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Probably slim to none unless you luck out and happen to catch him wandering in the Casino before or after the show. A venue like this almost surely has restricted parking for talent where they would keep the tour bus.this_is_the_life @ Sep 21 2007, 04:57 AM wrote: I have another question ... lol. What do you think the chances of meeting Al are being that the show is at a casino?
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Ah yes, you are probably right. *sigh* But that's ok, I've already met him. I was just hoping my sister and our friend would be able to because they love Al and have never met him. But it's ok, I'm still really excited. It's only 5 hours away now!
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I just now got home from the show. The show itself was great, only slightly different however from the Waterbury show at the beginning of the tour. I really don't know how you guys can travel all over the place to see Al as many times as possible, his act doesn't change up enough at all to make it worth it to me, but to each his own I guess. From what I overheard, Al was seen walking in the Casino earlier in the afternoon, and my friend and I stuck around for about an hour after the show to play the slots, and we didn't see anyone. Even though I'm from CT, I had never been to Foxwoods before although I've been to Mohegan Sun dozens of times. Overall Mohegan is much nicer, and I was shocked at how difficult it was to find Foxwoods, we had to get off the highways and take some back roads for what seemed like forever before we reached it. Foxwoods was nice, but it's certainly no Mohegan Sun.
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Mohegan Sun > Foxwoods
My overall winnings at Mohegan Sun are greater than $1000. My losses at Foxwoods are about $200. Not to mention that Mohegan Sun has a much better layout. Oh yeah, the convenience of CT-2A too.....as opposed to CT-2 which Foxwoods is on (which is basically a local road for 20 miles or so once you get off the highway)
My overall winnings at Mohegan Sun are greater than $1000. My losses at Foxwoods are about $200. Not to mention that Mohegan Sun has a much better layout. Oh yeah, the convenience of CT-2A too.....as opposed to CT-2 which Foxwoods is on (which is basically a local road for 20 miles or so once you get off the highway)
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This was my tenth concert attendance (3rd for the SOL tour and the last one for this leg).
I started on the road around 6:30ish, grabbed some Wendy's (because I deserve a hot juicy burger, and so do you!
) and arrived at the venue maye around 8:15 with my mom and her fiance. I was the SOL-cover tee (no tourdates) wearing kid with the red,curly,gelled hair that soon was wearing a White and Nerdy hoody that I bought (the merch vender thanked me for my speed when ordering instead of taking time to decide...
).
My seats were past the general admission section but they were nice (despite not being able to make out those hilarious expressions Al makes).
I sat next to a family of four who seemed to enjoy themselves very much but I believe the father wanted to switch seets due to myself singing along for every song including songs featured in costume clips (lousy haircut, weasil stomping day, cell phones)...Honestly, I'm very sure that I kept the volume at a reasonable volume and made sure to lean into another direction so whatever. The mother just kept looking at me every time she could slightly hear me. O.o
I didn't sing loudly (and it's not like I sound bad, I'm in a choir and do musical theater for my school so I doubt it sounded like a squeeky chalk sound if they heard me very much) so whatever.
One issue with the seats is my company were bothered by the lights and sound. My mother has been to 7 of my 10 concerts and knew that this must be because of the seating, but the bright lights mounted on the floor and the strobelighting was more for her to handle than usual.
The speakers seemed to be very loud and right above us.
Also, I had recognized Elvis with friends in tow up on the right balcony.
The rest of the show I will point out those odd little nuances and details for us tour chasers (this is not in response to a post above me- I do this with every show, haha)
the drum solo line was interesting..
"ladies and gentlemen... boys and girls... are you ready for the glory...and the majesty...of the drum....SOLO!" for right when Al removes his tie and studbelt.
Bob's intro (possibly loosely paraphrased)
"this is a song by Bob Dylan...that I wrote myself... it's a song called Bob and it's written entirely out of palindromes. Those are sentences you read forwards and backwards and I obviously have a lot of free time on my hands. .......about this time I'm supposed to be handed a harmonica. ......you know what we haven't had in a while? BASS SOLO!"
Steve then gets in stance and pauses for a moment and then plucks out one note as Al is handed his harmonica.
You're Pitiful costumes-
-hooded windbreaker
-golden shirt
-accordion tee
-atlantic records sucks
-spongebob, tutu, boxers, fishnet stocking.
Wanna B Ur Lovr-
While in the crowd, a group of three girls had been walking into the theater and Al sings to them and looms in on them in a creepy and hilarious fashion. Al sings to an elderly usher who kisses him on the cheek after he sings a line. aww.
-I'm In Love (With The Skipper)
those motions he made near the end of the song seem to be dancing bits that Gilligan would make...the whirly hand motion is definitely one of them.
-I'll Sue Ya.....during the tiny pause of music between the opening guitar bit and the first verse, Al rolls up his right sleeve in what appears to be an homage to the lead singer of Rage (who's name escapes me at the moment)
right before the second verse the guitar held the last note for a moment while Al stares down Steve in a crazed stance (maybe it was the bass but AIH is making me wonder if Al stared down Steve while Jim played the note or Steve played the note while being stared down).
-The Saga Begins featured Darth Vader and members of the 501st Legion (in less geekier terms...stormtroopers). One of them was particularly short and I said (while all in good fun) in quoting Leah "aren't you a little short to be a storm trooper?"
they stayed on for Saga Begins and stood still until the 2nd verse where they'd start pointing their blasters in different directions and maybe break into dancing motions. Vader brought out his red Sith lightsaber when the song concluded.
-Yoda. when Al tells the audience to sing it he goes up to an audience member in the front row and holds the microphone to the guy...the guy sits there awkwardly without saying anything for a moment and then says "I don't know this one.................Yoda." which he said in a tone that almost sounded like he wanted Al to go away.
Al just says "Yeah, that's what I thought" and goes back on stage for the Yoda chant.
-Smells Like Nirvana
...the cheerleaders had a routine that shown they put effort into it..it's always nice to see them actually make a routine that doesn't suck instead of goofing off meeting Al and eating food backstage. Al's motions were slightly better looking. hard to describe but the usual motions (the jumpy stomps or the plucking of the guitar notes) just looked...better than usual.
-Fat
...the stage manager had less shame than the others this time and walked out in complete Ho costume (tank top and all). haha
-Albuquerque...
he had even more donuts to list off than usual.
after the plane explodes he stares down some young Al gals constantly while breaking in between lines.
before he talks about biting a man's jugular vein he says "it's getting late I'm sure you all want to go home" and listens to the audience's "nooos'...haha.
Al then "starts over" when he "loses his train of thought" near the end and then repeats the song from the beginning until he reaches the end of the introductory saurkraut bit and then says "Ok, I remember now..it comes about ina circular way sometimes."
and then finishes the number.
his final words "thank you, everyone, I love you all good night. you've been very polite"...
I go down to the front in hopes of more Yankobucks but instead settled for Canadian Idiot streamers which I stuffed in my front hoody pocket.
I leave, called my girlfriend to tell her all about it (we swapped stories as I talked about Al and she talked about her party she thrown to watch an animated series season 3 premier) and went to sleep when I got home.
see you all on the road next leg.
I started on the road around 6:30ish, grabbed some Wendy's (because I deserve a hot juicy burger, and so do you!
) and arrived at the venue maye around 8:15 with my mom and her fiance. I was the SOL-cover tee (no tourdates) wearing kid with the red,curly,gelled hair that soon was wearing a White and Nerdy hoody that I bought (the merch vender thanked me for my speed when ordering instead of taking time to decide...).My seats were past the general admission section but they were nice (despite not being able to make out those hilarious expressions Al makes).
I sat next to a family of four who seemed to enjoy themselves very much but I believe the father wanted to switch seets due to myself singing along for every song including songs featured in costume clips (lousy haircut, weasil stomping day, cell phones)...Honestly, I'm very sure that I kept the volume at a reasonable volume and made sure to lean into another direction so whatever. The mother just kept looking at me every time she could slightly hear me. O.o
I didn't sing loudly (and it's not like I sound bad, I'm in a choir and do musical theater for my school so I doubt it sounded like a squeeky chalk sound if they heard me very much) so whatever.
One issue with the seats is my company were bothered by the lights and sound. My mother has been to 7 of my 10 concerts and knew that this must be because of the seating, but the bright lights mounted on the floor and the strobelighting was more for her to handle than usual.
The speakers seemed to be very loud and right above us.
Also, I had recognized Elvis with friends in tow up on the right balcony.
The rest of the show I will point out those odd little nuances and details for us tour chasers (this is not in response to a post above me- I do this with every show, haha)
the drum solo line was interesting..
"ladies and gentlemen... boys and girls... are you ready for the glory...and the majesty...of the drum....SOLO!" for right when Al removes his tie and studbelt.
Bob's intro (possibly loosely paraphrased)
"this is a song by Bob Dylan...that I wrote myself... it's a song called Bob and it's written entirely out of palindromes. Those are sentences you read forwards and backwards and I obviously have a lot of free time on my hands. .......about this time I'm supposed to be handed a harmonica. ......you know what we haven't had in a while? BASS SOLO!"
Steve then gets in stance and pauses for a moment and then plucks out one note as Al is handed his harmonica.
You're Pitiful costumes-
-hooded windbreaker
-golden shirt
-accordion tee
-atlantic records sucks
-spongebob, tutu, boxers, fishnet stocking.
Wanna B Ur Lovr-
While in the crowd, a group of three girls had been walking into the theater and Al sings to them and looms in on them in a creepy and hilarious fashion. Al sings to an elderly usher who kisses him on the cheek after he sings a line. aww.
-I'm In Love (With The Skipper)
those motions he made near the end of the song seem to be dancing bits that Gilligan would make...the whirly hand motion is definitely one of them.
-I'll Sue Ya.....during the tiny pause of music between the opening guitar bit and the first verse, Al rolls up his right sleeve in what appears to be an homage to the lead singer of Rage (who's name escapes me at the moment)
right before the second verse the guitar held the last note for a moment while Al stares down Steve in a crazed stance (maybe it was the bass but AIH is making me wonder if Al stared down Steve while Jim played the note or Steve played the note while being stared down).
-The Saga Begins featured Darth Vader and members of the 501st Legion (in less geekier terms...stormtroopers). One of them was particularly short and I said (while all in good fun) in quoting Leah "aren't you a little short to be a storm trooper?"
they stayed on for Saga Begins and stood still until the 2nd verse where they'd start pointing their blasters in different directions and maybe break into dancing motions. Vader brought out his red Sith lightsaber when the song concluded.
-Yoda. when Al tells the audience to sing it he goes up to an audience member in the front row and holds the microphone to the guy...the guy sits there awkwardly without saying anything for a moment and then says "I don't know this one.................Yoda." which he said in a tone that almost sounded like he wanted Al to go away.
Al just says "Yeah, that's what I thought" and goes back on stage for the Yoda chant.
-Smells Like Nirvana
...the cheerleaders had a routine that shown they put effort into it..it's always nice to see them actually make a routine that doesn't suck instead of goofing off meeting Al and eating food backstage. Al's motions were slightly better looking. hard to describe but the usual motions (the jumpy stomps or the plucking of the guitar notes) just looked...better than usual.
-Fat
...the stage manager had less shame than the others this time and walked out in complete Ho costume (tank top and all). haha
-Albuquerque...
he had even more donuts to list off than usual.
after the plane explodes he stares down some young Al gals constantly while breaking in between lines.
before he talks about biting a man's jugular vein he says "it's getting late I'm sure you all want to go home" and listens to the audience's "nooos'...haha.
Al then "starts over" when he "loses his train of thought" near the end and then repeats the song from the beginning until he reaches the end of the introductory saurkraut bit and then says "Ok, I remember now..it comes about ina circular way sometimes."
and then finishes the number.
his final words "thank you, everyone, I love you all good night. you've been very polite"...
I go down to the front in hopes of more Yankobucks but instead settled for Canadian Idiot streamers which I stuffed in my front hoody pocket.
I leave, called my girlfriend to tell her all about it (we swapped stories as I talked about Al and she talked about her party she thrown to watch an animated series season 3 premier) and went to sleep when I got home.
see you all on the road next leg.
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