Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
All Star Weekend Concert with special guest “7 Months Later”, “Before You Exit”, and “Action Item”
So last night was the long awaited ASW concert at House Of Blues.
I’ll tell the stories in order so it doesn’t get confusing.
Arrived at the venue about 5:30 just as doors were opening. Long line to get in,but we expected that. Security apparently didn’t care about checking my bag but I was happy because that meant I got my camera in without any problems. Got in and decided we should find a spot. the floor was pretty full but we decided we’d go down there anyways.
Concert started a bit early if I remember right. First band was a local band called “7 Months Later”. Cool group of young guys.
Next up was another local band I had heard about and looked up called “Before You Exit”. By this time we had moved from the back of the floor to the side by the stairs.
Sometime between this band and the next we ran into Nick Davila from “7 Months Later” and he signed my book. (Picture of that later) He seemed kinda rushed and I felt band about him getting sharpie all over his hand so I didn’t ask for a picture.
Then Adam Sliger from the same band came over and we asked for a picture and asked him to sign the book and he offered to take it back to have the rest of the guys sign it too. Which he did and came back with tons of signatures and even one from Dillon from ASW. Heres our picture with him.
After that “Action Item” played their set. They are on tour with ASW right now and a really cool band from N.J. that are also kind of well known.
Around that time we got closer on the floor and eventually got all the way to the front yet I have no idea how.
ASW came on and did a kind of short set with their songs and one cover of “1985”. And Cameron also said that was the year his dad graduated. Speaking of Cameron's dad,at one point by the stairs during one of the other bands sets I stood next to him. I didn’t say anything like “Hey your Cameron's dad!” because I didn’t wanna freak him out.
I have videos too,but I’ll post them in another post later. My sign got noticed and I got sung to kinda….its confusing. Anyways…
After ASW they had a Meet and Greet but the line was insane so we opted out of that one. But that didn’t end the fun.
We hadn’t eaten so we went to the HOB restraunt to grab bite to eat. After that we were going to check on the M&G line but they weren’t letting people back in. But we did see some of the guys from the other bands hanging out so we went over there.
The first guy I talked to was Thomas,who is a drummer for “Before You Exit”. I went up to him and he introduced himself and asked me my name and then I showed him the notebook that Adam had taken back for me and asked him if he had signed it yet and he replied “Yea I was the one who wrote that in there!” (He had written: To:Girl with notebook! I want to meet you! love Thomas”) I was like “No way that was you!” and hes like “Yea I can’t believe it!” So he then said “I’m going to cross that out and put your name instead!” Which he did and here's a picture.
Then we took a picture and talked for a bit and he was honestly so incredibly nice.
Then I walked around to the other side of HOB and found the gate that ASW’s van was parked behind.
Waited for a bit then saw Dillon and called him over so he came out and we asked about the rest of the guys and he said they were still in M&G but he’d tell them we were out here. He was really sweet and I took a picture with him too.
Then I saw a guy who I thought was from the local band and went up to him and talked to him,he signed my notebook took a picture,he hung out for a while,saw two other of his band mates,took a picture,talked to them and whatnot….
It wasn’t until later that I realized they were actually from “Action Item”. Crazy only because they’re kinda popular. Oh,and super sweet. I kinda regret not buying their CD because he was caring them around in that box in the picture,but I promised him I’d get it off iTunes.
After that we kinda just waited around for ASW….but apparently M&G went on forever because we never saw them. Sad but true. At lease I got to meet all those other awesome bands :)
Thats about it…
Oh here's the notebook.
And here's a picture ASW posted,you can see me kinda to the left of Cameron's guitar with the yellow sign. But I’m kinda blocked too by Cameron.
Monday, August 16, 2010
This week....is gonna be amazing.
Friday, August 13, 2010
bah!
A sorta kinda IM conversation between me and a couple friends a long time ago. But we were all sitting next to each other passing around the laptop... so maybe it's not quite IM.
But whatever,enjoy!
