by faninor » 6/4/2010, 10:52 am
Hey, someone locked this thread and I'm not sure who, but I trust most the members of this forum are smart enough to ignore trolling so I'm going to unlock it and let you piss off on your own terms.
I'll take a little time to explain this thing from my perspective.
When this tour was announced, I thought it sounded pretty cool, but I had seen OLP twice last year (one time they seriously sucked, the other time was okay) and basically decided I wouldn't travel to see this band in the future. After feeling conflicted about it for a couple weeks I decided to see what tickets would come up when it went on sale, and to buy them if they were great seats. I bought a couple tickets but I was still not sure if I would really go to the shows until the middle of April when I decided to go.
I saw two great shows. And the band was tighter playing all of these songs than when I saw them play any of their biggest hits last year. I looked at the tour numbers and realized that there were only 12 SM shows. How much time did the band and their crew spend to get everything figured out just to play this collection of songs a dozen times then stop? Clearly they worked really hard to pull this off.
Here's the thing - I'm not usually one to write fanmail. I don't care about sucking up to Trustworthy or band members. I've called out Trustworthy when his posts got a little unprofessional, and the only other thing I've ever written to OLP was a long document bashing the paid fanclub that they had in 2006. You were around here for that.
But I'm really satisfied with the shows I just saw so I decided that if I could take that much time to write to them when I was so dissatisfied, I'm going to also write to them right now too. From there I just thought, well, why not ask other folks to join me?
And about everything else you said -- if you don't want to hear it just stop typing the URL into your browser.
End of discussion? Thanks.
-Josh
I <3 Kiwi
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