|
|
Post by nascarholly on Sept 25, 2011 10:42:54 GMT -5
I don't know which Knoxville show you got your tickets for if not both of them, so please tell us about what you did get to see as soon as you can! 
God bless you and AKUS always!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Allie on Sept 25, 2011 11:12:32 GMT -5
What do you mean? The show was amazing!  Mindy (silverqueen) and I are going tonight too. Alison screwed up Let Me Touch You For A While (the second chorus she sang as the first chorus, then she paused and started it right) and when Jerry's solo came up, he was all, "Y'all can leave now," and Alison pretended to limp off stage. She got a little tongue tied when she tried to say "April" too. She was just amazing. As always. We're heading into Gatlinburg today so we don't have much time for reviews, and then I'm flying home tomorrow and Mindy's driving home, and then we're probably going to sleep for a week because we're all exhausted and so it'll be a while before full pictures and videos, sorry! I do have two pictures that I edited from last night though:   She is absolutely beautiful. |
|
|
|
Post by nascarholly on Sept 25, 2011 15:02:21 GMT -5
^^^ Thank you for telling about the show. Sadly it has been one thing after another for me this year pretty much and missing Alison when she's in my area only adds to the nosedive. 
God bless you and her and the guys always!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Allie on Sept 28, 2011 2:15:01 GMT -5
My video of the encore from the final show.
I have a few videos to convert and upload, the shows were great and hopefully I'll have a full write-up of both shows when I'm not so exhausted and sick (I spent the weekend with absolutely no down time, lack of food, lack of sleep, and I figured my immune system was pretty weak by the time Monday rolled around and I spent my day in airports...seriously...Knoxville to Houston to Phoenix to Ontario...someone was bound to have something, and it looks like I caught it).
It was an awesome two nights though. Alison introing Josh and John got really weird though. They kind of caught her off guard when she asked about who has better hygiene, they wanted her to come sniff their armpits. You can tell she definitely wasn't expecting that. Then I think at one point when Barry was up to his shenanigans on stage during that song, Alison for whatever reason swung her fiddle like a baseball bat (I also have video of this) and it was just weird but funny. I have all of it on video.
And Dan really screwed up Wild Bill Jones, he sung a line about not knowing the words. And then when Alison was doing her usual, "We love that last one because everything bad happens, someone dies, someone goes to jail, someone is riding that lonesome train because they got dumped," thing, Dan added in, "Someone forgot the words!" and it was funny.
We also may or may not have gotten two rows of people to wave glowsticks during Man of Constant Sorrow. Which the band loved, and Alison commented after, "You've gotta see the glowsticks, everybody! Exciting over there!" and it was pretty cool. We got a better response to that than we thought we would have, considering the demographic of the AKUS audience.
|
|
|
|
Post by silverqueen on Sept 28, 2011 4:11:05 GMT -5
Full details of the glowstick party at the final show here: ladyanneboleyn.livejournal.com/83838.html. Both shows were really energetic and funny. They were clearly just trying to have a good time. They were joking around and trying to make each other laugh, doing all those little things they often do to try to make each other crack. At the first show, Alison missed some of the lyrics to Let Me Touch You for a While but of course you wouldn't have noticed if you didn't know the song well. Alison also made fun of Dan a lot for buying a blender like Ron's. I'm trying to remember anything else... Allie and I might put our heads together and write full recaps of the concerts if we can remember enough details. We'll see. Also: she did indeed get the messages we collected from everyone, and she loved them. We also got her a stress ball as a way of saying, "Don't stress out; we love you no matter what," and a joking reference to how fidgety she gets when she's onstage without anything to hold in her hands. She loved that too, and thought it was funny and appropriate. I think it brightened her night, which made the whole trip worth it in my book. ♥ |
|
|
|
Post by greenmoray on Sept 28, 2011 9:32:09 GMT -5
Thanks for delivering the messages, the wonderful photos, the video and
the enthusiastic recaps of the shows. More is better.
|
|
|
|
Post by tolliver16 on Sept 28, 2011 10:41:56 GMT -5
That's so awesome! I can't WAIT for my show... |
|
|
|
Post by nascarholly on Sept 28, 2011 15:38:24 GMT -5
Thank you so much for telling about the show, y'all, and for getting my message to Alison too!
God bless you and her and the guys always!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Allie on Oct 1, 2011 15:42:41 GMT -5
You guys are welcome! ;D We're working on recaps and media from the show, but if you guys are curious, this is the gift box we got her:   None of us are very good at this whole art thing (Mindy's sister painted the box for us though, that's why the outside looks nice lol) but we tried, and like Mindy said, she definitely seemed to enjoy it. |
|
|
|
Post by turbo on Oct 5, 2011 21:16:45 GMT -5
You girls did a VERY VERY COOL THING!!!!!! Kudos to both of you. |
|
|
|
Post by Allie on Jan 1, 2012 4:37:56 GMT -5
I know this is an old thread but I just realized I forgot to post the other Knoxville videos I uploaded.
Let Me Touch You for Awhile from 9/24 (Alison messes up a bit!)
Sawin' on the Strings/Wild Bill Jones from 9/24
|
|
Mindy (silverqueen) and I are going tonight too. Alison screwed up Let Me Touch You For A While (the second chorus she sang as the first chorus, then she paused and started it right) and when Jerry's solo came up, he was all, "Y'all can leave now," and Alison pretended to limp off stage. She got a little tongue tied when she tried to say "April" too. She was just amazing. As always.
