5/24/11 Verona, NY Turning Stone Resort & Casino

[Grom]

Can't say I'm not jealous. Huge congrats, Dave!

[Wizzerkat]

You guys look good, Dave. Congrats!

[ludovica64]

Isn't it great to be a fan of such a great bunch of people Congratulations Dave

[Jigawatt]

Congrats again, Dave!

Adrian

[Elvis]

Thanks all. BTW, the balloons were from Alison, who still lurks here but doesn't post much. The orange and blue one you can't read says "WAY to go" (Get it? WAY!)

Dave

[Big Spoon]

Congrats, Dave!

[minnick27]

Dave, I wish we could have had our 100 th concert together, but I'm like 85 away. What did Al say about your milestone?

[Yankomaniac]

Awesome time at Turning Stone meeting everybody, enjoyed the show alot!! Left at about 11am and arrived around 4:30pm and picked up my tickets, and checked into the hotel. Ran into Alinite and Yank27 outside the showroom when I got the tickets, very stand up gents! Was gonna try that buffet but had to get organized and get a couple drinks into me. We went to go get beer from our van which was in the underground parking lot and saw the tour buses so we checked them out. A woman came from what was the band or staff entrance, and asked if we were looking for somebody and we said we were just looking for Al or the band, and she was like oh theyre probably in here, Im thinking she thought we were with the crew or something but Steve came over and signed my Off The Deep End tape and then the security came along and told us to leave so we did.Then went up to the room to drink a bit with the last 30 minutes we had before the show.

Ran downstairs for the show and didn't know we actually had stage table tickets right under Steve, and he was looking at us and laughing so he was probably surprised to see us again after that. Show was awesome, that always goes without saying, I was so happy to finally hear Frank's 2000" TV and You Don't Love Me Anymore. Jim rocked right out for Let Me Be Your Hog, CNR and Craigslist. Al was all over all of the stage tables during Wanna B Ur Lovr, was so nice not having to leave to get a beer too, all around a wicked concert. Obviously after we waited to see if Al would come out, assuming he probably wouldn't 'cause he was doing the special V.I.P. meet and greets, awesome picture Dave, forgot to congratulate you on your 100th show!! So me and my buddy hung around to talk with Alinite, Yank27 and the other long haired rocker they were with, very cool guys to hang out with, really enjoyed talking with them. Jim and Bermuda came out after a little bit, so I got them to sign the Off The Deep End tape also.

Bermuda took a look at the photo I mentioned before and seemed pretty surprised to see it, he did say he had a larger version of it but didn't really know it was included with the cassette, so he signed it and put "Webmaster" on there. Tried to get an Alpocalypse poster but the lady said I was too late and she had already started counting, even though they were just sitting there, ah well. After a bit security were telling people to leave and that Al has left and whatever. So we went to the casino for a bit cause my buddy Pat wanted to gamble a bit. Ran into Steve on our way in and talked with him for a bit, he showed me how he bends his fingers back and holds them there...awesome stuff, also appoligized if we bothered him before the show but he said not at all, it happens all the time LOL. So then we went and enjoyed the casino till about 3am, nicest casino I've ever been to. Had to check out by 11am, so we went to bed and I was pretty happy with the entire night!

This morning we went down for checkout and I ran into Jim again outside the elevator, so told him once again how much he rules of course, as if he needs to hear that. Had to walk all the way to the other side of this gigantic resort to check out and noticed the buses there, and met Ruben, he signed my Running With Scissors album right beside his corpse on the inside, and we talked about AL-TV for a bit. Hilarious guy for sure! Went outside to valet and they were pretty much heading off just like us, so we talked with Steve, Jim and Bermuda, haha and the awesome bus driver, that guy was great! They all signed the inside of the first album since I had my bag with me and it was in there. Then big Al came out the front door of the hotel and came over and said hey and stuff, got his autograph on the cassette and the cd and a little poster Bermuda gave to me. We didn't want to hold them up or anything, so we got a couple quick photos with Al, and the valet showed up with the van. Was an awesome end to an amazing 24 hrs, glad I finally got to meet them all and the photos are on my buddies blackberry so he'll post them sometime soon, although hes going to a death festival this week so it may be a while but I'll try to get them up ASAP.

AL YANKOVIC AND ME!!!.jpg

[Yankomaniac]

We actually got cooler ones but heres me with a funny ecstatic band groupie face!! Like I said, try to get more up when my buddy can get around to it, but I figured JCM might be like proof, "yeah right maan, prove it.."

[ludovica64]

Sounds like you had an awesome time