I met and saw The Used April 21,2008 <3
Everyone has a favorite band, one that they have to meet. Who doesn’t want to meet someone famous?
I met Cobra Starship minus Vicky T.
I hugged Armor For Sleep.
I meet Michael Guy of The Academy Is…
Just meeting those few people should be enough…right?
April 21, 2008 Is love, I meet and saw The Used.
To tell the complete and honest to god truth…all the bands sucked except Street Drum Corps. They were all like "ok so this is our last song!" and then four songs later they got off the stage…the show went over by a half-hour.
I started talking to this girl Leah and her friend Ally (Jeph lovers!). Ally is 3 inches taller then me, and Leah is half an inch.
(small people can't tell the left from the right) so there it took us forever to figure out if we were on Jeph's side. We thought we were but then this girl who was in front of me and Leah was like "we're on Quinn's" but turns out she was kidding.
All I know was the lights dimmed and they walked onto the stage, Dan, Quinn and then Jeph.
Jeph wouldn’t stand still he kept moving, meaning all of Leah's pictures where blurred but she did get a couple of really good ones.
Then Bert comes onto the stage and they start "The Bird and The Worm" and everyone's singing and Jeph was right there in front of me…the only time I saw Bert was when he walked on stage and then whenever I looked at Dan I glanced at Bert.
I loved how the woman told us that if we moshed, smoked or crowd surfed we'd be thrown out…so Bert, he walks onto the stage a cigarette in hand, takes a drag and throws it into the crowd. After the first song he told us that we could mosh and crowd surf all we fucking wanted too.
Everything went so fast, screaming, pushing, DJ asking me if I was ok, Leah and I singing to each other and laughing our asses off. Watching Jeph. Ally (Leah's friend), Leah and me yelled, "I love you Jeph!" after one of the songs and he smiled at us.
After that it was all us screaming the lyrics, cursing out guards and jumping around. The second best moment was when we finally got Jeph's attention [i]again[/i] (we're so needy) and we waved to him and he waved back.
That was it…
I started crying, which was really funny because I'm crying and screaming lyrics at once. But I did, I don’t care. I'm a fucking loser. Whatever. Just the fact that Jeph waved back to us, and smiled at us. Just being there in front of me. He was real, and he was amazing.
Next best thing, there last song before the encore. Jeph grabbed water and he had two extra bottles. One got thrown into the crowd, Leah jumping for it but being really short it wasn’t even worth trying. I was eyeing him and holding out my hand. So he made a guard move just as I poked Leah and we're jumping and screaming and we have our hands out and we grab the bottle just as this girl next to me tries to grab it.
Call me selfish but no way was I giving up a water bottle from Jeph Howard. I smacked it from her hand and we kept pushing her over and the guard gave us the bottle and we kept passing it back and forth between the two of us just drinking it for the hell of it;
Ally: "Are you guys dying?!"
Leah: "Did you just miss it?!"
Ally: "Miss what?!"
Me: "Jeph gave this to us!"
Ally: "You got one of the bottles?! Give me!"
So the three of us passed it and forth, I gave it to Leah because Jeph signed my shirt.
Ok so the shows ended and everything's moving so fast. Leah telling me to come back to them after I get my card and shirt, DJ telling me just to go ahead they get me after the meeting. Leah and I switching numbers, the line moving ahead, getting my card punched, getting yelled at for having my phone out and there in front of me is Jeph, Dan, Bert and Quinn.
I just stared, what do I say? I planned this, before. On the way I knew what I was going to tell him. But everything was gone. And I'm in front of him and I couldn’t talk so I talked to Bert.
Me: "Hey Bert! Bert!"
Bert: "Hey. Yeah?"
Me: "You remember the girl from last night?! The one who cried after you gave her a hug…she said you’re her idol?"
Bert: *after thinking and slowly nodding* "Yeah, I remember her."
Me: "Well, she still loves you a lot and I was wondering if maybe I called her could you talk to her?"
Bert: "And I love her too! But there isn't enough time, a lot of fans. Tell her I love her."
Then I was directly in front of Jeph. Him smiling at me. I opened my mouth and I forgot how to speak. After a nudge from Leah I handed him my shirt and asked him to sign it. Then I asked for a hug.
I didn’t tell them each what I wanted to, but I did speak. Lame as it.
Me: "Can I have a hug?"
Jeph: "Yeah, of course."
Me: "I love you" (I whispered that into his neck and I guess he heard me because he gave me a small squeeze) I was stunned like I couldn’t cry, I couldn’t smile back I just couldn’t do a thing. But then there was Dan, I had to snap out of it. I had to tell Dan how amazing his is.
He's the only one who got half of what I wanted to say.
Me: "Dan can I have a hug too? Please."
Dan: "Sure."
Me: "You're so amazing."
I have this bad habit of whispering into necks…but the smile on his face was priceless. Then I moved to Bert and I smirked right back at him.
Me: "Hug?"
Bert: "Yeah."
He hugged me, and I started to say "I love you" but I couldn’t. I love Bert but I had something more important to say…"I lov-thank you" of course it made no sense to him whatsoever but it does to me and it should to Danielle.
And then I got to Quinn. My arm was getting hot so I shifted my tee-shirt (which I completely forgot I had resulting in just Jeph's sig. on it.) and I guess Quinn thought I wasn’t going to hug him because he puts on this look. Puppy dog eyes and small sad pout to go with it.
Dan: "Hug me too?"
Me: "Of course!"
Dan: *grinning*
Me: "God Quinn, I love you."
Neck whispering! Except I was close to their ears so it explained how they heard. And I have the signed poster…pictures and videos from Leah and Danielle.
But you know what…even though the mosh was in the back, and the girl next to me was a bitch and her boyfriend touched my ass one to many times I had fun. It was amazing, the best ever and I can't believe I waited this long to finally see them again.
I'm just so afraid to go to sleep…I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and its just going to be an amazing dream. Meeting them was a fun, meeting Jeph was a blur. But next time, next time I'm going to tell Jeph how amazing he is and how much he means to me and I'm going to kiss Quinn's cheek and tell him he's adorable. I'm going to tell Dan how awesome he is, and I'm going to scream "I love Dan" next time because he deserves it. As for Bert…he's not my idol, but I do admire him.
Remember where you want Bert to put his finger…anywhere you want it'ss clean. I forgot about that until Dawn asked me on the way home, "did you tell Bert where to put his finger?" "Fucker…I forgot."
"This is Quinn and he plays the best fucking solos" - Bert
"Take off your shirt Dannn!! Get NAKED!" - Bert
So remember, go out and vote…vote Bert-fucking-McCracken.
And it's possible to meet any band you want, because it happens…all the time.
xoxo
Jess
I met Cobra Starship minus Vicky T.
I hugged Armor For Sleep.
I meet Michael Guy of The Academy Is…
Just meeting those few people should be enough…right?
April 21, 2008 Is love, I meet and saw The Used.
To tell the complete and honest to god truth…all the bands sucked except Street Drum Corps. They were all like "ok so this is our last song!" and then four songs later they got off the stage…the show went over by a half-hour.
I started talking to this girl Leah and her friend Ally (Jeph lovers!). Ally is 3 inches taller then me, and Leah is half an inch.
(small people can't tell the left from the right) so there it took us forever to figure out if we were on Jeph's side. We thought we were but then this girl who was in front of me and Leah was like "we're on Quinn's" but turns out she was kidding.
All I know was the lights dimmed and they walked onto the stage, Dan, Quinn and then Jeph.
Jeph wouldn’t stand still he kept moving, meaning all of Leah's pictures where blurred but she did get a couple of really good ones.
Then Bert comes onto the stage and they start "The Bird and The Worm" and everyone's singing and Jeph was right there in front of me…the only time I saw Bert was when he walked on stage and then whenever I looked at Dan I glanced at Bert.
I loved how the woman told us that if we moshed, smoked or crowd surfed we'd be thrown out…so Bert, he walks onto the stage a cigarette in hand, takes a drag and throws it into the crowd. After the first song he told us that we could mosh and crowd surf all we fucking wanted too.
Everything went so fast, screaming, pushing, DJ asking me if I was ok, Leah and I singing to each other and laughing our asses off. Watching Jeph. Ally (Leah's friend), Leah and me yelled, "I love you Jeph!" after one of the songs and he smiled at us.
After that it was all us screaming the lyrics, cursing out guards and jumping around. The second best moment was when we finally got Jeph's attention [i]again[/i] (we're so needy) and we waved to him and he waved back.
That was it…
I started crying, which was really funny because I'm crying and screaming lyrics at once. But I did, I don’t care. I'm a fucking loser. Whatever. Just the fact that Jeph waved back to us, and smiled at us. Just being there in front of me. He was real, and he was amazing.
Next best thing, there last song before the encore. Jeph grabbed water and he had two extra bottles. One got thrown into the crowd, Leah jumping for it but being really short it wasn’t even worth trying. I was eyeing him and holding out my hand. So he made a guard move just as I poked Leah and we're jumping and screaming and we have our hands out and we grab the bottle just as this girl next to me tries to grab it.
Call me selfish but no way was I giving up a water bottle from Jeph Howard. I smacked it from her hand and we kept pushing her over and the guard gave us the bottle and we kept passing it back and forth between the two of us just drinking it for the hell of it;
Ally: "Are you guys dying?!"
Leah: "Did you just miss it?!"
Ally: "Miss what?!"
Me: "Jeph gave this to us!"
Ally: "You got one of the bottles?! Give me!"
So the three of us passed it and forth, I gave it to Leah because Jeph signed my shirt.
Ok so the shows ended and everything's moving so fast. Leah telling me to come back to them after I get my card and shirt, DJ telling me just to go ahead they get me after the meeting. Leah and I switching numbers, the line moving ahead, getting my card punched, getting yelled at for having my phone out and there in front of me is Jeph, Dan, Bert and Quinn.
I just stared, what do I say? I planned this, before. On the way I knew what I was going to tell him. But everything was gone. And I'm in front of him and I couldn’t talk so I talked to Bert.
Me: "Hey Bert! Bert!"
Bert: "Hey. Yeah?"
Me: "You remember the girl from last night?! The one who cried after you gave her a hug…she said you’re her idol?"
Bert: *after thinking and slowly nodding* "Yeah, I remember her."
Me: "Well, she still loves you a lot and I was wondering if maybe I called her could you talk to her?"
Bert: "And I love her too! But there isn't enough time, a lot of fans. Tell her I love her."
Then I was directly in front of Jeph. Him smiling at me. I opened my mouth and I forgot how to speak. After a nudge from Leah I handed him my shirt and asked him to sign it. Then I asked for a hug.
I didn’t tell them each what I wanted to, but I did speak. Lame as it.
Me: "Can I have a hug?"
Jeph: "Yeah, of course."
Me: "I love you" (I whispered that into his neck and I guess he heard me because he gave me a small squeeze) I was stunned like I couldn’t cry, I couldn’t smile back I just couldn’t do a thing. But then there was Dan, I had to snap out of it. I had to tell Dan how amazing his is.
He's the only one who got half of what I wanted to say.
Me: "Dan can I have a hug too? Please."
Dan: "Sure."
Me: "You're so amazing."
I have this bad habit of whispering into necks…but the smile on his face was priceless. Then I moved to Bert and I smirked right back at him.
Me: "Hug?"
Bert: "Yeah."
He hugged me, and I started to say "I love you" but I couldn’t. I love Bert but I had something more important to say…"I lov-thank you" of course it made no sense to him whatsoever but it does to me and it should to Danielle.
And then I got to Quinn. My arm was getting hot so I shifted my tee-shirt (which I completely forgot I had resulting in just Jeph's sig. on it.) and I guess Quinn thought I wasn’t going to hug him because he puts on this look. Puppy dog eyes and small sad pout to go with it.
Dan: "Hug me too?"
Me: "Of course!"
Dan: *grinning*
Me: "God Quinn, I love you."
Neck whispering! Except I was close to their ears so it explained how they heard. And I have the signed poster…pictures and videos from Leah and Danielle.
But you know what…even though the mosh was in the back, and the girl next to me was a bitch and her boyfriend touched my ass one to many times I had fun. It was amazing, the best ever and I can't believe I waited this long to finally see them again.
I'm just so afraid to go to sleep…I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and its just going to be an amazing dream. Meeting them was a fun, meeting Jeph was a blur. But next time, next time I'm going to tell Jeph how amazing he is and how much he means to me and I'm going to kiss Quinn's cheek and tell him he's adorable. I'm going to tell Dan how awesome he is, and I'm going to scream "I love Dan" next time because he deserves it. As for Bert…he's not my idol, but I do admire him.
Remember where you want Bert to put his finger…anywhere you want it'ss clean. I forgot about that until Dawn asked me on the way home, "did you tell Bert where to put his finger?" "Fucker…I forgot."
"This is Quinn and he plays the best fucking solos" - Bert
"Take off your shirt Dannn!! Get NAKED!" - Bert
So remember, go out and vote…vote Bert-fucking-McCracken.
And it's possible to meet any band you want, because it happens…all the time.
xoxo
Jess