Oh Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a night!!
Met Austin in line for a minute. Nice seeing you again.
CF was OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!! The energy & enthusiasm is absolutely infectious!! They really have a blast together and are all playing great. Joe was perfect as always!! Lets his guitar do the talking. Nothing new to Joe fans though I know. I can only hope that I'm doing as well as Sammy is when I hit that age (sooner rather than later). The guy acts like Steven Tyler from the 70's!! Loved having Chad on guitar & Sammy on drums.
Queensryche was horrible in my opinion. Sounded like a mash-up of Ratt, Scorpions, Judas Priest, with the singer trying to act like Bruce Dickinson. Wasn't pretty and I'm mad that it made me think of 2 bands I loved in the early 80's - JP & IM. The worst part was that their appearance caused Davy Knowles to do a shortened one-man acoustic set. Davy did a great job though & I've now got his cd.
So my friend won the aftershow passes and being sort of an old hat at meeting Joe we hung back a bit when the 30 or so people with various passes went in so we'd be near the back of the crowd. Hung out a bit longer, chatted with Mike Manning a bit, and the next thing you know we're sort of forgotten and all of the other people have been shuffled through & are heading out the venue. We meander to the back and have a seat on a sofa backstage. Joe comes on over and I mention that roo from T2J is outside and has come from Australia. Joe says "what's he doing here?", lol!!!! So I say "he came to see you Joe" and he says "let's get him back here". Too funny. Joe is so selfless he didn't realize that roo came all that way to see him.
Every time I meet Joe he is always so gracious and patient! What a terrific human being. Takes time to chat and cares about what you're saying. I told him Jeff Beck used my Sharpee and he stuck it in his pocket, lol! roo told him that his Sharpee had just been to a Myley Cyrus show in L.A. and Joe said he didn't want anything to do with that pen, lol! Joe & I then chatted about the bizarre time he played the national Anthem at an A's/Yankees game, but the coliseum guy didn't plug him into the sound system. Told him I have a video of him from my seat playing "air guitar".
Also met Chad & Mike - great guys, but definitely much more reserved than Joe when meeting someone. Makes sense though as I'm sure there are pretty aggresive knuckleheads at VH & RHCP shows compared to the fans Joe meets.
I bought 3 CF posters and Joe, Mike, & Chad all signed each of them. Mike made a joke about they better not show up online for sale & I assured him they were for my 2 kids & my wife.
Also met John Luini & Jeff Campitelli again. Both so cool! Got a good picture of Jeff & Chad having a manly drummer's-hug.
It was really nice to meet and hang out with roo! Glad we were able to get him back there after traveling so far.
Sorry I didn't get to meet Tracie though.
Great night, Joe's the man, and I'm tired so that's all.
One more note - I asked Joe about the dvd and he said he watched it today and it is very cool with some amazing goodies on it. It should be out in January.