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Date Posted: 18:51:11 02/02/02 Sat
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anon
's message, "Part 4" on 18:47:55 02/02/02 Sat
It was great! But then you think about the Goo Goo
Dolls and stuff like that is just not possible. Yet
both this guy I hung out with and Johnny Rzeznik are
just musicians who make great music. But nonetheless,
the Goo Goo Dolls are up in that “untouchable” world,
and I’m down here in the normal world. So then
suddenly THIS happens to me, and I’ll tell you, it’s
screwing with my head!!! Before this happened I was
starting to have a thing for Brendan, no, okay I’ll
admit it, I was crazy about the guy! Now I’m like
shoot there’s no way he could compare to Johnny, my
freaking IDOL. Before, Johnny was still my idol but
he was not “real.” Then suddenly there I was hanging
out with him for just as long as I hung out with
Brendan, and he was just as real as Brendan! And
JOHNNY even kissed me…Brendan never even did that!
So, man, this is really screwing with my head. I’m
sure I’ll get over it though. But then again, what
about the movie Almost Famous? Stuff like that really
happens, just not to us. Well who does it happen to
then? Why NOT me??? Is that stretching it? All my
friends agree that I’ve advanced to true groupie
status now. And suddenly I have all these
connections. Brian, plane guy, my magazine (I’m a
rock concert photographer), Brigit (who wants me to go
see the Goos at the Olympics with her and says she
knows people at a big newspaper in AZ and I could use
their paper name to get a photo pass), and who knows
how many more on the way. It’s crazy. Absolutely
crazy. What am I supposed to make of all this? I’ve
loved rock music for so long, and then I actually
started getting photo passes for shows and doing
interviews with bands and writing reviews and felt
like I was really a part of the music industry, then I started meeting all these bands, and having such incredible luck at concerts. I always come home with a story to tell. And I don’t understand how I have such good luck. One of my guy friends was telling me it’s because I have this aura around me, and people can tell I love music so much and they want to help me make my dreams come true. It’s got to be something other than just pure initiative and determination to make incredible things happen, because there’s always that element of luck that I had no control over. I saw A Perfect Circle a while back and snuck into their aftershow, and as LUCK would have it Maynard (lead singer) invited me on the bus. I went to the VH1 Music Awards last year and as LUCK would have it, while standing outside, very early, a woman came up to my friend and me and said, “You’re here to go on stage with Bon Jovi right?” and handed us backstage passes. Crazy, crazy, crazy!!! How does this stuff happen to me?! I went to the Phoenix Goo show JUST to enjoy the live performance. For the first time in two years (and trust me I’ve been to a LOT of concerts in two years), I decided to leave my good camera at home and not make this show about photography. I decided to get there super early and be the first one in line so I could get front row, and forget about trying to get someone to hold my spot so I could sneak backstage and meet them. Well what do you know. I got four offers to be TAKEN backstage, their bass guitar tech OFFERED me his number, and I just happened to spot the Goos going into their room while driving past. How do you explain that? It will always stump me I think. It’s cool, but man is it playing with my head.
(end of pt 5 of 5)
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