@incendiary_dan lucckkkyyyyyyyyy.
The best concert I’ve been to was Passion Pit. My friends and I were trying to get in but the people at the gate were only letting in people who had orange arm bands, and you could only get those arm bands if you were a student at the big state university (which none of us are).
We backed off and thought about climbing the fence (there were literally thousands of people there, and we figured we could blend in) but then we decided it wasn’t worth the risk. In a flash of genius, one of my friends decided that we should see if we could get some armbands from people who were leaving. Flogging Molly had played previously, and a bunch of frat boys and their girlfriends who had went to see them were leaving because they didn’t want to hear that “hipster shit” that Passion Pit was playing. Capitalizing on this, we offered a pack of gum to some guys and girls in exchange for their wrist bands. They obliged (though the girl had a minor freakout when I pulled out my knife to cut off the bands). We tied the orange bands to our wrists using hair ties and got in the show.
The concert was awesome. The crowd was passing around beach balls and tons of people had glowsticks and such. I even started the chant for “Sleepyhead” when the band was getting ready to leave. Lo and behold, they came back on stage and played Sleepyhead. It was great.
Another cool concert I’ve been to was to see Mark Knopfler play at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.