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Seeing Leathermouth play live is incredible, especially from the pit! I have so much more to say but for now that's about it.

Oh, and Frank Iero is so sparkly and he never fails to make me smile when I meet him.

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Seeing Leathermouth play live is incredible, especially from the pit! I have so much more to say but for now that's about it.

Oh, and Frank Iero is so sparkly and he never fails to make me smile when I meet him.

Last night's show!

For those of you who are just here to see pics and watch videos, please don't feel obliged to mind my rambling account. I write from personal experience (and keep a journal for myself) and much of this is for me to remember. I don't expect everyone to care about it.

The short story this: Leathermouth is as intense as could be, a huge revelation playing live, so much more than I expected. Fangirls are annoying. Please stop shrieking at Frank when he asks you to. He doesn't want to get you pregnant, he wants to play a show. Warship is really cool. MC Chris is not my thing, but he was kind of amusing and he seemed to have a great time. Reggie and The Full Effect are really tight, I like their music, James is hilarious and really fun. Pictures and videos are below.

You may feel free to skim the rest. ^_^

I got to the Crazy Donkey at 6 and sat on my car sending messages to my friends and watching band members and crew go by and bring their stuff inside. It was colder than I thought it would be and the hood of my car was the warmest place. The sunset was gorgeous and so the wait was not too bad.

( A really pretty young man. My cool hat. Do we really need such a primal mammalian display? )

( Some people actually scurry. )

Then Warship came on and I was pleasantly surprised, as I always am when an opening act is really good. I never expect to be into music that I don't know, but I do like to give them a chance and they are up there working so hard and I like to support that. But to my delight, I was getting into it.

I'm going to go out of order and get to MC Chris before Leathermouth, because Leathermouth was who I went to see. MC Chris wasn't really my thing, like I mentioned, but he had fun with the audience. And I did kinda like his song about Reeses Pieces.

( Frank does not want to get you pregnant. No, really. )

I won't list the entire setlist because they play the same ones every night and you guys all know what they are.

Frank said, "You probably have heard some of our songs, but you probably don't know the words. That's okay, sing along anyway. Just make words up, that's what I'm doing up here." And he introduced their song "This Song Is About Being Attacked By Monsters" as "This Is A Song About Monsters Breaking Into My House And I Just Don't Know What To Do" or something equally long-winded and crazy. I LOLed.

Between songs, some girl yet again screamed "I LOVE YOU FRANKIE" and he said, "We don't even know each other. That's so weird. You love the people you don't know. And you end up hating the ones you do know." Then he said, "this song is about realizing that no one has got your back." Immediately I was like, "Oh yeah, I know that feeling to hell and back, s'up ex-boss / ex-coworkers?" (Most, not all.) Anyway, that made me thrash about self-righteously and get into it.

Also, Frank went into the audience and sang, which was massively cool.

The highlight of the night for me, what I was waiting to hear, was "I'm Going To Kill The President Of The United States Of America." I have always maintained that the Secret Service is going to pop up during one of these shows and take them out for this. Nevertheless I have waited a long time to hear this song. Frank introduced it by saying, "This song is about killing the president. It's easy to say that, but..." There was a very pregnant pause here in which I held my breath. He did not finish the though. Instead he said, "I'm just waiting for the FBI to take me away."

You and me both!

( I AM GOING TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. )

Of note: Frank sang one line into a safety pylon and then put the damn thing down on top of the speaker, effectively blocking much of the view from the right.

Oh, and Frank spits a lot. A LOT. I thought people were joking or exaggerating when they said, "Stand up front and get spit on by Frank, he can spit really far!" There was no hyperbole involved. Luckily he didn't get me, but he did get the girl in front of me. Way to spread MONO, Frank!

I would so see Leathermouth again. I never expected that when Frank hits the floor and randomly screams that it would mean so much. I feel pissed off like that a lot, too, and there's sadly really no other venue in life where one can just, well you know, hit the floor and scream about it.

( Anyway, pictures: )

Too soon, Leathermouth's set was over and I made my way back out to the patio. (The DJ played MCR right after Leathermouth's set. I was like, "Come on. Really?") I talked briefly to the singer from Warship and he was real nice. He said "Welcome to the patio party!" and that the patio was the place to be. ^_^ I minded my business and listened to Pretty Warship Bassist talk to his friend (who was complaining that he had jury duty, aww, I felt his pain keenly, seriously!) about what it's like to make music. I felt lucky just then.

( All kinds of happenings on the patio, good and bad. )

And then Reggie and the Full Effect came on! At first it was just James and he was playing the keyboard / computer and doing things that I had no clue how he was making music come out. I'm sorry that I can't give you guys a full report because this is my first time hearing this band and I don't know song titles and stuff. I will just tell you what I took away from it.

Okay, first of all, again with the girls being way too fannish. The rest of the band finally joined James onstage, and of course Frank plays bass for Reggie. One girl standing next to me with her friend shrieked for him, and he physically cringed again and mouthed the words, "Stop, please." But instead of being embarrassed, the girl next to me laughed at him, nudged her friend and said, "I got his attention!" I could not believe what I was seeing. James actually said that a bunch of girls had stopped him outside and asked for Frank. They told him that they had to be gone by ten and could they please see Frankie before then. James said, "but as you can see, Frank is up here with me" and it was well after ten. Heh. I got a video of that:

( Video of that! )

In fact, James's between song banter was hilarious and so refreshing. I get so damn tired of rock stars yelling at me to put my fists in the air and other cliche junk like that.

As you can gather from the above video, James lives on Long Island. This I knew. James loves Long Island like crazy. This I did not know. He basically said so many things about the Island that I always say: How beautiful it is, how weird a place it is, how lucky we are to have a whole ocean to the south of us. "It's not a lake!" he said, "It's an ocean!" Then he and the rest of the band went into a parody of that Everclear song about "we could live beside the ocean..."

( OlderClear. )

Of note: James is massively talented! He totally owns the keyboard, he is an awesome drummer and he also sings really well. I was sad that I caught this band on the tail end of their existence, but glad that I caught them at all. Good times.

And as far as Frank playing the bass, well I won't give the usual line about him being underrated. He plays the guitar for goodness sakes and so most of us know that he's a fantastic musician. Yet still, seeing him with the bass is really impressive. I am always impressed when bassists actually play the instrument rather than just going "plonk plonk" on it.

( Here are two more videos. This is for anyone who doesn't know Reggie and the Full Effect and wants an idea of what they sound like: )

At the end of the set, they all came out in wigs, dressed as a 90's grunge-era type band, all except for James who had on a mullet wig (he called it the Kenny Loggins wig,) and was dressed for the 80's at their worst. It was hilarious.

( Here are some pics of the whole set: )

After the show, I was going to my car and some girl with pink hair said "High fives for Jesus!" I told her, "I'm not Christian, but whatever blows your hair back." We ended up having a really bizarre conversation about Jesus and it occurred to me that the last time before I met Frank, some girl was telling me strange things about Jesus, too. Then, some drunk guys came up to me. One guy asked me to take a picture of him. I told him that I didn't have a camera. He shook my hand and told me that my hands were really cold, and then we had a strange conversation about metabolism. He was really, really drunk as he was going to his car. I told him "Get home safe," and he said, "I won't." I was really nervous about getting on the road knowing that all these drunk people were going to be driving.

James came out and signed a bunch of things, then he got into his car and went home; probably not too long of a ride for him. ^_^

By now most of the obnoxious teenagers had left, leaving a few excited ones. A few of them actually were obnoxious, demanding that Frank come out, pestering other band members: "Bring me Frankieeee! Please make him come out!" One girl said she was just going to go on the bus and get him. I would not have been surprised if he just locked himself away, but he didn't.

( Don't worry. Everyone knows Frank is nice. Or: How nice is too nice? )

It was a lovely, strange, intense night of rocking out.

The only thing that sucked was that on my way home at 12:30 AM on the LIE, my eyes were itching from that guy smoking at me and I went to rub my right eye, and shanked my own eyeball with my fingernail. It hurt ridiculously and made it very difficult to drive home. I had to include that not only because it was a part of the night, but because it's so hilariously me that it's impossible to leave it out.

So that's the story, folks, of the Warship/MC Chris/Leathermouth/Reggie show! Sorry for the length and rambling perspective, but, well, there you go.

Last night's show!

For those of you who are just here to see pics and watch videos, please don't feel obliged to mind my rambling account. I write from personal experience (and keep a journal for myself) and much of this is for me to remember. I don't expect everyone to care about it.

The short story this: Leathermouth is as intense as could be, a huge revelation playing live, so much more than I expected. Fangirls are annoying. Please stop shrieking at Frank when he asks you to. He doesn't want to get you pregnant, he wants to play a show. Warship is really cool. MC Chris is not my thing, but he was kind of amusing and he seemed to have a great time. Reggie and The Full Effect are really tight, I like their music, James is hilarious and really fun. Pictures and videos are below.

You may feel free to skim the rest. ^_^

I got to the Crazy Donkey at 6 and sat on my car sending messages to my friends and watching band members and crew go by and bring their stuff inside. It was colder than I thought it would be and the hood of my car was the warmest place. The sunset was gorgeous and so the wait was not too bad.

( A really pretty young man. My cool hat. Do we really need such a primal mammalian display? )

( Some people actually scurry. )

Then Warship came on and I was pleasantly surprised, as I always am when an opening act is really good. I never expect to be into music that I don't know, but I do like to give them a chance and they are up there working so hard and I like to support that. But to my delight, I was getting into it.

I'm going to go out of order and get to MC Chris before Leathermouth, because Leathermouth was who I went to see. MC Chris wasn't really my thing, like I mentioned, but he had fun with the audience. And I did kinda like his song about Reeses Pieces.

( Frank does not want to get you pregnant. No, really. )

I won't list the entire setlist because they play the same ones every night and you guys all know what they are.

Frank said, "You probably have heard some of our songs, but you probably don't know the words. That's okay, sing along anyway. Just make words up, that's what I'm doing up here." And he introduced their song "This Song Is About Being Attacked By Monsters" as "This Is A Song About Monsters Breaking Into My House And I Just Don't Know What To Do" or something equally long-winded and crazy. I LOLed.

Between songs, some girl yet again screamed "I LOVE YOU FRANKIE" and he said, "We don't even know each other. That's so weird. You love the people you don't know. And you end up hating the ones you do know." Then he said, "this song is about realizing that no one has got your back." Immediately I was like, "Oh yeah, I know that feeling to hell and back, s'up ex-boss / ex-coworkers?" (Most, not all.) Anyway, that made me thrash about self-righteously and get into it.

Also, Frank went into the audience and sang, which was massively cool.

The highlight of the night for me, what I was waiting to hear, was "I'm Going To Kill The President Of The United States Of America." I have always maintained that the Secret Service is going to pop up during one of these shows and take them out for this. Nevertheless I have waited a long time to hear this song. Frank introduced it by saying, "This song is about killing the president. It's easy to say that, but..." There was a very pregnant pause here in which I held my breath. He did not finish the though. Instead he said, "I'm just waiting for the FBI to take me away."

You and me both!

( I AM GOING TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. )

Of note: Frank sang one line into a safety pylon and then put the damn thing down on top of the speaker, effectively blocking much of the view from the right.

Oh, and Frank spits a lot. A LOT. I thought people were joking or exaggerating when they said, "Stand up front and get spit on by Frank, he can spit really far!" There was no hyperbole involved. Luckily he didn't get me, but he did get the girl in front of me. Way to spread MONO, Frank!

I would so see Leathermouth again. I never expected that when Frank hits the floor and randomly screams that it would mean so much. I feel pissed off like that a lot, too, and there's sadly really no other venue in life where one can just, well you know, hit the floor and scream about it.

( Anyway, pictures: )

Too soon, Leathermouth's set was over and I made my way back out to the patio. (The DJ played MCR right after Leathermouth's set. I was like, "Come on. Really?") I talked briefly to the singer from Warship and he was real nice. He said "Welcome to the patio party!" and that the patio was the place to be. ^_^ I minded my business and listened to Pretty Warship Bassist talk to his friend (who was complaining that he had jury duty, aww, I felt his pain keenly, seriously!) about what it's like to make music. I felt lucky just then.

( All kinds of happenings on the patio, good and bad. )

And then Reggie and the Full Effect came on! At first it was just James and he was playing the keyboard / computer and doing things that I had no clue how he was making music come out. I'm sorry that I can't give you guys a full report because this is my first time hearing this band and I don't know song titles and stuff. I will just tell you what I took away from it.

Okay, first of all, again with the girls being way too fannish. The rest of the band finally joined James onstage, and of course Frank plays bass for Reggie. One girl standing next to me with her friend shrieked for him, and he physically cringed again and mouthed the words, "Stop, please." But instead of being embarrassed, the girl next to me laughed at him, nudged her friend and said, "I got his attention!" I could not believe what I was seeing. James actually said that a bunch of girls had stopped him outside and asked for Frank. They told him that they had to be gone by ten and could they please see Frankie before then. James said, "but as you can see, Frank is up here with me" and it was well after ten. Heh. I got a video of that:

( Video of that! )

In fact, James's between song banter was hilarious and so refreshing. I get so damn tired of rock stars yelling at me to put my fists in the air and other cliche junk like that.

As you can gather from the above video, James lives on Long Island. This I knew. James loves Long Island like crazy. This I did not know. He basically said so many things about the Island that I always say: How beautiful it is, how weird a place it is, how lucky we are to have a whole ocean to the south of us. "It's not a lake!" he said, "It's an ocean!" Then he and the rest of the band went into a parody of that Everclear song about "we could live beside the ocean..."

( OlderClear. )

Of note: James is massively talented! He totally owns the keyboard, he is an awesome drummer and he also sings really well. I was sad that I caught this band on the tail end of their existence, but glad that I caught them at all. Good times.

And as far as Frank playing the bass, well I won't give the usual line about him being underrated. He plays the guitar for goodness sakes and so most of us know that he's a fantastic musician. Yet still, seeing him with the bass is really impressive. I am always impressed when bassists actually play the instrument rather than just going "plonk plonk" on it.

( Here are two more videos. This is for anyone who doesn't know Reggie and the Full Effect and wants an idea of what they sound like: )

At the end of the set, they all came out in wigs, dressed as a 90's grunge-era type band, all except for James who had on a mullet wig (he called it the Kenny Loggins wig,) and was dressed for the 80's at their worst. It was hilarious.

( Here are some pics of the whole set: )

After the show, I was going to my car and some girl with pink hair said "High fives for Jesus!" I told her, "I'm not Christian, but whatever blows your hair back." We ended up having a really bizarre conversation about Jesus and it occurred to me that the last time before I met Frank, some girl was telling me strange things about Jesus, too. Then, some drunk guys came up to me. One guy asked me to take a picture of him. I told him that I didn't have a camera. He shook my hand and told me that my hands were really cold, and then we had a strange conversation about metabolism. He was really, really drunk as he was going to his car. I told him "Get home safe," and he said, "I won't." I was really nervous about getting on the road knowing that all these drunk people were going to be driving.

James came out and signed a bunch of things, then he got into his car and went home; probably not too long of a ride for him. ^_^

By now most of the obnoxious teenagers had left, leaving a few excited ones. A few of them actually were obnoxious, demanding that Frank come out, pestering other band members: "Bring me Frankieeee! Please make him come out!" One girl said she was just going to go on the bus and get him. I would not have been surprised if he just locked himself away, but he didn't.

( Don't worry. Everyone knows Frank is nice. Or: How nice is too nice? )

It was a lovely, strange, intense night of rocking out.

The only thing that sucked was that on my way home at 12:30 AM on the LIE, my eyes were itching from that guy smoking at me and I went to rub my right eye, and shanked my own eyeball with my fingernail. It hurt ridiculously and made it very difficult to drive home. I had to include that not only because it was a part of the night, but because it's so hilariously me that it's impossible to leave it out.

So that's the story, folks, of the Warship/MC Chris/Leathermouth/Reggie show! Sorry for the length and rambling perspective, but, well, there you go.