Thursday, November 03, 2005
Yep, TBB and I totally suck!
Exercise: None - I had a bit of a sore throat from all the singing and yelling and I didn't want to aggrivate it by working out.
Yesterday afternoon a couple of my co-workers had been trying at the last minute to get a hold of a couple of Bon Jovi tickets. The one said she knew someone that was a relative or something of one of the guys in the opening band so she thought she would give that route a stab. No luck. She later called me on the phone to ask when the concert started. I told her that the doors opened at 6 and the show started at 7:30. I then asked if she was able to get some tickets. She said she wasn't but they were going to be giving some away on the radio shortly that she was going to try for. She made some sarcastic comment about winning tickets that would put them right down front like TBB and me so I said, "Hey, it could happen". About a half hour later I walked by her desk and the other co-worker that had been trying to help win the tickets. As it turned out, they won them!!! The seats weren't in the first couple of rows but they weren't bad. They were actually where I thought the first bunch of tickets I bought were (right off to the right hand side of the stage) before I double checked the confirmation when I had to put those on eBay. I swear when I bought that first set, it said section 101 (lower level by the stage) not 110 (lower level opposite end of the arena with a straight on view). Either way they would have been good seats (there really isn't a bad one) but I was afraid it might be a little harder to sell the ones that I needed to get rid of.
I put the tickets up for a week and at the end of the auction, I had a buyer willing to meet my reserve which was the ticket price plus the fees eBay charges to list. That was fine with me because I wasn't looking to profit, just get my money back. When I found out that the buyer was a youngish guy with a daughter and step daughter both around the age of 10 and extremely excited to be attending their first concert, I just thought it was so neat. I couldn't ask for a better bunch of people to be handing those tickets over to.
TBB and I met at the venue when I finally stopped being a blind blonde biotch LOL (sorry inside joke). More than anything I was just glad to be there in one piece because some woman that obviously had her head shoved up her ass so far she couldn't see nearly ran me off the road. I don't know what it is with people that can't read road signs these days and pick their exits a mile or so before they come where stuff is first posted. Anyway, I was really surprised that the security seemed to be more laid back than it was for McCartney and it wasn't what I would call overly tight then. They were sort of checking bags (asking people to open them) but not really getting picky about it like some do and they weren't even wanding. They were also letting cameras in. I was kinda miffed about that since I left mine home thinking there was no way I would be able to "hide" it and I didn't want to have to be faced with leaving it in the car again. At least TBB had her camera on her even if she didn't bring the extra memory card so we didn't go completely without pictures.
The first thing we did after we walked through the "gate" was get t-shirts. I couldn't believe they were charging $40 for a babydoll ($5 more than the "regular" t's). It might be one thing if the quality of the shirt were better but it wasn't (oh the drawbacks of being a clothing/sewing guru). It's very obvious where they are making all of their money. Once we managed to fight our way out of the merchandise crowd from hell, TBB got a drink and then went on a mission to hunt down the smoking deck - took us about 10 minutes and directions from a very nice security lady but we did find it. From there it was hit the bathrooms before making our way down to our seats. We sat and watched the opener for a bit. They were alright but I really just couldn't find that much interest in them. TBB wasn't impressed either so we went back up to the smoking deck to wait for BJ to hit the stage. After the second trip there, I'm positive I'm not "wowed" by the architect's design of it. At one end, it's fairly deep. At the other very narrow - not good when you have a ton of people like maggots on a shit pile frequenting the place. Many of those people being drunk or carrying drinks doesn't help at all either.
Overall I really liked the show. BJ had a neat stage (made mostly of vid screens) and I liked the fact that there was a huge wall behind that was used as a display for those sitting at the back of the arena. Even with that though, I don't think the stage was nearly as impressive as McCartney's and in some ways took away from the light show rather than adding to it. The cool thing was because there was extra room up front when the show started, TBB and I ended up in the front row - Yep, we know....we suck! At least that's what my friend who was sitting in the nosebleed section told me through a text message. LOL We also had a really cool security dude in front of us too. DeKarlo I think was his name. We ended up seeking him out after the concert so we could get our pic with him. He laughed and asked why when I approached him and I told him because he was just the coolest security dude we had come across. He was kind enough to oblige us and I think he also enjoyed his 15 seconds of fame. :)
Toward the end of the show, Jon came down off the stage on our side. At first it looked like he was going to walk out in the crowd but he started getting mauled by all these woman who came out of no where so he was pulled back. Instead, he came closer to us (we were about 3 - 5 seats in) and stood up on the barrier. This one chic (amazingly not the one who was constantly screaming "We love you Jon!". I swear we always get stuck by the nutballs!), grabbed the guy's shirt, twisted it around her hand and then started yanking on him. I thought the poor guy was going to fall over and land on us. Now not that having Jon Bon Jovi on top of you is a bad thing, but when you've got thousands of woman dying to get a piece of him, being in the frenzy "tain't" fun. He seemed to be enjoying all of it just like all the chic kissing he was doing on stage with the contest winners - such a ham. It's obvious this guy was meant to perform and I also got the impression that he realized there were "delicate" ears in the audience because I don't think there was one swear word uttered the whole evening by him.
There were a few things I would have changed about this show especially when I think back to the last concert of theirs I went to in the late 80s. Back then they had a catwalk that basically went all the way around the arena and Jon would run the thing and the other guys would be all over the stage. He was fairly active this time too but mainly focused on center stage and the other guys stayed put for the most part too. Then there was the camera guy on our side. I swear someone was feeding him TBB's every last move when she went to take a picture because it never failed he would always move right in her way. At least she was able to out fox him here and there so she could get some really nice shots including the one up on her blog right now.
Speaking of that picture, TBB had emailed it to me so I could take it to work for "bragging" rights. All of my co-workers who are women were drooling over it which I can't say that I blame them. It's a great shot of a great looking guy. I can't wait to see the rest. One of my co-workers came over to my desk a little later on in the day and asked if I had anyway to animate it because she wanted to see Jon wiggle his little tushy. LOL J-Lo (who turned down the chance to go with us when I first started talking about getting tickets) even said she wished she would have gone after seeing the picture. She didn't realize just how good looking Mr. BJ really is. LOL
The biggest disappointment of the evening was that they didn't come out for autographs and pictures afterward. As much as I can understand some of the security issues and all when it comes to doing that, I can't help but feel that not doing it is sort of a slap in the face of the fans and a way of saying that the band is too important for them. I mean the fans are the ones who put them where they are, it would only make sense if you want to keep that fan base, you take time for them. Ah well....maybe next time.
And now for something completely different.....
There are so many things I could put here. I haven't had a lot of time to write lately so ideas for this section have kinda piled up. Anyway, I think the biggest one of the day are the "Brownie" emails that have been published. What a damn fool! Oh and he doesn't even know how to spell Nordstrom. No wonder Bush picked him. They both seem to have ineffective communication skills.
Alrighty Red Dwarf is on so I'm outta here.
Til next time.....
Knocked Off By The Fashion Diva
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