Projekt Revolution!!

the day dawned cloudy and dreary, but it got hot today, cos projekt revolution has rolled into town.. linkin park, korn, snoop dogg were all here - wooha!! mallika, ash and i went for it at 2. we tailgated until 3 with the tequila of Senor Jose Cuervo, then went in to the revolution stage where some of the smaller sidey bands were playing - we got bored there pretty soon and when the gates to the main stage lawn opened we rushed in! less than jake started it off, and weren't too impressive either, and the used followed them and they weren't much better either.. at least the opening acts for nickelback and evanescence were much better, but i guess that was the premise of the projekt revolution.. giving smaller bands a chance to play the big arenas.

finally snoop dogg came in and bitch-slapped some ass into shape!! that was good! he got the crowd going in no time.. and it actually wasn't so incongruous getting a gangster rap act on a rock outfit tour!! his version of the "goodbye song" and "next episode" had everyone wild!! he really got the crowd jumping fine for korn coming in next..

"are you ready?!" were the words screamed out at the top of jon davies' lungs as he bounded onstage in a black leather kilt and adidas stripes on it!! "korn!! it's on!!" korn did some awesome shit, pulling out a whole best-of collection in the one hour they played.. "freak on a leash", "blind" and "falling away from me" deserve special mention!! then they blew everyone away by launching into their MTV Icon version of metallica's "one".. and then they really set the roof on fire when they played pink floyd's "another brick in the wall", but in their own style, with their seven-string bass and screaming guitars!! jon davies played the bagpipes as well for "shoots & ladders".. in between taking breaks for oxygen 'shots' for his anxiety disorder.. yeah, if you didn't know that! the scary part is that his wife is always standing there side-stage smoking away to glory next to those damned oxygen cylinders!! the wild moshpits we had for korn were scary too!! there were three large ones in the lawn section alone!! loads of people being taken away with gashes, rips, broken noses and various other injuries!!

the crowd was getting restless, feet tired after standing 7 hours all day.. wondering what the heck was taking so long.. then the explosions, and linkin park was there!! they had so much freaking energy jumping on and off and all about the stage!! i had watched them in columbus in january, but this time was maaaad!! "it's going DOWN, it's going DOWN!!" they did a couple of freestyle raps from unreleased songs, apart from the regular picks out of hybrid theory and meteora. these guys are amazing live.. simply superb! they didn't have lasers or pyros or shit, just simple lights and good hard ROCK!! we ripped out our throats yet again.. and still had some more in the reserve tanks to usher in the encore.. "crawling" and "one step closer"!! ama-f**kin'-zing show man!!

managed to get lost twice (again!!) on the way back from darien lakes.. landed up at 55 tyler where there was biryani leftovers.. good work nats, sank, mal n' vip.. came home, updated this blog and crashed.. sweet dreams. actually, hard rocking heavy metal dreams.. but sweet in their own way!!