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Description:David singing Stand By Me in Baltimore 8/12/08
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Official Archey Report o.d.d.- Official Archey Report o.d.d.-yssey in Baltimore Part 2
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The Buses
A couple of things I forgot to mention on the afternoon at the buses. People were handing out ‘Please Don’t Stop the MAVID’ signs. Also, I had a poster that said ‘Fans of David’ with David Archuleta’s tour picture on it.
A reporter from Baltimore came out with a cameraman and filmed a live shot right in front of us. We all cheered and waved for a couple of takes, and then she wanted to get pictures of signs, so I held my sign in front of the fence and they filmed that. I guess I was on TV, idk…
Oh, and I didn’t mention that the friend who was coming to get my free ticket was BabyDavidJules. This was her 10 th concert (with more to go, she tells us.)
The Davids
While we were at the concert we heard that Crush was #1 on iTunes. As I write this Wednesday afternoon, it still is. Congratulations David!!!
David got great applause and cheers as he came up through the stage. I already knew that I wouldn’t be able to see him over the piano on Angels, so I was watching him on the Jumbotron, with occasional glances to see the top of his hair over the piano.
Apologize I would describe as a muscular performance. He was very raw emotionally, at one point striding forward and planting his feet each step. All his songs really displayed his emotional connection to the audience. His voice sounded strong and clear and perfect. Stand By Me was fun; he was doing the Beautiful Girls dance right in front of us.
On WYSYLM, his voice sounded sharper (in terms of crispness, not pitch—that was perfect!) than I ever remember hearing it on a recording.
I was torn between wanting to just absorb David’s performance, and to be able to capture pictures to remember it by. I ended up doing neither very well. And as everyone says, it was over too soon.
David Cook
This was a Cook crowd, so as David was leaving, I put in my earplugs. I needed them.
He put on a great show, and the audience loved him. And I really, really liked the magic rainbow song. Does it remind anyone else of Lifehouse’s ‘You and Me’? When Cook had them turn up the houselights I looked around and noticed that it was far from a sellout. Much of the upper tier was empty, especially in the back. I got some bad pictures of Cook, but the woman next to me showed me one of hers and it was fantastic! Kay if you read this, can you hook a sister up? You know where to find me!
The group sang ‘Please Don’t Stop the Music’, complete with Cook bowing down to David, and David waving off Cook. Then ironically, the music stopped.
The After Party
Everyone waited backstage for several minutes while the Idols were getting changed, then we were allowed to go to the meet and greet room. I got my friend to take a picture of me talking to David. She tried hard, but I wasn’t a very cooperative subject. I was trying to ‘say what I needed to say’ to David about how much we enjoy his blog recommendations of singers or movies and stuff that he likes. I’m sure I was blithering, but I think he understood. I notice in the picture I seem to be grabbing for his arm. I have no recollection of doing that, haha. I told him he was #1 on iTunes and he said he'd heard that!
Then we ran around the room getting autographs and taking pictures of the other Idols, except that Chikeze wasn’t there (they said he was sick, though I didn’t notice it in his performance) and Kristy Lee left early.
Oh here’s some ‘news you can use’…We were complimenting Carly on how trim she looks and she said she uses a Denise Austin DVD on her computer for working out. She’s lost 20 pounds post-Idol.
Finally I noticed Jeff Archuleta by himself over by the wall and went over to tell him how much I admire him. He seemed surprised by this, and was just as humble as everyone always describes. He said it was ‘guilt by association’ for having such an amazing son…or words to that effect.
Several girls were having shirts autographed by David, so I went over to have him sign my official David Archuleta T-shirt. I had brought special laundry-proof Sharpies, and gave them to him to use.
Christy and Mary were having David do a shout-out to FansofDavid.com, so I stood nearby and recorded most of it on my camera too. We really could have used some Klieg lights or something in that room, though. Then we got a group picture with David and Jeff. I think David was the last Idol to leave, and we all followed him out.
That was it! August 12 th 2008. Midnight to Midnight. Can’t wait to see him again tomorrow!
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Official Archey Report-o.d.d.y Official Archey Report-o.d.d.yssey in Baltimore
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Was this only ONE DAY?!? Seems like more. August 12, 2008 began at Midnight when I went online to buy Crush on iTunes and left a review. It said I could be the first to write a review, but when I didn’t see my comment posted right away I figured lots of people were getting that message.
In the morning, I chatted online a while, and looked up Crush on iTunes. It was at #39, and I thought, David will want to see that he’s on the charts, so I printed it out to give to him. I was also taking a couple of spare tickets to give to an online friend.
I got to the venue about 11:30 and called my online friends Mary and Christy to hook up. Turned out they were about 3 people in front of me, haha. They are traveling the Northeast and going to Idol venues with their dad and Christy’s two kids, who are adorable. Ralph gets my vote for one of the best dads EVER! (Right behind Jeff Archuleta.) They’ve been to the buses before, but this will be their first show. (Ralph will miss the show to babysit the kids.)
With us were two women from Gettysburg PA , Jen and Melanie, who were Cook fans. Mary and Christy had been up with them til 3 that morning at the hotel, talking Idol. (Hey Jen and Melanie! If you’re reading this.)
I have to say at this point that there were a LOT of Cook fans at the buses. Red shirts were everywhere. (OK some of them were on the security guards.) But as it said on Craig’s List when I went to sign up for an account: “Cookies Must Be Enabled”. So I went with it.
I went over to this big plastic sign they had behind us that said Word Nerds Across America, signed my good wishes for Cookie, and asked the woman what the story was. She said they are sending the sign to different cities, and her contact in KC will present the banner to Cook and his mom. Suzanne, the woman in charge of the banner, is a moderator on a Cook chat site, wordnerdshome.com. She said they migrated there from the AI boards.
At this point someone told us that Crush was # 7 on iTunes. So much for my #39 printout…
Gossip was flying up and down the barricades, and we learned that David and Kristy Lee Cook had been spotted having lunch at Baltimore ’s Inner Harbor . This was about 1:15 or so, so we figured we might see them soon. Apparently they don’t come out til after lunch. We already knew that the Idols were staying at the Holiday Inn across from the Arena, and had gotten there the day before.
About 2 PM , Kristy Lee and Brooke came out and signed autographs. Brooke was sorta rushing because she had to go and do press.
Then we learned that Crush was #4 on iTunes.
At around 3, Jeff Archuleta came out, but he went the other way from where we were standing, then went and sat on a wall to make some phone calls. We couldn’t get his attention. At this point we still hadn’t seen any other Idols.
Around 4, my friend from work called to say she was on her way, and could she get us any drinks. So we gave her our drink orders and she was to be there about 4:30 or so.
Then at maybe 4:15 , Jeff A. came out and told a group a ways away from us something, we didn’t know what, but they started leaving. Apparently the rest of the Idols weren’t going to be able to come out. Jen and Melanie the Cookie fans left, and Mary and Christy were about to go too, but I reminded them the sodas would be there any minute.
At about 4:30ish, the doors opened and here came the rest of the Idols (except Chikeze). I bent down and started looking in my purse for my camera, then I heard this VERY familiar silky voice VERY close by. Oh Oh Oh I’m missing him!!!! I got up quick!
I managed to shake David’s hand, and then he said ‘If you have anything to be signed, could you get it out, please’ Christy had given me a picture of him to be signed, so with shaking hands I got it out and he signed DA. Then he was gone moving on down the line. I also got autographs from Syesha and Carly. The autographs are like hieroglyphics. Too cute.
Melanie and Jen, you didn’t miss TOO much, because Cook didn’t sign autographs, he just went down the line slapping palms. I know, this alone would probably have given Jen a stroke.
I finally found my camera (in my back pocket), and got some pictures of the back of David, MJ, and Jason as they went into the arena. I think at this point Crush was #2 on iTunes, and we tried to shout that out to David as he was leaving, but I don’t think he heard us.
We went and got something to eat, then I went to meet my contact for tickets outside will call, and found out we were in the 5 th row!!! I was also flabbergasted to learn that we were getting BACKSTAGE PASSES! I am humbled by the generosity of some people (who will remain nameless).
The Show
Guys, 5 th row is better than 1 st row. We were right beside the catwalk, opposite the mike stand where the Idols would sing some of their numbers.
Well you all know the show. But I have to say, I enjoyed every performance. All the women were gorgeous. Several of the Idols personalized their between-song patter to include Baltimore references. Chikeze gave a shoutout to Baltimore , and said Baltimore likes to PARTAY! The audience agreed.
This was a rock and roll crowd, and they were very into Michael Johns. MJ did his talk about Dream On being the song that got him kicked off the show, and then said that in this time of the Olympics, his song Dream On is on the tube every night and he’s loving it.
Kristy Lee was very sparkly with her bedazzled outfit including a rhinestone microphone pack. I loved her diamond circle pendant too. She told us that she and Carly had gone out for Crabs and had 4 CRABS EACH. My friend cracked up because even the daintiest eaters in Baltimore can eat 6 minimum.
Carly blew the audience away with her first two songs. Wow. The Celine Dion song did not go over big with the Baltimore crowd. I bet if she hadn’t mentioned whose song it was, it would have gotten a better reception. She also mentioned the crabs and said they were given hammers and all sorts of tools to eat them with. It was her first experience with crabs.
Brooke White came up through the stage at the piano, and we got a brief glimpse of her face before the piano blocked her from our view. All we could see was this topknot of golden hair. I laughed and just started watching her on the Jumbotron. I knew then that this would also be my experience with Angels.
Brooke said it's great to be here in "Bawlmer." She said 'I was told that's how you pronounce it.' (Haha, that was just right--it's Bawlmer, Merlin!)
At intermission, I got up to go to the bathroom, and there were my new friends talking to Jeff Archuleta. I thought, Hmm, meet Jeff or go to the bathroom? I had to hope there would be another opportunity to meet Jeff. So I got back just in time to see the 70’s Guitar Hero commercial. And the 2 little boys who were playing Air Guitar Hero. Haha the one boy, a 7-year old, didn’t know how to do air guitar. The comedian (is this Cory?) said ‘no that’s a flute’, and repositioned his hands.
I enjoyed Jason’s set, though we were saying that we prefer David’s version of ‘Crazy’. There were two women in front of us in ‘I shot the Tambourine Man’ Shirts.
Syesha probably enjoyed her set in Baltimore , because it didn’t seem like they were staring daggers at her to get-off-the-stage-we-want-David-A! Polite applause.
David's set was so awesome. Those songs are so familiar to us now, but still so powerful. Seeing him live was an emotional experience. I kept feeling the music in my upper chest. I was unconsciously doing the David Fan sign just to try to control my heartbeat. It felt like I might start sobbing at any minute. But I didn’t; I held it together. OMGosh.
I’m going to have to continue this later….have an appointment I have to keep.
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