hakaret değil doğru bir tespittir. en lüks otelimiz bile kokudan geçilmiyor. ertuğrul özkök bu konuyu gelin itiraf edelim konseptli bir yazı ile anlatmalı. adam hiç değilse "tökiy veri guud tökkiş kebab yeah" şeklinde geçiştirmemiş. sorunu söylemiş ve çözümü de göstermiş. biz araplara laf atarken iyi, amerikalı bize laf atınca kaka. yok ya. burda: (bkz: arapların çok pis olması)
blog'daki orjinal yazının tamamı şu şekildedir:
istanbul was unlike any city we've ever been to.
it's the fourth largest city in the world, so it's huge, and culturally, it's very different from the u.s.
one of those cultural differences? deodorant.
three times i got on an empty elevator in the hotel, and three times i nearly gagged on the 7 floor ride down to the lobby. i'm not sure who was riding on it before me, but they left behind a cluster bomb of personal stink. if you're packing enough body odor that you leave a vapor trail behind wherever you go, perhaps a bar of soap and some speed stick might help out.
that's nitpicking though. turkey is an interesting country, but unfortunately due to the schedule and the weather, i never really got out to see it.
mike went to a bazaar with some of the crew guys and said it was amazing, but beyond that i don't think anyone even made it out of the hotel.
maybe one of the reasons was the issue of security.
apparently there was a bombing in istanbul the day before we arrived, and there was also word that the concert was a terrorist target.
and to cap things off, there was a metal detector at the entrance of our hotel. that was a first. however, there were about 6 feet of open space on one side of it, and about 20 feet on the other side. so if the terrorist was a really honest person and a strict rule-follower, he would have been nabbed. then again, he may have walked through, set off the alarm, and kept on walking without being checked, just like the guy i witnessed as i was sitting in the lobby.
i've never felt safer...
at least at the gig there was an entire bomb squad unit, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs, and a ton of security personnel.
they were doing an important job, but they just added to the massive amount of humanity roaming around backstage. i've never seen so many people backstage. ever. and many of them weren't credentialed, and many of them didn't appear to be doing anything other than blocking my way as i tried to get from the dressing room to the production office.
so just to reiterate, i've never felt safer. mostly due to the fact that if a bomb did go off, the odds of having at least a 30 person buffer between me and the blast was pretty good.
so to put it politely, the conditions at the show in istanbul were a clusterf***.
oddly enough, the one safe haven from all of the people was the stage.
the band came out and played a tight 60 minute set, and the turkish fans put down their cigarettes long enough to shout their approval.
one of the other curiosities of this gig was the fact that there was no room for our tour bus to park backstage.
it stayed back at the hotel until the set was over, then picked us up outside of a back gate behind the stadium.
so the band's final goodbye to turkey was making their way through a crowded sidewalk full of street vendors trying to sell them hot dogs and trinkets and glow-in-the-dark devil horns.
like i said, it was unlike any city we've ever been to before...
sonisphere - istanbul, turkey - june 25th, wednesday, june 30th, 2010
