==Eye Witness Accounts==
"It all began when I met the person with a cellphone at the parking lot of the LA Police Academy. We then headed over to Echo Park to wait for the phone call (though I got us a little lost along the way). The phone call gave us directions to a nearby parking lot. We milled around in the parking lot for a while before they roped us off into a corner and handed out release forms. The release forms were very entertaining; they said that we didn't know where we were going or what we were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. I was definitely afraid that the bus wasn't going to make it up some of the hills, and there were a few rough bumps. There was a guy with a hand held camera filming us on the bus.
"I was there. We got a phone call telling us to go to a parking lot. We got to sign a release form saying that we didn't know where we were going or what we were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car; I at least got the name of the person frisking me this time, unlike the listening party) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse looking place; there were random people standing on the roof and around the entrance. We were led inside; there were more people inside, and more cameras (there AIR flags hanging from the roof. The people inside all had neat black shirts with white AIR flags on them. There also was a hand held camera mural with the angel, the guy with the face mask, and the robot with a skull inside from the mural in London with "Art is Resistance" written on the bus, high quality ones bottom. There was a camera when we first walked in and then another one inside). Neil Czarno (or whoever is playing him) Czerno gave a talk about how we should give a shit and change the world. I was rather cynical about his talk at first, but he redeemed himself by noting that we shouldn't just blindly accept what he was saying and how that we should change the world in small ways. He also told us that we were stupid for allowing them to herd us like cattle onto a bus to who knows where with no form of communication (and for carrying around cellphones like tracking devices) and that we'd be dead if they were really after us. After his talk, we were led over the river and through the woods (the warehouse complex was really, really bigrather large). We were stopped briefly before we entered a room with many lights and lots of light and equipment. Next thing I knew, the The opening notes of TBOTE were began playing, and I was 3 feet away from Jeordie White on the far end of the line (and 10ft away from Trent Reznor, that's the closest that I'll ever get to NIN). There were about 50 people there, so it was a very small, intimate show. They then played Survivalism, Last (it was marvelous), MOTP, WITT (it was marvelous as well), and then The Frail. I'd honestly thought that I was going to have to wait six months or more to hear TBOTE, Survivalism, Last, and WITT live. There were people there filming the show with cameras, and Rob was taking shots of the band. There was a large AIR flag painted on the wall behind the band. I knew that something was going to happen because you could see flashing lights outsideduring The Frail. Policemen in riot gear (they looked like carbon copies of the ones in the Survivalism video) entered the building . They also had quite a few devices like firecrackers that made noises that sounded like gun shots and that sparked; I got a very good look at them because I was near the door that they used to enter. The resistance personnel pushed us all out (they also had a few flash grenade thingies)of the rooms after the cops entered. There seemed to be a few people detained, but I'm not quite sure how they were detained; I was right where the police entered and made it out (and I was wearing a bright red sweaterchosen, so I wasn't hard to miss in because the sea of black)six people were all cell phone people with their guests. I should have known that something was going to happen after I saw the 20 song set list that included The Perfect Drug Wink. We were herded back on the bus after a run through the complex and driven back to our cars. People still have their cellphones The people on the bus told us to be on the lookout for more graffiti, murals, so they should be in contact with them. There weren't any clues (and I saw the porta pottyads, there wasnand that they't anything interesting in there).""I'm pretty sure that the footage will d be used to demonstrate the secret police busting up a secret show featuring non-BoM approved music. The riot police looked like the ones in touch with the Survivalism video. I saw some of people with the guys who were handing out stuff on Friday at the show, as well as the guy with glasses who was giving out pinscellphones."
The room had the AIR flag stenciled on the wall; there were multiple AIR flags hanging from the roof in the first room where Neil Czarno talked to us. Also, at the end, they told us to be on the look out for more graffiti, murals, ads, etc."
-[[http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=11676 cynicmuse]]