Disintegration - 21 years old
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I have to say, the best concert of my life was seeing them in probably 2000. They did a 5 club tour of tiny venues in the US. I still lived in Dallas Ft. Worth and was still in college.
The Ticketmaster stores are always at a certain grocery store chain down there all across the suburbs around Dallas. A common plan when getting tickets right when they went on sale was to go to a crappy part of town where there likely few "fans" of the band in line to buy tickets.
I went to one in Arlington in a somewhat suburb area, and there were 40 people in line already. Ticketmaster gives out numbers and calls one out randomly to start the line from that person. Sure as hell, they called my number first and I thought i was floating. I was freaking out. I mean, this show sold out in about 30 seconds. I had meant to bring enough money with for four tickets to sell two of them. I was the only one in line who got tickets.
A guy in line behind me, knowing it would sell out, gave me $30 just to buy him two tickets with his money. That practically paid for one of my tickets.
one of my friends actually paid $400 to go to that show, and people were paying more than $1,000 for tickets.
It was an absolutely incredible show. Robert Smith is by far my biggest music influence, especially in terms of guitar playing, so to be there about 15 feet from the stage was just ridiculous.
Here's their setlist from the show:
Mainset:
out of this world
watching me fall
want
fascination street
the last day of summer
maybe someday
from the edge of the deep green sea
inbetween days
if only tonight we could sleep
39
prayers for rain
one hundred years
bloodflowersEncore 1:
a strange day
just like heaven
a forestEncore 2:
the figurehead
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