When the 2010 Jingle Bell Bash was
announced and Paramore was the
headliner, I had to go!! I've followed
Paramore since their first album
All We Know Is Falling. Their second
album
Riot! featured two songs from the hit
movie
Twilight. "Decode"
was the lead single for the film, another song
called "I Caught Myself" was also featured on
the film's soundtrack. Shortly after the
Final Riot! tour, Paramore toured
with the No Doubt Reunion Tour and
The Sounds at the Whiteriver Amphitheater (see
my previous concert reviews and pictures).
This Spring before the Honda Civic tour which
Seattle was left out of, Paramore did a
Spring tour in the WAMU Theater (see
my previous concert reviews and pictures).
Paramore is good driving Rock 'n Roll with
a Hayley twist! :))
The JB BASH also included several bands
I've seen
recently like the super energetic 3oh!3,
MTV unplugged All Time Low and The
Maine. Even though the audience was
heavy laden with screaming girls, I braved the
onslaught! ;) I could not get myself to
get in line early and get in line with the
girls!
There were so many kids camped out the night before
and the line ran out the Qwest field parking
lot. I arrived just after the first band,
Cartel started at 4pm.The place was
sold out and much more packed than I had seen
it before!
The floor was totally packed so I went to the
beer garden
 and had a good view there for the
first couple bands (beers), Runner Runner,
Cartel and A Rocket to the Moon all sounded
good and have several airtime hits. I walked around the
venue between each act and came back to the
Beer Garden each time. :))
The next group Mayday Parade, The Ready Set and
The Maine all have had major airplay. I
had seen The Maine last year at JBB 2009
and they are still going strong.
During this time, my HTC Smartphone's CBSports Gametracker
was showing me the Apple Cup stats....
0-14 Oh well....
7-21 Yeah right....
14-28 This won't do it....
21-28 Oh, well wait....
28-28 Ah!! We're in it!!
So after Mayday Parade I ran across the street
to Jimmy's and caught the last few minutes of
the Apple Cup game. It went on forever, but what a game
it was!! Good try Cougs!! I drank a bunch more
water there even though I had drank over a
gallon of Gatorade before the concert in
preparation.
I returned to the WAMU Theater just after
All Time Low came off the stage. All Time Low
has hit the big time. I had seen
them at last years JBB and they have already done
an MTV unplugged session. Each
succeeding group sounded better
than the previous and the Seattle crowd was real into
it. There was major crowd surfing going on
reminding me of the last JBB where I got near
the front of the stage and was in a sweated out mosh!
 3oh!3 was next!
This energetic duo from Colorado pumped up the
crowd. I had seen them earlier this
year at the Showbox SODO and they were as energetic
as then! This time they had a bigger stage to work from
and Sean and Nat worked both sides of the
stage. Kids were leaving the mosh from the
crush and heat that 3oh!3 typically brings. It
was then that I started my journey into the mosh...
Slowly as people left, I filled in. I felt real
good, I had stashed my coat and sweatshirt
under a bleacher, I had just re-hydrated and had both
my cameras reloaded with
batteries. 3oh!3 tired the crowd but
then the
Like Girls another top 40 band that played a
long set. Front man Martin Johnson belted out
the songs like crazy and whipping the crowd
with their 2009 hit
Love Drunk!
The crowd was ready for Paramore,
and so was I. I had worked my way past
all the parents and into the mosh in front of
the stage! Hayley was in
prime form talking to the audience quite
frequently and talking about her special
Christmas vest. She talks about it in one of my
YouTube videos...
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