I still can't believe...

... I went to the Alice Cooper concert, and walked away from it with a t-shirt, videos and no crazy scars. My ears feel alright; they were fine when I woke up the next morning, so normal hearing loss still intact. 😳

The fact that it's been eight days and I'm still like, "what did I see?? It's already been a week??" is out of this world. 

I had a general idea of what I was getting in to when I bought the ticket in October, but I didn't completely know what was going to happen. Just like I had an idea of the age range of the fans (yes, I profiled), and lo and behold, the years of watching police crime and drama shows paid off. My theory was correct on the people I'd see. It doesn't hurt that I had an idea of what to expect, but wasn't completely understanding since I had never seen any footage of Alice perform. I went in to this only knowing a real short handful of songs and knowledge of what he would attempt to do. In the end, you learn by trial and error. 

It doesn't help my case by saying I probably should stop over thinking what I'm going to do or see at any time. Even though what I find myself getting in to, usually can sometimes end up being a grand sociology experiment. I can't help trying to figure it out beforehand; it's oddly intriguing and it's interesting to see how close (or far away) to correct I am.

For "as old" as the crowd was, you don't want to know how the majority of the sing-a-longs had the voices coming from the first 10 rows of the packed house. The sounds I heard (outside the band) were the various people attempting to sing, and they were raised equal to, and high above, Cooper's in a couple instances. It seemed to come primarily from in front of me since no one next to me looked totally enthralled to be there (the exception was the 4 guys in front of me). The people around me were more about staying still and quiet, taking videos, rather than really getting up and enjoying themselves. The man to my right, especially, sat for a little over an hour and looked like he was totally lost. In the beginning, his female friends looked like they knew what was about to go down more than he did. 

I know voices carry, so it was probably more like the first 20 rows in front of me were having a blast, but again, there were dead spots that I could pick up over the music. I have hearing issues as it is and I can kind of differentiate some sounds better than other sounds. I could be wrong with what I heard, but I was more invested in the whole event than trying to figure out where the acoustics were crapping out (not that I haven't done that before... people hate when I watch TV with them because I point out the bad stuff).  

Hearing the crowd all sing (kind of in unison, which is funny in itself) with Alice was a good thing and a bad thing because they all knew the music and I only knew a handful of it. There was a point in the concert where the guys in front of me were having a (loud, to hear each other) conversation and the one wearing the "Ozark Musical Festival" shirt said to his buddy, "I love this song!!", and I stood there thinking to myself, "I don't know this song!". 😩

To keep the audience guessing and on their toes, there were instances when a confetti cannon would go off into the crowd.

For real; of all things not to expect, it's confetti shooting at you from the stage of an Alice Cooper concert. 

When you think things can't get more strangely weird (I mean, come on... snakes, guillotines, beheadings... in this day and age???), the last song of the main set, "School's Out" (track 1 from the same titled album, School's Out) was played. It started normally and then all of a sudden, those giant "palooza" style inflatable balls came out for the audience to not only hit around, but also was used for Alice to explode more confetti onto everyone. The show truly went from a dark vaudevillian event to a happy (but could be scary depending on your mindset) trippy hippy show in 89 minutes. 

What the crazy?! 

If you wait about 45 seconds in to the video, the balls show up. 

I know this video doesn't start with the beginning of School's Out because I did this accidentally intentially. During my last post about the concert, I ended that video with the first minute and a half of the song. However, this version ends with a surprise mix: a couple verses of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall part 2 (track 5 from The Wall). What I don't include here is when the song goes back into the last refrain of School's Out before the concert ends and Alice comes back for the encore (Feed My Frankenstein). 

The more I think about it, this may be one of the videos where I didn't have people completely in the way, so I was able to get a solid few minutes of the entire band. I only wish I didn't have to rely on total zoom the whole time, because it's blocky and pixelated and doesn't look pretty (in my opinion). 

Like I said in the previous post, "short people problem". 

Overall, mind... blown.

Still.

Thought I'd share a little more. 

Until the next update, stay trippy. 

Cheers;

See Also

* Video shot on an iPhone 11

* Video edited in Pinnacle Studio