SorryIGotDrunk @ Pearl Jam @ The Forum

What a night.. What a night. I’ve been trying to find the time to sit down and get what I could about this up for ya’ll, but life has been taking some crazy turns for the Louster lately and my free/blogging time has definitely suffered. But what can you do? Snakes On A Plane, right?
Well, the day began with escaping work early and meeting Rex at the Crack House for some preshow prep work. For me, a bottle of Andre champagne, (I’m a serious BubbleHead), for Rex, some Bud Lights. Laz finally arrived home and we all get ready to get on our way so we can make the most of the parking lot and get good and hammered before jumping into the time capsule of seeing Pearl Jam.
Laz had gone the night before, but because he got so drunk, he missed the second encore. Priceless.

We get the parking lot, start pounding the beers.. Jamming PJ from the trunk of my shitbox car. And after downing a few beers we realize that there are NO portapotties in the parking lot so after doing my best to not die, I finally ended up “hiding”, in plain site, and pissing in a bush.

Once inside.. everything kind of starts to speed up, you know get blurrisized as I start drinking $15 double Tanqueray Rox.. We have relatively shitty seats in the back and off the to left, but you know that doesn’t matter at all because The Forum is tiny and we are about to enter a time machine to the good ole days of our 90s childhoods.

So, first off we catch the last four songs of Sonic Youth, who rocked pretty good. “The ultimate skater band,” Rex says. Yep. When Eddie and the Boys finally do come out.. It’s ridiculous. The crowd is losing their goddamn minds.. Everyone knows the words and is screaming them to the top of their lungs. It’s definitely more intense than I had prepared myself for.

Honestly, there’s not too much more I can say about the show itself, because I’m not a music writer. I’ll just say this… I’ve been to over 100 concerts and this one cracked the top ten easily, maybe even top 5.
Now, something I do know about and can write about is being incredibly drunk at the show and running around with Rex leaving our mark on everyone else in the place. That’s what we do kids.. That’s what we do.
Down in the smoking area right out side the lobby we were running around proclaiming that we were, “The World Famous Lou & Rex from SorryIGotDrunk.com and if you want to be on the internet, you should get your picture taken with us”.. I think Rex was even shouting “we get 2 million hits a day.. We’ll make you famous.”

In between encores, they weren’t serving booze anymore, which when you have 5 song encores is completely unacceptable. So, we did what anyone else (read: only us) would do. We skipped past security and the gate, ran back to The Stolen Car and filled our pockets with beers. Then we ran back and had to sneak past security to get back in, but we did and we delivered those beers to Laz and Bill. Success.

As Always, Mahalo,
Lou
P.S. I’ve got some good VideoLouVisions coming later from the parking lot, but I have to get them ready for posting.. Stay tuned.