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¤ I got to the Marquee Theatre around 6pm because of previous engagements and to my dismay the line was already pretty long. I then went to pick up my ticket and got a chuckle when I seen that it was the 3rd one sold, I might have bought them too early. Ha-Ha. Anyway, I got in line around 6:15 and the doors were supposed to open at 6:30 so I was looking on the bright side and said at least we will be in soon, boy was I wrong.

¤ I started talking to some people that really didn't know too much about HIM despite all their HIM garb. This passed the time so before I knew it was 7:00 and still closed doors. Well after some more talking and me having to relief myself behind a tree we finally got into the venue at around 8:15.

¤ As soon as I got in I rushed in by the stage but all the good spots were taken so I scored a decent place right in front of the front of house booth. The opening band for this show was Program the Dead instead of Auf Der Maur. They were pretty dry, not really my kind of stuff. The singer was funny though, he was getting the crowd to yell fuck you at them and he was saying that they were just the opening distraction. When they went off he asked us to give them the finger one more time and everyone seemed more than happy to oblige.

¤ After minimal set up time Monster Magnet took the stage. Once again its not really my thing but they played really well and sounded good. They seemed to have a lot of fans there at the show because they got a really good response. He dedicated one song to all the people who ever got ripped off at hot topic. They left the stage at the end and said that they loved Tempe Arizona.

¤ After about half an hour HIM finally took the stage, the moment everyone was waiting for. They started the set with BABL and it sounder awesome. Valo's voice was sounding very raspy and when he was talking between songs it sounded like he had a cold or something, he would try to hit high notes and just couldn't do it. But all and all he sounded great considering. The next song was 666 followed by Sacrament and Wicked Game.

¤ After that they played RHIMA and also played Razorblade Kiss, FOT, Solitary Man, Poison Girl, Its all tears, and Join Me. They all seemed to be having a great time on stage and before Join Me Valo said they were going to go off stage after the next song so Mige could change his clothes because he stunk so bad. Right before they started the song Valo said he would want to join him in death while pointing to Mige.

¤ I guess because he smelled so bad. After that they went off stage and the fans started chanting for one more song. So when they came back on they only played one more song instead of their normal two. The song was Soul On Fire and a mosh pit broke out a few rows in front of me, Valo bowed to the crowd when it did.

¤ All in All it was a great show. I was glad to hear Its All Tears. The guy next to me thought it was a Black Sabbath cover and when I argued it he got offended. I can't wait to see them in LA.