So, yesterday was THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
I woke up at 8:30am too excited to roll over and sleep anymore. I went down and went on my normal morning walk with my gma. Once we got back, I spent the next couple of hours freaking out and getting ready for the best day ever.
I had my shirt, I packed my bag. I was ready. No one else was. :(
We finally left the house at 12:45, embarking on the supposedly 1 hour trip to Chicago. Even this portion of the trip couldn't go right. We arrived at the Taste by 3:05pm. I was going to go stand in line at 3:30, after I had food. "If only I had gotten here earlier," I kept thinking, proceeding to the back of a line spanning the length of the pavilion, and looking over to BNL on the stage sound checking. This was magic in and of itself. I didn't have my camera at the ready, so I missed an improptu rap from Ed. I was terrified I wasn't even going to make it into the pavilion. Watching them from the screen would have been devastating. Or If I did, I was going to have to be in the back, and barely see them. I had waited for 7 years to see this band.
Finally, 5:00 came, and people started to trickle into the seating area. I was freaking out. People who had advance let in tickets already spanned front and center. As I went in, I saw the sign that said, no audio/video recording. I was taken aback, but I figured, if the event staff can't seee it happenening, what are they going to do? Plus, some of them are imcompetant and wouldn't even care/know it's wrong. It didn't stop me from getting spaztic everytime they came down the aisle...
Speaking of aisle, when I finally made it though the hand stamp and bag search, I dashed down toward the front, spotting an aisle seat on row 11. PERFECT VIEW OF THE STAGE! Not too far away, I could see it all.
The shoe finally started at 5:40pm or so, and the Ladies came out and immediately launched into "Get in Line." I was in total awe. I had heard live shows in recording, and watched vids, but being there, it was different. It just was something else.
And they played 4 of the new songs they been in the studio recording up until Friday. It was amazing to get to hear these songs, and see that BNL is just fine without Steve. I knew they would. Something most (ex) fans don't understand is that Steve, even as a co-founding member was only 1/5 of the band. And these new songs, especially "How Long" and "Summertime" are their most rockin' songs yet. I think Summertime will definitely be my summer jam.
<3I think my highlight, though, would have to been Kevin Hearn singing "Sound of your Voice," live, right there in front of me. I think that is easily my favorite song from them, I have like 6 versions of it on my ipod.
When they had "finished," and took a bow after a really awesome version of "If I had a Million Dollars," I ran up the aisle and took some pics of them bowing and waving. After they left, a sound guy came out and waved at us to keep cheering, then disappeared after them. BNL came back out a few seconds later, and launched into "What a Good Boy." One of my top favorite songs by BNL, and that Steve usually sings. Ed nailed it. They finished again with "One Little Slip," the song they had wrote for the movie "Chicken Little." I dashed up towards the stage again for last minute picks, and they left.
Something I was not expecting, Ed came back out and said that they would be taking pics, autographs and trying to meet as many of us as they could. I had to find this table, and asked like 3 even staffers, finally asking the Mayor-lady that brought them to the Taste. Yes, I talked to a very important Chicagoian figure, and all I wanted to know was where to go for BNL. she pointedd out the table, and there was already a crowded line. I was scared now that I would be wasting time and that they'd be gone by the time I got to the front. I was in line behind a girl who had gone on one of the cruises, and a fair few drunks. Behind me, a woman and her son, and may others. In my journey to the front, I misplaced my $20 bill. >.< so there was no getting the awesome Snacktime book for me, for them to sign. Luckily I had a map of the Taste that I was going to keep anyway, since it displayed that the Ladies were playing... I heard fun stories from the fans around me. In this line, though, was theother highlight of my day. As it is Chicago, and there is Lake Michigan RIGHT THERE, there were Seagully birds flying all about. One shit on my head.
When I finally got to the front of the line. Ed took my map and signed it, and I got my picture, and since I was alone, I had to take it on my own, and I kinda am really depressed that my head covered most of Ed, but he's in there! And I really love the picture I gotof them posing with one of the guys in front of me-I can cut him out. But this was so amazing. After my pic, I looked up and Jim Creeggan looked at me, and winked. then he said "How are you doing?" I was like, OMG, Jim is talking to me. This moment is framed in my mind FOREVER!
I wished that Kev would have looked up. I wanted him to know that the songs he writes are so good. He's an amazing songwriter, and I mean this. But, I collected my map and left in a daze.
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