Review by Al
September 18, 2003
 

After leaving the house a bit behind schedule and embarking on a 2 hours drive in heavy traffic, we arrived at the Woodlands Pavilion eager to see a great show. We went through a very loose security check, the lady let us through and she didn’t even care about my camera phone. I thought I was going to have some difficulty taking pictures with my camera phone, but it was a lot easier than I thought. Turned out to be a good thing because I took a lot of pics.

After Bad Charism came Seether. Seether started out an awesome set with a fucking powerful song. They did a fucking beautiful performance of Driven Under. I love that song and that live performance was just fucking unbelievable. Before they played Fine Again, The lead singer got up and said “How many of you all here a fans of Drowning Pool?” The crowd started cheering loudly. “Well do me a favor, those of you who have lighter… raise them up in the air for Dave Williams. This song’s for him. This is Fine Again” Everyone lifted up their lighters and sang along with them. That was just unbelievable. After that song, Seether thanked everyone and played their last song, which happened to be a Nirvana cover. They broke out with You Know You’re Right, the latest from Nirvana. I’ve never seen Nirvana live, but this was a might damn fine cover. The cool part was that he even sounded like Kurt Cobain, especially during the “yeaaa-yeaaeeaaa-yeaaaeaaa” part. At the end of the song the guitarist tossed his guitar at his tech and left as the drummer finished the song. All in all, this was a fucking great set!

Then the greatest band came out, the sole reason for which I woke up at 6:00 am to get inline at ticketmaster. Our Lady Peace opened an explosive set with All For You, without the intro. Steve did a great outro/solo for one All For You. Then after that they broke into Whatever. During the opening chords, Raine goes “For Chris Beniot”. Man was that a great performance, love that solo. After Whatever, they went into Superman’s Dead. They changed that sound around a bit. Instead of Raine’s acoustic intro, he did it with an electric guitar, a Gibson SG to be exact. That was just fucking great! He also changed the “Doesn’t anybody ever know . . . “ part. It wasn’t all that different; he did it once alone and then a second time with the crowd. After Superman’s Dead they played Innocent. I love that song and to hear it live was just fucking great! After Innocent Raine started talking to the crowd. He thanked everyone there and he told talked about the new album. He said that they recorded 12 new songs for their upcoming album and that they wanted to play two of them for us. They started first with Wipe That Smile Off Your Face, before that song Raine said; ”This song is about strangers that can walk up to you and look at you . . . and with a condescending smirk on their face they can lie to you. This is called Wipe That Smile Off Your Face” This song was just beyond beautiful. I have a lot of concerts with this song but none of them sounded like this. This solo was a lot different and waaay longer than any show I have record of. Right before the first chorus, Raine goes “I’m going to wipe that smile off your face”, the crowd when wild. In the second chorus Raine goes changes the lyrics and says; “I’m a Texan!” the crowd fucking loved that! Steve had this great solo. After that they play Walking Around In Circles. At one point Raine goes is this a rock concert? The crowd roars. Then he goes, “No its not, because not everyone is standing up. So that means that that side and that side and those in the back have to stand up.” Everyone stood and started rocking out. After that they played another Birdman it was fucking great! Right before the solo they have this part in which they play a ‘pre-solo’ with a crazy light show. During that part Raine crowded up on Steve as he played and then when Steve finished Raine flew back on to the ground. Raine remained on the floor during Steve’s solo. Steve played a fucking beautiful 3-minute solo. I kind of wish I had seen them more when they still had Mike, but Steve is a lot more animated and brings a lot more to the band than just a new style. After that they did Clumsy. That was a beautiful performance. I kind of wish Jenn had heard it, she loves Clumsy and would of loved to hear that song. After clumsy they did Somewhere Out There. That song is just beautiful live. It just shot me into this happy nostalgic place. After Somewhere Out There, Raine thanked the crowd and thanked 3 Doors Down and said how much he loved us being there for them. They finished the set with Starseed. Starseed had the MLK intro. Our Lady Peace was fucking unbelievable, everything that I had expected. I cannot help but feel a little bit disappointed ONLY because they did not play Not Enough. They also didn’t play 4am, but I wanted to hear Not Enough a lot more. I ended up taking a lot of pics of Our Lady Peace.

Then to cap of the night the headliners came on, 3 Doors Down. They opened with Duck and Run. They did a beautiful performance of Kryptonite with their ‘superman’ logo flashing all over the place with green lasers. Their drummer had a huge drum solo. Oh my &%*# God was that amazing. He had his solo right before When I’m Gone. He did a unforgettable 10 minute drum solo. After that they played When I’m Gone. That was amazing; the guitarist had a guitar with the red white and blue on it.

Over all the concert was unbelievable. The bands were great, the crowd was great and the women were beautiful. Oh man, I cannot even begin to describe the absolutely gorgeous women. There was on in particular that was in the row before us. It was the kind that made me wish there was more light in the place. She had a killer body, beautiful face, and a sweet ass in those tight pants. To top that all off she was dancing during the show and had some fucking wicked killer moves! Man, I wish I took some pics of her. My phone ran out of battery so I wasn’t able to take many pictures of 3 Doors Down or the beauty with the sweet ass in front of me. Over all, we all had fun and that night was well worth skipping Business Cal.