*** MSG 2 Fanviews Here 6/25/2008 ***

jam_head wrote:

i know those two ladies you are talking about. i saw them at camden and dc as well.... a blonde and a brunette. i think they have a crush on ted leo's band..haha

davidjmcgee wrote:

We released, we raged, we danced, we wandered into a garden of stone to find a marker in the sand.

We were open, we wished and wished and wished:
"I wish I was vice president.
And Obama was president.
End all future war.
That's what a president is for."

We loved and trusted, flowed, rocked, flew, and fucking *went* when he told us to fucking *go*.

We ran into the rain, won the lottery by being born, made the building sway, and saw things clearer.

We promised, we asked, we jumped up and down like freaks, and then we celebrated because we're still alive.

We're still alive.

And as 22,000 of us plus boomstoneedmattjeffmike sang that together as one, I turned in a slow circle there on the floor and saw all of us, all of us with our hands raised.

We're still alive.

I hope to see you all back at the garden next time.

Peace. Peace. Peace.

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

My only gripe, same as last night.....People----you're cell phone and your digital camera take really, really shitty pictures from halfway up the floor. So you don't need to take 400 pictures, when every single picture you take blocks someone's view. The row in front of me, almost everyone in it was on their cell phone the whole fucking night. One guy even sat down for most of the first set, and was texting thewhole time. Next to him were 2 dopes, who spent the whole show either texting someone and sharing their texts with each other, or taking the absolutely shittiest pictures you'll ever see. I know they're shitty, because every time you took a picture, the camera blocked my view, and I could see how bad the picture came out

Cell phones/texting and digital cameras are really starting to ruin concerts. You're AT the show, you can wait til tomorrow to discuss it with your buddy in the nosebleeds.

Hinny wrote:

For those saying phones are bad, yeah, i get the point, but there's one guy amongst you who made a call 10000 miles away so this very very happy man can listen to Garden in the middle of a work day in Sydney

HELLLLLLLL YES!!!!! If it wasnt for cell phones, I would NEVER have felt like I was there when The Master took the mic to sing!!!!!!

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

nope, not me. Pretty funny though. I just don't get it. maybe I'm just a crotchety old man. I just don't see a point of going to the show, and spending all night on the phone. At one point, in the row in front of me, 5 guys in a row were using their phone for various reasons.

frogwater wrote:

did 'garden' have an extended solo (similar to atlanta 4/3/94), or was it pretty much the standard-length version from ten?