11/7/11 Santa Rosa, CA Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

[Alinite27]

Not going to be able to make this show either, but here's another CA show for all you west-coasters.

WeirdAl Presale starts on Tuesday at 10AM.

[NH Weird Al Fan]

This show and the SLO show have been on the "hidden" tour page for a couple days, but they still don't appear on the main page and the presale begins in 2 days?

[Alinite27]

The presale is now listed on Al's website. http://tickets.weirdal.com/index.cfm/pk ... /pid/10784" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Tickets are a face of $57.50, at least for the first part of the Orchestra.

[Kayy911]

It was a great show.

This venue is always very intimate, it only seats ~1,600 people, not a bad seat in the house. Huge stage, good acoustics.

I got to the venue about 2 hour prior to showtime, I parked about 20 feet from the tour bus, got out of the car and started talking to Steve Jay, we talked for about 10-15 minutes. I gave him a bottle of wine (that's our specialty in this area) and he thanked me, talked about the wine for a few minutes and then he put it on the bus. A funny moment was when he dropped his cigarette and asked me to pick it up for him lol.

The actual show itself was great, it went off without a hitch, he did personalize "Craigslist," it was hilarious "to the snotty barista at Bad Ass Coffee on Mark West Springs Road," LOL.

He interacted with the audience quite a bit, he came into the crowd probably a total of 6 times going up and down both aisles.

After the show, we were waiting for him to come out and do meet and greet's and autographs/photos, while we were waiting, they brought 4 pizzas into the dressing room and then 2 onto the bus and then loaded about 10 bottles of wine onto the bus. Ruben was running by the crowd with a lady yelling "this is my fiance, she's beautiful, she's going to take all of my money!"

After about an hour and 15 minutes (the security people told us he was signing 40 paid meet and greets in the venue) he came out, went into his bus for about 3 minutes then came out and gave 1 autograph and 1 picture to each person, there were about 20-25 people waiting.

Let me know if you have any more questions or if there is anything else you want to know about this show.

[NH Weird Al Fan]

A funny moment was when he dropped his cigarette and asked me to pick it up for him lol.

...the security people told us he was signing 40 paid meet and greets in the venue...

a paid meet and greet?

[Orthography Enthusiast]

I wish I'd been able to go to this show. I grew up in Santa Rosa, and I still have family there. The mention of Mark West Springs Road has some oooold memories attached, and I think the local family member has given me a bag of Bad Ass Coffee for Christmas in the past.

How would the security people know whether a meet & greet was paid or not? I know that when radio stations, for example, sponsor a concert, they get a certain number of passes to distribute as they see fit. It might have been something like that. Could it have been Wells Fargo that had the passes?

[Kayy911]

I wish I'd been able to go to this show. I grew up in Santa Rosa, and I still have family there. The mention of Mark West Springs Road has some oooold memories attached, and I think the local family member has given me a bag of Bad Ass Coffee for Christmas in the past.

How would the security people know whether a meet & greet was paid or not? I know that when radio stations, for example, sponsor a concert, they get a certain number of passes to distribute as they see fit. It might have been something like that. Could it have been Wells Fargo that had the passes?

In regards to the the inside meet & greet, my understanding, from what security told me, is that they had paid for passes, I believe the VIP ones. The center itself does not give passes, and local radio stations had few regular tickets, certainly not 40 meet & greet passes.

[HalifaxKat]

LOL about Ruben! When you say Al came into the crowd probably a total of 6 times, are you talking about WBYL? Or different songs?

[Kayy911]

LOL about Ruben! When you say Al came into the crowd probably a total of 6 times, are you talking about WBYL? Or different songs?

He came into the crowd for WBYL and 1 or 2 others. I can't quite recall what the other one was.

[JEDM]

Did he sing "You Make Me" or "Frank's 2000" TV"?