Eric - One Week 2 Days til Madonna... Dance and Sing

10:31 am - One Week 2 Days til Madonna... Dance and Sing

Here are my last two times to see her, I thought all three would be on LJ but I didn't start until after the ReInvention Tour

The next morning Emma and i headed out to Starbucks and after some problems with the gate at the Villa we ended up taking Rachel and Tim too.  We came back and had some fun by the pool.  I went with the girls into PS to do some dress shopping LOL!!!!  As the time neared 3 we got ready to head further into the Desert and Coachella Music festival.  There was no traffic on the 10, which was cool.  Off the 10 was a different story.  it took 2 hours to travel from the 10 to the gates of the festival and the Sahara Dance Tent.  The tent was huge.  A bigger stage than the main stage and 4 rather large screens set up on the side of the stage and outside of the tent.  I can't imagine why in the dance tent they would need monitors like that?  :-)

One rather hot dj was spinning as we worked our way up to through the crowd.  I guess the montiors were working to let us know he was hot.  We found a spot for the 6 of us.  Jeff and Dan backed out of going.  However Rachel wanted to get closer so the girls kept on making their way to the front.  The first dj stopped and they set up for Paul Oakenfield.  I think at this time it was safe to say there were close to 10,000 in the tent.  Not much room to dance or anything.  People kept pushing a head or trying to get through.  As Paul's set wore on people were less and less inclincded to let people through.  Just as Paul ended these 3 girls probably not much older than 18 forced their way in front of us, but first they had some words with the guy standing next to them.  He was not thrilled to see them.  Soon after some Asian chick pushed her way up from behind me with her boyfriend.  They stood there for a second and than asked if i'd help her get on his shoulders so she could see.  i said no because they'd be in my way, and she said they wouldn't stand in front of me.  Once again i said no, because than they would be infront of my friends and hundreds of other people.  The 3 girls from before however decided they'd help her up.  At which point Tim, Rich and myself asked them to get down.  When they didn't everyone behind them started chanting Get Down!  I then called the girl a fucking cunt.

One of the 3 girls thought i called her friend a cunt and spun around and got all in my face and was like what did you say.  I looked down at her, cause she was short and said you heard me.  she stopped for a second turned to her friends turned back at me and all she could come up with was You fucking Fag.  My reply was along the lines of yes i suck better cock than you and probably every guy you see here does too.  the asian chick was still refusing to get down.  i told her get down and watch the monitors that's what there were for.  she said no.  Tim and Rich started pusing the boyfriend.  people started throwing water bottles at her.  Tim was like Bitch i'm going to light you on fire if you don't get your ass down.  The other girls kept calling me a fag, and i was like does your mother know you are here on a school night?  than tim asked one if she spent her boob job money on tickets.  the girls just kept calling us fags.  Why is that straight people always refer to calling us what we are?  Finally Rich was like bitch if you don't get down i'm going pull you down by your fucking hair.  She got down.  than they appoliogized and went on their way outside to one of the monitors.  the three girls however kept trying to show how cool they were.  i went on ignore mood.  

After about 20mins of waiting for her to go on Tick Tick Tick And we were off.  i could tell from the set-up she was going to do the same gig from KoKo and the G-A-Y performance.  I just didn't know what color of leotard she'd wear.  She came out in purple.  A few minor changes.  She played guitar on I Love New York.  At first i was scared because in the past her guitar playing was a little shaky.  Last night it was much better.  The Line in the song "If you don't like my attitude you can just F off, just go to Texas isn't that where they golf."  was changed to "If you don't like my attitude you can Fuck off, just go to texas and suck George Bush's Cock."  She added Ray of Light to the set.  Which was great. and than the Performance of Let It Will Be was alot better than at KoKo.  Finally she ended with the one song i was dying to hear.  Everybody!!!!  Dance and Sing get up and do your thing!!!!  They ended up taking down the walls of the tent and expanding the standing room into the next two tents to accommadate the crowd.  They sold 100,000 tickets for yesterday and about a good half were all eyes on Madonna.  great show and we were only 100 ft if that far away from her.

After the show we left.  we didn't wanna risk fighting crowds later in the night to get out.  SInce Tool hadn't performed yet.  It only took half an hour to get back to the villa.  Rachel and i drove home last night.

There are many reasons she is the most successful female of the rock era.  One of which is the fact she puts together a show like no one else ever could.