Review by Mai

November 25, 2002

The Louisville, KY concert was INCREDIBLE!  One of the best I've ever been to!  I went to Jillians two hours before the doors opened and there was already a decent line!  In about a half an hour the line was out the door and round the building!  Greenwheel was the opening band, and sadly the night before they had gotten broken into and got all of their guitars stolen.  OLP was nice enough to lend them their guitars for the concert.  The venue was pretty small, so we were all packed in tight, just the way I like it!!  Unfortuneately I was next to some claustrophobic girl who seriously went nuts and was about to start beating up anyone who touched her, but and she even sat down during the Greenwheel concert!  But she left right after Greenwheel which made everyone around her happy!  The girls in front of me were really cool, and everyone was sooo into it from the beginning.  There were tons of body surfers for Greenwheel (who by the way performed AWESOME especially under the circumstances) and when OLP came on, the place went absoluetly balistic!  The played sooo amazing and were so into it, and the crowd was singing so loudly to every single song, it was Amazing!  Raine even said, "Wow, we didn't expect this! Thank you."  Steve seemed to be having some problems with his guitar at the beginning and even had to go off stage for a bit to fix it but it was fine for the rest of the concert.  I got the setlist at the end but OLP changed some of it during to concert, so I'll put the changes in:  All For You, Do You Like It, Superman, Naveed (with Life interlude), Not Enough, Bring Back the Sun, Innocent (which he had to crowd sing most of it like 4 am), Story About a Girl, Army, Whatever, Is Anybody Home, Mafia, Birdman, Clumsy, Starseed.  Encore: In Repair, Somewhere Out There, Stealing Babies!!! (thanks to the girls in front of me who had requested it earlier when they had met them!), and 4 am.  They took out Are You Sad and (unfortuneately!) Neon Crossing for Story About a Girl and Stealing Babies.  During Birdman Raine climbed the speakers and was hanging on some pipes on the ceiling, it was sooo incredible.  Then near the end of the song he jumped from the speakers, over some equipment and onto the stage!  I couldn't even make the jump without hurting myself!  Then during Starseed I believe he kind of climbed into the crowd a little and let everyone like grab him and his hair, it was sooo freaking cool.  I had an amazing time, and afterwards I waited with my dogs cuz I had to bring them since I was traveling a lot that weekend and with my boyfriend to meet them in the freaking cold!  Even though it's two hours to home and my poor boyfriend had to wake up at 6 am today, I HAD to meet them because I had made them some presents, little goody bags with Chinese treats on it and decorations on the bag pertaining to OLP that took me many painstaking hours to do!!!!  Unfortuneatly Raine and Duncan didn't come out to meet the fans cuz they were tired I guess, I was really really disappointed because I wanted to give it to them personally and meet them a little (I've met them before but very briefly), but Jeremey was nice enough to tell me that they weren't come out and offered to take the presents to them!  Jeremey and Steve were super nice even though at first I could barely talk to them because I was so nervous, and I think I forced a hug out of Jeremey!  LOL, oops.  Anyways, I also met Mike, but it was after I gave Jeremey all the presents because I didn't think I'd see Mike but he ended up coming out and so I talked to him a bit.  I ended up talking to one of the Roadies who I ALWAYS see at their concerts and I always notice him cuz he reminds  me of one of my friends, he was really nice and it was cool to finally meet him.  He's very much part of OLP to me!  Anyways, I asked him how OLP got to opening for Creed (I was very curious cuz I'm not a huge Creed fan), and he said that OLP opened for them for Happiness and Creed really liked them and that they were good friends and golfed together or something, so that made me feel better.  I was hoping OLP didn't think they needed to open for anybody!!  Anyways, then I got to talk to Steve for a while and he is such a sweetheart I can't stand it!  Oh, and Rich and Shelley, you'll like this, I was talking about my dogs and about how OLP was their favorite band too, but maybe only because that's all they got to listen to and all they watched on TV now-a-days was the OLP Compliation Set, and Steve was like, oh, is that from Rich and Shelley's website?  I really like that website, it's one of the best OLP sites out there, I actually visit it regularly!  It has really good up-to-date news.  So anyways, the night was Awesome, except for not meeting Duncan and Raine, I was super disappointed, I really spent a lot of time on those bags and had wanted to give it to them.  But it's ok, I understand they have to do that stuff almost every night so it must get old.  They'd better come back soon!!!!  I hope they liked their presents! (Yes I'm wayyy past obsessed here!)