Post by redhead1965 on Jul 27, 2011 10:16:12 GMT -5
I posted this on the AG and IM forums and I'll post it here in case some don't visit those forums..
WAS AWESOME !! AND AMAZING !!
Ok first of all this has got to be the best thing that has ever happened to me.. seeing this was a once in a lifetime thing and being from NY and living sooo close how could I pass it up, even though it was 85 degrees at 3am and I had a show that night as well, I said what the hay just go for it and I did !!
Ok my goo friend Kim arrives at my house at 3am and she parked in my driveway since we weren't gonna dare drive into Manhattan, we took the Long Island Railroad which was good and then cabbed it uptown to the main entrance, We got to the entrance around 4:30 and we saw police cars blocking the entrance with a GMA security guy standing there giving info.. he said to follow the path to the end and you'll see a lightpost and a bunch of other fans are there already, so on our way down the path ( I should say the yellow brick road lol but I won't )... Saw the Boston girls there already waiting... and more and more peeps arrived. to my surprise a girl I was sitting next to in Athens was there and she came up to me and said "Hey I was sitting next to you in Athens" and I was like Holy cow what are you doing here from Kentucky ? She said for the show of course !! And wowowowowo.......Ok we had VIP passes so we followed the security guy to another waiting area across the park, took photos of the sign and then waited, not long at all they let us through the entrance at 6 am sharp and we got to see the whole stage area and everything, tv cameras all over the place people with walkie talkies all over the place, we got dead center and had plenty of room to roam and see who was in the vip section...
we were beyond ourselves at this point..person warming up the audience was out and making us laugh and explaining that when he said to we should make lots of noise and hold up our signs.. I was called out as the redhead several times lol...Goo Goo Dolls came out at 7:15 to do soundcheck and they sang, played around 8 songs either playing and singing or the audience sang and they played, snips and pieces of everything you can imagine.. It was soo hot we were melting and the sun didn't even make it's way all the way out of the sky yet, anyway we got to see way more then goes on behind the scenes then possible, they were on stage around an hour then went to their trailor only to come back out 15 minutes later, still soundchecking making sure everything was good.... The GMA hosts talked to them and then it was ready for show time ! MAKE NOISE and its a gooooo.... cameras all over the place scanned the audience, then they sang I can't remember what they sang first cause when I got home the songs they did sing weren't aired.. They did Iris last .... I was asked by the Laura Spencer about my goo shirt lol
Photos to follow later,, still uploading and I have to get ready for tonight !
anytime you have an opportunity like this I say go for it !!
WAS AWESOME !! AND AMAZING !!
Ok first of all this has got to be the best thing that has ever happened to me.. seeing this was a once in a lifetime thing and being from NY and living sooo close how could I pass it up, even though it was 85 degrees at 3am and I had a show that night as well, I said what the hay just go for it and I did !!
Ok my goo friend Kim arrives at my house at 3am and she parked in my driveway since we weren't gonna dare drive into Manhattan, we took the Long Island Railroad which was good and then cabbed it uptown to the main entrance, We got to the entrance around 4:30 and we saw police cars blocking the entrance with a GMA security guy standing there giving info.. he said to follow the path to the end and you'll see a lightpost and a bunch of other fans are there already, so on our way down the path ( I should say the yellow brick road lol but I won't )... Saw the Boston girls there already waiting... and more and more peeps arrived. to my surprise a girl I was sitting next to in Athens was there and she came up to me and said "Hey I was sitting next to you in Athens" and I was like Holy cow what are you doing here from Kentucky ? She said for the show of course !! And wowowowowo.......Ok we had VIP passes so we followed the security guy to another waiting area across the park, took photos of the sign and then waited, not long at all they let us through the entrance at 6 am sharp and we got to see the whole stage area and everything, tv cameras all over the place people with walkie talkies all over the place, we got dead center and had plenty of room to roam and see who was in the vip section...
we were beyond ourselves at this point..person warming up the audience was out and making us laugh and explaining that when he said to we should make lots of noise and hold up our signs.. I was called out as the redhead several times lol...Goo Goo Dolls came out at 7:15 to do soundcheck and they sang, played around 8 songs either playing and singing or the audience sang and they played, snips and pieces of everything you can imagine.. It was soo hot we were melting and the sun didn't even make it's way all the way out of the sky yet, anyway we got to see way more then goes on behind the scenes then possible, they were on stage around an hour then went to their trailor only to come back out 15 minutes later, still soundchecking making sure everything was good.... The GMA hosts talked to them and then it was ready for show time ! MAKE NOISE and its a gooooo.... cameras all over the place scanned the audience, then they sang I can't remember what they sang first cause when I got home the songs they did sing weren't aired.. They did Iris last .... I was asked by the Laura Spencer about my goo shirt lol
Photos to follow later,, still uploading and I have to get ready for tonight !
anytime you have an opportunity like this I say go for it !!
But that's alright.. everything for Goo! ;D