07-29-2006, 11:28 AM
That was the show when I was completely turned onto the Hip. In fact I bought TATH there at the show. Before this concert the only Hip I knew was what got played on the radio. They were awesome. I was several hundred feet back to the right of the stage. I was blown away. Been a die hard fan ever since.
Since I wan't a true Hip fan at the time I thought Bosstones show was the best, all these beach balls being knocked around. I was in the pit for this show and fell on many of them. Got kicked in the head a few times, but oh well, thats the price you pay.
The only thing that sucked about it was the end of the last day and the ride home. After the mystery act failed the place went bananas. We were in a tent on a hill directly opposite the main stage. Many around us packed up and left, but many others stayed behind to start fires, t.p. trees and dance around the fires to the beat of "Blister in the Sun" as played by several drunks banging on 55 gallon garbage cans with sticks. It was actually kind of surreal. My friends and I sitting around our tents with mass chaos going on all around us. Not one person bothered us. Not a one. We didn't dare go to sleep though.
I had borrowed my dads 1985 F-150 3-speed manual (with overdrive mind you) with a straight-6 that had like 130,000 miles on it.
After the night with no sleep, we start heading out on our rough trek home to Grand Island (Buffalo), on what must have been the hottest, most humid day of the year. I start to get near Toronto when I notice that the truck is running abnomally hot. I had no tools with me, or water for that matter. I was a dumb kid. I end up pulling off to the side of the 401(?) right in front of downtown Toronto. Let the truck cool off for about an hour and a half, checked the fluids, everything checks out. No leaks. No steam. Start 'er back up, we make it as far as St. Catharines, pull off, wait another 2 hours for the truck to totally cool off. Start up again and we make to Grand Island, at the top of the ramp of the exit the truck dies. Let it cool off again, and thankfully she fired up again just long enough to make it home. Thermostat stuck closed. Closed. So a 2.5-3 hr trip took almost 8. Thats my long winded story!
Since I wan't a true Hip fan at the time I thought Bosstones show was the best, all these beach balls being knocked around. I was in the pit for this show and fell on many of them. Got kicked in the head a few times, but oh well, thats the price you pay.
The only thing that sucked about it was the end of the last day and the ride home. After the mystery act failed the place went bananas. We were in a tent on a hill directly opposite the main stage. Many around us packed up and left, but many others stayed behind to start fires, t.p. trees and dance around the fires to the beat of "Blister in the Sun" as played by several drunks banging on 55 gallon garbage cans with sticks. It was actually kind of surreal. My friends and I sitting around our tents with mass chaos going on all around us. Not one person bothered us. Not a one. We didn't dare go to sleep though.
I had borrowed my dads 1985 F-150 3-speed manual (with overdrive mind you) with a straight-6 that had like 130,000 miles on it.
After the night with no sleep, we start heading out on our rough trek home to Grand Island (Buffalo), on what must have been the hottest, most humid day of the year. I start to get near Toronto when I notice that the truck is running abnomally hot. I had no tools with me, or water for that matter. I was a dumb kid. I end up pulling off to the side of the 401(?) right in front of downtown Toronto. Let the truck cool off for about an hour and a half, checked the fluids, everything checks out. No leaks. No steam. Start 'er back up, we make it as far as St. Catharines, pull off, wait another 2 hours for the truck to totally cool off. Start up again and we make to Grand Island, at the top of the ramp of the exit the truck dies. Let it cool off again, and thankfully she fired up again just long enough to make it home. Thermostat stuck closed. Closed. So a 2.5-3 hr trip took almost 8. Thats my long winded story!