Just saw Radiohead here in San Diego…

It all started with my friends Jarrod and Amanda camping the night before. The next morning I met them and took over waiting in line (we were probably 35 people back from the entrance). I got there at 7am. I waited ALL day, with my wife and friends until 5:30pm when they finally started letting people in. By this time, I had severely burnt my legs from the sun in which I wouldn’t find out until later after the show.

We get spots in front of the stage probably 15 feet from the Thom’s mic stand, so that was pretty cool. We continue standing for about 2 more hours waiting for Radiohead and Deerhoof (opening band) to finish their set. FINALLY, they all came out and it was pretty crazy to see a musician you’ve always loved in person, rather than in magazines and books. Second song came around which was 2+2=5 and everyone got a little too excited and we all started getting squished up front. We ended up leaving our front row spots to do JACKASSES goofing off and creating too dangerous of a pushing frenzy.

We had been standing for over 5 hours at this point, so we decided to head back to the back, relax and sit and enjoy the show from there. They played a TON of songs with two encores. It was a blast.

But I have to say, I will never wait in line that long ever again. It really wasn’t worth being so worn out when they actually started playing.

And that was my wonderful first Radiohead concert experience in a nutshell.

Date of the show was June 26th, 2006.