Okay, so maybe the subject is just a little confusing. Basically, this post is about the concert I went to at the Midland Theater in Kansas City -- Kelly Clarkson with the Graham Colton Band.






GREAT show.

Highlights:

- GCB was awesome. I got me a t-shirt. It's orange. I love it. (Maggie approves)

- STRINGS!!!! Yeah, that's right, STRINGS!!!! AH! I could have melted right then and there, just like the Wicked Witch of the West. I LOVE strings. If you do not know this, then you shouldn't talk to me any more. Seriously...I'm a sucker for orchestra...pretty much any song that has strings in it I love. It's like an automatic response. I cannot help it. ANYWAYS, Kelly's set had 2 violinists play on a few songs, some really haunting giant rock ballads, and then some where it was just an acoustic guitar and the strings. It was heaven.

Best one though, was "Beautiful Disaster". For those of you that don't know, BD was on Kelly's first album Thankful, and of course because music execs want to make you fit into a box, they have the final say. On the album its a very poppy, country-tinged, tune. Kelly and the writer Matthew Gerard wanted to do it with just a piano. Enter = touring..where the artists get to do whatever they want, cause the songs are already boxed in forever on cd. So she sang the piano version on her tour last year. Whattya know, song is so successful on tour the execs think, hmm, more money, let's put the live version on her 2nd album. So on this tour, since everyone has already heard the Thankful version, and the Live version since it's now on Breakaway, they wanted to mix it up again, so it's performed with just an electric guitar and a violin......amazing! So gorgeous.


Other bonuses:
- Chick in front of me was from NE! Yeah baby!(and you thought I freaked over license plates)
- 6 dudes (gay) come sit in front of me...they wave to someone over at the other side of the section. I glance over...that blonde hair looks familiar...that looks like Dan from the Real World/Road Rules Challenge....it IS Dan, from the Real World/Road Rules Challenge!!! (guess he got kicked off the Inferno) People are taking pictures (myself included--that's right, I got proof biotches!) and he is signing stuff for a few people.

Fondest Standing In Line Memory EVER:
Starting off with my arrival, I walk out of the parking garage having successfully concealed my audio equipment and camera, then some creepy guy (important in the story later) comes up to me and is bugging me about extra tickets. I have none. I tell him, but he seems to like walking with me until I reach the end of the line and join others eying him annoyingly (I assume they all got to share a few special moments with Creepy Guy too)

So in line, two girls behind me and two guys with them got new tickets for the four of them together in the 4th row at the box office and wondered what they would do with their others. I mentioned that some dude (Creepy Guy) was looking for tickets earlier and pointed him out. After deciding that they would sell them for under face-price to make sure they wouldn’t get in trouble, they decide to approach the guy. Soon after they left my sight, I see them running back to the line, being chased by Creepy Guy and 2 other black dudes. It was really quite a funny sight. SO these 3 black dudes guys are arguing/fighting/grabbing for the tickets, and finally one gets them after handing over a wad of money and runs off, and another starts chasing him. I think the 2 girls were kinda scared (because “his gold teeth were all up in my grill”) as was everyone around us, we all thought we'd hear shots coming from the corner, but I was still laughing my butt off. The girls were like, "I don't know if your used to that, but we're from southern Missouri, and that stuff just don't go down", hahaha. I think that is my fondest “waiting-in-line-for-a-concert story” now. Soooo hilarious. So thanks to those guys and gals.


So yeah, that theater (a restored 1920's movie palace) was absolutely GORGEOUS! It was like stunningly beautiful...I took a pic of the inside (planned on getting more..especially of this kick a** chandelier in the lobby) when I got in and some dude came and yelled at me, saying no pictures allowed (I walked in with my camera in my hand, dude, no one said anything) I just figured it was better to put the camera away till the concert started, to get him away from me so he wouldn't discover my audio recorder and mic wired through my shirt, hahaha.

So I didn't ever get more pics of the theater, cause my camera decided to be retarded, and my audio sucks. But it was still fun. On the way home I had a Mountain Dew and a Mellow Yellow, to keep me up for the drive..got home at 2:00 am...saw Kristin knocking on Abby's door to go excercise, realized...it is now 6:00 am and I still am not tired. So I slept for 3 hrs, and woke up..it was too light out.And started my day off.

Ruth and I also decided that Kelly Clarkson needs to stop stealing Ruth's identity. She said that if you don't know "Sweet Dreams" by The Eurythmics/Annie Lennox (whom Ruth idolizes) "then you are RIDICULOUS!" uhh, which Ruth says all the time. She overuses it and needs to stop. Everything is ridiculous. Also, she was getting ready to sing some song and said something to someone in the front row..all I caught was "I will PUNCH you!" which she easily could have done...



see? close enough to punch people...uhh, which Ruth also does all the time. Especially around me...isn't that odd? She needs to stop. Seriously, I bruise like a peach! Between her and Will I have a new bruise each week.

Up Next: MUSE, followed 24 hrs by Jason Mraz!!!

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