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cake Thursday April 21
plinko and i went to go see cake and gomez at the assembly hall last night.
initially, i wanted floor "seats", which means that you stand up by the stage, but because i was sidetracked by life, i didn't end up calling until the floor had sold out. instead, i sat in the B section, in the dead center.
what this means is that i had an excellent view, and excellent seat, and it wasn't too loud for me. no one was encroaching on my personal space. i must be getting old when these things are important to me at a concert.
plinko likes cake, but probably not enough to buy a ticket at his own accord: he said that he enjoyed gomez more. nonetheless, during the cake performance, he was sitting -- as was i -- when most of the rest of the audience was standing. yet, due to the gradient of the seating, we could still see the stage perfectly.
john mccrea of cake, the lead singer, was doing a little audience participation bit towards the end of one of the songs; i think it was never there. plinko wasn't sold, and i was only singing lightly as not to disturb the patrons in front of me.
john mccrea called out the seated sections as non-participatory, and made various political references to those of us "on high", looking down on the common people, making them do all the work, and just enjoying doing nothing. plinko and i laughed at that, but then after trying to get the seated section engaged again, the light board op turned on the "crowd" lights because we were singing.
mister mccrea then looked out again and told us we were awful, and that the bottom section should teach us a lesson or something. then the following dialogue happened, almost verbatim (as i recall it):
"..and i see this bearded guy out there, sitting like this [puts hand on chin, covering mouth], and he's not doing anything; i think the downstairs needs to storm up there--"
i looked over at plinko. his hand was on his chin, his hand covering his mouth. john mccrea is pointing in our direction. there's no one around us meeting that description.
at a show of 2,200 people, cake's lead singer notices plinko for not singing along. needless to say, i was amused. as was plinko. apparently, this isn't the first time he's been called out by an onstage performer... but that's a different, far less amusing story, probably because it doesn't involve cake.
they played ruby sees all, jolene, and guitar. this mug was ecstatic.
