08/19/07 Waukegan, IL Genessee Theater

Alinite27 · Post by **Alinite27** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:37 am

Yeah, I'm sure that he is tired. I know how he was when I met him last night after Kings Island. I was thinking that he would get to fly home between Ottawa and Mitchell, but maybe not. It'd be a long bus ride if he didn't.

Glad the show turned out great!

weirdalfan95 · Post by **weirdalfan95** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:37 am

Got back a few minutes ago, and WOW, it was AWESOME! As Kathy said, got wet by the Nirvana water! I also met Al, a picture can be seen at my MySpace page.

WEIRDALexis279 · Post by **WEIRDALexis279** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:52 am

Great concert, I got the "How'd you get through security cause baby you're the bomb" line...YAY! Got to meet Al afterwards. Did really well with signatures. All in all was a great experience and can't wait for my next concert in september. I will post pictures and a more detailed review later.

Post by **kaffy©** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:24 pm

weirdalfan95 @ Aug 20 2007, 12:37 AM wrote: Got back a few minutes ago, and WOW, it was AWESOME! As Kathy said, got wet by the Nirvana water! I also met Al, a picture can be seen at my MySpace page.

Oh my gosh, he did a meet n greet in the rain?? But he looks dry? LOL

Wow, had a blast sitting next to you guys! ;-)

weirdalfan95 · Post by **weirdalfan95** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:17 pm

Haha, yeah, Al did in fact do a meet and greet... Only thing was... Ya know, he was in the theatre while the rest of us were outside, getting soaked as the rain got worse. Oh well. It was definitely worth it to stay in the rain and wait till Al came out!

Post by **kaffy©** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:05 pm

weirdalfan95 @ Aug 20 2007, 08:17 AM wrote: Haha, yeah, Al did in fact do a meet and greet... Only thing was... Ya know, he was in the theatre while the rest of us were outside, getting soaked as the rain got worse. Oh well. It was definitely worth it to stay in the rain and wait till Al came out!

Thats awesome that he still did a meet n greet. I know he didn't finish with the Backstage peeps until 10:30 - 10: 45 or so, so thats cool

I'm sure the rain felt good.

I'm glad you got to talk to him

I got a little wet on the way back to my car after the aftershow festivities. Then I had to stop at a BK to get something to drink since I was parched. I thought my car was gonna get swallowed up by the flooding streets

Anyhow...

I"m here at work, so I guess I could tell ya about my adventures..

I left my house early. like 3 p.m. it took me 2 1/2 hours to get to Waukegan, thanks to traffic through Chicago. *sigh* I knew I should have taken 294..atleast I would have avoided all the congestion on the Dan Ryan and through Chicago. I'm really glad I left when I did though, got me to the theater in perfect time. Enough time to get set up for the Rock Hall Petition.

Which after I asked, they did have a table for us. Be it a very small round table, but a table none the less.. when they started getting busier, they split alexis and I.. I was moved to a lounge on the south side of the building, and I believe Alexis was sent to the North Lounge? All I know is that we were split up to control the flow of traffic coming into the theater.

The theater itself was very nice.. and I actually got a Marquee picture. I think the first one this tour for me so far. I've forgotten the other times we were at a theater. but Oh well. lol

Everyone that I came across who worked for the place seemed extremely nice. It was funny, because I had a name badge on, people either thought I worked for Al

or I worked for the Theater. On both instances, I had to correct them. lol

My seat was in the 2nd row Orch Pit. Distance close enough to not only get spit on, but get drenched in nirvana water and touch the stage. I honestly didn't think the water would reach us that far over.. but Al intentionally threw it that far over. lol I forgot to thank him for that. I've never gotten that wet from the water.. and this time I didn't protect my camera

it was fine though.

Again, a few more hip wiggles *chuckles* and some more donuts.. Uh. They're slipping my mind what they were now. bummer. It was pretty funny though I remember. Pretty disgusting if I'm remembering correctly. Oh yes, now I remember, He did the 2nd Jelly donut thing, and said, I Already told you, We're out of Jelly donuts!! LOL yeah.

Overall it was a GREAT show! Sad it's over until the Sept 23rd for me, which that week will be crazy fun!

Backstage I got to talk to Jon and Steve, and Talked with Ruben for a split second. I got to hear Al sneeze. lol It was pretty loud too.. Got a nice big Al hug/squeeze when he saw me, "Hey Its nice to see you again!!" and he sighed when he hugged me, he gave a little noise.. *sigh*

The storm troopers were here again too, and so I got to see them all with their helmets off... and just as I suspected, the short one on stage was infact a girl

Anyhow, Great show, Great Fun.. and Lots of Rock Hall Signatures! Wheeeeee!

Until then.

Kaffy

lookatthenumbersinIandlaugh · Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:15 pm

All in all, a fantastic show, WEIRDALexis and I brought our friend jonathan to his first show. He loved it. I think we did a good thing, since he's now looking at at least one of the shows in september.

All the normal stuff happened, but what really made my night was during yoda, he looked at this one guy in the audience after the "ok you sing it" and said "ok, now just you" and held the mic to this guy's face. He ended up picking on the guy all night

Post by **Happy Steve** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:28 pm

That was hilarious! It sounded like the guy was unsure of the next lyrics.

"Uh... Yoda? Yo yo yo yoda? Y O D A Yoda?"

hee hee

Post by **algonacchick** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:25 pm

Glad ya'll had a good time! I love these stories about Al picking on people during Yoda! I'm jonesing for a show, and this kinda helps. I wish I could get to one before September 23rd, but I guess I'll just have to live vicariously through everyone who is going to all the other shows until then. Have I mentioned lately how much I love this place? You all polka!

Post by **kaffy©** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:14 pm

Happy Steve @ Aug 20 2007, 11:28 AM wrote: That was hilarious! It sounded like the guy was unsure of the next lyrics.

"Uh... Yoda? Yo yo yo yoda? Y O D A Yoda?"

hee hee

Oh my that was hilarious. He was sitting right in front of me too, and during Albuquerque when Al was like.. 'You know the place' and the guy was looking down at his phone.. and Al starts walking towards him, and he says again, "you know the place right?" and gives him a really baffled look like, hello?? and so I ended up tapping the guy on the back and he turned to look at me and I pointed to Al, he then realized that Al was talking to him.. hahaha.. it was funny.

Good times... plus made for some excellent photo opportunities