Written on a Bathroom Wall

This past Saturday, June 28, was my very long waited for show of the Toadies.  I woke up thinking to myself, holy crap – tonight I’m seeing the Toadies.  I love going into Philadelphia to see a show: I get to shop, eat a good dinner and then (hopefully) see a great show at night.  It never gets old.  So me and my mother make it into Philla (as the PA signs say which crack me up for some reason), shop around Urban Outfitters, eat dinner at the Italian Bistro (fantastic eggplant parm by the way) and then head over to China Town to the Trocadero.  We rolled up a little before 7:30PM with doors being at 8PM and there was already a good line forming.  We stand in line for a few moments, almost got pooed on by wee little bird, got in and went straight up to the front right (yet on the stairs for those of you who are familiar with the Troc).  We parked our butts there the entire night and I must say it was a fantastic idea.  My friends met up with me later on and that just made the night even more fabulous.  Beer wasn’t so bad; a plastic cup of Blue Moon was $5.50… reasonable enough.

So let me explain the opening bands.  I refuse to bad mouth a band that simply isn’t my cup a tea – but if you are a complete ***hole to the crowd and I don’t like your band I’m totally never giving you a second shot.  (I’m stubborn).  But lucky for both of the opening bands they were complete sweethearts to the crowd.  The first opening band was Nowhere.  If you like southern Jersey rock with a touch of drunken lyrics this band is for you.  They were catchy and fun to an extent if you knew the words to sing a long to but not my personal fav.  The second band to open was Lions; pretty sure they were from Texas along with the Toadies.  They were fun as well with the members having long curly hair down to their shoulders and a mustache you can’t miss.  I think one of their songs is on Guitar Hero actually, which completely makes sense.  They were a rock and roll type of band which fit perfectly with the Toadies.  During one of their songs, Clark (guitarist from the Toadies) came out to play a song with them which was pretty awesome.  

Then the time came.  The Toadies played the song from Jesus Christ Superstar before they came out on stage which was so perfect due to all of their Jesus related lyrics, yet I’m not so sure if they’re actually religious, or if Todd is just fascinated with writing lyrics about Jesus.  Hmmm… Anyway, they opened with a song from Hell Below/Stars Above and from that moment on, my smile did not leave my face. I haven’t screamed the lyrics to every single song at a show in such a long time, but it felt great.  Honestly, they could have played all of Rubberneck and Hell Below/Stars Above and I would be completely content.  There were so many songs I wanted them to play, yet every song they did play I loved anyway so it didn’t really matter.  They played 6 new songs from their upcoming CD Deliverance in August and I liked each one (like I really thought I wasn’t going to like a song from the Toadies?? Yeah right).  All in all they played for about an hour and a half (including their 3 song encore – YAY!).  And of course my favorite song is apparently every single other Toadies fans favorite as well – Tyler.

Todd Lewis broke the news to the crowd that after their CD comes out they are coming back for another round.  

I’ll never forget that performance.  

Ever.

(I’ll add some live pics from the show within a few days for those of you interested)

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