| [Jeanine] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:45:54 PM | |
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Snapad, hope you dont' get too loopy! Did you ever see Sixteen Candles? Where Molly Ringwald's sister gets a little too relaxed right before her wedding? You do NOT want to be like that. Also, (this is for everybody) don't drink too much, it would suck to not be able to remember meeting the guys - lol!! 
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:28:49 PM)| |  | spapad wrote: | | hey Guido, Whats up! I myself am actually going to take muscle relaxant that day so I am not visibly shaking when I meet them! LOL! but I'm serious, I am!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | LOL! "You smell great" Too funny. At least you managed to make a sentence. Personally, I am worried about getting that far.
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| [Jeanine] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:42:17 PM | |
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I remember part of the meeting well....we met Glenn, Ian, KK then Rob. The problem was I met Glenn first. Everything after that was a bit fuzzy. QT, what an awesome meet and greet. Kudos to you for being so very well prepared. I hope everybody here has a great experience at their perspective shows.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Mara from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:56:19 PM)| | | Mara wrote: | | | Thanks for the review, QT. I am getting a bit nervous..... hope I don't blurt out anything too weird.. the last time I met Rob , the only words that came out of my mouth were..."You smell great" (He did). Yikes.... I was probably delirious with joy. My sister had to guide me back into the car, up the stairs and into bed while I smiled like an idiot with a glazed over expression!!!! When a friend and I got to meet Scott at a party, I was completely normally functioning, and carried on a lucid adult conversation.. It's just that meeting the METAL GOD made my brain go goofy..... |
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| [spapad] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:28:49 PM | |
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hey Guido, Whats up! I myself am actually going to take muscle relaxant that day so I am not visibly shaking when I meet them! LOL! but I'm serious, I am!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:20:48 PM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | LOL! "You smell great" Too funny. At least you managed to make a sentence. Personally, I am worried about getting that far.
QT. GREAT! What was the final decision on the necklaces? Let's see when you get a chance. |
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| [guidogodoy] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:20:48 PM | |
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LOL! "You smell great" Too funny. At least you managed to make a sentence. Personally, I am worried about getting that far.
QT. GREAT! What was the final decision on the necklaces? Let's see when you get a chance. |
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| [Everleigh] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:56:19 PM | |
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| Thanks for the review, QT. I am getting a bit nervous..... hope I don't blurt out anything too weird.. the last time I met Rob , the only words that came out of my mouth were..."You smell great" (He did). Yikes.... I was probably delirious with joy. My sister had to guide me back into the car, up the stairs and into bed while I smiled like an idiot with a glazed over expression!!!! When a friend and I got to meet Scott at a party, I was completely normally functioning, and carried on a lucid adult conversation.. It's just that meeting the METAL GOD made my brain go goofy..... |
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| [spapad] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:31:22 PM | |
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QT, I hope my night turns out to be as special and rememorable as yours, Looks like you had an awsome time!
Way to go! Only 40 people got those huh? Wow, I messed ordering my VIP 4 times before I got it right good thing I started as soon as the box office opened.
The switchboard was ringing off the hook the whole time i was trying to order tickets at work and I got so flustered someone else had to answer the thing for me while completed my transaction or I was probably going to go off on some poor sole for interrupting me a such a time in my life! LOL!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by QT from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:10:16 PM)| | | QT wrote: | |
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| [QT] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:10:16 PM | |
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| [QT] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:54:15 PM | |
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Here's my Priest bill and Mega Metal Cards:
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| [QT] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:32:44 PM | |
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The Meet & Greet!
It was very well organized. I was told by Amanda that the max is 40 people per show. They have 20 minutes to get 40 people through. That works out to 30 seconds per person. It was very rushed, so make sure you are organized and calm.(For me jumping up and down while in line helped.) Because it’s all over in less than 1 minute. If there is 2 in your group, like with myself and hubby, you get 1 minute and 1 photo only. BOOO to the one photo! Didn’t we pay for 2 VIP tickets??? Any ways, for us when we got closer to the front of the line you can start to see some band members. I first got to see Rob and KK as we got closer. My heart was pounding. That’s when the jumping helped to clam me a bit. Right before your turn to meet them you’re told, when you see the flash from the people in front of you, GO! My order was Scott, Glenn, Ian, Rob then KK. I don’t know how I was able to keep it together but I did. Maybe the jumping! LOL! About 2 hours before the meet and greet we found out that it was 1 min. of one on one time with the full band and not just a mad mob around the band. I lost it. I cried off all my make-up. Any ways, as I walked up to Scott I gave him a big hug, then hugged Glenn, then Ian, Rob and KK. As I was hugging them my hubby was following behind me getting my Mega Metal cards sighed. (I’ll post the pictures.) After I hugged KK I turned to Rob and handed him the bag of necklaces I made for them. He took it and said OHHH Cool, thank you. I was very well orgainzed. I had 5 bags labled with their names in one larger bag, just incase there was not time to hand one bag to each member. Then I went back to Scott to get my Judas Priest Legal Tender Real USA dollar bill signed. That bill got us at least an extra minute with the band!!! Thank you eBay for selling wickly cool stuff! They had never seen one before. They seemed to think it was pretty cool that their picture was on a real legal tender bill. (I'll post the picture and YES it is REALLY legal tender.) I had a protective clear cover over the bill and forgot to take the bill out. Both Scott and Glenn signed the cover and not the bill. Luckily I was not in La La land (at that moment) and noticed before it got to Ian. I remember Rob saying “We need to make sure we sign the bill” and it went back to Scott with the cover off. While they signed I was clinging to Rob the whole time. I remember rubbing and patting his back and telling him I love him. He said “I love you too” I know he must say it to every fan that says it to him but who cares? I DON"T! THE METAL GOD HIMSELF TOLD ME HE LOVES ME! His voice was so soft and sweet. I hope I never forget that moment. I also got a “We love you too” out of KK. I might have told him a couple of times too. Some of it’s just a blur. I mostly stayed between KK and Rob. After they all signed the bill someone said “picture time.” Everyone scramble for a moment, the flash went off and the next people were up. As we walked away I let out a little scream and started to bawl like a baby. My hubby told me after he could tell all the other fans were so happy for me. We met and breifly got to know so many cool people at the Pre Party. After that the night just got better. I’ll start a new post for that when I have more time. I have some really cool stories to tell. This was just half of the best night of my life! |
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| [156555464] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:47:32 PM | |
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The good looking guy is K. K.!! lol
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by QT from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:22:19 PM)| | | QT wrote: | | Hi there Everyone. Sorry I didn't make it back yesterday with more details. 3 days of very little food and sleep (I couldn't eat or sleep for days) and back to back Priest, I was beat. First off, thanks for the comments on my picture. I am very happy with it. As soon as we got home from our 2 1/2 hour drive from Edmonton I ran in to check to see if they posted them yet. After seeing it I just sat there and cried. I didn't even cry at my own wedding! The past 3 days I've shed many, many happy tears. I hope everyone that gets to meet the band get a good picture too. Good Luck. If you look, not everyones is turning out good.  BTW, the good looking guy with his arm around KK is my Hubby. We have been together since I was 14 years old. So Rob and Priest have a bout 2 years on him. He has a very good understanding of my love for Rob and Priest. I'm so glad he was there by my side because I was a real mess before the meet and greet. When we first got to the hotel I got out of the car and forgot to close car door. My hubby went out about 5 mins. after and my door was hanging wide open. LOL! I lost my mind for a couple of days for sure! I'm sure some of you know or will know what I'm taking about. Ok I'm gonna start a new post for the details, just wanted to add, I did get lots of photos (My sister watched the full 1 hour of Priest at MOR through her camera, she got hundered's.) Just need time to sort them out. But I'll be sure to post the best ones. |
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| [QT] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:22:19 PM | |
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| Hi there Everyone. Sorry I didn't make it back yesterday with more details. 3 days of very little food and sleep (I couldn't eat or sleep for days) and back to back Priest, I was beat. First off, thanks for the comments on my picture. I am very happy with it. As soon as we got home from our 2 1/2 hour drive from Edmonton I ran in to check to see if they posted them yet. After seeing it I just sat there and cried. I didn't even cry at my own wedding! The past 3 days I've shed many, many happy tears. I hope everyone that gets to meet the band get a good picture too. Good Luck. If you look, not everyones is turning out good. BTW, the good looking guy with his arm around KK is my Hubby. We have been together since I was 14 years old. So Rob and Priest have a bout 2 years on him. He has a very good understanding of my love for Rob and Priest. I'm so glad he was there by my side because I was a real mess before the meet and greet. When we first got to the hotel I got out of the car and forgot to close car door. My hubby went out about 5 mins. after and my door was hanging wide open. LOL! I lost my mind for a couple of days for sure! I'm sure some of you know or will know what I'm taking about. Ok I'm gonna start a new post for the details, just wanted to add, I did get lots of photos (My sister watched the full 1 hour of Priest at MOR through her camera, she got hundered's.) Just need time to sort them out. But I'll be sure to post the best ones. |
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| [Healer] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:32:02 PM | |
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I work for an eye doctor. You could try mono-vision or they do have bi-focal contacts now. Both options are iffy. We have only had a handful of people from our office that have been able to do them. Mono you have one distance lense in one eye and a near vision contact in the other. Bi-focal lenses are fairly new and I'm not sure we've had anyone that has had success with them. I find most people do have the best luck with getting contacts for distance and then wear the reading glasses. I'm sure whatever you wear you'll look great! There are some great trendy and funky glasses out there now and if you decide to go with progressives(no line bi-focals) you can still get fairly small glasses. It's amazing what they can do now.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:57:51 AM)| | | spapad wrote: | | I should have just got the contacts and then got reading glass for up close, My up close vision vision is just fine, so when he puts the strenth lense on me I need to see far away it distorts my close up vision. Contacts or no it would be stuck with some sort of glasses, I'll just have to learn to deal with it. LOL. But, I am too vane a creature, I will not wear them to meet and greet just the show.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Spapad,
You can ask your eye doctor for bifocals that doesn't have that embarassing line in the middle of the lens. I have a big issue in seeing things from long distances (even things from short distances), so I'm a glasses wearer myself.  I have contacts, but I hate putting them on...plus once something gets in those things, its hard to get rid of it.
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good night all my girlfriends! I should already be to bed, gotta get up and do the daily routine tomorrow. Love ya! Have a good night, early morning!
I'll be sneaking a peek or two at work tomorrow.
Oh God, I completely forgot! I will have to wear glasses for the stage! I have lost my long distance vision and the Dr. fitted me for a pair today. Wont Put contacts on me because then I could not see up close with the contacts. 43 years old, made it this far, but I was afraid to go see Priest without them because it would suck to not be able to fully appriciate them!
So yes, Spapad is a glasses wearing girl now. How awful is that. I'll have to take them off all the time though because I won't be able to see up close! Oh, I'm gonna hate it! Hate glasses they make me look like a total dork, >>>>>>>>>except sunglasses!
Ah well, what am I gonna do, do to a show I paid serious money for blind or go looking like a geeK! Took my cool factor down a few notches! LOL LMAO! |
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| [~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:29:53 PM | |
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Hi girls... tomorrow is the big day for me.... wooooo hooooooo...
Hi Mrs Tipton... I wont forget to check for the pinky ring...lol... Miss You........
Hugs to you , and to all you girls.....
MG~
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:35:33 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | DANG!! That's a good picture, QT!!!!! I always thought the band would stay in their leather gear when doing the Meet-and-Greet thing, but they got comfy. They all look great, especially Glenn, and Ian, and Scott, and K.K, and Rob!!!!!!!! 
MG...me miss you, too!!! Can't wait to hear about the concert!!
All you VIP people, good luck in meeting the Metal Gods...you'll all do great!!! 
| | | QT wrote: | | HI EVERYONE! Just got back from Edmonton's show last night. Saw that my photo was already posted. Don't have much time now but will be back later to tell you all about it. You can see Rob holding the bag of necklaces I made for them!!! It was the best night of my life ever! I can't stop crying. LOL!!!
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| [paperflowers] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:36:40 AM | |
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| Husband getting out of hospital today!! He crashed bike at track on 7/18 and broke shoulder, arm and ribs. I've been staying here the whole time. Can't WAIT to go home. FYI I am still dragging Evel Knievel here to Vegas. He'lk be ok just try not to make him laugh :) |
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| [spapad] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:57:51 AM | |
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I should have just got the contacts and then got reading glass for up close, My up close vision vision is just fine, so when he puts the strenth lense on me I need to see far away it distorts my close up vision. Contacts or no it would be stuck with some sort of glasses, I'll just have to learn to deal with it. LOL. But, I am too vane a creature, I will not wear them to meet and greet just the show.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:49:57 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Spapad,
You can ask your eye doctor for bifocals that doesn't have that embarassing line in the middle of the lens. I have a big issue in seeing things from long distances (even things from short distances), so I'm a glasses wearer myself. I have contacts, but I hate putting them on...plus once something gets in those things, its hard to get rid of it.
| | | spapad wrote: | | Good night all my girlfriends! I should already be to bed, gotta get up and do the daily routine tomorrow. Love ya! Have a good night, early morning!
I'll be sneaking a peek or two at work tomorrow.
Oh God, I completely forgot! I will have to wear glasses for the stage! I have lost my long distance vision and the Dr. fitted me for a pair today. Wont Put contacts on me because then I could not see up close with the contacts. 43 years old, made it this far, but I was afraid to go see Priest without them because it would suck to not be able to fully appriciate them!
So yes, Spapad is a glasses wearing girl now. How awful is that. I'll have to take them off all the time though because I won't be able to see up close! Oh, I'm gonna hate it! Hate glasses they make me look like a total dork, >>>>>>>>>except sunglasses!
Ah well, what am I gonna do, do to a show I paid serious money for blind or go looking like a geeK! Took my cool factor down a few notches! LOL LMAO! |
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| [Head banger] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:48:12 AM | |
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not that I encorage such behavior,(LOL) but there was plenty of flashing at monsters of rock. of course the mc (whoever the hell he was) did his best to encourage that. but to note, if you take you top off and sit on someones shoulders for a while, security will come over and advise you its time to get dressed.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Monday, July 28, 2008 7:11:22 PM)| | | spapad wrote: | | I was going to wear the shirt they were suppossed to ship, but I can see myself change at the door now that they are gonna have me pick it up there.
I think we can flash him from the floor! LOL!!!!!
Gotta go buy just the right jeans etc............. Nervous!
| | | paperflowers wrote: | | Yikes I'd hate to cause him to miss a single note. Guess that rules out flashing the gazungas. I'm nervous about the meet too. I'm already worrying about what to say. And that's not even considering wardrobe!! WTF am I going to wear?!?!! We're not worthy!! We're not worthy!!!
| | | spapad wrote: | | LOL, Paper! yes it would be but I guess we would mess up a solo and get tossed out. LOL! Maybe just a grab around one shoe?
My mind will turn to putty after the meet and greet anyway! God, I hop I don't open my mouth and say something completely stupid! as per my usual when I'm nervous.
| | | paperflowers wrote: | | LOL there's a first time for everything. Let me know - I'll help!! it'd be worth it to hear him laugh.
| | | spapad wrote: | | I would love to be the one who did it! LOL!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Haa! Just for those believers in the church of Guideology! Sorry, never seen anyone grab KK!
| | | spapad wrote: | | I saw that the other night, it's very funny! You know, I have mild dyslexia and thought the Guido's name said Guideology! I just dont' get it right sometimes.
| | | paperflowers wrote: | | This pic guido posted is pretty funny - looks like the guy wants to tickle him. Do we have any pics of female stagejumpers trying to tickle KK? 
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:03:51 AM | |
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Well, off to bed... already... I hate not being able to post often.
Oh, well... not to worry...Glenn shall comfort me in Dreamland...
As the British say...CHEERS!!
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:55:14 AM | |
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Here's my contribution for the night... its the Twin-Axe Attack!!!!! 
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:49:57 AM | |
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Spapad,
You can ask your eye doctor for bifocals that doesn't have that embarassing line in the middle of the lens. I have a big issue in seeing things from long distances (even things from short distances), so I'm a glasses wearer myself. I have contacts, but I hate putting them on...plus once something gets in those things, its hard to get rid of it.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Monday, July 28, 2008 11:34:30 PM)| | | spapad wrote: | | Good night all my girlfriends! I should already be to bed, gotta get up and do the daily routine tomorrow. Love ya! Have a good night, early morning!
I'll be sneaking a peek or two at work tomorrow.
Oh God, I completely forgot! I will have to wear glasses for the stage! I have lost my long distance vision and the Dr. fitted me for a pair today. Wont Put contacts on me because then I could not see up close with the contacts. 43 years old, made it this far, but I was afraid to go see Priest without them because it would suck to not be able to fully appriciate them!
So yes, Spapad is a glasses wearing girl now. How awful is that. I'll have to take them off all the time though because I won't be able to see up close! Oh, I'm gonna hate it! Hate glasses they make me look like a total dork, >>>>>>>>>except sunglasses!
Ah well, what am I gonna do, do to a show I paid serious money for blind or go looking like a geeK! Took my cool factor down a few notches! LOL LMAO! |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:35:33 AM | |
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DANG!! That's a good picture, QT!!!!! I always thought the band would stay in their leather gear when doing the Meet-and-Greet thing, but they got comfy. They all look great, especially Glenn, and Ian, and Scott, and K.K, and Rob!!!!!!!!
MG...me miss you, too!!! Can't wait to hear about the concert!!
All you VIP people, good luck in meeting the Metal Gods...you'll all do great!!!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by QT from Monday, July 28, 2008 2:48:56 PM)| | | QT wrote: | | HI EVERYONE! Just got back from Edmonton's show last night. Saw that my photo was already posted. Don't have much time now but will be back later to tell you all about it. You can see Rob holding the bag of necklaces I made for them!!! It was the best night of my life ever! I can't stop crying. LOL!!!
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