Before I begin on this post let me preface this by saying I have been sick for a week and running fevers nonstop hence lack of posts. This would NOT stop me from seeing this free Breaking Benjamin show since I wasn't lucky enough to get tickets to the show later on tonight. The wait in the bar for the show to begin was agonizing. My social anxiety, fevers and starvation were not helping. Then of course, the assholes of the hour decided to all try to cut ahead and skip the line! Didn't work did it assholes? Anyways......I was under the impression that the show was gonna start at 5 but hey, Ben does what Ben wants. Mom was about ready to get in fist fights with line cutters especially one that had the nerve to say she was here waaaaay before us blah blah blah. My hatred of humanity was pretty sky high at this point. Then it was time to go upstairs. I had no idea what to expect. I would have NEVER expected to be within arms length of the stage and have Ben talk to me! WHAT? Craziness. He kept telling me to take his picture and I was like what me? It must have been the cold dead eyes staring at me that had me so confused.
Ben seemed all happy and jolly until there was some technical difficulties with guitars...then the cold dead eyes came out! RUN!!! haha just kidding (maybe) I was so excited to be able to see them play live so close up. It will probably never happen again and I cherished it. I knew it wouldn't be a long set but I was pleased with it! They played Angels Fall, Until the End and Failure. Holy shit, I felt Failure deep in my soul it was sooooooo cool too hear it and be right there. Amazing. ONE DAY I WILL HEAR DEAR AGONY LIVE AND IT WILL BE FANTASTIC ONE DAY IT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!! Today was not that day but that is okay!
Excuse the fact that these were taken on my cell phone! I didn't want to waste my short time of the show fiddling with my camera.
Here are the few I did get on my camera
I thought it was really cool that they all were playing even though it was just an acoustic set. I figured it would be two acoustic guitars tops, not a bass, guitars and a drum! It was incredible.
Here is the moment the cold dead eyes took over my camera and turned Ben into some kind of ghost. Super interesting photo
Let's not forget the fact that I shook Ben's hand 3 times hahaha! Awesome! It seems so unreal but I will always remember it. Thanks BB and 89x you guys rock.