Concert Review: Alkaline Trio
By IAN HRABE
Alkaline Trio was my favorite band when I was 16. One of my earliest showgoing memories is sneaking out to Lawrence with a friend to see Alkaline Trio play the Bottleneck, only to be shut down by my friend’s Mom. (Right outside the venue, too! We had tickets and everything and we’d been found out and forced to drive back to Olathe. It was a sad day.)
Years later, I encountered Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba at the Replay Lounge. He was wearing an all green track suit, playing pinball, and drinking a PBR. I wondered if I should say something. Despite what I wanted to tell him (that I’d hated the last two records and thought they’d sucked out everything I loved about Alkaline Trio on their first four records, to be exact,) I just shook his hand and thanked him for all the songs I’d ever put on mixtapes for girls, and songs I’d put on mixtapes for myself for girls I needed to get over.
