How about thirteen observations on A Perfect Circle's 2nd night at the Showbox? Let's start with:
1. Waiting at the Green Room is a great advantage... if you are willing to pay a price. And by price I mean, the price of drinks and/or bar food. Each person gets a piece of paper with a number corresponding to the order batches of people are let in. Which means, if you're early you will most likely be in batch 1 and the road to the first row is wide open. And maybe you don't even have to spend too much. Just buy one or two drinks, ration it out and that would mean no waiting outside, in the cold or rain and you can save all your foot and leg energy for when the show starts.
On the other hand, the Green Room's environment and the loooong wait until the doors open, breed a lot of drunken behavior. Just ask the lady with her headphones on who was bopping around the bar talking to strangers and bouncers and anyone who would listen.
2. The bar sold quite a bit of Maynard's wine from Cadaver Cellars. What? Oh, sorry. It's Caduceus Cellars. The mature ladies, most especially, shelled out about $8 a pop for that wine.
3. Someone in the band enjoys The Carpenters as the pre-show music was a lot of that and other '70s tunes.
4. I knew I would have a little bit of trouble as soon as I saw, from the corner of my eye, who was standing behind me:
5. Wait a minute. Sorry. My mistake, that was a little too Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid. I think it was more like this:
Unfortunately for me, the creature migrated to the spot beside me, along with her mate, whose call was, woohoohoohahaha! WAHAHAHAHA! MAYNARD! PRECIOUS! YEAH BABY! WOOHOOHOOHAHA, and whose elbow somehow seemed to keep finding my head. Ugh. Keep your man bits in your mate's vicinity, you perv. And really? Scoot over? Scoot over, where? Our row was elbow-to-elbow even before you squished your tentacles between me and the person on my left.
6. Rumor was, Maynard was sick. If he was, it didn't show. He sounded great, maybe with a little help from whatever you call that delayed, echo effect thing. As an aside, Josh Freese's twitter page is really entertaining.
7. Maynard's wig kind of looked like this:
8. The Nurse Who Loved Me was an amazing surprise! I already like the song a lot but to hear a longer version, with Billy Howerdel and the guys doing something different with it was an extra bonus.
9. James Iha sure can tell a joke. Lame as they were, his delivery was so endearing and the band's reactions and sound effects were so spot on that you couldn't help laughing anyway. The new bassist, Matt McJunkins gamely took in Maynard's new-guy jokes and Billy's guitar-pick-throwing. Also, James gets a thousand points for showing Seattle some love with his, home of rock quip.
10. Yesss! We got to hear 3 Libras anyway, the Massive Attack remix, that is. But still!
11. Revenge against the squid-folk came courtesy of one of Showbox's security guys. See, the no camera warning was pretty stern. But Ursula's mate thought it would be cool to snap some shots even with a cute security guy about two feet away from him. To be honest, I would have liked it if they were ejected but, the security people were not that mean. They took his camera instead. I hope they didn't get it back. Just kidding (but not really).
12. Okay I'm running out of material so I'm just going to say it was an amazing night and the ticket price with all those ridiculous surcharges, convenience fees, restroom-waiting-line fees, assistance-for-the-drunk fees were well worth it.
13. Even with the dark, creepy tone of their last song, a cover of Imagine, we all still had huge grins on our faces as we walked out the doors and onto 1st and Pike... where an ambulance was waiting for this man or was it woman, who was taken out in a wheelchair by Showbox staffers, two-way radios in their hands.
Yay, Seattle.
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