The show started 30 minutes late with the music stylings of DJ Joe Letz. He got up on stage, behind his laptop, wiped his brow, hit “Play” on his laptop, and took a huge gulp of water, since walking to the stage and hitting a key must have been exhausting.
What blared out of the speakers was something unimaginable: dubstep remixes of Rammstein songs. My first thought was, “Does he know who he’s opening for? We’re going to be hearing these songs within the next couple of hours!” All my friends and I could do was exchange glances of “is this guy for real?” while loud bass beats drowned out any attempt at talking. Consensus was that this was a joke act. As he hit Next on his playlist a few more times, we knew it was real, and not, in fact, a joke.
You couldn’t actually look at the stage at any point, due to a seizure-inducing “visual remix” of Rammstein videos that was being projected on a screen. …
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