CHARLOTTE: Recaps

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From the CB's sorkid78:

OMG! I am back now! Let me breathe and eat first and then I will be able to give you a review. What I will say is that was the most amazing experience of my life! And i get to relive it all again tomorrow night! KCUDAWG was generous enough to give me a ticket for tomorrow's show as well. WOW!

*ten minutes later, after eating*

I was so hungry when I got home so forgive me for taking a pause! :thud for sure! I hope that the cellcert worked for part of the show! I know you all know that I met Clay after the show! he shook my hand and said "Merry christmas" almost right directly at me. I believe we made eye contact! Now one amazing thing that happened was right when we were in the lobby, so was Diane Bubel and the first thing I thought was I wanted to meet her but I also remembered that I had this yellow envelope for Clay, so my other thought said "give it to her" so I got to meet and chat with Diane for a minute and asked her if there was anyway she could give this to Clay, she said absolutely and took it. She said "Thank you so much for your support." I said it was a pleasure meeting you and thank you so much". Well later when Clay announced her and she stood from her seat, she STILL had my envelope so I had no doubt in my mind I did the right thing. So happy that Clay will get that video. :banana

So anyway, I also have a bit of a moment that I had with Clay. Lisa and I were in the MZBX box seats or what Clay likes to call "hollywood squares box" and I was leaning over quite far and he glanced up to me and said "that girl's about to fall out." So yeah I was the blonde that was inches from fainting out of the box. :grin I wish I had a camera but I couldn't get my teeny tiny, itty bitty camera to work. And Lisa couldn't get her camera to work either. I was lucky that I was able to cert for almost 3 hrs with CP! That was fun jeanene, definately want to do that again. I hope for being a rookie I did ok? The reception was not the greatest!

Clay: OMG! :thud AGAIN! He was wearing a grey pin striped business type suit, with a blue shirt and silver tie. He had his brown boots on this time and no knowledge of sock color. He didn't show us. He had not quite the POP pants but NICE! :thud Gorgeous hair, gorgeous, butt. Gorgeous everything!

Voice: Oh Lawd! Do I even have to state what we all know, PERFECTION! Not one crack. Not one waver. JUST the most amazing thing to see it live. Those who said, it's like nothing you can see on tv or computer...:thud you were dead right! I think one of the best sounding concerts this series.

Humor: He always knows how to use the snark. Now, unsure of the word 'fart' being used, some are confused and some say NO. I'm not too sure, half the time I was about :thud and the other I was memorized by him. GOOD LAWD! He always knows how to involve and play with the audience.

Ok, now for the buscert. WOW! We waited there and the security guard said that he was already gone, but us Hard core fans didn't believe and even though Lisa (btw, this was her first concert EVER!) thought we should go I said no I have this feeling he is still there, so I said i wanted to wait and then CP told me that Chris (pack) wanted to meet me so after about ten minutes on the cell trying to figure out where she was I FINALLY met her so that was great we chatted for a bit before Jerome came out and said that Clay wanted to go down the line...just that we had to line up along the wall so Lisa and I ran to the wall and got a really good spot to wait. 'Lisa, I just love you and I wish we could've had longer of a time to hang out but we WILL meet again, no question!' so we waiting what felt forever and then everyone screamed and saw Clay coming out in the same suit. He walked by with Jerome real fast the other end of the line and worked his way through the line. I was still on the cert with CP and she heard all the people I met. Pack, Tdallasw, Claysrainbow, Youmakemesohappyforever, KCUdawg, Brightstar, xxx4clay, OMG, I'm fried right now, so I forgot anyone, which I know I did, I sincerely apologize! :hug2 Anyway, Clay came right to me and shook my hand and as I'm writing this, I'm realizing I wrote that like firsthand on this review..:grin
Worth mentioning twice anyway. What else? Umm, :thud He was just GORGEOUS!

I am going again tomorrow or well tonight now that I look at the clock but I want to throughly enjoy this one so I will not be certing for this one. Sorry. I need to have the full experience.

I'm new at reviews so forgive me if I was boring. I hope at least the Clay stuff will suffice.

Take care all and I just say, if you haven't been to a concert live, WHAT THE HECK IS STOPPING YOU???

From the CB's ClayMakesMeSoHappyForever:

This was the most AMAZING night in my life, EVER! I'm not good at recaps at all, so I'll tell you a few things. My mind is still a blur at the moment, all I have is the sight of Clay in my head. First of all, I WAS THE WOMAN IN THE FRONT ROW WITH THE BINOCHULARS. I got my front row seat, because of a wonderful new friend I met at the preparty, Ann. One of her friends had an extra front row seat, Ann told her about me, and that this was my first Clay Concert, so I got it. They both were very nice, and everyone else I met. I met the cellcerters, the only name I can remember at the moment is sorkid78, she was very nice and sweet. I'm sorry I can't remember anyone else's name at the moment, but my mind is so full of Clay. Anyway, so I ended up having front row center seat. It was during Clay's first banter, when he caught me with the binochulars. I was caught off guard, I figured he would catch somebody in the third or fourth row or something. It was such a glorious moment. He said, you're in the front row, and you have binocs, what are you looking at, I smiled, he said are you looking up my nose, I smiled and shook my head no. He asked how much I payed for my seat, I said $75, then I said that wasn't nearly enough, everybody laughed and clapped, and cheered. He asked somebody in the balcony how much did they pay for their seat, they said $50, he said it was a ripoff, because they were so far away, and that they were in Concord. He asked me if she could borrow my binocs, I shook my head yes, and said sure, and held them up to him. He never took them though. A little later he told me not to look at his crotch, I yelled, TOO LATE! During WW, when he got to the clown part he pointed at me and did a hand gesture thing, I held my hand and arm up and gestured back to him. During MCWL he looked down at me, and smiled at me, he smiled at me a couple more times too. During SR, he pointed at me once to do the giddy up, so ofcourse I did. I did go wait at the buses for him. It had stopped raining, and wasn't cold at all. The cop and security guard kept saying, he aint coming out, he already left, and to clear the sidewalk, they weren't nice at all. We knew they were lying. Jerome later came out, and told us that they, the security guard, and cop, didn't know us like he did, and we knew what to do, and to line up in a single file line. He said that Clay REALLY wanted to do this. Clay came out, I know I saw Jamie and Jesse, others may have been with him, he went down the other end of the line, and worked his way up quickly. He shook my hands, yes I touched both his hands, and one of his sleeves, his hands were very soft and very warm. He said Merry Christmas and Thank You, I told him Merry Christmas. He still had his very sexy suit on, and OMG yes THE PANTS OF PERFECTION WAS THE BEST EVAH! After Clay went by, Jamie went by and said hi, the Jesse was behind her, somebody I was standing near to, wanted to get their pic took with Jesse, so he did, I told him great job, and he said Thanks. When Jerome had came out to make the announcement, I gave the gift I had gotten for Clay to him, and asked if he could give it to Clay, he took it and said yes, he was very sweet.Clay sung so beautiful tonight. I have NEVER heard him sound better. Clay was fine, he was NOT sick at all. He was full of energy and pizazz. OCOCE, was AMAZING, my favorite. DSIAFCD, and AIW, is the best I've heard yet. Clay was AMAZING, what more can I say. I know I left alot out, I will add more later. OFCOURSE he looked HOT HOT HOT HOT! EVERYTHING , was SEXY SEXY SEXY SEXY, believe me, I had a PERFECT view of EVERYTHING from where I was sitting. Clay was SO VERY FUNNY TONIGHT, and he DID NOT insult ANYBODY. he was at his snarky best.That's all for now.
Arlene

From the CB's CharlotteClayFan:

I composed a recap trying to capture the unique things from my concert. One doesn't get a lot of time to theirself two days before Christmas, so forgive me if I don't go into the details of the music. Suffice it to say that Clay is sublime and his voice without compare. After going to a concert, it's easy to understand how some are following him around like the Pied Piper. He casts a spell.

A personal note or two.

First it’s always a rush to see the man walk on stage. Actually flesh and blood and in the room with you. I had forgotten that thrill, and all through the concert I had the thought “That’s really Clay right up there in front of us!” running through my mind. I don’t know how/why he does that and keeps on doing it, but I love it.

Clay loved our symphony. He said so a couple times and was aware he’d probably catch hell about it at home. I really wished the conductor and Clay had been on stage together for a bit, because Albert-George Schram is not the least bit “stuffy”, was extremely complementary of Clay, played up the “Claymates” and he called the Charlotte Symphony “the best warm up band in the world.” He was a hoot and I bet their rehearsal was a fun one.

I know the couple he dedicated TCS to, ClaystheMOAM and her hubby, they are good people. We were bought one pair of her, “not as good” seats. (And thankfully she got her front and center tix back from the lady she mistakenly sent the other pair of “not as good” seats she sold her)

We enjoyed being on the left side, we saw the interaction of Jesse and Clay, my daughter thought they were both very cute. And since Clay wasn’t nice enough to take off his jacket, we were forced to admire Jesse’s gluts instead… *g*

He got a lot of mileage from the EW Top Five Worst Albums of 2006 schtick, even introducing Jaymes as the EP of one of the Top Five Worst Albums. He cracked on her about not knowing to when to talk into a microphone, and made fun of her pitiful attempt at a Southern accent. She looked like she wanted to give him a smack on the head for picking on her. They have a very comfortable dynamic.

Clay walked over in front of us during DSIAFCD and gave us a little serenade. (oh if I only had the camera then!) Then our hearts lurched as he stumbled forward a wee bit and steadied himself. I looked at my daughter Devon, and she said, “He tripped on his own big foot!” (she had noticed his large feet on a few occasions – I’m concerned, she’s only 13) Immense relief that he’s was just suffering from klutziness and not dizziness.

One thing that maybe only we saw. We were sitting 4th row over to the far left, so we could see into the door where Clay entered and exited the stage. After DSIAFCD Clay goes through the door getting kudos from Jerome and possibly Jaymes. (It was dark so we could only be certain about Jerome’s silhouette.) He’s followed by Jesse and Dev cracks up at the height differences. Then Jesse and Clay head back out for AIW, which made everyone happy since it was close the time Clay said the lights were going to be put out. Clay and Jesse spoke briefly then he sang. It was perfect, no tension, no worries, just pure praise. I never once felt I had to will a note to be true, pray for Clay to pull it off, I relaxed and drifted off with that voice and tried not to get choked up. Afterwards the place went wild again, Clay smiled, waved and walked back to the door.

There was a single light or flame, held up high. A candle? No, Jerome had a lighter lit just like we used to do at the end of an Eagles concert. It just warmed my heart to see that admiration from him.