Heyyyyyyy!! We're hoooooooome!!
San Fran was an absolute blast from start to finish, went with Debbie and Brian (Mahavishnu) who took such excellent care of us, THANK YEEEEEEEEEEEWWWW!!!!
Trip down and back was smoove as buttah....the time in San Fran was hilarious, starting with the bus ride to get to the venue yesterday....there was a huge ruckus between a lil ole guy and a younger guy, the old guy was rude and the younger guy wasn't HAVING IT!!! Shouting match, cussing each other out and threats of beaning him with a cane....it was actually freakin hilarious to hear it, lots of posturing going on but all calmed down in the end...shuda known that wouldn't be all fer the day, LOL....
Standing in line from about 11:30 onwards, we were first to arrive and jealously guarded our spot too!!! The people behind us helped out in patrolling any line-cutters, but they still tried....buncha wimmens showed up an hour before the venue opened and tried to claim they had been there awhile, whatever dood!! I had made friends with the security guard by this time and he shuffled them back a ways, woo hoo, LOL....then came the drunk guy asking for directions to the BART, which I dint know and sent him to some locals in line, THEN we noticed he had used his own pants fer a bathroom
:| It was good to see him toddle off, lol!!
Got a chance to say hi to Joe and Mick when they got to the venue, Mick was funny, amazed we were there, wanted to know how did we manage to get tickets since the ticket sale was so fast and crazy!! Also got to see Mike and Chad as they left for dinner, and Joe again....
Then finally in we went, it was kinda controlled chaos with the will-call situation but all went okay. Chris and I ended up right at the front in front of Joe's pedal board and OMG it was fantastic!!! You all will NOT believe the show until you see it, totally off the hook fantastic!! Austin is right, the energy of the audience was incredible!! Every member of the band did a killer job, and man is Chad a goof, LOL!! And can play HELL outta the drums!!
When they came back out for the encore, Chad threw water at Sammy, Sammy threw his drink back and it was ON!! WATER FIGHT!! Poor Joe started to come on stage, got pelted and backed up to the side again to protect his equipment! Then Sammy gets on the mic and says "That's IT, I QUIT THIS FUCKIN BAND!!!' Kidding of course, but then he went on to say that he plans on quitting this band BEFORE he gets fired, that he just CANNOT get fired from ANOTHER BAND!! LOL!!! Said as soon as the guys try to call him in for a "band meeting" he's gonna say FUCK U I QUIT! so they can't fire him!!
All in good fun, that ain'ta gonna happen ever, these guys are having the times of their lives!!
Joe could barely stop smiling all night, I think he only stopped when he was making his "widdly-widdly" face on the screamin solos, or when he was singing backup, although I saw him singing along with Sammy a few times just to himself. He was having the BEST TIME!!!
And of course broke out his camera fer the final bow and filmed the audience. They filmed the whole show too, and I spoke to Jon Luini about the plans for the vids.
The merchandise booth was chaos and fantastic, GET YER SOUVENIRS PEOPLE!! Love the t shirts we got, etc...
And outside, waiting for Joe to leave with his family, who wanders out but Jeff Campitelli, who came over to talk to us before leaving.
OMG....I know there's more to say but feck me, my throat is sore from screamin, I never felt any sore legs or feet cuz we were floatingfrom the incredible show, we barely slept and I WANNA GO BACK AND DO IT ALL AGAINNNNNN!!!
People of the foot, you are in for the ride of yer lives.....enjoy, Enjoy, ENJOY!!!
WE LOVE YOUUUUUU Joe!!! And hey, that Sammy, Chad and Mikey ain't bad either, LOL!!!
Hope you have fun on the rest of the tour, and travel VERY SAFE!!
CHICKENFOOT RULES!!!