well...friday night rocked our faces off. the pit was brutal, but we survived the pushing and elbowing and spilt beer and smoke... it was so worth the black eye i almost got and the one i really wanted to give. we were literally 2 people away from the stage. it was an absolutely amazing show. however, standing for 5 1/2 hours is never good. my knees and feet protested...but they did not give up. after this experience, i can say that coldplay is a fantastic live band. i love their recorded stuff...but they are unbelievable live. it was awesome. also partaking for the show was kelly clarkson and a member of the david crowder band. quite exciting. plus, the opening band, rilo kiley, was really pretty good. much better than the killers opening act. one of my favorite moments came during coldplay's acoustic set...which incidently happened to take place DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF US...when they did an ode to the greatness that is johnny cash and played "ring of fire." it was simply brillant. they played all my favorite songs and were highly entertaining. it was awesome. it could have only been better if the mormon kid next to me would have stopped touching me every five seconds and the drunk guy behind me had not been there...and if they both would have let coldplay sing the songs instead of shouting them in my ear off key. well...if that had happened, i suppose it wouldn't have been near the experience that it was.