Gig 20030330 Journal

Source: Shihad.com (circa 03)

Date Published: Unsure

Who: Shihad.

Where: Las Vegas, NV, USA

When: 30 March 2003

Reviewed by: Shihad (Jon Toogood)

Viva Las Vegas. it's hot today so I spend the afternoon in the car park of the Huntington playing my guitar and getting some sun. I haven't seen it for so long, I'm white and pastey. luckily I play in a rock band and that's considered a good thing. I love Las Vegas. I know it's totally screwed up but I always have a great time here. Disneyland for adults. we're staying at the Hard Rock Hotel which has a casino downstairs with shitloads of awesome rock'n'roll memorabilia to gawk at while you (usually) lose all your money. but not me - after the show I won $100 playing Blackjack. oh yeah. the Huntington is a good show for us. We all played with fire in our bellies and a whole bunch of people who don't didn't know or give a fuck who we were before the show are fully rocked by the end and there are metal salutes a-plenty to be seen around the venue. it's 30 Seconds to Mars' last show with us so we trade emails and all that and get a big group photo afterwards. bummer to see them go. Everyone's staying at the Hard Rock so we all meet in the casino after the show and proceed to get blind. from what I can remember there was so many people on our bus at one stage dancing to 'Highway to Hell' it was shaking. Celine Dion had just started a 3 year stint at the Ceasers Hotel the day we arrived. she's getting paid something like $35,000,000 and gets her own store erected in their mall. shame I didn't get to go. to busy living in the real world.

-Jon.X