Thursday involved relaxing and recovering from the drive before taking the subway out towards Terminal 5, while
We managed to squeeze through the coat-check area and inform the security lady there what we were doing, who instructed us to head down the stairs and double back for the ATM. Once there, a different security guard told us it was out of order and to head back upstairs, to the back of the building, then downstairs to the main bar, behind which was another ATM. We did this, and I managed to spot the ATM just after asking a barkeep where it was. I got some money and looked across the room to notice I was some 25 feet away from the vending area where we started. So I bought the insanely expensive hoodie in size Large and we wandered around the three-story building to look for a good spot before the show started. I'd been keeping in touch with
The first act was a band called 3, and they were great. Some nice, original, melodic progressive rock, and they managed to perform well for being packed onto a stage with four bands' equipment. The second act was Between the Buried and Me, who had a lot more talent than they actually used throughout the show; there were parts where it was really good, but a lot of it was very generic. The third act was Opeth, the band whose hoodie I'd bought to keep warm, and they were about as mediocre as it gets; I actually found myself unconsciously tuning them out as background noise and thinking about other things while I watched the motions of the crowd below.
When the last act finished at about 11:35 p.m., we all sat back in an area for people to enjoy drinks and ignore the concert up on the third floor while the masses piled out of the building. We relaxed and chatted for a while as our ears tried to recover, then got up and moseyed out ourselves once it was clear the building had emptied quite a bit. It was amazing how fast everyone piled out and the stage was being torn apart. We had to stop by the coat-check area for
At least it's pretty and cozy and warm, and I'm glad I had it the rest of the weekend.