I thought I’d write this up before I forget, as I mentioned before I made it out to the AFI show Friday (9/15) night at the Long Beach Arena. Where do I start… well I started off by not knowing where to go and parked forever away, yet it turns out I saved a few bucks in the process. Then I didn’t really know where to get into the arena at first because the whole place is such a hudge hodgepodge event/convention spaces. After a bit of walking, I finally made it in probably about 9:30 ish and missed Saosin. I was alittle perterbed, especially when I realized there was 5 minutes left to buy beer. So I decided to just head to the floor and enjoy the show.

The band was clad in white like the above photo, with a pretty elaborate stage setup. I don’t know any AFI songs except for the few on the radio that everybody loves. They also played a couple songs that mainly the hardcore fans knew, some song from 1997 that lead vocalist Davey Havok mentioned. If I remeber correctly, “Miss Murder” was their last song and it was a great song to go out on. They were really into the crowd and the fans which I appreciated, specifically Havok thanking the crowd multiple times. He mentioned this show was the largest headlining show to date and thanked everybody for their support. Towards the end of the 2 hour set he jumped into the crowd and had them holding him up while singing. Pretty epic with camera’s recording the whole concert.

Overall, I may not be into their music or style - yet they played a great show. They are into their fans and puting on a great show and they did just that.

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