Last night, (9 August 2009), Cassie and I attended the long-awaited Blink 182 Reunion Tour, featuring, Chester French, Panic! At the Disco and Fall Out Boy at Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre. This was my second concert there that weekend, the first being Jason Mraz. Cassie and I were a little skeptical that the rain would hold off, but it did and the show went off without a hitch, except, of course, for Mark Hoppus tripping over a speaker wire, that was labeled “the orgasmatron.” Neither of us really wanted to see Chester French, so we arrived at the venue in the middle of Panic!’s set. They were pretty good, although I really only know that one song of theirs, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.”
I was really happy that I was able to see Panic! and Fall Out Boy at the same time, because I would always get the two confused. Now, I think I’ll be able to differentiate them. Fall Out Boy played a lot of new material, but played their hits: “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” “Dance, Dance,” “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race,” and “Thks fr th Mmrs.” Pete Wentz Simpson looks like a monkey and he’s actually pretty retarded. Jon’s going to kill me for saying that because he idolizes him, but it’s true, he looks like a monkey with a bad haircut. To be honest, I just don’t like anyone associated with the Simpson Camp (i.e. Ashlee, Jessica, Joe, The Retarded Mother, Ryan Carbrera, Nick Lachey and all of 98°, for that matter…)
My cousin Denielle got us pretty good seats. We were right in the center of the second orchestra section, on the aisle. There were these three really annoying 17-year-old girls from Seaford sitting next to us. Their two guy friends that had closer seats to the stage, kept coming to our row… No joke, Cassie and I had to move about 20 times because of them. That was pretty ridiculous. So, as if I didn’t already hate Seaford or teenagers, that experience solidified those feelings. And Cassie, no, I never was a teenager….LOL.
Blink’s set list held no surprises or right-field picks; it was everything that I wanted to hear after five years of waiting:
Dumpweed
Feeling This
The Rock Show
Go
What’s My Age Again?
Violence
I Miss You
Stay Together For the Kids
Down
Always
Stockholm Syndrome
First Date
Man Overboard
Don’t Leave Me
Not Now
Adam’s Song
All the Small Things
Reckless Abandon
Josie
Anthem Part II
Encore:
Travis’ incredible drum solo, involving some serious aerobatics….
Carousel
Dammit
Unlike Cassie, I was kind of exited about them playing stuff from their last album, “blink 182,” which was released in 2003, mainly because I haven’t seen any of those songs performed live before. This was the fifth time that I’ve seen Blink 182 in concert, more than any other act, (Sara Bareilles is second with four times; Spice Girls, Mika and No Doubt are in third with three times each….), and now I remember why… their shows are always so much fun. I love going to a concert and being able to sing each and every word of every song. I’m seriously contemplating buying tickets to see them again, ether at their other N@JBT date or at MSG. Ether way, I’m so exited for their new album to be released, sometime next year.
