Recap (in crayon): Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected? Tenth Anniversary Tour
What a goofy night:
Sum 41's Does This Look Infected? was the first record I ever bought myself. I told my sister that I would do the dishes for her for the next three years if she gave me the $20 (or so) I needed, and although those probably weren't my best years as a businessman, I listened to Sum 41 probably every single day from that point until high school (2005-ish). Like many, my music tastes evolved, and I never listened to them again, even though they've put out quite a few albums since then.So when I heard about Sum 41's Does This Look Infected? Tenth Anniversary Tour, I freaked the fuck out and prayed to the nostalgia gods that tickets to the Chicago date weren't thousands of dollars or, even worse, sold out. And, they weren't. My friends and I planned a whole weekend around this one really goofy event. And, it was pretty goofy, to say the least, but holy cow, my expectations were wrong.
- Lots and lots of high schoolers, some with braces, and some smoking weed
- Insane amounts of moshing to a really boring Fall Out Boy-ish two piece opener called IAMDYNAMITE, or formatted something like that
- The frontman of IAMDYNAMITE actually had the crowd pose for a picture, as if it had never been done before
- The crowd continued to mosh between sets
- Two 15-year olds called my friend a "handjob" and "really gay"
- People actually started punching and shoving each other for no reason at a Sum 41 show.
- Sum 41 played all the way throughDoes This Look Infected?,and actually did a really good job with it
- After that, they just played a lot of new songs, making me realize that I was actually at a Sum 41 concert, and you should never go to a concert for a band you don't really like, no matter how much you liked them in middle school.
Overall, it was definitely worth the $25, and Sum 41 hasn't really changed at all. But, I will die before I have to interact with a crowd like that ever again.That said, here are some crayon drawings so you can feel what it was like to actually be at the House of Blues last Friday night:
