Wait from 7:45-9:45 standing outside.....wait from 9:45-10:30 standing inside. It's fucking bullshit, whatever. Anyway, we get in there and they have it all setup nice. It's in the TRL Room and it's setup tastefully. So they start us out by making us clap and scream and all that bullshit for the camera. It's annoying....15min of it SUCKS. So then they explain shit and Dave comes out. He's got his bourbon in hand...I'm convinced he NEEDS some alcohol in him in order to play a show....but that's just me.
He talks for a couple minutes and then they do the introduction and he busted into So Damn lucky. It's fucking great live and even though I already had one, I tabbed it out
Next they make Dave leave the stage(WHICH HE WAS PISSED ABOUT BECUASE ALL HE WANTED TO DO WAS PLAY FOR US) and they have to re-arrange the room for the Q&A session. I had to get up from my seat and go behind where Dave was sitting. I push my way to the front and am standing like 2 feet away from his DM3MD. I wanted to take it....run and jump through the window and peace out....I decided not to. Amazing guitar in person. It's funny though because his is all banged up from usage.....dings all over. He just goes about it like usual...any of us would go crazy if we had that guitar and air blew by it the wrong way. I tried to see what # he's using and couldn't catch it...oh well.
Now the room is re-arranged and we see why MTV FUCKING SUCKS. They have pre-written down questions for Dave. And that would be fine if the questions we GOOD ONES. One of the fucking questions was, "The first song on the album, DoDo, starts out with the lyrics 'Once Upon a Time', is the whole album telling a story". Another fucking question was "With all these famous people going into politics, and you being very political, would you ever run for office?" At this point everyone starts cheering and saying shit like....YEAH, DAVE FOR PRESIDENT. UGH...so Dave turns it funny by saying he can't run for anything because of all the "stuff"(read drugs for all you youngins) he's done in the past. He even goes on to say that, "We all thought Clinton was much worse than he really is....but now George W.....THAT GUY KNOWS HOW TO PARTY. It was really great.
Oh yeah, one question goes "You've said that this album is very personal..." and Dave replied with "I've never said that...other people have...but not me" It was great and you'll get to see it on TV(hopefully).
So they move the room around back around for Dave to play more and I get a great idea to put a note on his little stand while they're changing it around. Here's what the note said(written on my pad i brought for tabbing):
Front: "Thank you from DMBTabs.com"
Back: "Dave- I just wanted so say, on behalf of dmbtabs.com and all my board members, thank you for the maaizng music you've put out. Check out DMBTabs.com!!! -Jared Kanter"
So I'm going to put it on his table on the way back to my seat and the lady who runs shit decides THIS TIME she wants to stand next to the table so no one knocks stuff off. I'm pissed and walk over and say, "I run a website and just wanted to get this to Dave, can I put it on his table?" and she says "No, it's not possible, there's no way" to which I reply "But there is a way, I drop it 3 inches from where we're standing onto his table and he reads it later" and she says "I would take it off if you did". Ugh, I wanted to smack her in the face and then stomp on her fucking appendiges.
FUCK YOU YOU STUPID BITCH OF A WOMAN......FUCK YOU FOR BEING A FUCKING WHORE.
Ah, alright, sorry....had to get that out. Ok, now, so Dave comes back out and talks for a couple minutes more and is gonna play the song Save Me. The song is about the Devil asking Jesus, "Can you Save Me also???". THIS IS ONE OF MY NEW FAVORITE DAVE SONGS.....IT FUCKING RULES. I can't stress enough how good it is. Anyway, I got a FULL tab for it so don't worry
Amazing songs with some great lyrics.So then they have to do the ending shot and he starts playing....what else.....Crash(Yes, the screams were present). Oh well, it was really an amazing version and the intimacy was nice. They cut the cameras(or what will be shown) and Dave tells us that he needed to get off his chest that he can't fully believe in God. He prays that one day he will....but can't right now. Then he tells us he doesn't fully support what's going on in the US right now(War) but 100% supports the "brave men and women overseas". Then he says he feels like playing another song becuase he feels bad we only got to hear 3 songs and busts out a GREAT version of Loving Wings. It was really amazing.
So he leaves and they start taking down the set stuff. I see the guy take a pick out of Dave's mic stand. I stand up and scream, "CAN I GET THE PICK!!!" and the guy looks over at me. Then as soon as he looks at me, upon hearing me scream that, EVERYONE IN THE STUDIO turns around and all at once go, "I want a pick"...."Give ME the pick"...blah blah blah. Fucking assholes....anyway, the guy says to everyone, "What pick? There aren't any" and pulls something off the mic stand as if that's what they were talking about.
He then looks at me, winks, and nods me around to the side of the stage. HE HANDED ME THE PICK!!! Now, It's not the orange one Dave plays...it's a black version of the same exact pick. I say, "where's the orange one?" and he goes..."I'm a guitar player too man....I get it!". So we both laughed and talked for a bit and I explained my site and he said he would check it out. Then two other nice guys come up after hearing dmbtabs.com and I talk to them for a while which was nice. One guy has a DM3MD...ASSHOLE.
Anyway, it was an amazing time. It could have been better with more songs and such but whatever. It really was great. Oh yeah, Dave looked out into Times Square and saw a sign for the Two Towers DVD and goes, "I can't fucking wait for the 3rd one of those. What i"m going to do is watch the first one, watch the second one, then go see the 3rd one" at this point I yell out, "THAT'S A DAY-LONG EVENT" and Dave looks at me and goes, "Fuck yeah it is!". Ha, it was cool.
Well, amazing night...I'm tired and You will all be able to see me on TV on the 19th. Oh yeah, lucky me...the day I get on TV...I get a huge fucking pimple right smach on my forehead. go fucking figure. Oh well, I'm there and I'm the best dressed guy there becuase the original e-mail said no jeans so I wear nice slacks and a button down shirt....everyone else shows up in jeans and decent shirts. ENJOY AND I'LL GET THE TAB FOR SAVE ME UP SOON!!!
