Here's my full review of last night's show (it's a bit long):
Wow. It was awesome. And the pictures are uploading as I type this.
I got to the venue a little before 5:00, and the gates opened at 5:00. So I hung around for a bit.
At 5:00, I went in to the theatre, and my parents went to the pre-show barbecue. I hung around the theatre until the show started... I got about 20 (yeah, only 20
) signatures for my "Make the Rock Hall Weird" petition, but I met a lot of nice people there. One lady told me she had been a fan for twenty years, so I thought that was pretty cool.
Then I bought a few shirts and a hat, and just... waited around until the show started. At one point, Steve Jay walked about two feet away from me... I was gonna ask for an autograph, but he was talking to someone. At about 6:30 or so, I went to my seat. I had an incredible seat - second row, dead center. Anyway, some announcer guy started talking about a bunch of stuff relating to the venue... At 6:50 or so, Throwing Toasters came on to open for Al! Grant was amazing. Between his opening act and Al's actual show, I bought one of his albums (Dork), and got his autograph... and shook his hand. He was really nice.
Then Al started! First was Polkarama! It's incredibly amusing to see your favorite band doing the chicken dance, believe it or not. So yeah, Polkarama! was great, and bubbles came out at the end... a few popped on my head. :nod:
Then it was Canadian Idiot! CI was great, too... Al sung some strange thing during the instrumental breaks... not sure what it was. Maybe something Canadian? XD Anyway, yeah, streamers came out at the end, which was cool... I didn't get any, though. D= That's a disadvantage of being close, I suppose...
Next was Close But No Cigar. I've always loved it to begin with, but the live performance made it so much better. And I'm not kidding when I say that. He was hitting the vibraslap in funky places/ways (like his hip). He was dancing in funky ways... It was just an all-around great performance.
And then it was Bob! He introduced it by saying something along the lines of "There's kind of this 'Konocti Curse' I have when I play here at Konocti Harbor. Last time I played here, the wind blew the video screen over before the show even started, and the time before that, I fell off the stage in my Fat suit. Since I don't want anything bad to happen again, I did a bit of research... I researched "Ways to stop curses at Northern California outdoor stages," and what I found out was that the only way to get rid of the curse is to play a song consisting entirely of a random string of palindromes." So yeah, Bob was pretty good... I would have rather seen Why Does This Always Happen to Me?, though...
After Bob was It's All About the Pentiums. It was really good... I don't have much to say about it, really, except that it was incredible. And Al looked RIGHT at me a couple of times! I have one shot where he's holding his hand out towards my camera... 'Tis amazing.
Then, he did You're Pitiful. It was amazing as well. Al had five different shirts... The first was a black jacket, like in the "You're Beautiful" music video. Then he had a gold button-down shirt... not sure what that was a reference to, if it was one at all. Then, he had an accordion shirt, which had an obvious meaning. Next was an Atlantic Records sucks shirt, which made the crowd ERUPT. Everyone got the joke, except my dad... Poor guy. XD Last was the Spongebob shirt, which also made everyone erupt... and then he took off his pants and shoes, so all he was wearing was the Spongebob shirt, heart boxers, a pink tutu, and fishnets. Everyone loved it, obviously!
Wanna B Ur Lovr was after Youre Pitiful. I loved it. I mean, from reading other reviews and stuff, I knew it would be great, but I didnt know that it would be as good as it was. When Al came out into the audience, he walked literally less than a foot away from me, since I was in an aisle seat. Thats what the picture of Als head up close is from. So yeah, I was pretty starstruck right then. XD
Next was the medley. It started out with Couch Potato, with Al in Eminem garb. When that was done, he took off his hood to reveal a Taylor Hicks wig, and he sang Do I Creep You Out?. Next, he took off his jacket to reveal a red sweater-type thing, and he put on a hat... He then sung Im N Luv (Wit Duh Skipper), and then the new Britney verse of Headline News. After that was Confessions Part III, and then A Complicated Song. After ACS was eBay, and then Bedrock Anthem... During BA, the part of the music video that played (the animated part) was in color, which I was surprised about, considering the fact that it was black and white in the music video. He played Ode to a Superhero after Bedrock Anthem... someone came out to hold the harmonica for him - not sure who it was, though. Some assistant person. After OTAS was Pretty Fly for a Rabbi. PFFAR was pretty good, too, but I wish he had done one of the verses he didnt do... but oh well. He played about three and a half minutes of Trapped in the Drive-Thru next, which I loved. His purple jacket was nice as well. Then he played Gump, which was also great... I dont really have any comments on it, but I loved it. The last song of the medley was, of course, Eat It. I learned that Al is a VERY flexible person. XD And yes, believe it or not, I loved Eat It, too.
Ill Sue Ya was right after the medley. It completely blew me away. Like, I was in sheer amazement. It was hardcore, man. Anyway, at the end, a bunch of Al money came falling down from a thing at the top of the stage... I didnt get any until after the fact, when the security guard picked one up off the ground and gave it to me.
The Saga Begins and Yoda were next. They were both amazing... He held the He in Hes a ghost for what seemed like thirty seconds. And Yoda was pretty cool. Theres nothing like rocking out on the accordion. And theres also nothing like the Yoda Chant. I had never seen it live before, and... wow. Just... wow.
Next was Smells Like Nirvana. It was also hardcore, just like Ill Sue Ya. XD Also, just like the Yoda Chant, seeing it live made it LOADS better. I mean, I dont have words to describe it.
After SLN, they played Amish Paradise. I dont have much to say about it - which is not to say that I didnt like it, cause I loved it. Its just kind of hard to comment on, if you know what I mean.
White and Nerdy was next, and holy cow, it was amazing, and not just because of the performance. What was amazing about it was that since it was such a popular song, there wasnt a single person in the crowd that didnt know the words. So literally the whole audience was singing along. It was quite a sight, really.
Fat was after WaN. It was pretty cool. During the HO! part, a ho (who was really the guy that held Als harmonica during OTAS) came out with a hoe, which was pretty funny. I would have loved to have seen Al beat up Santa live, though. *sigh* It was great, nonetheless.
Then everyone went offstage, and the whole crowd chanted We want Al! We want Al! We want Al! so the whole band came back to sing Cell Phones and Albuquerque.
Cell Phones was an incredible sight as well. I mean, theres nothing like seeing a whole crowd of a few thousand people waving their cell phones around. Thats what the pictures of the blurry lights are.
Last was Albuquerque. I have so much to say about this, yet I cant say anything about it. It was just incredible. At one point, Al swallowed a fly, and started coughing. Then, he was like Swallowed any flies tonight? Theyre not that bad. At another point in the song, the security guard right in front of me was talking to some people and made them leave. Al was like Whats going on here? When they left, he was like Well, thanks for coming. Hope you enjoyed the show! Also, he added so many things to the song, like new nicknames from Zelda, more types of doughnuts, a guitar solo, etc. Ah, the guitar solo was funny. He was giving Jim really weird looks the whole time. XD And he also added a bit more rambling and reiteration, to make the song even longer! Albuquerque live was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
After the show, we lined up to meet Al. There was a line for people with backstage passes and a line for those of us without them. When all the people without the passes were done, one of the security guards (who was a real jerk) was all like Sorry, I dont know what youre waiting for, we just put him on the bus. Hes only obliged to meet with the people who have passes, and he has fulfilled that obligation, or something along those lines. Anyway, everyone could tell he was lying and we wouldnt leave. But then he was like Guys, hes not coming out, hes on the bus for real, and made us leave. He was lying, though, which really made me mad. And the thing is, there were only like 30 people in the line for people without passes. He could have let us in to meet Al. Its not like there were 500 people or something like that. But Steve Jay did walk by us in line a couple of times!
But other than that, the whole night was amazing!
There was also a minor ruckus when some people with a little girl tried to upgrade their seats during the encore and were escorted back to their seats. Al watched them and said "Hey, what's going on? Is everything OK? Goodbye! Goodbye!" I felt sorry for the folks, but guess the guards were just going what they were supposed to do.
". I told him he just doesn't understand the energy & enthusiasm that goes with being a fan, but even I'm having a hard time figuring that one out. 
