show and no takers so I put it on ebay. I sell it within a day and decide to meet the person at the show since I don't want to trust the mail this close to the show. The next day, someone else bails. So I put another ticket on ebay. That sells right away. Morning of the show, someone else bails! I call back some people I originally told the ticket was sold from Craiglist, and I sell that in 15 minutes. But that was only the beginning of the end. The last person I sold to turned out to be more trouble than it was worth! Let's just say they weren't very trusting I even had a ticket, was going to show up that night, and paranoid about it all since she was standing outside in line at 1:45pm!

In the end, I met all 3 people outside the Sovereign Center to give them the tickets. I looked like a scalper on the corner of Penn St. The rest of us - me, Craig, Tracey, Jen, and Jason went to the Outside In for some food and drinks before the show. The show starts at 6:30pm and we headed over just after 7pm. There was still quite a long line for GA and we waited about 25 min. This brings me to my second gripe of the night. The doors opened at 5:30pm we didn't get in until 7:40pm meaning there was a line the ENTIRE TIME for the GA entrance. How does it take over 2 hours to get just the GA people in the door??? How do major events at stadiums get 10 times more people inside? Ridiculous!

When it was all said and done, I had a really good time. I didn't know what to expect from Avenged Sevenfold, but they were really good. I was impressed. They had one of the best stage setups I've seen in a long time. I have some video of mosh pit action with Jason, but it is very dark. There were some big boys in there. Check out some of the pics and videos....


Jason in the Pit



Intro - one of the best I have seen....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxp4wXpMRvI