Radiohead @ the Bowl
Radiohead was amazing. The crowd was pretty lame. Too many potsmokers. It was gross. They did two encores and then the crowd was able to get Thom to come back out for one last song. He performed alone with just a guitar, saying that we were stuck with only him since the rest of the band was off getting drunk backstage. Thom didn’t talk too much but he made a crack about how we liked New York since they have water and power. The crowd booed him which was pretty cool. He played with the camera at one point and the crowd went nuts. The music these five guys make is incredible and the encores where awesome. And it was so rad when Thom came back out for a third one. By then Eddie and I had moved our way up like 15 rows and were standing right near Jacques from Phantom Planet…. and on that note….
We freaked a bit before the show. We were scanning the audience for JT who we never saw so who knows if he was even there. And instead found 4 of the Phantom Planet boys sitting in the same section as we were. Eddie saw Jacques first standing up and was like, is that Jacques? He went down to check it out and found Jacques, Alex, Darren and Jason. No Sam unfortunately. People were going up to them saying hi and taking pictures but I just didn’t have the guts. I didn’t want to bother them. I kicked myself after the show since they were in their row hanging out for a good 5 to 10 minutes after the last encore. But we were busy on our mission to find JT. We made it down to the pit but didn’t find him… found Neil Finn of Crowded House instead. Walked right by him.
By the time we went back to see if the Phantom boys were still there, they were gone. So we made our way out of the Bowl trying to figure out where to go next. And all of sudden Jared Leto walks right by us. We looked each other straight in the eye for a very long second. He was looking very hippish and grungy but still looking gorgeous. So Eddie and I make our way behind the bowl and to the band entrance area on the other side.
We see Alicia Silverstone next and then I got a little excited cause I saw Colin Hanks. He was so cute. He had on these glasses and was dressed really cute. I didn’t have the nerve to say anything to him and he was with friends and it just wasn’t the place in my opinion. But we ended up leaving that area at the same time as he did and so I ended up by accident walking beside him for a little bit and then he was right in front of me and I could hear him chatting with his friend. He light up a cigarette. Didn’t know he smoked. A group of us walked down the hill for a ways and then Colin went off in a different direction.
So we walk further down the hill to where the after party is and I made my way through this group of people and Jared Leto almost runs right into me. I dodge out of the way as he takes off and pass Cameron Diaz and Bencio Del Toro. We go to sit on this little fence and proceed to watch Jared come back and Bencio, Cameron and Jared then finding their limo and getting in while saying goodbye to their friends.
As if that wasn’t enough, before we get up to leave, Tom Green and Drew Barrymore pass by to get to their car. It was a night of star spotting that’s for sure. I am sure there were a lot of other people there. It was that type of show. It didn’t feel like the crowd was filled with die hard Radiohead fans but rather people who wanted to go to the show just so they could say they went and appear hip. Whatever. It’s all about the music people and that’s why I was there. Our little star gazing adventure afterwards stemmed from our mission to find John Taylor. All in all it was a fun night.
