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Chicago 6/15/09

Last night's show was really really good. They look much more comfortable on stage and you can tell the initial nervousness that Keith had last week was gone. To me it really seemed like he had a great time and they were all having fun. I love that in a show.

Details-
Security at least upfront was great. They were no pushy and pretty much left us all alone. There were no bracelets at all, people did not push and shove, no standing on seats. Just the way it should be.

There was a lot less room between the CW and seats, which is a great thing. Row G was the first row after the cw and still think row J,-L in the middle are the best seats, so you have a full view on everything.

He went to the backstage again, down on Brian's side and up on Jerry's.

The extended intro to Shirt is back with the guitar rifs. Love it. For shirt he went down on Jerry's and almost to the back of the arena.

He started singing "Standing" before he was supposed too, just a word, but it was funny.

I just loved this show and was really happy to be here.

Zac Brown Band-They were good. True Southern Country. They crowd sat for most o the show but a few of their songs got a great reaction and Devil Went Down, standing ovation once they were finished. Great fiddle skills. The song Chicken Friend continues to amaze me, its a song everyone knows the words to and it will always be their Anthem!

It's Concert Day!

Waiting to go tot he airport to pick up my friend Debi then we are going to drive down to Chicago! I am excited again, I think me skipping some shows actually helps me so I don't get overexposed to Keith. LOL

Everything is charged, but not packed yet. Have a work conference call first, then need to get the car washed and packed and she arrives at 10:45 CT.

Will tweet if I am not too close but will let you know before the show starts. As of right now, I will be.

I will upload the pics before I go to bed (while I am sleeping) so you all will have something to look at while you have your morning coffee.

Have a Great Day!

Cincy BSE

Registered and Lost! :(

Luke Bryans "Do I" Video

I just love this song. Get it on Itunes!

Jimmy Wayne Stuck on His Tour Bus!

Hilarious!!!!!

Thinking of you today..

Two years later, I still miss you as much as I did the day you passed away! Thanks for the incredible gift you gave me and all the wonderful friendships that began because of it.

Thought this was funny. Justin Timberlake on SNL

Video of Jamey Johnson and Keith Urban "In Color" Duet

Here you go!

Video of the You'll Think of Me Intro

Stay tuned, video is uploaded and still processing, should appear here shortly. This is only the video of the few people they showed on the screen during You'll Think of Me" Not the entire song.

The First Show!

I am exhausted. Long days, short nights since I have been here. But I did get what I came for. Good times with my friends and GREAT music with some talented musicians. That's what it is all about.

Please do not read this unless you want to know what happened.

Seating. For this arena, row H went straight across, you could not get pass row H, unless you had a bracelet. If you had this bracelet you could go anywhere in front of ROW H, no questions asked. I loved that idea, except once again, if you paid extra for the good seats, it doesn't guarantee you wil actually be in those seats. On the other hand, I have to saym this is an awesome stage setup.

if you are facing the stage, the cw came out to right in front of F. there was a ramp that went down on either side, as far as about the 3rd row I would guess. on stage on either side there was a ramp that went up with a smaller platform, where they guys played from time to time and so did Keith.

Keith spent a lot of time on the catwalk by himself. Loved it, because again we were in row J and anywhere 10 rows back of there would have been awesome.


He admitted a few times to being a bit nervous. Nicole was there but he never mentioned her or dedicated anything to her.

The video screens are 5 veritical panels. They are EXCELLENT quality and have some great visuals up there during the show. One of the coolest was the baby pictures of the band. No baby pictures of Keith though.

He was very energetic, friendly, did read an anniversary sign for a couple which he called up on stage, signed it and then dedicated MMOU to them.

Some of this may be out of order, I am listening to the concert again so am writing things down randomly as they come back to me.

SB, amazing solo as always, he actually layed down on the stage at the end during that show. very hot and can't wait to have that few tonight when I am on the cw. :)

Blackstop. Same thing as last time (how you doing over here, etc) I still love this song!

Better Half-His first walk in to the Audience to get to Stage B. Lots of hugging, etc on the way!

Stage B: Said he couldn't stay away from them back there any longer. LOL. Crowd very excited. Said he was nervous as hell as it was his first night out back on tour. Almost lost his voice on the first few songs, he is freaking out a little.

OIAL-acoustically (not a favorite of mine)

MMOU-Read a sign in the audience of a couple that were celebrating their 25th Anniversary. Called them up, signed their sign and dedicated MMOU to them. Very nice. The guys were on Stage A playing while sitting on stools. I liked this.

Standing Right in Front of you- Loved this song!

Very cool intro for Summer. A bit too much fog machine!
Sweet Thing, crowd was very in to this and I love this song live. The video screen was very cool on this, lots of bright colors, etc.

When they did the intros for the band, they showed baby pictures of all of them. I thought this was very cool, but thought Keith's baby pictures should have been there too.

WWWTBM- went in audience low on ramps for this song.





More to come..off to eat something and need coffee...

Time for Bed

Had a great day! Arrived in Boston, met Rashell at the airport. The SUV we had was pimped out with electrical outlets, usb outlets, it was pretty cool! We stopped for lunch at Subway and arrived at MS about 3ish or so. Ran in to Jen in the lobby and had a few drinks. Then found Debi, Lisa and her mom, Ashley and her mom. They went to dinner, I hopped on a chat with Jake for a few and then went down for more drinks and ran in to Cindy, Kimmy and Adrienne and had more drinks.

Rashell and I went to dinner and saw Jerry and Brad walk by but did not have a chance to talk to them. A bit later, Brian, Jeff Johnson, Lindsay and Chris McHugh came by and I stopped and talked to them for a bit and we ran in to them later on having drinks. Lots of Karaoke and ran in to Chris Hickey, Rusty who sang a mean Karoke song with band and crew singing backup (amazing).

The big scoop of the night was that Sugarland had to cancel their weekend performances with Keith and there was a scramble for replacements. Heard many things throughout the night, but it is Jason Aldean tomorrow, Jason and LBT for Friday and then LBT for Saturday.

Everyone I talked to tonight, told me that the show is amazing, lots of surprises in store. Picked up bits and pieces here and there but will post about it tomorrow as I wasn't supposed to hear what I heard. LOL. Stay tuned...Will post during the show on twitter as it happens.

Pictures not very good, but had a great time!

More tomorrow...I am exhausted!

Didnt take a lot of pictures, but uploaded what I have.

Test entry

Checking to see if I can post directly from my phone. I think I can.

Next Stop Mohegan!

I am not really packed but ready to go anyway. LOL It is 11pm and headed to bed so I can fly out early morning.

I am so excited for Thursday night. New tour, new music, new stage, etc. How exciting!!!! Even though by the end of the summer it will all seem old, Thursday night will all be brand new, like Christmas and you just don't know what you are going to get.

As always it is all about the music and the friends I have met over the past two years. Each show feels like a class reunion which makes this all so much fun!

I know some of you don't want to know what happens on the tour until it is your show. So I want to suggest you stay away from the blog and unfollow me on twitter until you get to go yourself. I really dont' want to ruin any surprises.

I will post info as I get it over the next few days on twitter and will post here at night, with pictures and video.

Feel free to tweet me questions and I promise to answer them after the show. Again only use the concerts09 ID.

happy days are here again!

Only a few more days...

I am getting so excited. Only a few more days to go. Hard to believe it has been over a year since I have seen a full tour show! I have a quick 2 day trip to Minneapolis to take, then home to finish getting ready.

My goal (LOL) is to get all packed up tonight. Everything is on their chargers, tickets, itinerary packed up in my carry on. A ton to do before Wednesday morning, but I sure am ready to roll!

I will probably update Twitter more than the blog and just do a blog entry at night. So if you are not following me on twitter and want to come along to the concert, make sure you add me. The ONLY ID I will be tweeting on for the concerts is the Concerts09, so make sure that is the one you follow on.

Ok off to do wash and start checking off my list!

I Don't Care Where You Live

This is not proper concert attire....

Jake Owen-The Concert

I have told this story to Jake a few times, but there was a time that I thought I did not like Jake Owen. I am the first to admit I was wrong. I just was not familiar with his music and didn't give him a fair shot. Well that changed for me last year at CMA Fest and since then I have been a big fan.

So when I last left you my friend and I were sitting drinking. I decided to go back to the hotel and clean out my purse so I wouldn't have to lug everything around. Well, dont' do that! LOL. When I went back, I had a brilliant idea to quickly change the battery for my camera so I could make sure that the battery didn't die to during the show. well, I ended up having NO battery in my camera and it was completly dead, so I only could take a few pictures on my phone.

SOme nice ladies saved our spots in the 3rd row for us, right in front of the mic. Thank you, Thank you!! (hope to see you girls at Country Thunder).

So Jake takes the stage and he was barefoot. This guy hss such a powerful voice and an amazing stage persona that if you have not seen him yet live, I strongly encourage you to do so. He played for 2 straight hours and the crowd sand a long to every word and cheered him on.

Two moments that stand out for me was his tribute song to Vern Gosdin who passed away earlier in the day and Jake considered a mentor. The other was when he saw a little girl Maggie singing the words to Don't Think I Can't Love You, and called her up on stage. she was a bit shy, but Jake serenaded her and by the end she was singing along with everyone else. The crowd roared with approval.

Well, for one reason or another we never had that beer that we were going to have after the show, but this singer is an Artist and he is going to be huge one day, see him now while you can for free, which this show was. He will be filling up arena's of his own one day and I will be in line to buy the ticket!

His hope is to one day tour with Keith Urban, well if tha this happens then I will be first in line :)

Had a wonderful time and can't wait to see him again. One day, I will get that beer!! New goal!

Jake Owen-Louisville, Kentucky 4/22

Damn!
I arrived in Louisville on Tuesday, took care of some business and then waited for my friend Rashell to meet me at the hotel. It was nice outside but there was a threat of rain. I had to get shoes, I repeated that several times, but I sit here at home and can say, I never bought them. oops.!

We were starving so decide to go to a pub and sit outside where they were setting up the stage. The great waiter said we could stay there as long as we wanted, which was cool, because we were there about 6 hours. LOL.

We had lunch, I ran in the the drummer who came over to us and sat down and talked to us several times during our stay. It was his birthday the next day so we kept him company. I asked him if he was lucky enough to attend the Britney concert with Jake the night before (he wasn't, and wasn't happy about it, LOL) he said Jake was on his way and would be there in about an hour or so.

We ate lunch and drank, and then drank. I was feeling a bit buzzed and then my friend saw Jake! He had on the longest pair of shorts I ever saw and looked like he rolled out of bed! I went over to him, he said hi to me and told me he was ready to do a radio interview so to wait until he was done. So as soon as the interview was over he came over and said hi and gave me a hug!he posed for a ton of pictures and signed a lot of things. One thing thats cool about Jake is he remembers his fans. Love that about him. I saw a few girls from the Joe's Bar show I had gone to so I talked them while waiting for Jake to get done with all of the pictures.

Once he was finished, we walked over to the side and talked for a while. I had a special gift for him, which he loved! YAY! and he hugged on me a few more times. Can't beat that! I asked him if he could come and meet my friend, so he walked back to the restaurant with me and me her and I took their picture. We chatted for a bit, asked if he wanted a beer, he said after the show we would but he really needed to shower and change (he really did need too). So off he went to the bus, and we sat and drank.

Soon afterwards he came out for soundcheck and the sun was out again. Then all the guys went to go get something to eat and so did we.

So there were these guys that were hanging out by the stage, we knew they were the opening act, but didn't know who they were and we asked people and no one knew their name. I have to say they were pretty good. Kind of funny, they opened with a KU song, followed by Dierks, Luke Bryan, etc. They tried to do a strong finish by Singing Shirt, but they totally messed it up and forgot all the words. Not a good lasting impression to make. I sorta felt bad for them. Next up..Mr Jake Owen!!

I need to get my act together.....

Last week I forgot my makeup, this week forgot my shoes and forgot to charge my camera battery!! I am spending the week getting organized for the big show's next week. Making a check list!!!!

Off to Search for Jake...

Waiting for my friend Rashell to arrive, then off to find Jake. I have a package to deliver to him. Concert doesn't start until 8 so lots of time.

I also forgot to bring my work shoes, so need to go buy a pair. Oops!