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Post by eyesoflove on Apr 27, 2005 22:45:53 GMT -5
I'm not going to talk about the play-by-play because it sure was an amazing night with way too much to talk about. But there were so many legends in that room that I'm not exaggerating when I say that my adrenaline stayed so high that I had a headache by the end of the show. I was just shaking. It seemed after every song she sang she said, "So and so wrote this song and....they're in the audience somewhere." I was just blown away truly. But the kicker for me was when she announced Mindy Smith was in the audience. Maybe some of you haven't heard of her but I have loved her since the beginning of her career and you can even see lyrics to one of her songs in my signature. Well, then I realized I had actually made eye contact with her. What happened was, I had my seven month old with me during the show and we had gotten there about a half an hour early so I could feed him before the show got started (I breastfeed) and after a while he got a little antsy. I decided to walk around the floor a little bit to give him something to do. I felt kind of dorky and really conspicuous, especially after about the third time I walked the same circle and everyone was staring at me. Well, I made eye contact with this particular person, but only for a brief second because again, I was feeling like a dork, and I thought, "Wow, she's got really great make up." One of my fave LRBW songs is "If I Didn't Know Any Better" and I was just jamming out when they did it and lo and behold at the end she said, "That song was written by Mindy Smith. She's just perfect and sweet and in the audience." I knew immediately where I'd seen the girl from then and I totally just about hit the floor. My husband knows what a fan I am and he just looked at me. Sadly, I never got to meet a nerry person the whole night, but gollee what a night anyway! BTW, the baby LOVED the show and clapped and sang the whole time! I'm positive he's an AKUS fan! It's only natural since I played them the entire time I was pg. The first song I heard the morning I found out I was pg was "Reason For It All". Anyhow, the aggravating part of the night was the Cracker Barrel employees who had these stickers that got them into an aftershow party to meet the band. The whole row behind me consisted of these people and seriously they weren't even fans. Most of them had never heard AKUS songs before and a lot of them even left early from the show! WTF??? What a waste! I should've asked how much they wanted for their sticker lol! But it was a great show and very cool because they had their family and friends in the audience. Alison parents stood up and waved to everybody and so did RL Castleman. It was sometimes hard to see who they were pointing out because some goobers would stand up and wave everytime the spotlight would scan the audience looking for the person Alison was talking about. Anyway, just wanted to share my experience at the Opry and my brief Mindy encounter. I'm so dumb for not recognizing her...I was just frazzled trying to calm the baby  . Stacy |
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Post by Natalie on Apr 28, 2005 0:00:01 GMT -5
It was a wonderul show!
Candi, Lindsey and I [all from these message boards] went together, I wish we could have caught up with you before or after the show. We were sitting directly across the aisle from Mindy Smith so you must have walked by us a few times.
It's funny because half way through the show I nudged Candi and told her that was Mindy Smith, a few minutes later Alison announced it!
I'm glad you enjoyed the show, it was fantastic, as always ;D
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Post by Kimberly on Apr 28, 2005 8:22:04 GMT -5
Stacy, what row were you sitting in? I'm just wondering because you said that the Cracker Barrel people were behind you. See, when I called for my tix last week, there was no way I should have gotten 3rd row, if the computer didn't release them until 10am like they told me... since I got ahold of an operator person at 10:02, and they don't have that many people to answer phones at this venue, so I was wondering if somehow they held back like a whole row. That's gonna make me so mad if they did, especially for people who aren't even fans!  |
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Post by eyesoflove on Apr 28, 2005 14:08:33 GMT -5
I was sitting in section 2 row N seats 1 and 2. I think several tickets must've been held for family and friends of the band although my seats weren't much worse than Alison's parents'...I think they were like one or two rows ahead of me, but center instead of to the right. I have to say I am pretty chapped about the Cracker Barrel thing because seriously I don't know how many times I heard, "Well, I didn't know they did this song," and that was only during the extremely well-known songs like Man of Constant Sorrow and When You Say Nothing At All. I mean, how can you not know that Alison sings that song? I was crazy about it on the way back to our hotel. I had to push the thought out of my head that these were the people partying with the band even as I fumed! Natalie, I wish I would've known more people from the board were going to be there. I tried to see if anyone else was going, but never got a response. But I really did love Nashville and hope to return pretty soon (especially since I left a demo packet with a record label lol). Maybe one of these days we can meet up and you can tell me your awesome stories of meeting Alison and the band. I met Larry at the Knoxville show and he was just nice as could be. I was a big ol' dork, but that's par for the course. Well, gotta run to band practice!
Stacy
PS I was also a little disappointed with my seats considering I purchased my tickets literally within five minutes of them going on sale, but they weren't that bad really. I went to a Garth Brooks show at the Charleston Civic Center in WV and got last row in the balcony behind the stage lol! Every time I start to complain about concert tickets I remember that show! We still had a blast, though. But the point still remains that there must've been a mad amount of reserved tickets and honestly it didn't seem the family of the band had the most awesome seats, either. I don't know what's up with it.
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Post by Natalie on Apr 28, 2005 15:35:49 GMT -5
Stacy,
I saw that post a while back but at that time I wasn't planning on going... Candi surprised Lindsey and I with tickets a few weeks ago and even then things were not 100% because of how far they were traveling [and also work/school schedules]. I'm really happy that it all panned out.
Where did you stay? Where are you from?
I'm originally from Texas but moved here about a year and a half ago because I fell in love with everything here.
Yes, next time you're in Nashville we'll definitely have to get together! By any chance do you happen to have AOL Instant Messenger? We should chat on there some time! My s/n is: NashvilleNatalie
;D
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Post by eyesoflove on Apr 29, 2005 13:00:56 GMT -5
Natalie, That must've been an awesome surprise! This was my second trip to Nashville (but the first one was a whirlwind and we didn't have time to do anything) and my first to the Opry! (But my band is scheduled to play the 'Lil Opry, a local bluegrass joint, in July lol) I have fallen in love with Nashville, too, and we are talking about one day moving there. We lived in Knoxville for four years, but we're originally from West Virginia and moved back here last summer right before I had my son. I really loved Knoxville and I think I would feel the same way about Nashville. Keeping my fingers crossed here, but I actually dropped off a demo package with Broken Bow Records while we were there over the weekend. I REALLY hope I hear back from them. Here's a link to my music if you're interested in hearing it: www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=baby_duckI actually don't have AOL...I've always used Yahoo IM because that's what my dad uses and he's basically the only person I ever chatted with lol. I have absolutely no life whatsoever. But you can e mail me at baby_duck711@yahoo.com. I would love talking music and stuff with you. Well, the baby is calling...gotta run! Stacy Oh yeah, we stayed at Homestead Studio Suites on McGavock Pike. We always book rooms using Priceline and that's what we got. It worked out great, though, because we were able to eat in our room and save lots of money (and I'm on a diet ) so I splurged and got me a tee shirt at the concert! We only ate out once at Demos'. We ate there the first time we were in Nashville and really liked it. |
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Post by Natalie on Apr 29, 2005 15:29:35 GMT -5
I added you to my Yahoo Messenger!
Hopefully we can chat some time!
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