Brian: The show is over. How do you feel?

Fred: I feel great. I feel like we've got to fix a couple things.

Brian: The fence. Was that a big concern for you guys before the show?

Fred: No. We just wanted to remove the barricades and security and just let everybody go at it.

Sam: I was just trying not to mess up. That's the big concern. If we mess that up, then we really, really, really suck. [RealVideo]

Fred: I think opening with a new song is a good surprise.

Brian: [Is] all the energy sucked out of you right now?

Fred: No. I'm thinking about how to fix the problems that happened.

Brain: I talked to a few fans that said you get an A+.

Fred: Anybody give us an F?

Brian: Nobody gave you an F.

Fred: I felt like, the fans were unbelievable. It was unbelievable. I thought that we let them down a little bit, because we didn't light ourselves properly so they could see us good and see the show good. But other than that, I thought the energy level was great. I mean, they were so into it. We were feeding off them bad.

The stage is really low at this venue, and it was our first time using the cage. We wanted that to be the only thing separating us from our fans. I don't think we were lit good, so they couldn't see it well. Other than that, I hope they're pleased. If they couldn't see it well, we're going to fix that by tomorrow, I hope.... [RealVideo]

We were spotlighting from outside the fence, so just like at a house at nighttime, if the lights are on outside and not on inside, you can't see in. But if you turn the lights on inside the house and off outside, you can see in perfectly. It's the same thing with the fence. We need to turn the lights outside off and the lights inside on and make it more like that. How could we have known that?

The place was smoky and crazy, and the energy was unbelievable, and the carpet that we had under our feet was ripping up. I was worried Sam was going to sprain his ankle, and at one point I thought he did sprain his ankle, 'cause he was just standing there, and I was going, "Oh, man, is he just standing there dealing with it?"

Brian: What happened there, Sam?

Sam: Every time I went to jump, it would shove forward, and I about landed on my butt every time, so that was really scary. It was like I had to think before I jumped, so that can't happen again.

Wes: Look before you leap.

Fred: I can't believe nobody jumped off the fence that made it up there.... Dude, if I'm going to climb up that fence, I'm jumping, dude....

Man, it was phat. I mean, that was phat. The energy was there. For our opening show... you're always going to have problems at the opening show, trust me, no matter what show you see. You might not have even noticed them tonight, but you've got to work it out. This is not a profession; this is a vibe and feeling it and living it. There's not a right way to do it. You got to go do it to learn how to do it. You got to work the problems out, and there were plenty tonight that I need to work out by tomorrow. That only means tomorrow is going to be better, and I try never to make the same mistake twice.

I thought the band was on. I knew for a fact you couldn't see John and Lethal that much. I couldn't even see them that good, so were going to have a little meeting with our lighting guy. I thought it was killer.

Brian: All right, guys. How would you grade your performance tonight?

Sam: My performance, personally, was an F, because I messed up every song.

Wes: I'll break it down for you right now. All right, considering that there's a curve because it was the first show, I think that we get a C- or a C+/ B-, because we're all horribly out of shape, but we tried really hard.

Fred: I'm in shape. I've been practicing.... I gave it a B, a solid B. I thought everybody rocked. We're very critical on ourselves, more critical than the average person. Most artists are that way. You're never good enough. You never reach your own expectations. [RealVideo]