{"id":1435,"date":"2011-07-09T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2011-07-20T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:24:34","slug":"the-train-wreck-that-was-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"The train wreck that was The Tea Party…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now don\\’t get me wrong, I love the tea party, been a fan of theirs for a while <\/del>\u00a0since high school, back in the dark ages. \u00a0Not a die hard fan mind you but a fan none the less. \u00a0They\\’re from Ontario and so am I. \u00a0I also love me some affordable concerts! \u00a0The one thing that I love about this city is that there\\’s a mixed bag of venues from the huge ass Montreal hippodrome<\/a> that U2 infused over 3 million cool one\\’s into the now defunct site to host a huge ass concert <\/a>(apparently it\\’s due to be demolished soon after the show after being there for over a century) that I missed (which I\\’ll get to in a moment)\u00a0the bell center\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0which is the most common place for concerts or more intimate and affordable venues such as the Corona Theater<\/a>\u00a0(where I had the opportunity to see Finger 11<\/a> in January and it was AMAZING!) and Metropolis<\/a>\u00a0which I had never set foot into until Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Corona, much like\u00a0Metropolis is a\u00a0theater gem that you don\\’t see anymore these days. \u00a0Both locations are historic and neither one of them are in the most sought after\u00a0neighborhoods\u00a0either. \u00a0However if \u00a0I had to choose what\u00a0neighborhood\u00a0I\\’d rather be in any time of the day the red light district of Montrea<\/a>l ISN\\’T It. \u00a0I love ghetto trash, I find this innate charm in those areas and maybe on a different day I would have been inspired. \u00a0Except I wasn\\’t armed with my camera, capturing the real gritty ways of Montreal which is always interesting. \u00a0 I was on a mission to pick up show tickets to see the tea party<\/a>. \u00a0I was on the fence about going\u00a0originally\u00a0and should have trusted my instincts. \u00a0After checking out their set list and seeing quite a few of their songs that I loved and a mere $40.00\/ticket I decided that since I couldn\\’t go see U2 because that was sold out, <\/del>\u00a0an event that I didn\\’t\u00a0realize\u00a0had more tickets left, I would still get to see a band that I have<\/del> had\u00a0\u00a0some affection for.<\/p>\n

I was tired and not really feeling up to it but determined to go thinking that once I got there I would have a good time. \u00a0Because that\\’s usually the way. \u00a0I do however hate general admission concerts as a rule. \u00a0I\\’ve been to three and I\\’m pretty sure that Thursday\\’s show was going to be my last. \u00a0Evidently\u00a0I\\’m too old, cranky and tired to go to a GA concert on a work night anymore lol.<\/p>\n

Anyway moving along… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Show starts at 8pm with The Reason opening<\/a>. \u00a0I thought it started at 8:30 and ended up coming in just as they were finishing up their last song of the night so can\\’t really comment on them. \u00a0Although I will say that from the little I did see, they seemed to really work the crowd and had a positive energy about them. \u00a0Then that\\’s when the wait started. \u00a0The downfall to smaller stages is that you\\’re not able to set up several groups at one time. \u00a0I get<\/em> that. \u00a0However waiting almost a fucking hour<\/em>\u00a0 for TTP to arrive on stage after the reason\\’s tear down and sound check was beyond ridiculous! \u00a0I should have carted my ass upstairs and grabbed a balcony seat, however for some reason I didn\\’t. \u00a0The crowd was getting restless (with good reason) and my patience was running out and I was starting to get pissy. \u00a0I was already tired, it was almost 9:30 pm (you know an hour and a half after the show started) and my feet were killing me. \u00a0It\\’s bad enough that I\\’m on my feet all day at work, but at least there I\\’m productive. \u00a0Yes I know I could have sat down, however I feared I would fall asleep from sheer\u00a0boredom. \u00a0If anyone thinks this is impossible, trust me it\\’s not. \u00a0I\\’ve passed out in some pretty \\’creative\\’ places before.<\/p>\n

I contemplated leaving before they even came on but that would have been a huge waste of money and time for nothing. \u00a0Turns out it was anyway but I digress. \u00a0So there they were, the tea party, on stage FINALLY. \u00a0The dissapointment was evident right from the start. \u00a0Mostly due to the sound guy! \u00a0The sound in there was shit. \u00a0I know it varies from place to place and where you\\’re located and blah blah blah, however you would think that the technician would have a fucking clue! \u00a0It was ridiculously loud which is\u00a0appropriate\u00a0for a concert except that you could barely hear them over their\u00a0instruments. \u00a0So between this static-y, white noise effect coming from God knows where and the douche bag who was\u00a0whistling at a\u00a0decibel\u00a0that was\u00a0\u00a0so shrill, I had to put my fingers in my ears (like one of my kids at work) to stop myself from punching him in the face<\/del>\u00a0my ear drums from taking a bigger beating then\u00a0necessary, it was hardly enjoyable. \u00a0To top it all off, the guy in front of me was practically having an\u00a0orgasm\u00a0and was flinging his hair to and fro and sprayed his sweat on my face more then once and he was NO WHERE NEAR naked enough or hot enough to be doing so!<\/p>\n

From a musical standpoint, they played well. \u00a0Although Jeff Martin, the\u00a0ego-eccentric\u00a0lead singer lacked passion and looked like he would rather be anywhere but there. \u00a0Not unlike myself! \u00a0I wasn\\’t the only one who thought so either. \u00a0On the bands facebook page<\/a>\u00a0someone else had the balls to say exactly what I was feeling. \u00a0Interestingly enough, when I looked today, wouldn\\’t you know it, any negative, less favorable comments about the concert Thursday night had been deleted. \u00a0Can\\’t\u00a0handle\u00a0the truth boys? \u00a0The reviews that I had seen were a mixed bag ranging from sheer elation to absolute dissapointment. \u00a0Of course, anything that was less then someone gushing about how awesome they weren\\’t<\/del> were was removed. \u00a0I didn\\’t have a bad time per say, although I have to say on a scale of one to ten I would have to give them a 3. \u00a0In fact, I didn\\’t even stay to the end. \u00a0I was so\u00a0UN-inspired, that I left early even knowing that two more of my favorite songs were about to be played.<\/p>\n

As I said to a friend of mine, it\\’s like going on a date with someone that\\’s almost perfect in every way only to find out that he\\’s really, really bad in bed.<\/em><\/p>\n

If the\u00a0opportunity ever came for me to see them again<\/a>, I wouldn\\’t bother. \u00a0That was 4 hours of my life and $40.00 I\\’ll never get back again. \u00a0I don\\’t totally regret it, I just wish that I had trusted my instincts and not went. \u00a0Because if I hadn\\’t, then I would be at the U2 concert this afternoon. \u00a0However, I couldn\\’t cough up the funds sadly since I have bills to pay. \u00a0Even though I have a feeling that $70.00 would have been MORE then worth it to see them play. \u00a0Unlike the tea party. \u00a0Although the live experience has tainted them for me on one level, I\\’m not going to shun their studio recordings. \u00a0I\\’m still a bit flabbergasted that there was so many people who were all OMFG this was better then meeting God in person! \u00a0Although, they do say that love is deaf, dumb and blind… Clearly these people are just that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Edit:<\/em><\/p>\n

To the ass bag that commented that *I* didn\\’t know how to use facebook: FUCK YOU. \u00a0The comments that weren\\’t favorable WERE<\/strong><\/span> removed. \u00a0So get a fucking clue before you start shooting your mouth off about things that you clearly know nothing about. \u00a0Anyone who knows the tea party knows that Jeff Martin is horrendously\u00a0egotistical. \u00a0Clearly your loyalty has made it\u00a0UN-able for you to read. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now don\\’t get me wrong, I love the tea party, been a fan of theirs for a while \u00a0since high school, back in the dark ages. \u00a0Not a die hard fan mind you but a fan none the less. \u00a0They\\’re from Ontario and so am I. \u00a0I also love me some affordable concerts! \u00a0The one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,46,22,45],"tags":[77,76,74,75],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-are-you-fing-kidding-me","category-kick-in-the-face","category-random-rant","category-what-the-fuck","tag-metropolis","tag-metropolis-montreal","tag-the-tea-party","tag-ttp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}