First of all: Ron Hawkins showed up to open with an acoustic set!!!
I luuuuuuuurrrrrrve Ronnie! He is pretty much my favourite of all time.
That should have made my experience 100% delightful…
But I could barely hear the show.
Barely.
People yapped through the entire thing, Ron’s set, and Mr. Graffins (the one they actually came to see, on purpose!).
We had to move a couple times to get a better vantage/listening point. It was either next to the speakers (and more importantly a bunch of drunk frat boys), or at the back with a bunch of drunken concert goers who were too busy discussing how awesome Bad Religion used to be, to actually listen to the dude from Bad Religion who was actually up on stage.
Either way it was a bad scene.
The folks in the pit seemed to be having a better time, but maybe that’s just a ‘grass is always greener…’ thing.
I really did not believe that “Torontonians are bad concert goers” mumbo-jumbo until last night.
But I had never been to a concert that was totally awesome (musically speaking), and was then ruined by an obnoxious audience before.
There’s a first time for everything I guess.
It was still pretty awesome, musically speaking though. I just don’t think I could stomach it again.
Maybe someday far off when all Mr. Graffins fans are too geriatric to be rowdy…