“My first concert was Backstreet Boys, the Millennium Tour.
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(And yes, you may have heard aboutthe updates to his relationship status, too).
I think we were in sixth grade.
That was the good thing about our generation is we were kind of stoked on everything.
I ended up getting a slot to perform in between and it was my first time.
So I got there and I realized I had no money to pay him.
He dropped me off at what I said was the right house.
My first concert
“Oh man, this is actually f—in' hilarious.
They dropped down on the hoverboards, right?
And then we had to leave because I puked on the people in front of us.
We were like 11 years old, so there was definitely not any genius songwriting going on.
You cant really find it on the internet now butits on YouTube.
It was a [bonus] song off theAbove the Rimsoundtrack by Tupac.
The song was called ‘Pain.’
Its a beautiful song and the lyrics, they hit really hard.
“When I left the hospital, you know how your iPhone will still keep the song up?
It was him, and that s–t f—ed me up.
I have a witness on that one too.
My girl was with me in the car.”
It was like the heaviness lifted.”
Then Chris Cornell died the day before we were supposed to play together again.
I always regretted not staying.”
And you know that part where he goes ‘Gui-tar!’
I spent so f—ing long learning how to play that, and I finally got it.
So if I heard’Adams Song’by Blink 182 Id probably lose it.
I like’The Funeral’by Band of Horses.
And I gotta have at least one rap song in there.
What about’Skys the Limit' by Notorious B.I.G.
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