I don’t live in Canada! L.O.L.
Somehow Donnie Klang’s people got my email address (I’m assuming from Backstreet Boys fanclub) and decided to tell me that he was opening for BSB this weekend.
The email worked, as I went to his website. Only to find out that he seems to think he is playing somewhere in Wallington, Ontario and not Wallingford, CT – oops?
When we arrived, we watched David doing an interview in the studio and I kind of felt like I was at the Zoo watching him through the glass. Then we headed into a back conference room and had pizza, cookies, candy, etc while waiting for David to finish up his interviews and spots.
Then David entered the room, which was made obvious by all the screams. He went around the room and signed for everyone and then we all got our photos taken with him, thus extending my streak. (For those curious I have also met and Diana DeGarmo, Blake Lewis, Josh Gracin and Ruben Studdard)
I was the only person to stand on David’s left and he said to me “You’re the first one that came to the left!” and I said “Well, I just like to be different” and I think us talking might have been captured in the photo. Haha.
He is so cute and little (though obviously not as little as me) and I just wanted to hug him and squish him.
But I have been to a Hanson concert on both MY birthday and now Zac’s birthday too, so that must count for something.
I heard 4 new songs – which i was happy about. It took me 2 shows in a row to get 4 new songs in April. (But they also didn’t have a new EP they were promoting) One of which was the only song I hadn’t previously heard from “The Walk”, Fire On The Mountain. Zac did it as a solo on guitar and it was spectacular. (I had heard them sound checking it when I arrived so I kept my fingers crossed)
Two were from Take The Walk EP – Hope It Comes Soon and Follow Your Lead. They had sang the other 2 previously on tour – hopefully I didn’t miss my chance to hear those completely. (Like I think I might have done with “Love Somebody to Know” on the Underneath tour)
And the final new song was a cover, Higher, which I believe was from Sly and the Family Stone.
Other highlights were – Underneath which hadn’t been played in a while (at any show I’ve been to, anyway) and Running Man followed by Oh Darlin’. Gotta love the back to back Zac!
Before Zac did his solo, a lot of the audience put on birthday hats. Zac commented that we were all wearing funny hats. Then he said something like, “No more tattoos? Just funny hats?” taking a jab at how a lot of Hanson fans get tattoos of lyrics, symbols and images that remind them of the band (Or at least that is how I took it)
Later on Taylor talked about how Zac was going to be 23 and i’m not sure exactly what happened but it ended with Zac calling Taylor a jerk!
And maybe this is obsessive, but once again I was thinking scrapbook layouts while taking pics. “Zac of All Trades” for a title – he played the drums, guitar, harmonica and djembe!
Opening acts were Everybody Else (I met Carrick after the show) and Dave Barnes. I was impressed with both of them and will be heading over to iTunes soon to pick up some of their stuff!
The setlist was:
1. Something Going Round
2. Higher (cover)
3. Been There Before
4. Minute Without You
5. Penny & Me
6. Follow Your Lead
7. Great Divide
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8. Georgia (acoustic)
9. Go (acoustic)
10. Underneath (acoustic)
11. Fire On The Mountain (Zac solo)
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12. Dancin’ in the Wind
13. Blue Sky
14. Where’s the Love
15. Hope It Comes Soon
16. Can’t Stop
17. Running Man
18. Oh Darlin’
19. MMMBop
20. If Only / Lets Get It On
21. Hey
22. Watch Over Me
Encore
23. Lost Without Each Other
I’ve finally gotten word from the Backstreet Boys that my seats are in Row K. I think that is 9th row because if I remember correctly, the section they are in starts with C. But at the most, it’s 11 rows back which is not bad at all. Significantly closer than our 2001 show – so I’ll take it!
Jonas Brothers have named their 3D movie:
Not sure if I’m feeling the name, it’s kind of blah. But no matter what it’s called I’ll be seeing it, since I very well might be in it!
I’m a member of several fanclubs. I find the $20-$40 yearly membership fee to be worth it if it means being that much closer at the concerts. (But get me to join and then not add any dates near me and I won’t renew and might not go see you ever again – I’m talking to you, Maroon 5)
When Backstreet Boys released their tour dates, I knew I wanted to be close. I had decent seats when I saw them in 2001 or whenever the heck that was, but since we had gotten snowed out of their show last year I felt I owed it to Lisa and myself to get good seats for their upcoming show here.
Except… their fanclub doesn’t tell you where your seats are ahead of time! They simply tell you what sections they are in. The sections mentioned were the first 3 sections in front of the stage, so I figured I’d risk it (plus I had already paid the membership fee so I didn’t want it to go to waste since the NSYNC fan in me definitely was feeling shocked and betrayed)
The seats only go back about 30 rows in those sections, which isn’t bad. It would definitely be closer than we were in last December – because we will actually be IN the theater.
Now I am just waiting for the damn things to come in the mail so I can find out where the seats are. It’s kind of like waiting for Christmas, except the gifts aren’t hidden somewhere and you can’t go sneak a peak. They have to show up in the mail first. Sigh.
In related news, the tickets I have for NKOTB are High Roller seats, which I imagine will be decent much like Fan Club seats are.
And I’m too exhausted to drive the MA to see Hanson this weekend so I’m probably selling my ticket or just not going at all. Zac’s birthday show will be good enough for me.
Thursday I was at work, working. (Because really, what else is there to do at work?) When my phone began to ring. It was an 860 number, but hey, I was at work so of course I answered! It was Q105 calling to tell me that I had won passes to meet Blake Lewis at Mohegan Sun Friday night! I had to get to the radio station before 5 on Friday and be at the casino by 5:45 for the Meet and Greet.
At 5:45, we met up wit Stephanie from Mohegan and she told us to go through doors and wait and that no one was in there yet. (Though I very badly wanted to scream like Blake was there to freak out the other girls waiting to come in)
A little while later, Blake came in and then left. And then came back. We thought we’d be moving to another room but we weren’t, we did the M&G; in this little lobby area. And Blake did sign. (I bought his CD and got it signed and Lauren had him sign her pass)
When we got back to the stage area there was a nice crowd that had formed. I decided to go to the upper level and look down for the performance, while Lauren stayed below for a little bit and then met me up top.
All in all it was pretty weird.. but very cool.
Welcome to my concert blog! On this blog I hope to post concert reviews as well as my scrapbook pages. I will try to get a backlog of 2008 posted, not so sure about the past 10 years worth of concerts I’ve attended, but we will see!!
I hope to be adding lots of content here, as I keep track of LOTS of random stats for my concerts. How many I’ve attended, how many different artists I’ve seen live, $$ spent, miles driven, etc. I’ll try to get all of that added in the sidebar soon so you can track it all as well.
I’ll try to get an archive somewhere for a list of all the concerts I’ve gone to as well as all the artists I’ve seen. It’s a lot!
If you can’t wait for that – head on over to My Concert Page and check it out.
Also – my scrapbook photo album can be found at Flickr I hope to get a back log posted there and in the future post things directly to the blog… I have high hopes so we’ll see how much I accomplish.
Katie