LEGEND/KEY

A comprehensive guide to concertninja's attempt to objectify the concert experience for those who were not fortunate enough to be at the show (or for those music junkies who were at the show, yet still want to hear what we have to say about it).

Artist attitude/interaction with crowd (not necessarily an indication of their love, or lack thereof, for the crowd/venue/city, although sometimes it is).

Symbols:

= This is not standup, I am not a comedian, this microphone does not mean you wish to hear everything that enters my head. I will play you songs. The end.

= This show makes me feel like I am entering hour 10 of an 8 hour gig as a shopping mall Santa.

= I say some things to you.

= I will make all of you my "friends" on Myspace tomorrow.

= Tonight we are all one entity, one soul...separated only by our relative positions in space.

Visuals

Symbols:

= Our band offers home loans for as low as 7% APR.

= Our all time favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla and our favorite flavor of drink is water.

= We took Stage Construction and Lighting 101 in college, and we don't shop for clothes at the mall.

= Deaf people happily drop $50 for our shows.

= You are forever changed. Drugs cannot even get you to where we are.

Overall

Symbols:

= The studio is magical.

= It's a long tour.

= Even the sober people were dancing and singing.

= Three encores would have been one too few.

= Everyone in the crowd cried, quit their jobs via text message, got a tattoo of the band on their face, bought a VW bus and vowed to follow the band to the far reaches of the planet.