Last night we went to see Seether and Bush (and My Darkest Days and Nickelback, but I'll come back to that) at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Seether were excellent as always, and Bush were good too (this was the first time I'd seen them live). But the whole experience was marred by the total fucked-up-ness that is the Pepsi Center.
The tickets were expensive in the first place; I guess that's just par for the course these days and anyway Americans don't seem to mind being ripped off. So it was adding insult to injury to find that parking at the Pepsi Center is $15. We've seen Seether at Fiddler's Green (aka Comfort Dental Amphitheater, which is a bloody stupid name) and other places, and parking was free there.
But the ripping-off wasn't over yet. It was hot weather so we both had bottled water with us, which was taken away as we went in so that I had to pay $7.50 for two bottles of water inside the Center.
Water wasn't the only thing to drink, though; there was beer, wine, whiskey, you name it, and plenty of people were carrying alcohol onto the floor. And plenty of people were drunk, of course. Inconsiderate assholes carrying drinks continually tried to squeeze through the crowd to get closer to the stage; someone started picking a fight about ten feet from us; we both got beer and who knows what else on us. Thank you, Pepsi Center, for encouraging people to get brainless drunk in a crowded arena.
And of course there was the obligatory six-foot-four man-mountain who didn't give a shit that nobody behind him could see the show they'd paid for.
We ended up leaving after Bush left the stage (which is why we didn't get to see My Darkest Days and Nickelback). We'd had enough. The next time we go anywhere to see a band, it'll be somewhere we can get seats, and it will NOT be at the Pepsi Center.
