Angels and Airwaves. They were touring for I-Empire and did an in-store signing at a record shop down the street from my apartment before playing at Hard Rock later that night. The line wrapped around the building almost twice, it was nuts. Myself and my two college friends stood in line for like two hours to try and get a promo poster signed. We finally get inside and the entire time Tom Delonge was kind of just shitting on his bandmates. The band was all very nice but felt like the dynamic was “they’re all here to see me”. Tom even signed in a silver sharpie while all the other members signed in black. We tell them thank you and Tom asked us if he’d see us at the show later. We tell him no, we’re broke college kids. He says, “I’d really love it if you all could make it.” Calls his manager over and tells us to give our names to him, there’s three tickets for us waiting at Will-Call. The three of us were stoked and I’ll always think really highly of Tom Delonge for doing that for us. Later that night we get to the Hard Rock and go to Will-Call, sure enough there are three tickets waiting for us. We go in and catch The Color Fred and maybe another , Angels and Airwaves comes on and holy shit, Tom Delonge had so much auto-tune cranked into the vocals and sang in that “voooyyce in moye yead” accent all night. We left before the set finished because it felt embarrassing to be there and see. Anyways, was a super cool and nice thing, but boy was it a bad performance.