Freak Scene

Last night I covered the Dinosaur Jr. show at The Filmore at Irving Plaza (Yes, it's now "The Filmore at Irving Plaza". Soon it will be "The American Express Traveller's Cheque Theater at The Filmore at Irving Plaza") for AmplifierMagazine.com. I won't spoil the review by going into too much detail here, but I will say that it was awesome. And loud. Very loud. The place was packed w/Dino Jr. fans young and old. I think there was more thrashing going on closer to the stage, but in the back where I was standing it was mostly "Woo" and "Yeah!", except for the guys to my left who were drunk and looked like the kind of guys who in high school would've punched me in my Dinosaur Jr. t-shirt and who during the last few songs tried to start one of those ridiculous four-person thrash circles that people with mountains of excess aggression try to start amongst their group of friends toward the end of a show when they're drunk and that quickly become aborted when they see a hot chick or someone knocks over a beer. I figure everyone else was filling the time between cheering, when Dinosaur Jr. was actually playing, to think about what their SecondLife characters were going to say about the show.

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