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Pentatonix at Oakdale

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Sunday night I went to see Pentatonix at the Oakdale.  I had been in PA all day and thought that doors were at 7 – I got to my house just before 6 only to realize doors were at 6.  I hardly EVER show up at a show after doors so the amount of traffic getting to the parking lot was nerve wracking.  I was stuck at several of the lights watching them turn red, green, red, over and over with nowhere to go because there were just so many people heading to the sold out show.  Turns out the parking attendants couldn’t handle it either. There were 3 lanes of cars, 2 attendants, and the two cars in front of me merged in to the right.  Since I had no idea what else I should be doing other than following the cars in front of me, I went to merge too and the guy flipped out on my to “stay in my lane”.  Well, the lane seemed to disappear and I knew handicapped parking was to the right… but whatever.  Then I got in to the handicapped area only to find all the “real” handicapped spots were taken and they were just filling in the rest of the lot.  I parked and then the woman next to me parked too close and rammed her car door into mine.  She said sorry twice but I was already SO mad because I was yelled at I didn’t acknowledge her.  PLUS I didn’t want to say “no problem!” if there was a huge dent in my door or something (doesn’t look like there is, lucky for her!)

I got in to the venue with about 10 minutes to spare before the 7pm start time – only to find when I got to the ticket scanner I had to go to the box office because they were filming the show for a Yahoo Live Stream and my ticket happened to either be where the camera was, or in such a spot that it would be in my way or I’d be in its way.  I am SUPER picky about tickets and wouldn’t have even gone to this show had I not had a center ticket, and got moved to a section over, 3rd seat in from the far aisle – but ONE row closer than I was in the other section. (On the plus side, they left the stage and walked around through the crowd and went up right past the aisle I was sitting by!)

Needless to say, I was just not feeling it by the time Pentatonix took the stage at 7:12pm.  They do put on a great show and what they can do with only their voices and no instruments whatsoever (although there was a cello at one point) is incredibly impressive.  I just wish I was in a better mood. (They are opening up for Kelly Clarkson this summer and I have tickets so hopefully I’ll be more into their set then!)

They did a few medleys  – the one I found to be the most fun was “The Evolution of Music” where they start with Gregorian chants and make their way through the decades highlighting popular songs and end up at Call Me Maybe.  I’m not sure why but I always get a kick out of the music history lesson medleys when I get the chance to see them live.

I had peaked at the setlist ahead of time – so I knew when they said “this is our last song” – it wasn’t.  The girls next to me however didn’t, and left.  So I took that as my sign to slip out early and beat the traffic out of the parking lot.  I always sit around and wait 30-45 minutes for the lot to clear out after a show and was just not up to spending that much more time in my car. I’ve hardly ever left a show before the encore before – but I guess there’s a first time for everything.  I did hear “That’s Christmas To Me” as I was leaving though.  And I made it home before 9pm!

I haven’t had time to do anything with photos yet – busy, busy, busy! So expect a “photo dump” post when I do get around to uploading and tagging everything 🙂

Intro / Maship
Problem
Beyonce Medley
Telephone
La La Latch
Love You Long Time
Rather Be
Julio
Papaoutai
Opera Moment
Aha!
Four Five Seconds
Breakfree / See Thru
Uptown Funk / Let’s Get It On
Evolution of Music
Standing By
On My Way Home

That’s Christmas To Me
Daft Punk

 

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Throwback Thursday – Hanson 10/17/03 Alexandria, VA

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03-10-17

Headliner: Hanson
Opener(s): None
Cost: $25

Setlist:

Strong Enough to Break
If Only
River
Runaway Run
The Walk
Rock N Roll Razorblade
Need You Now
With You In Your Dreams
Underneath
Ain’t No Sunshine
Being Me
Crazy Beautiful
Penny and Me
Where’s The Love
Deeper
Hey
You Never Know
MMMBop
Rip It Up
This Time Around

Lost Without Each Other

Recap:

This was the first time I flew to see Hanson. And alone at that.  I met up with my friend in Baltimore, Ashley and we picked up Erin from Virginia and then while we were eating dinner decided it might be fun to camp out.  I think it started as a joke but next thing we knew we were grabbing pillows and blankets and camped out.  I ended up front row on the side of the stage and Erin and Ashley were about 2nd row in front of the stage.  This is the show where Zac fell off his drums and Isaac seemed more concerned that Zac’s head bumped his guitars than his brother bumped his head.  He was fine though.  I also somehow ended up covered in chocolate cake. (somehow is Zac gave it to a girl near me and then there was a fight over it. The wait staff also wanted the bowl it was in back but the mom of the girl he gave it to refused, “No, Zac gave this to her”.  Ok, just steal it from the venue then lol)  I remember really loving Lost Without Each Other this night.

After the show we waited by the bus, and kept being told that they’d all left already.  They didn’t and we ended up getting pics with Zac. (And Ashley somehow got one with Taylor too).  We decided we were all too tired to go home so we stopped at the first hotel we saw – and who do we bump into in the lobby?  Isaac Hanson.

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David Cook Ridgefield Playhouse 2/11/15

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Wednesday February 11, David Cook returned to Connecticut for a show at the Ridgefield Playhouse. I had bought VIP tickets and ended up needing to be at the venue for what I think was my earliest VIP time ever. It was set to start at 2:30pm – and doors to the show wouldn’t be until 7! When we arrived, we were told that Dave was under the weather and that the band would still be playing but Dave wouldn’t be singing for soundcheck because he had to save his voice to make sure to give us a great show.

Dave told us that we would have to sing for the soundcheck – and asked if we knew Declaration. I thought I did but it turns out I’m a lot better at singing along than singing it from memory! Some of the crowd told him to stop talking – but he said he’d be fine to talk, he just couldn’t sing.  For the second song, Kiss You Tonight, Nick, a member of Dave’s crew came out and sang it for us.  Then they were ready to start the M&G but the crowd asked for one more song so they did Lay Me Low.

Monty had his arm wrapped and told us he had to get a screw in it and then Dave did a great impression of the call he got a couple days before the tour run started to tell him that he was hurt but could still play.

Then it was time for the M&G where we were told to keep it to 30-45 seconds, but obviously that didn’t end up happening. One of the venue staff took my picture and then we did a selfie as well.

Since everything was so early, I had quite a lot of time to kill so I did some exploring around Ridgefield and found a Dunkin Donuts to treat myself to. Then I had some time to get some reading done before doors at 7!

The opening act was Artie Tobia. His songs – lyrics wise – kind of reminded me of Stephen Kellogg in that it basically told his story. He seemed to be quite well received by the crowd.

Then it was time for Dave! Everyone was hesitant to stand – but then he told everyone to get up, and they did, for the first song.  The venue reserves the first 6 or so rows for their members – which I guess leads to people not all that interested in the artist to be sitting up close.  After the first song, rows 2-6 sat down.  I tried to stand for as long as I could – but it was nice when I took a couple of breaks that no one was standing in front of me so I could still see – but Dave did tell everyone to get up a few times throughout the set.

There was a lot of yelling from the crowd – some awkwardly timed that made Dave stop before he was going to start up a song because someone loved his hair… But the highlight of the crowd yelling came when everyone heard, loud and clear, “SHUT UP!” and Dave stopped playing and went “Me?” and then cracked up laughing and asked if it was recorded so it would be on YouTube.

Had I not known that he was sick and having vocal problems I’ve not have had a clue based on his performance. (At least until he drank some honey before the last song of the encore) It was a great performance and it has been a while since he has been in CT – he did say he had fallen in love with Ridgefield so I hope that he will come back again!

Paper Heart
Heroes / Champagne Supernova
Everybody Wants To  Rule The World
I Did It For You
Last Goodbye
Lay Me Low
Fade Into Me
Wicked Games
Kiss and tell
Clocks
I’m Gonna Love You
Come Back To Me

Billie Jean
Light On
Wait For Me

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Back To The Island Cancun: Hanson Solo Sets & Activities

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Last year there was a new addition to the Back to the Island experience which was a solo set from each of the members of the band. They did the same for this trip.

Day 2 – Zac was up first at 3pm.  His set was only 8 songs and as much as it pains me to say this – was my least favorite of the 3 sets. It went by very quickly, he hardly spoke with the crowd (except to say it was going fast and probably because he wasn’t talking a lot) but he did perform a song they had never performed live before – Wait Here For You – so add another one to my list.  He also did the first repeat song of the trip when he did Juliet.  Which was fine with me as it’s one of my favorites.

Call Out My Name
Get So Low
Wait Here For You
Juliet
On and On
Bittersweet
Fire on the Mountain
Musical Ride

After Zac’s solo set it was time for Isaac’s.  I’m not sure I can sum up his set properly… you kind of had to be there… but I’ll give it a try.  He came out and said that the first song had an “oh yeah” in it that he wanted us to sing along with.  I figured he must be starting with Minute Without You – but then he went into River instead, which has a “never know!” for us to sing – which we all of course picked up on.  He mentioned he had his songs mixed up and then went in to Minute Without You.  Little did we know just how much he had his songs mixed up… He did 2 songs that I’d never heard live before (I don’t think either had been played before) Two Tears and Ordinary Words.

Somewhere during the set he ended up getting a request for “Sometimes”, he said he would think about it – started playing “Someone” and said he’d try to wrap his head around playing Sometimes next. He said he was trying to remember – and now that I’m listening back he was totally wrong from the get go and asked “is that right?” and then said Sometimes is the song he always messed up night after night in 1998 – the second verse always messed him up and he couldn’t remember the lyric – but he’d do it anyway because it was requested. He said he hadn’t played the song in 15 years. (Which I didn’t think was true – but I looked it up and they haven’t done it since The Albertane Tour!)  Except then he started playing Smile.  And slowly everyone in the crowd started realizing “hey, this isn’t what he was supposed to be playing…” and then… Isaac finally realized it himself.  I’ll let you watch the realization unfold.

 

He ended up finishing his set with “Best of Times” which he had to start 3 times because he kept getting tripped up with lyrics.  Sounds like someone may need a teleprompter for tour 😉

 

River
Minute Without You
Two Tears
Being Me
Ordinary Words
Deeper
More Than Anything
Someone
Smile
Best of Times

 

Taylor was the last Hanson show of the trip due to the flip flop in the schedule and his performance ended up at the theater inside instead of out on the beach due to weather concerns. I never did see any rain – so either we were inside and missed it or it didn’t end up being quite as bad as they thought – though it WAS windy because when we went to eat dinner they weren’t sitting anyone outside and the doors to outside kept blowing open from the wind.

Taylor did 4 songs on his own and then called out one of his brothers to help him with the next song.  After Isaac getting picked on by Taylor and Zac the whole week over the Sometimes/Smile flub, Taylor and Isaac did Sometimes for everyone.  Isaac also stayed on stage to perform Sunny Day with Taylor.  Taylor’s set ended up being 11 songs long – the longest of the 3.

My Own
Believe
Never Let Go
Get Out Of My Heart
Sometimes
Sunny Day
Runaway Run
All I Ever Needed
I’ve Been Down
Voice in the Chorus
Make It Out Alive

 

And since I did a poor job of scheduling posts – here’s a recap of the Hanson activities as well –

Pottery Painting with Zac
I painted a whale.  It was fun.  Zac went around from table to table to see how we were doing and chat.  My friend Kim asked him if Isaac had told them about the Sometimes / Smile flub and Zac said that he did.  Then said Isaac is more of a Jerry Lee Lewis than Bing Crosby and that he likes to make sure we are entertained. The reference went a bit over my head but I guess Jerry Lee Lewis is more does whatever he wants and Bing is more by the book? My History of Rock professor would be so disappointed in me!

Mixology with Isaac
The red passes were telling us that this was boring and we were shocked.  But it kind of was.  I think part of the problem was there was a waterfall next to the area he was at – that was on (for some of the event anyway) and then the speakers must not have been facing us, or all the audio was just going up to the very high ceiling so it was a bit hard to follow along with what was going on.  He made 3 drinks with a fan assistant. He broke 1 glass and gave minor injuries to himself and his fan assistant and I heard he also cut his finger with a knife.  I preferred his trivia event last year – even if it was difficult even for me.

Afterparty with Taylor
We got let in to this early and went up by Taylor’s DJ set. He warned me I might not want to stand here. I told him I probably would end up sitting down. He said “not that I dont WANT you up here, but you know how it is”  yes, I know all too well!  We did end up sitting and he came back out a while later after the stampede of girls to get to the front row… for a DJ set!  He did a great mix of music this time and there was quite a surprise with the crew and Isaac all got dressed up in ridiculous costumes and ended up dancing on stage.  I think Taylor was just as surprised as everyone else!

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Back To The Island Cancun: Hanson Concert #3

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Due to weather what was supposed to be the Hanson concert on the last night got bumped to the second to last night and the guest concert ended up being last.  Since the event is called “Back to the Island” and Cancun isn’t an Island – they decided to take us to an actual island for the last show – Isla Mujeres.  This setlist was the one that was voted on by the fans and was very heavy on songs from The Walk.  Also due to the voting not going exactly as I would have liked – there were no songs I hadn’t heard live included on it – despite there being 7 I had never heard on the voting list. (But a couple were played at other shows, at least!)

This show was one of the most terrifying experiences I was ever involved in at a Hanson show or any show for that matter.  We had to take several buses about 20 minutes away to a ferry.  Then we walked the dock (which thankfully had a railing) and got on one boat, then had to go across to another boat that was attached by a plank.  Luckily the resort staff member, Carlos, grabbed me and then I was able to get a seat.  He told us we would be the first ones off the boat.

The ride was fun – there were drinks (that tasted like koolaid), pirate ships in the water, fireworks… until land was spotted.  Then a mad rush of girls showed up and they wouldn’t move to let the wheelchairs/handicapped off first.  They were able to push the wheelchairs through and someone grabbed them to push them to the stage – I was pulled out of the crowd but Kim couldn’t get out.  The girls were saying since the wheelchairs were off they weren’t letting anyone else off (even the friends who were supposed to be helping out – 3 of them at least were stuck).  So I’m on the dock – and this one has NO railings and the separation between wood in some spots is so big my cane could probably fall through it.  I walk a little bit on my own and then realize this is NOT happening.  I’m going slow, I have no help, and in a matter of minutes I’m going to be stampeded by girls who want front row.  I stopped and looked back and Carlos came to my rescue and walked me to the dock.  About halfway there I hear him say “Oh no” and we can see everyone heading towards us – and the wheelchairs hadn’t made it off the dock yet!

Things were very scary and I’m honestly shocked no one got pushed off the dock and into the water with the way people were acting.  Carlos got me in to the handicapped area with a chair and then ran off to try and do some crowd control.  The 3 girls who were separated met back up with us – fortunately we survived and we were all ok – just very shaken up.  It’s unfortunate the lack of respect some people have for others.  Whether it be those who are disabled or even the members of the band themselves.

Anyway… we made a deal to not focus on it anymore so that we could enjoy the last Hanson show of the trip.  Zac seemed to be in rare form and someone yelled “DYING TO BE ALIVE!” before they started playing it and Zac snapped back “I’m dying for you to shut up!”  He also made up a new version of Madeline about a guy with a beard… and was mocking Adam Levine’s tattoos after singing a couple lines of Sunday Morning.

Tearing It Down
Great Divide
Thinking of You
Musical Ride
Georgia
Get Up And Go
Got a Hold On Me
Blue Sky
Watch Over Me

On The Road
Wish That I Was There
Madeline
Dying To Be Alive
Yearbook

In A Way
On The Rocks
Been There Before
Leave the Light On
Already Home
Roller Coaster Love
White Collar Crime
If Only

Back to the Island
Rock N Roll Razorblade

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Mohegan Sun 80s Extravaganza

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Friday night Mohegan Sun kicked off their 80s Weekend with the “80s Extravaganza” concert. My mom got free tickets through the casino and I really wanted to see Tiffany and Debbie Gibson – the other acts I wasn’t really that familiar with. (Although it turned out that almost all of them did have a song that I recognized.)

We weren’t sure what order things were going to go in – I thought it would start with Shannon and end with the Pointer Sisters based on the image they kept showing – but that wasn’t quite accurate.  We also thought the show would be ending by 10pm because Tiffany and Debbie were doing a signing at 10 – but when we got the tickets we were told it was a 3 and a half hour show starting at 8pm!! We had considered leaving after Debbie – but then decided we did want to see The Pointer Sisters so we stuck it out for the whole show.

Club Nouveau was up first they did about 3 songs including “Rumors” and “Lean on Me”.

Next up was Shannon – who did 3 or 4 songs including “Let the Music Play” and was even doing push ups at one point.

Tiffany did a 4 song set including “I Saw Him Standing There” and “I Think We’re Alone Now”

Andy Bell did his set next – which I think was also 4 songs ending with a song from Erasure. His outfit was quite interesting, to say the least.

Lisa Lisa was the next act – she really impressed me with her singing! Her set included several songs including “All Cried Out”, “Let The Beat Hit ‘Em”

Debbie’s set included “Only In My Dreams”, “Out of the Blue”, “Shake Your Love”, “Electric Youth” and a medley of 80s songs she enjoyed including Michael Jackson, Madonna, Tina Turner and more.

Terri Nunn and Berlin were up next – their set included a new track “Animal” as well as “No More Words” and “Take My Breath Away” and the set ended with Terri walking through the floor aisle and standing on chair in the crowd to sing.

The last performance of the night was The Pointer Sisters – and I was able to snap a photo of their setlist that was sitting on the sound board so I know that their set was “Happiness”, “Slow Hand”, “Automatic”, “I’m So Excited”, “Neutron Dance” and “Jump”

 

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Back To The Island Cancun: Special Guests

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The special guests for this year’s Back to the Island were Nick Santino and David Ryan Harris.  I had seen both open for Hanson on previous tours (Nick with his band A Rocket To The Moon) and I had seen them both without Hanson as well.  Nick was actually in town a couple weeks before BTTI and I teased I’d go become friends with him before the trip, but didn’t end up going. Now I kind of regret that decision because he was really funny and entertaining and I very much enjoyed his set.  I liked how he’d chat with the audience – sometimes even in the middle of a song – he’d just stop and say something that was on his mind.

David Ryan Harris is the only concert I’ve ever fallen asleep during – so I wasn’t sure how well he would go over at this event and I was a little disappointed he wasn’t going on first since I knew that Nick would be a bit more up beat.  I did like how David said that he may look like he was standing against a wall – but in his heart he was dancing.  He also called out some of the rude fans by saying we were being a “chatty bunch” – which was probably the most polite way to put it (girls were sitting around on the floor near the stage talking very, very loudly – while there was a core group in the middle there for the actual show) but no one seemed to get the hint. (I also don’t think they realized the room was going to be cleared out after the guest set before Taylor’s afterparty could start)

I really enjoyed both sets – I just wish everyone else had felt the same way and tried to enjoy it instead of chatting.

 

Nick Santino

Can’t Say I Miss You
It’s Alright
Rio
Goddaamn
Madeline
Gone Like Yesterday
Bad Taste
That Old Corolla
Mood Ring Eyes
Have a Little Faith In Me
Long Way Home

David Ryan Harris

Cover
Get Used To This
Fascinating
Junkie
For You
Shelter
So Is Mine
Do What You Want
I Believe In Us
Pretty Girl
Good Thing

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Back To The Island Cancun: Hanson Show #2

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The 2nd night of Hanson shows was the “Christmas Plus” show – originally it was Christmas On The Island but then they were hinting that it might end up being something more than that.  I was able to get front row for this show and I had made a cool Hanson BTTI Christmas Sweater shirt for the show.  The set started with 8 Christmas songs, many of which had never been performed live before (I ended up with 6 of the 8 I had never heard before) and then went into their favorite songs that they didn’t write (ie. Covers) and from that portion of the show I got another song that I had never heard live before.  Which since I’ve heard all 6 of their albums in their entirety – is a new record… at least until the new album comes out!  Then they finished out the set with 4 Hanson songs (since up to that point there was only 1 or 2 original Hanson songs included in the set)

At the end of the show, Zac went to give someone his drumsticks and I guess whoever he intended them for was NOT the one who grabbed them.  He braced himself with the stage and ripped them out of the hands of whoever had grabbed them and handed them off to who he wanted to have them!

Merry Christmas Baby
What Christmas Means To Me
Rockin Around The Christmas Tree
Run Rudolph Run
Everybody Knows The Claus
Finally It’s Christmas
At Christmas
White Christmas (acapella)

Too Much Heaven (acapella)
Cecelia
Ain’t No Sunshine
In A Little While
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
Never Been To Spain
Oh Darling
Hold On I’m Coming
Gimme Some Lovin

Every Word I Say
Scream and Be Free
Crazy Beautiful
In The City

Long Way To The Top

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Back To The Island Cancun: Hanson Show #1

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Night 1 was the “Welcome to the Island” show where Hanson picked the setlist.  I kind of went in to this show with no expectations or maybe just being prepared for the typical tour setlist that they’ve been doing since Anthem was released.  However, they completely mixed things up for this show and I thought it was a good mix of songs from all their albums (maybe light on The Walk – but since a lot of those songs were included in the setlist voting, it made sense to skip over that one for now – even though they’ve been skipping over it a lot in past tours as well)  The setlist was very upbeat with the exception of the acoustic part of the show.

And I even got a new song – that they wrote on the spot – “Sand in my Crevice”  It was super windy so by the end of the night your hair felt like straw and you were pretty much covered in sand. (Even worse if you had put on sunscreen – it stuck all the more to you)

It was a great way to kick off the trip!

 

Can’t Stop
I’ve Got Soul
And I Waited
Waiting For This
Where’s The Love
Fired Up
Minute Without You

Go
With You In Your Dreams
Love Song
Weird
Sandy / Sand in my Crevice
Strong Enough to Break

Juliet
You Can’t Stop Us
This Time Around
Tragic Symphony
Thinking Bout Somethin
Give a Little
Penny and Me
Get The Girl Back
Lost Without Each Other
MMMBop
Man From Milwaukee

Hand in Hand
Something Going Round

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