1 Me and my best friend Annie really wanted to go to the music festival Lollapalooza. In the summer of 2016 we saved money and convinced her dad to take us to Chicago. We could only pick one day, Annie and I picked Thursday because it was the day that had our favorite singers. Lana Del Rey, G Eazy, J Cole, The 1975, City and Color where just a few that came that Thursday. 2 Annie and I made a plan to get up are 5:00 AM to get ready, 6:00 AM eat. Then by 7 we would stand in a line until 11 that's when the doors would open. There where multiple entrances to the park, we picked to stand in the line closest to the main stage where we would spend our whole day from 11AM till 10PM. We knew If we stayed at the main stage all day we would be able to be close to the front and seem muliple great singers and throughout the day. Annie and I where very excited. 3 A week before Lollapalooza are wrist bands came along with a …show more content…
I stood in the same spot for eleven hours. I had no food and could not even leave to pee because I would lose my spot. At one point when we where only a couple hours in I was standing on my sandals and the crowd shifts, I lost my shoes. The ground was wood chips, and there was can, trash and bottles everywhere since there wasn't trash cans in the pit. So that's what I stood on. It was 90 degrees outside and rained 3 times. I was so crammed in the crowd that I never had enough room to sit. Then as it got later in the day it got more and more crammed. There were so many people that at one point during the concert when Lana came down to the crowd, I was standing on a some huge water bottle so I could see better from the second row. When I tried to get off the water bottle but my feet dangled in the air because I was so smashed up against people that they where holding me up. On my side of the stage seven people fainted and the security guards had to pull them out and of the crowd and put them on
concerts in my lifetime, so I had never had an experience like this. The other band,
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and end on Monday, August 18. The promoters had printed up 60,000 tickets to be sold making it the biggest concert event of it’s time. There was very little promotion of it
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It goes on every year. Two million (and more) go to it each year. People go to it to see/meet their favorite people. Not just for bands. Bands, Interviewers, photographers, etc.
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The night was young times were crazy and it was only the beginning of my senior year. It was still warm out and it still felt like summer; we didn’t know that we could have this much fun in one night, but we knew we were going to have fun no matter what. My first concert had to be one of the best nights of my life and one of my most favorite nights of my life during my senior year. It all began when my buddy Alex Kramper decided to give me a phone call and wanted to know if I wanted to go to an Imagine Dragons concert at the Verizon Wireless Amplifier Theater for only twenty bucks, I responded with a hell yeah, the concert was only in a weak. So we figure everything out and and figure that Alex Kramper, Tori Main, Trevor Waller, Kristen Kesler, and me are going to the concert, the next day we meet at Alex’s house to all ride in the concert together in Trevor’s truck, it was a planned booze cruise threw St.Louis. So I woke up early in the morning for the Saturday concert and do my chores early in the morning so I wouldn’t have to do them the next day all hungover. I finally finish all...
Once we arrived at the gates, we queued for ten minutes before getting access to the park. We all hastily made our way to the main attraction of the pa...
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Once I let my thoughts return to the music, I knew what lie ahead of me. I tapped the nearest "big guy" on the shoulder and pointed towards the ceiling; the universal signal on the concert floor. He nodded, grabbed my foot, and pushed me on top of the crowd. Once I was up there was no turning back. Soon strong hands were surfing me towards the stage. I had the best view in the house and reveled in the moment. I was fueled by an adrenaline rush that was only heightened by the fusion of the music and the energy of the crowd.
As the dark stadium filled with fire, with the sounds of guns and bombs exploding everywhere, the crazed fans yelled at the top of their lungs. The enormous stage was rumbling with the sound of a single guitar as the band slowly started their next encore performance. Soon after I realized that I was actually at the Sanitarium concert listening to Metallica play "One", I thought to my self, "Is this real, am I actually here right now?" I had a weird feeling the entire time because I had worked all summer to simply listen to music with a bunch of strangers.
jumping, pushing and head-banging. In all this chaos I suddenly felt out of breath, we all clambered out of the pit and onto the steps. One of my friends kept asking me if I was OK and I said that I felt really out of breath and had a sharp pain in my chest. We came to the conclusion that I had probably cracked a rib.
If someone were to ask people ever wanted to see almost every artist from any genre of music in one place? Of course, anyone would say yes, because most people haven't been to an event like the huge one that happens in California each year. This is an event many people save up all year to attend just maybe once in their life time. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival, it is one of the most talked about festivals that this generation knows about. It is like a whole new world for most people each time they attend.
Without warning, the lights went dark. This was the moment I had been waiting for. My adrenaline went through the roof. The time had finally come that I would get to see and hear my first live concert.
After the show had ended, I felt slightly empty. I had waited years and months for that night, and it was over in the blink of an eye. Although I was sad that the show was over, I felt completely content. Now, when I hear their songs, I get to remember what it felt like to hear the band perform them live. I can watch the videos and try to wrap my mind around how it was real. Going to my first concert was an unparalleled experience that I will always cherish. The ambiance, the band’s performance and the unity the audience