The Heineken Jammin Festivals - when you were still in Imola - were without a doubt my "training ships" when it comes to concerts. In fact in my "Music puberty, if we exclude the Gods of Metal '99 when I dragged my father because I absolutely wanted to go see Metallica, and some MTV Day, HJF was the 'Event' And with the capital. My first Heienken was definitely a hit. Not so much as concerts in itself - it was the year Guns'n'Roses pit where they gave the last moment and remained as headliners The Offspring. I had to ò a lady's ass, because I had just finished my stage GNR and I was going to punk-rock in the Offspring, so basically I was more than happy anyway. But most of those who had bought tickets NO. In fact, many even went there. This paved the way for me and my best friend, that when we presented ourselves in a good hour before the gates, to our amazement we were able to acaparrarci the famous "bracelets" (which I held him for more than a month and still jealously guarded by some part), which gave us the right to access the even more famous "first bath". For the uninitiated, the "first bath" is a bit 'paradise dell'HJF or cordoned off the area just below the stage at which they are able to access the first to arrive and from which one can then come and go at will. "The first pool - once told us of a security - is considered potentially the most" dangerous "and then they get a lot less people than there actually would be. The first pool is different from the "second tank" as well as to be obviously more away from the stage, but also because it is packed up its last legs. "With the wisdom of the man of the world, the security officer had added:" I'm in the front row in second tank, there'd be never. You are pressed against the fences and miss you're near the stage. Who makes you do '? "So that first HJF able to enter fluency in heaven and we spent the whole day stretched out in the sun, getting up and getting closer to the stage only to hear the groups that count the most ( I personally also found the time to review a little 'quiz theory test for driving school). We entered and went out with the bath do Vips, passing in front of others waving the legendary bracelets liter bottles of water with freshly bought in hand, past all the others that we looked hungry and envious. Yes, we heard the very ...
But we were accustomed too well. The year after it tried to do an encore at the concert of RHCP but failed miserably and ended up in second bath. The time of Red Hot, my friend and her boyfriend decided to retire at the edge of the tub while I cry to "back off if it dies," he won the seat in the front row in second bath. Exactly. Just what we had strongly recommended the man on the security during the previous year. In fact the game does not avail much the candle, but I began to understand how you must feel in the front row (the real one) and found also a pity that poor soul out of my small size, stood behind me decided to shield me with his body. Survived. All in all pretty good too. A bit 'matured but pretty good. There followed a bit 'of Heineken without special praise, and then get to what so far has been my last HJF. It was 2006. The year of Metallica and the World Cup. That's what my speech was "hot" in the blog that I kept in those days ... "And 'MOST WAS THE CONCERT' grueling OF MY LIFE !!!!!!!! Other than Rammstein Wuhleheide in the second row!! Indeed, Perhaps if we were in the front row, was anything but exhausting ... but first things first ... H 8.30 - Wake up: the program was to start at around 9-9.15 and get around the racetrack 10.00 - that is, an hour before the opening of the gates - so try to slip into the tank A, also called Bazza bathtub, "because if you go there, then you can also do the shit that you like within the following 10 hours and come back looking fresh before the beginning of the concert. H 10.10 - parked in the parking lot of a friend of ours who lives behind the racetrack and call Elia and Andrea who were there the day before to hear about the move at the gates. They provide us beautiful beautiful are already inside in a tub xkè ^ ste dickheads have opened the gates at 9.30 am, however, reassure us by saying that they still get ... I do not really reassure me, since I remember how far we still have to do to get to the gates and the gates of the stage ... and in fact ... H 10.30ca - We reach the 1st tank that obviously had already stopped making people go. But there are people lining up, because rumor that start to make come soon. Indeed, though the 1st tank is kept fairly empty on purpose, it was just too empty should contain 3000 people and 3000 people had trouble seeing them around the circuit! Meanwhile, the people already entered in the 2nd ... but since you are actually in the second all tight like sausages from the butcher, groped we decide to go for broke and we get in line. Time passes slowly in the heat shocking of the 11 in the morning - and the circuit km of asphalt do not help ... strange rumors began to circulate: some say it does not enter more and we're all there for nothing (but then those of the security hurdles must be just sadistic, xkè there are displaced, and there before us - in the shadow - a grin ..), others The bracelets are finished but are coming, others say it happens every year and they do get around alle3-4 in the afternoon ... H 12.00 - there's mixed signals: we throw water, such as x does not invite us to desist, but the security starts to urlarci that we have to go so there is no point (NOW you tell us ?!?). Many have already given up and we would have a maximum of twenty people before us: if they come in, we're there for sure ... but if it's all a scam?! We, too, along with other fellow sufferers in our same conditions begin to lose hope ... H 12.30 - I give it to him and Fabio on: mica could not stay there all my life! In short, now the circuit was filling and we had arrived there at 10 x the soul of the cock. So we move in a good position cmq - needless to say, even the 2nd tank had been filled - leaning against the railings of the 2nd tank ... but what good position and not subject to the limitations of bracelets, she would become very soon a mortal cage, since everyone would be stuck there ke force. H. 13:00 AC - The heat does not let up and send Fabio to take a few bottles of water (about 1 \\ 2 liters of water = 2 €! !!!!!!)... Thieves in the meantime I keep d 'eye on those who are still in the row x 1 tub x ^ see how much longer can .......................................... resist and magically moves the security and enters the top 50 xsone ca, exulting that come with their blue bracelets ... including the guys who were next to us before our desertion ... - NO COMMENT - H 13.30 ca - From 1 st tank come to visit Elia, Andrea and Christian to keep us a little 'company, but I have two balls that turn not stop anyone and show them the bracelet there have certainly does not improve the situation. I must say that if they have deserved this: Having been to concerts all day before they went to bed MINERAL WATER IN THE PARK covered only by a banner stolen Heineken racetrack, and at 9 am had already had breakfast there that ... H 14.45 - concert begins. Despite all the stage we see him quite. well and I can take some good photos. After the first Face in the Water, there are the Swiss Anfithrion depression who send in the entire race track announcing they had prepared a cover of Testament, but that does not succeed for lack of playing time! Follow the Trivium - good - and at 16.00 the Living Things that they kill him everything that people had on hand, including sandwiches and watermelon rind .... I did not understand why, at the bottom were not poor ... so disgusting ... H 17.10 - Late start Lacuna Coil, and here the pressure of people behind us makes itself felt. If I have to tell the truth is that I do not like them, but I can not say that they did a good gig - one of the choirs unanimous: we want to see her pussy! Naked! And more sophistication like that ... I continue to go from dry to soaked in every 10-15 minutes due to various water balloon made with water bags distributed free by security. That the 14 was not bad either, but at 17 began to be a bit 'tiring. During the Lacuna Coil then we bring you even fire hydrants ... H approx 18:30 - The delay continues to increase. They arrive on stage Avenged Sevenfold, the surprise of the day. I did not know them but I can not make him the compliments: great music and they're really good. The apotheosis came with a cover of Pantera's Walk ... water balloon back and forth of water ... Unfortunately, however, because of the delay (because it could not be overdriven to 21 started the game) but someone had to cut it (the game Heavens no')... and it is up to them (the choice was: they or Darkness is up to you ... then decide if it was a good choice or not ...) 19:55 H - Recovery time starting the Darkness, which form a complete show. What can I say, I do not mind, are too funny! They all did their best pieces, as well as a cover of AC \\ DC. H 21.00 - Start game. I will not elaborate on what because who knows me knows how I feel about this brilliant idea. I just say that the climate of mutual cooperation and on the whole "friendship" that was deployed for all the concerts (we're talking with two strangers, one picks up the morale of each other ...) has become a climate of hostility: you yelled "Sit!" if you had the unfortunate idea to stand up and block the view of others, if you wanted to move from one point to another (even if only from your workstation to process and vice versa) the people you xkè prevented him could not see well. Boy, I tell my heart in my hand: if you wanted to see the game, why do not you stay comfortably home, you spend less? The people should have been there for the music, Metallica or whoever wanted to see and the game had a surplus, not the main course! The thing I was really saddened, and it was really chilling to see a show almost 40,000 people sitting on the ground in silence as automata with his nose up at the screens and woe to those who broke the silence. The same 40,000 people who danced and sang and had arisen until recently. Sorry for venting, but what is really bad blindside me. H 22.30 - fact is, because it will hurt m'aveva blindside, will xkè ke were now almost 12 hours I was there in the heat, standing, soaked 10 min and 10 min after no, it will be because of the side had thrown up to 2 cm from me, cmq I started to think that when they started, Metallica, and people would begin to press seriously, I would have the worst. So, since I came here to hear Metallica and x x not suffer the torments of hell, I decided I wanted to enjoy the concert and I preferred to live. So I have abandoned the position and Fabio so hard that we had defended so far, and we moved to a place where one could breathe a bit more 'air is completely on the side of the stage, next to the entrance of ^ a bathtub. Virtually the same place where We had lined up for the bracelets just arrived in the morning. Much ado about nothing x! H approx 23:10 - With a little 'of late - and after receiving the last foot of water in a water balloon, which I would never dried - Metallica finally come out on stage! Although we do not we could see virtually nothing of the stage, the sound was perfect, and there was more room to go wild (I have heard rumors - from Elijah, Christian and Andrew - before that where they were, however, were not all mummies pogato himself even a little '... well there is! Scherzo, the whole is always envy ...). The four were really super fit, and have played for more than 2H! I really do not know how I still do. As in other dates of this short tour outside the studio, they celebrated their 20th album "Master of Puppets" playing all of the yarn. Hats off guys. In addition they proposed a new song from the new album, imaginatively called "New Song", which I think bodes well. Very different from the style of the previous St.Anger in my opinion. About St.Anger, the pieces played were all taken from old album, except for fuel from Reload. Anyway here's the lineup: The Ecstasy of Gold Creeping Death Fuel Wherever I May Roam The New Song The Unforgiven Battery Master of Puppets The Thing That Should Not Be Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Disposable Heroes Leper Messiah Orion Damage, Inc. - - - - Sad But True Nothing Else Matters One Enter Sandman - - - - Last Caress Seek and Destroy Note the presence of The Unforgiven, which was not so much that they played live - at least here at home - and sent into raptures good part of the racetrack. H 01.30 ca - The concert ends and the exodus begins. We expect Elia, Andrea and Christian who are to leave by the 1st pit, which come after a good 1 / 4 of an hour. In the meantime I'm really a small cloth: they are wet in spots, the hair is reduced to a shapeless thing, I'm not standing up and I close my eyes from sleep. I have a hole behind the left heel with 3-4 layers of skin caused by less DR.MARTENS and I'm dying of cold, a little 'x x upon incoming water throughout the day and a little' x fatigue. The purpose, scope of Adidas jacket remains inside the backpack, bang wet as everything inside, so not very useful. The arrival of three veterans, we are waiting for Angelo, with whom we had met since the Padova concert 2 years ago. Meanwhile, Elijah, Christian, and Fabio, in their sick mind decided to improvise a game of Frisbee at 2 am! (And in fact some have even lose his head ...) H 2.10 ca - Security comes to the evacuees were now few remaining racetrack. So this time I could not even greet Angel! It 'just a tragedy! Slowly we are moving towards the exit (I always would have preferred a foot amputation), and we part acknowledging the other three companions adventure (which, in theory, that morning would have to "stand up" at 6 am to go to work ... ) H 3:00 approx - At a speed of 0.1 km per hour we get finally to the parking lot. I get there only by force of inertia, the brain I think I turned off the exit gates. Now we only miss getting to Bologna about 3:40 H - Pianino pianino, adagin adagino finally come home. I thought this moment would never come. Xò before going to bed, I eat a bit 'of bread and Nutella x calm the hole in my stomach (I had all day pretty much just ate a ham sandwich) and I do a quick wash xkè I was really reduced to a pitiful state (like an illegal immigrant from Albania). H 4.15 ca - FINALLY A NANNA in the arms of Morpheus .... Sunday, June 18 - DEEP COMA zzzzzzzz ........." As c'avevo not want to rewrite it over again I decided to let the excitement (and exhaustion) of that day speak for themselves. Let me make one last "little thought" among my friends who have lived this adventure with me, I also mentioned Christian. Well, not even a year ago, Christian has left us for a motorcycle accident. At this moment, my thoughts fly to you, my friend. I hope that from where you are now, you can enjoy the best concerts.
HJF 2001: I and my friends cheering in the first tank
HJF 2001: I take this opportunity to review driving school ... HJF 2006: ... do not tell me the first tank!
HJF 2006: ... the first signs of slowing down (mentally) ... 
