Follow Up on MGMT Red Rocks in June

Ignore that this is over a month later...

First of all, I want to let every one know, if you are experiencing a show at Red Rocks ampitheatre, if you need to pick up your tickets at will call, do not, i repeat, do NOT mistakenly make the hike to the stage area to pick up your tickets. Will Call is at the bottom entrance, about 1/2 a mile away from the admission area. You will have to hike 15 minutes through the bushes, and take a short cut, and wind your way down the mountain to the very bottom, where you will have to stand in line for another 15 minutes, then have to treck back through the bushes and up the hill and refind the short cut, and yeah..It's not a pretty sight. I know this because thats what happened to me.

Tame Impala was the first band, and after our unexpected hike, we sat down just in time to see the last 30 seconds of the last song. It was comical. I think we were gone an entire hour.

I had no idea who the second act was. Cloaked figures rocking back and forth eruppted into song and revealed Janelle Monae, electro/soul/funk's latest gem. I had heard of her before, but never paid attention. I was so wrong to slight her!! Her live performance blew me away. The stage clothes reminded me of fever ray or the knife because they wore black cloaks and the masks with long noses (what are those called?). Three back up dancers wore this ensemble pretty much the entire show. The ominous looking stage presence juxtaposed the happy-go-lucky music in a really fantastic and bizarre way. It was, uh, what's the word? Edgy.

She covered Somewhere Over the Rainbow acapella as sprinkles started to fall. The temperature dropped drastically, and the clouds started to build over the mountain.

After that, the rain started to fall in more steady sheets. My dad, whom i went with, was nicely numbed by the boose he had been drinking while I was hiking! The freezing rain didnt seem to bother him much. The weather began getting uncomfortable, to say the least.

We waited, shivering, for MGMT to emerge, and by 10, it was about 46 degrees, I had sandals on, and little pellets of hail were dropping accompanied by now substantial rain.

I was starting to feel miserable.

My feet were numb. My hair was wet, My clothes were wet.

As my hair was being tossled in the wind and rain, I was beginning to think "This isnt worrrth ittt!"

MGMT got on stage, after what felt like 3 hours of waiting, and I stayed for about 3 songs. They sounded great, and it would have been a really great show, but..I was frozen, in inappropriate attire for the weather, and just wanted to go to sleep.

So....It was a bum deal, but an adventure at the same time in a weird way.