Saw Sum 41 for the first time, felt miserable
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:32 pm
So I went to the Kansas City show last night and had my still-beating heart ripped from my chest.
I had never seen Sum 41 live before, and a big reason for that is because I'm less into seeing Motivation and Fat Lip and more into seeing DTLI/Chuck songs. I finished grad school recently, and just a few days after I found out I passed my comprehensive exam, the band announced that they were going to be doing songs from Chuck, they were doing a 2 hour set, and it was going to be "their heaviest set list". Chuck is without a doubt my favorite Sums album, if not one of my favorites of all time; how could I miss it?
I was pretty excited, but still a little hesitant. They were playing three hours away in a different state, tickets were pretty expensive (around $40-45 dollars each after fees), and I'm not exactly flush with cash. To make sure it was worth it, I didn't actually buy the tickets until Wednesday, after they had played two shows and the setlists for both showed Open Your Eyes, I'm Not the One, Angels with Dirty Faces, and 88 (the whole song not just tacking the breakdown onto Motivation). Considering these were literally my favorite Sums songs and I probably wouldn't get to hear them again, I bought the tickets, I was ready to make the drive, and this was going to be my big present to myself for finishing school.
The week of the show I needed to grab an oil change to make sure my car didn't have any problems on the way there; long story short, this ended up having to be the morning of the show, and turned into an oil change, two car jumps, and a new battery that I didn't even realize I needed. I spent 7am-2pm of Friday stuck in a Walmart auto center dropping almost $300 because the thought of missing the only chance I'd get to hear these songs I spent $90 to see live was enough to kill me.
After all the bullshit, I'm able to make it to the show and get there for Sum 41 and their massive, heavy, 2 hour Chuck setlist. It was an absolute joke.
The set had a half hour completely gutted from it compared to the tour's first two shows, they spent all night talking about Chuck but only played four songs (WATB, No Reason, Welcome to Hell, and Pieces. I'm not counting the 30 seconds of Bitter End they stick onto Motivation), three of them singles I would've heard at any show. Their "heaviest setlist yet" featured With Me, Underclass Hero, Never There, and the fucking Queen cover (if you're cutting a setlist short this should be the first thing to go). All the Chuck songs I broke my back to make sure I could see were nowhere to be found. When Fat Lip played I felt like I was violently yanked from a dream five minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off, standing straight up as people moshed around me, looking around the venue thinking "This can't really be it." Any hype or positive emotion from the rest of the show was instantly drained, and that's how I felt for the rest of the night.
I haven't used this forum in years (couldn't even remember my username), but I couldn't think of anywhere else to post my experience. It was an awful night, I spent three hours driving home depressed and quiet. The day after I'm still pretty depressed about it. I don't think I've ever left a show feeling bad, but I last night I left feeling angry, confused, and disappointed. This was the one thing I was able to get myself to celebrate a big deal, I shelled out so much time and money just so I could even be there, the setlists posted by the band made this look like an easy win, but the show wasn't anything they said it would be. I can definitely say this is the last time I'll be seeing them live, I just hope I don't feel this way every time I listen to their music.
I had never seen Sum 41 live before, and a big reason for that is because I'm less into seeing Motivation and Fat Lip and more into seeing DTLI/Chuck songs. I finished grad school recently, and just a few days after I found out I passed my comprehensive exam, the band announced that they were going to be doing songs from Chuck, they were doing a 2 hour set, and it was going to be "their heaviest set list". Chuck is without a doubt my favorite Sums album, if not one of my favorites of all time; how could I miss it?
I was pretty excited, but still a little hesitant. They were playing three hours away in a different state, tickets were pretty expensive (around $40-45 dollars each after fees), and I'm not exactly flush with cash. To make sure it was worth it, I didn't actually buy the tickets until Wednesday, after they had played two shows and the setlists for both showed Open Your Eyes, I'm Not the One, Angels with Dirty Faces, and 88 (the whole song not just tacking the breakdown onto Motivation). Considering these were literally my favorite Sums songs and I probably wouldn't get to hear them again, I bought the tickets, I was ready to make the drive, and this was going to be my big present to myself for finishing school.
The week of the show I needed to grab an oil change to make sure my car didn't have any problems on the way there; long story short, this ended up having to be the morning of the show, and turned into an oil change, two car jumps, and a new battery that I didn't even realize I needed. I spent 7am-2pm of Friday stuck in a Walmart auto center dropping almost $300 because the thought of missing the only chance I'd get to hear these songs I spent $90 to see live was enough to kill me.
After all the bullshit, I'm able to make it to the show and get there for Sum 41 and their massive, heavy, 2 hour Chuck setlist. It was an absolute joke.
The set had a half hour completely gutted from it compared to the tour's first two shows, they spent all night talking about Chuck but only played four songs (WATB, No Reason, Welcome to Hell, and Pieces. I'm not counting the 30 seconds of Bitter End they stick onto Motivation), three of them singles I would've heard at any show. Their "heaviest setlist yet" featured With Me, Underclass Hero, Never There, and the fucking Queen cover (if you're cutting a setlist short this should be the first thing to go). All the Chuck songs I broke my back to make sure I could see were nowhere to be found. When Fat Lip played I felt like I was violently yanked from a dream five minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off, standing straight up as people moshed around me, looking around the venue thinking "This can't really be it." Any hype or positive emotion from the rest of the show was instantly drained, and that's how I felt for the rest of the night.
I haven't used this forum in years (couldn't even remember my username), but I couldn't think of anywhere else to post my experience. It was an awful night, I spent three hours driving home depressed and quiet. The day after I'm still pretty depressed about it. I don't think I've ever left a show feeling bad, but I last night I left feeling angry, confused, and disappointed. This was the one thing I was able to get myself to celebrate a big deal, I shelled out so much time and money just so I could even be there, the setlists posted by the band made this look like an easy win, but the show wasn't anything they said it would be. I can definitely say this is the last time I'll be seeing them live, I just hope I don't feel this way every time I listen to their music.