Thursday afternoon I met my friend “C” on the train to NYC. (usually I take the bus, but I decided to splurge and take the train, due to not wanting to deal with Metro on Saturday afternoon, after I returned).
We ended up at Penn Station (convienently attached to MSG) around 4:30pm, and picked up the Fan Club tickets. Score……Mike’s side ! (haven’t been on this side of the stage in years) Woohoo, so I was way happy 
Then hiked 20 blocks uptown (10 blocks out of our way… due to not checking the exact cross street for the Hotel…. ooops). So we turned around and went 10 blocks the other way. Went to check in… and the room wasn’t ready! (its 6pm by now). Receptionist said she would put a rush on it while “C” and I went to dinner (and she gave us 2 vouchers for the breakfast buffet… sweet!)
After some Pho for me and a Vietnamese beer, we went back to the hotel, checked in, changed, and high tailed it back downtown. Arrived at MSG at about 8:15… and my BlackBerry battery was drained, which meant no tweeting… or checking into Foursquare 
We found out we had missed the opening band…. The Black Keys… which was fine with us 
Set List: Sometimes, Breakerfall, Last Exit, Animal, The Fixer, Severed Hand, Small Town, I Am Mine, Comatose, Force Of Nature, Even Flow, Low Light, Down, I Got ID, Army Reserve (dedicated to Lt. Colonel John McDonough), Insignificance, Unthought Known, Do The Evolution
1st encore: The End (with string quartet), Lukin (with string quartet), Just Breathe (with string quartet), You Are, Love, Reing O’er Me (Townshend) [Ed has crowd wish Pete Townshend “Happy Birthday”], State Of Love And Trust, Once, Porch
2nd encore: Jeremy, Leash, Mankind, Crazy Mary (Williams), I Believe In Miracles (Ramone, Ray) [dedicated to Joey Ramone], Alive, Indifference
Pretty standard show… nothing epic to me….. Highlights for me were I Got ID, Unthought Known, SOLAT, Once, Stone singing Mankind, and Indifference.
I should note there was also an annoying girl that seat hopped into the row in front of me and was blocking my view for the first half of the show, until the person who’s floor space she was encroaching on kicked her out of the row … so this probabaly affected my experience 
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