So the 17th, I fly from Oregon to Tampa... At the airport, I decided to completely reorganize the car, so we could all fit. Come to find we have like 75 bags of chips and a million bottles of soda and water... haha. It happened! We didn't have a hotel that night, but decided to find one cause we had been traveling all night, day, and night. We have some fun at Ihop... cool waiter with a mini leprechaun hat. He was legit. Next day, we hung out at various stores until we could check into the next hotel in Tampa... We had picked up Alicia from the airport and hung out til checkin time! We checkin and immediately semi-trashed the room with all of our stuff... um yeah. So we went to Cabby, a beach front place to eat and we were in shorts and tank tops and FREEZING! Ate, got drinks, saw Jill (haha) and saw the sunset. Then we went to another bar and had more drinks before heading back to the hotel because we were tired... plus it was 10pm and the place didn't let minors in after that... but Jill continued to stay and drink the night away!
Next morning, CONCERT DAY! HOLLA! So we get up early-ish... and figure out we hafta take 2 ppl to the venue then come back and get 4 more because we have so many people in the car that we won't fit (6 total)! First crew gets there around 10am, next crew, 10:30am. And can I say the venue in St. Pete, is in the most sketch part of town EVER! Bunch of homeless people sitting around everywhere AND every last parking spot is 2 hr parking! Your car gets tagged and you just move spots haha.... anyways we hang out for awhile. Alicia and I go and try to find the free parking lot (didn't that time) and ended up driving around the blocks a few times, JustKaits band thought we were creeping them since we drove by the buses (which all look alike) like 3 times... We parked again in 2 hr parking and hung out for a bit more. We saw Kat walk into a sandwich place on the corner... she then walked out and what do ya know, but some gentlemen's walk in to check out the menu... legit, 5 mins before they walked in I said i was gonna go get a sandwich... haha. Well since they were there, I didn't because that is just weird. Some girls were like running to them and were being told to run around the corner (where Mike was on his phone)... Megan and Steph walked in, peaced em, and went to the restroom. The gents leave and in we walk to get food. Alicia and I are standing there looking at the menu and we saw Ashlyne sitting there with Brandon and Mike (part of her band). We whispered to each other and finally asked if it was her. For anyone that hasn't met Ashlyne yet, she is one of the sweetest people ever! We just chatted bout how excited we are for shows, and that were the group road-tripping it to all these shows. She said "OH that's you!" We introduced ourselves to her and the band guys. They are Brandon and Mike. Ashlyne said she was going to "test" Megan at some point during the show... haha. We just let them eat and chatted a bit about random things. They left and Kat came in and we talked about the most random things EVER with Kat. We sat in there for probably 20 mins talking with her about everything under the sun. From the story of last nights concert at this venue, presents for the gents (they take them as you walk into the meet and greet, you can't hand them to them yourselves), how SC/M&G was gonna work (she said it was a "test" show), and our stories from the past few days (no parasailing) and a million little bags of chips... She asked us about parasailing, which we didn't end up doing and asked us about our flight being delayed, which I tweeted about the day before... We also told her about Jerry, the guy who sat next to us on a flight... she was grossed out by his tattooing himself. haha. She had to leave to take these sweet ass statues of the band. I guess the girl that made them was FIFTEEN! The gents did get them and twitpic'ed a pic of them a little later. No lie, they were legit. Alicia and I then went to try and find a new parking spot and drove by the buses and parked cuz we thought it was the gents. Turns out it wasn't and we were just looking creepy. Ashlyne was who we saw and her band thought we were creeping and laughed at us... oh well. We went back in line for awhile and later on decided to go for another walk, knowing the gents were walking about. We legit walked like 2 blocks and I saw a glimpse of Mike rounding the corner... I was like oi, its the gents. So since we were walking we sorta followed them, even though we were like a block and a half behind them. We were trying to not creep, but it ended up so as Ned looked back and I waved. Mike then looked back, I waved again... they went into the bus. We had to walk by it as we had to get back to the venue. We didn't wanna look like we were creeping, WHICH WE WERENT. So I made it REAL obvious by putting my hand up by my face as we walked by... haha AWKWARD! We went back and stood in line to wait for SC. That happened eventually and it was a mad dash to get in line... psh! haha We got in and it was sweet.. but the floor was so damn sticky! GROSS!
SOUNDCHECK
Before SC:
Jill being... Jill before SC... too much to drink?
Jill, Meg and I before SC
Jill, Renee and I with creepers in the back haha
Amanda and I :)
I told Mike I liked his new guitar. Mike looked at me and said thank you. He then went into talking to pete bout there being radio in his ear... haha. They played Two Rebels, when i get home, answered questions (one of which is what is the name of the new bus: Southern Comfort (or SoCo) because that is what it's name was already), fun fan thing with Danielle, use somebody (mike on drums), and then the end of soundcheck. They tossed out picks... people were fighting over Andy's picks. He told them to not fight over them as he had more. lol
FC M&G
Jill had a freaking epic one, I was a few people after her. I went up to Andy first, he said "YOURE HERE!" and asked how everything was. For some reason I just stuttered and didn't really answer. I went to hug Jay, and ended up answering Andy saying "It's good, Oregon is a long ways away." I then said hey to Jay and as I actually hugged him I was smiling and saying sup to Mike (sorry for sort of ignoring you Jay!) Ned was the picture guru, and he ended up taking a pic of me hugging Jay, as Alex posed...
So I go up and hug Mike. Evidently he was rubbing my back... Everyone told me so... I said to him "Glad I made it." He legit had the happiest look on his face and looked adorbs. I loved Andy's hair, bee tee dubs. Lastly was the Noyes machine. He was wearing a really cool jacket. It was like a leather vest thing and then the sleeves had studs on them. I was pretty much enthralled with it. It was that cool. I totally forgot to say what up playa to him, oh well. Then after I said I would see em later, i did a sort of hop/skip thing as I ran out the door, and Alex laughed at me. Ned was nice enough to take our pictures for us, here's the meet and greet one... official one that is. haha
OPENING ACTS
We went back in line and hung out until the show. We got in and Ashlyne Huff did her set of about five songs. She is such a great singer! She even had a dancer! JustKait was on next and was real good. Hot Stuff was my fave! Then we waited a bit for HS to come on. We stood around then went out and chatted with Kat in the lobby for awhile. We were talking about so much stuff, it's funny. We talked to her about Jill and how crazy she is. We all got pics with Kat, "personal pics", she is so nice. She thinks were crazy, but we know she loves us... haha. Then we realized the gents were coming on and quickly ran back out to our spots in the crowd haha.
SHOW
They came on to a sick intro and went right into Rock With You. Honestly, that is one of my favorites of theirs live now! I love the live version so much! Next was a brand new arrangement of See You. I really like the new arrangement, it kicks ass! Next was Here Comes Trouble, which surprised me as I thought it was going to be the encore. But as usual, they KILLED it! They didn't do a long speech before it. Next, Two Rebels. As usual they killed that as well! It was fun. Next, what I was most looking forward to, Can't Box Me In. It was the first EVER performance of it, and it sounds SO AMAZING live! (video coming soon) Next was their acoustic bit. Jay and Mike put together some acoustic songs for us including: Firebomb, Speechless, Need You Now, and Down. All of that led into When I Get Home which featured Alex on his electric Drums. They went into a rousing rendition of Sing For You. Then Don't Close the Book, which didn't have any speeches. Over You was next, which included the JB WT intro. Nobody Has To Know was the "last" song of the show. We knew what to do, BOUNCE! They came out again for an Encore of Full Moon Crazy and Mike introduced the band. We all knew who they were though! Silly Mike! Mike loved my camera... haha
After the show was the Merch M&G...
MERCH M&G
So after standing in line for a bit, and waiting for the pretty boys to come out after the show, they sat down for the Merch M&G signing. First up was Andy. I said Hey and asked if he could sign my poster and phone. Of course he did. Crystal was in front of me for this M&G. She said she came all the way from Michigan, I told him Oregon for me. He said that was pretty far. Mike was next. I kept talking about coming from Oregon and that we were going to the next 6 shows. Legit, Bruno had a huge smile on his face the entire time... haha. He then asked me if I liked the new setlist. I couldn't hear him so bent down to get closer and had him repeat it. Bet he liked that view... HA. I did say i liked it and said my fave song was can't box me in. I told him, and Alex who was next and listening in... as much as he could, that I loved seeing them all fist pumping. haha. I then came to Alex and told him "I was told to say what up playa... from Jill." He was like Jill? "I said @hollaitsjill, from Denver, Gayne Wetsky." He was all excited "Where is she!?" By this time Jay was listening in as I was HOLDING UP the line.. .PSH. I looked at them both and said "She's around here... somewhere. Shes been..." and did the drinking sign. They just looked at me and i said "drinking" and they were both OHHHHHH and laughed. I said she was gonna come through the line. Turns out her meet and greet with Alex was pretty hilarious, consisted of telling him why he owed her BIG and Mike wanted to hear the story, but it's not for a meet and greet line, so he told him "I'll tell you on the bus man." HAHA. Anyways, lastly was Jay. He signed my stuff and I told him I would see him at the next 6 shows, which he's stoked about. Ashlyne was next. I told her her set was amazing. She asked if I liked my sandwich. I told her I did and then asked her to sign my things, even though she gave me a signed poster. I told her Heart of Gold was so good and that she is such a great singer! Told her I would be at the next show. I then asked if she had a street team. At which Time Kait said she did and that i can find it from her twitter... haha. I then moved to Kait and said Hot stuff was my fave and that she did really good! I told her i tweeted her bout it awhile ago and that I can't wait for the next shows! She gave me a signed poster and signed my phone as well. I told them to have a good night and that I would see them the next show, and that we were driving to Ft. Laudy the next day.
Signed Phone (only Andy's survives today) :(
What an end to a great day!! We then left, went to the hotel and crashed. Drove to Ft. Laudy today. Arrived here around 4pm... HOLLA!
Video's are coming later as they are taking FOREVER to upload and I don't want to wait to post this blog!
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