04/17/2008 + 04/18/2008 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theater

I went to the 17th and 18th show. Both were amazing. On the Friday show they played Desert Song and I freaked out! It was amazing and I had never ever heard it live! They played a lot of the same songs but in a different order. Then after one song (I forgot which one) someone threw a unicorn on stage for Mikey and Gerard was saying something like: "Oh a unicorn!!! Mikey's favorite. Him and his fucking unicorns.."

robot pie:

I went to the 17th and 18th show. Both were amazing. On the Friday show they played Desert Song and I freaked out! It was amazing and I had never ever heard it live! They played a lot of the same songs but in a different order. Then after one song (I forgot which one) someone threw a unicorn on stage for Mikey and Gerard was saying something like: "Oh a unicorn!!! Mikey's favorite. Him and his fucking unicorns.."

I remember that! Did you see Mikey smiling? It was this huge grin. And the Desert Song was amazing...wasn't Gerard smoking on stage during that?

MyWicketRomance:

robot pie:

I went to the 17th and 18th show. Both were amazing. On the Friday show they played Desert Song and I freaked out! It was amazing and I had never ever heard it live! They played a lot of the same songs but in a different order. Then after one song (I forgot which one) someone threw a unicorn on stage for Mikey and Gerard was saying something like: "Oh a unicorn!!! Mikey's favorite. Him and his fucking unicorns.."

I remember that! Did you see Mikey smiling? It was this huge grin. And the Desert Song was amazing...wasn't Gerard smoking on stage during that?

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I think so. I got a phone video out of it, but it sorta sucks. Yeah Mikey looked so happy about the unicorn. Did you see when Frank got the cowboy hat? I think it was during Teenagers but I laughed because on the 17th show Gerard kept talking about cowboys and cowgirls...

Things to note from the 17th:
The last song they played over the crowd before MCR was All You Need Is Love and I freaked. I yelled, "Everyone, just listen to the song, It makes sense!" It was so great to be in the crowd singing along arms swaying to such an unbelievable track.

The place was PACKED, way past any fire/building codes

I only enjoyed the following songs all the way through due to complete exhaustion:
Heaven Help Us
I'm Not Okay
Mama
Teenagers
Famous Last Words
Helena

There were way to many little kids around:
I saw a three year old in the mens room by himself
More tiny twelve year old girls then I could count in the pit
At the beginning of the show, Gerard pointed to a little girl in the front row, and the bouncers thankfully got her out of there.

My friend Stephanie burst into tears during Cancer, just like at old Beatles' Concerts

During Famous Last Words I was getting really out of it:
When singing along to "from a jet black hotel mirror" and there was about a 10sec delay before Gerard sang it, must be adrenaline.
I was singing along at the end and it wasn't working, then I realized I was singing the chorus to Teenagers...after that I decided to keep my mouth closed. ~ Rex

I loved the cowboy hat. It was amazing. At first I thought that was James Dewees or something up there, because I didn't recognize him, then I saw the scorpion tattoo, and I was like FRANKIE! It was so funny. I loved when Gerard was saying all about how nothing mattered except that we did something with our lives. :3 It was so awesome...

That was your purple boa? I saw that thing flying in the air...it landed by the pit near me, and nearly suffocated some girl in a white Misfits shirt with writing all over her arms.... She said it smelled like eggs and beer.... haha.

Lmao, these stories are making me laugh. XD

I'm glad that the 18th was great! I wish they would've
played Desert on the 17th too, buuuut oh well.

I'm finishing my whole story that I'm going to put in a blog,
so if anyone wants to read it...I could post it here,
but I'm warning you, it's going to be uber long.

z i k e s !:

TaraMCRmy:

But anyhow, how was the 18th show?!

OH I saw that pink balloon! And I know how the whole Garry thing started! But only because I constantly lurk in the Rumors thread. It all started with this Hart Fisher guy who has a comic book company and he wanted some attention, so he decided to get mad at Gerard and Dark Horse (publishing company for The Umbrella Academy, incase you don't know) for saying that TUA was Gerard's first published work because he supposedly published something of G's when he was like 15. It got blown waaaaaaaay out of proportion. And for the record, I don't remember Gerard or Dark Horse ever saying that TUA was Gerard's first published work. The funniest part was that the Hart dude posted it all on LiveJournal xD No letters, no emails, no phone calls. LiveJournal.
Moving on to the whole Garry thing, Hart posted an open letter to Gerard on LiveJournal and near the end of it he goes "Why'd you do me like that, Garry?" and before that he explained how Gerard went by Garry at that time xD So then the people in the rumors thread ran with it and made it into an INO inside joke.

So yeah, that's the story. Sorry that its so long.

I want to hear about the 18th show! Stories? Pictures? Videos?

Oh! Thank you for clearing that up. Even though I don't see how I msised that, considering I lurk in there everyday, hahahaha. So that must be fairly recent then, that joke. Bahahaha. I remember the little conflict that guy had with Gerard about the whole DH comics thing and stuff.

I want to see My Chem again. :[

MyWicketRomance:

I loved the cowboy hat. It was amazing. At first I thought that was James Dewees or something up there, because I didn't recognize him, then I saw the scorpion tattoo, and I was like FRANKIE! It was so funny. I loved when Gerard was saying all about how nothing mattered except that we did something with our lives. :3 It was so awesome...

That was your purple boa? I saw that thing flying in the air...it landed by the pit near me, and nearly suffocated some girl in a white Misfits shirt with writing all over her arms.... She said it smelled like eggs and beer.... haha.

Haha...oops. I was really sad that it never made it to the stage. After Mama I thought I heard Gerard saying that he wanted boas and I was like "NOOOO!! I JUST HAD ONE!"
So who was that guy who played the harmonica during...wait I can't even remember what song it was during!
Edit: Gerard's speech was awesome! Does anyone remember what he all said?
Edit (again): Here's the one good picture I got before the security guard took my camera.

It's pretty sweet though. I got like 5 more, but they are all blurry. It was funny though because I was taping The Sharpest Lives when he took my camera and you can see it being taken and carried out because it was still filming...

On the 17th, one of their roadies was playing the harmonica
during Teenagers, was it the same guy? He had bushy hair and was wearing a bandanna.

Yeah, that was him. Didn't he have a cowboy hat too?
I miss it too! I counted the days to it, now I'm counting the days away from it. And it'll be ages until they come around again. Gerard was saying that... a two year break until the next round. Oh, well. The boys deserve a break. And I got a cool messenger bag!

I got a awesome hoodie..and then I took it off and gave it to my dad to hold on to and he left it there =[

At least we have some great memories we'll never forget. !


Yeah, post-concert depression is THE WORST. especially when
it's a favorite band you've seen. They'll probly get haircuts when
if they ever go on break

I thought they were going to take a break after they played in
Hawaii, but I was obviously wrong. I'm thinking it would be
kick ass for them to end their whole tour with Madison Square
Garden in May, with Taking Back Sunday, if that's not what
they're doing already. They could end it with a bang!

At least we have some great memories we'll never forget. !


Yeah, post-concert depression is THE WORST. especially when
it's a favorite band you've seen. They'll probly get haircuts when
if they ever go on break

I thought they were going to take a break after they played in
Hawaii, but I was obviously wrong. I'm thinking it would be
kick ass for them to end their whole tour with Madison Square
Garden in May, with Taking Back Sunday, if that's not what
they're doing already. They could end it with a bang!

At least we have some great memories we'll never forget. !


Yeah, post-concert depression is THE WORST. especially when
it's a favorite band you've seen. They'll probly get haircuts when
if they ever go on break

I thought they were going to take a break after they played in
Hawaii, but I was obviously wrong. I'm thinking it would be
kick ass for them to end their whole tour with Madison Square
Garden in May, with Taking Back Sunday, if that's not what
they're doing already. They could end it with a bang!

robot pie:

I got a awesome hoodie..and then I took it off and gave it to my dad to hold on to and he left it there =[

Aww that sucks

Oh! I just remembered something!

On the 17th, when James got up and went behind Bob to play the cowbell with a drumstick [i think it was a cowbell] during Teenagers, he was playing and all, and then he whacks Bob in the head with the drumstick, Bob turned around like' FTW' and laughed, i was cracking up, lmaooo. It was priceless.

gerardwayis_love:

Edit: Gerard's speech was awesome! Does anyone remember what he all said?

I don't remember either. But it was basically that the most important for us to do was do something with our lives...I remember him mentioning we should start a band or do a comic book if we wanted (sound familiar? )...I just remember the last quote 'just fucking do something with yourselves. Be yourselves, don't take anyone's fucking shit, and never let them take you alive' or something like that...

MyWicketRomance:

I don't remember either. But it was basically that the most important for us to do was do something with our lives...I remember him mentioning we should start a band or do a comic book if we wanted (sound familiar? )...I just remember the last quote 'just fucking do something with yourselves. Be yourselves, don't take anyone's fucking shit, and never let them take you alive' or something like that...

Yes, that's what I thought he said, but I wasn't sure.
They are such an inspiration