GREENSBORO: Recaps

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From the CB's sorkid78:

VERY LOOOONG! You are warned now....

O....M.....G....:thud ! Two days of Clay Aiken IN A ROW! :thud I don’t know if I can take that again? I mean, I WILL do it again, but after two days...:thud , I’m already planning my wedding invitations now. :grin WOW! Probably...no DEFINITELY the one of the best weekends a person can have. I already explained Charlotte’s show and if you haven’t seen it...well look in every possible blog, yahoo or message board, IT’S THERE!

Now let’s talk about Greensboro. I just hope I don’t leave anything out because I know you all want to live vicariously through me right now. First I drove from Charlotte by myself but it’s wasn’t that bad a trip so once I got there I called Karen (kcudawg) who was the one to give me the ticket at Charlotte and she told me that CarolinaClay had a gathering of CV and CB at Carrabbas, so I decided that would be a great chance to meet a bunch of wonderful Claymates. It definately was. There were I believe 35 or so there so that was neat to see few. (I wont name them all because I really don’t want anyone to feel bad, in case I left you name out.) You will see in reviews I am sure a few of them. But I had to make that quick because I was to meet Karen at the Sherraton so we could drive together. We got the to venue at 630p and could not believe how many people were already in line to get in. The front lobby was FULL! So instead of waiting inside we decided to meet up with more die hard fans. I was supposed to meet both Diann and Candy but it just didn’t work out. So let’s skip past this boring stuff. Do I really need to go into detail that we got to our seats? Yes, no? Good. Ok so we were seated Orchestra Leftside Row W seats 7-8 and now I got your curiosity as to who I was sitting with huh? Marilyn or aka Claysrainbow. She was a hoot! My goodness if you knew how much of a fan she was? You’d :thud and call an :ambulance ! Lights go down and the show begins...

The orchestra was really good. Not as good as Charlotte but pretty close. The conductor was funny and put a bit of a different spin to his segment. Ok so intermission. Gee, can you guess what was next?

The most beautiful, sweet, smartarse, cuttie, loving man in the world is who. “Please help us welcome our guest, multi-platinum artist CLAY AIKEN! “ So here we rise for what felt forever. We were still standing when he began the song so you clack waiters, may not hear as much of the beginning of CW as you would normally. He wore a black business type suit with a white shirt and burgundy tie. P.O.P. H.O.P! He was to die for and believe me I would’ve if he was the one holding me in his arms. If my last breath was with him looking me in the eyes...oh good lawd! Let me stop right here. So you know the order of the songs, I don’t need to go into detail. But I will tell you which I should’ve before that I called Clayperfect to let her know anything you guys or she wanted to know prior to the show. And fair warning this is gonna be a looooooooooong review. So if you want to skip some or all...well you are gonna miss it all. Too bad!

So he comes up to the welcome banter. I can’t remember word for word, dang, if I could I’d be ‘stealing the show’ but he talked about the last three weeks, he showed us his socks, (green striped one on side and brown striped on the other.) He talked about being the controversy king again (or was that in the 2nd segment of banter?) Well whichever he spoke of that. He introduced Allison Lawrence and told the audience that Gregory Ellis and his mom and family were in the audience. He snarked about how he was bad in 9th grade, actually gave the microphone to Allison and she said that (I probably have this out of order) “he thought a note was to pass in class, a measure was an inch, a bar was where you go to drink, scale something you weigh on.” Darn my brain! I can’t think of all of them but you get the jist of it. He said he was a smart allic and had to clean the bathroom with a toothbrush. He did intros to MCWL. Sang it just top notch, until we had major mic problems. Oh lawd! I wish I were closer because then I could see he was getting a bit ticked (yeah I will use the p word when HE gets to it) off especially during HYAMLC. He played with it though and made the audience erupt into laughter many times during these mic’s trying times..:lol But I think (since I borrowed someone’s binos) that he was getting a bit mad. He called to his crew to fix it before he sang ‘Jesus’ songs. So he bantered about that as well before he called into the audience for the men and ‘fresh meat’ he picked on this one lady who ‘lied to me twice now. So you don’t get to hear this song.” So he briefly picked on a different couple and sang TCS and then :pray ed that the mic wouldn’t cut out during “Jesus” songs. He was just beautiful to look at and close up with them binos. Thank you Marilyn! Whew! I almost had to call in an :ambulance for myself! It should be illegal to see him that close up. So he sang MDYK and HTHAS/OCOYF and wow, ‘is it getting hot in here or is it just me?’ Those two are one of my favorite, along with OCOCE, DSIAFCD, AIW, and now that I think of it, HE is my favorite altogether because I can’t pick a SINGLE song I like best that he brilliantly sings. He just blew the roof off the building. Here we can cheer no mic problems beyond that. :ya He bantered more and I am sure clack (yes, there will be some, and I mean lots) will suffice when it comes to the banter segments. BEAutiful everything dealing with Clay Aiken. He introduced Mary, Jesse along with the “J crew”, of Jamie, Jennifer who gets to wake him up every morning’ Good lawd, I WANT her job! I’m sure we all WANT that job. He made some comment to the audience "so now you're pissed" about someone in the crew. I think it was Jennifer about waking him up or something. But he DID say the word. And he introduced Jerome, who I think could be almost close to as popular as Clay. He is just so nice and loves to please us fans with bringing and allowing Clay to go the extra mile for us. So thank you Jerome, you are a sweetheart. Yes, I did get to talk to him in Charlotte.

I’m all flustered I forgot where I left off....

Ah, yes, DSIA. So I called just out of a whim Clayperfect and streamed for the remainder of the show and found out AFTER that I was perfect timing because CV’s stream was crap so she said I was heard perfectly. I’m glad I was able to do that for you guys. :) AIW, perfect again! We gave him I believe at least 3 Standing O’s. So I just stayed on for the entire rest of the cert and buscert. Before I went to the busses I met Faye, and Allison. I actually talked to Faye and I don’t know if stream heard her of not but she called me ‘very sweet’ because I was drawing a blank to say what I wanted to say to her about Clay. I said something like “I appreciate your son and think he is wonderful’ or amazing, something to that. Wow. She is so nice to talk to us fans too. Grandma was there too. She is so cute! Allison was right beside Faye and so I waved and then headed to the busses. So I met more Claymates. And was speaking to Claysfavorite from CH and we relayed information for both CB and CH. So I am sure I am everywhere right now in name..:lol We stood waiting for Clay for a good two hrs I believe and I had a moment where I needed to find a facility and started heading toward the venue again and boom, ran RIGHT into Faye and family. WOW. Lucky me. Now understand I didn’t literally run into them but they were coming out as I was approaching to go in. Still no such luck so I waited and :pray ed I wouldn’t have to worry about water for a while..:lol We (the 300 or so) waited for everyone, Jesse and Jamie came out, then Gregory and family, then Allison, then Jerome go us to back away and THEN Clay and Greer (the little singer, she is so cute) Clay was holding her hand. Let’s ‘Awww’ now. And let me jump on a soapbox now, if I could. Those who used flashes when you took pictures of the bus and people were very inconsiderate and also if you continue to do so, you may ruin it for the rest of us next tour. He could just completely prohibit cameras and cell phones all together. Is that what you want? No? Then don’t use flashes, it hurts his eyes and ruins the essences of the concert anyway. I wanted to hound these people! Ok, so now I will jump off and back into Clay’s arms...oh, not dreaming, not dreaming. Reality. Yes, so he comes out and goes straight to the busses as Jerome is lining us up along the street, which the line formed for probably quarter of a mile! So he walks by, I’m still on with CP and I say hi and he (says without looking at me) “Hello.” I doubt stream heard it, it was so soft. Then he goes to the end of the line and works his way back. I touched him again :thud ! And he said and I believe stream heard too, “Thank you so much, Merry Christmas” I looked him dead straight in the eyes and I think he caught a glimpse of me too. So that was that and he did not stay at the window of the bus as he pulled out to go back to Raleigh.

Now here come the thank yous
:bawls That is the end of the tour but I have to say that was the best two days of my life and I would not have experienced it if it weren’t for Lisa M from ABB. I wouldn’t have been able to go to Greensboro if it weren’t for Karen (kcudawg). I met some wonderful people and had the time of my life. I will not forget the memories, nor the lovely Claymates I have met, the drive home by myself, with a huge smile on my face the whole way. It was like I swallowed a hanger I was so ecstatic!

Long live and forever live the Claymates and Claynation.