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I know! David was like: "Well, I called Raine. Yes I'm name-dropping here. And OLP are on a break so Jeremy accepted to come play with us." I'm sure he thinks it's mind-blowing!
OK, recap I posted elsewhere that I am reposting here, so yes, it's very detailed!
More proper recap (this is so going to be long-winded, I’m still a bit hyper from the show!):
I got to the venue at 4:30, so two hours before the opening of the doors. I was pretty close to the doors, which made me not regret having to stand for a few hours! Behind me was a girl and she was waiting for her friend so I chatted with her during that time. Her friend was only partially cookified before the show, but I think she left completely cookified after the show! They both didn't really know Ryan Star, but they loved him, and so did I. Getting ahead of myself here... when we got inside, we managed to get in what would approximately be the fifth row, right in the center, which was perfect. We saw that the balcony was closed, which made me think that the show was not sold out, but they ended up opening it after people complained. I don't think it was sold out, but the venue holds 2300 people, which is a lot. There were a lot of people though, it was probably better that they did open the balcony.
I think that for a lot of the crowd, it must have been their first show. The crowd was pretty diverse. Maybe a third were guys, lots of couples, ages going from 15 maybe to 60-something. Also, something surprised me: lots of French-speaking people. Well, I'm one of those French-speaking people, but I thought I was more the exception than the rule here in Montréal amongst the David Cook fans. Apparently not! I was glad because his music doesn't play on the French radio stations, but he still has a good following here. And thankfully, it was a well-behaved crowd, not too much pushing and shoving.
Ryan Star was incredibly intense and he got a great response from the crowd. I look forward to hearing more from him.
Then David and the band came out and the screams were defeaning. It was an incredible feeling and I felt a bit giddy I admit. I didn’t recognize Jeremy Taggart, but one of the girls I was with did (she’s a major OLP fan) and she had actually guessed it before the show that it might be him (without seeing David’s tweet). He was great. I mean, I can’t say I concentrated that much on the drumming, and I couldn’t see him that well, because from my point of view, David was right in front of him, but I think he did a great job. Andy and Neal were giving him instructions at at least one point in the show, but things went smoothly for the most part.
Of course, they seemed to try to limit the number of songs he had to learn, because we were treated to Acoustic!Dave. And what a treat it was! Avalanche: David by himself with his Hummingbird. Guh. The voice, so gorgeous, I was speechless. Then, Neal (with acoustic guitar) and Andy joined him for MITB and then LOTM. Monty and Jeremy then rejoined the stage.
I could talk about what songs I wanted to hear vs. what we heard, but seriously, the whole show was just so incredible that it didn’t matter that much to me that they didn’t play BBS or ADAM. IJDIYA brought so much energy, I was jumping up and down. IDIFY is most definitely my least favorite song on DCTR, but the live version is indeed amazing. And I don’t think I could say anything about the live version of Lie that hasn’t been said, but yeah, superb. And WOHWWS? I love that song!
All in all, I think the crowd was really responsive and David seemed really pleased to receive all this love from the Canadian folks. People were singing along to most of the song and he let us sing the first half of CBTM all by ourselves.
I met with vtlsc and her husband after the show and they were both awesome and I hope they were not traumatised by my tendency to “squee” a bit after the show, I was so hyper! I promise I’m not always like that!
We didn’t go to the buses, but after I left them to go take my bus to get home, I still had 10 minutes to wait. I saw that the tour bus was still there and I heard screams. I went to see and there he was, David, being super nice, signing autographs under the rain, at exactly the same time. There were some annoying people (mostly a guy with a camera asking him the most horrible questions), but the crowd was small and well-behaved. I thought that it didn’t matter if I didn’t get to him, but then, there was an opening, so I gave him my ticket to sign over a couple of heads. I was not expecting that at all and wasn’t even really planning to go there, so I got lucky in the best possible way (and didn't even miss my bus!). I didn’t even think of getting my camera out (which I didn’t take out at all during the show even), but I got a signed ticket, and mostly, an unbelievable evening.
OK, I’m done!
More proper recap (this is so going to be long-winded, I’m still a bit hyper from the show!):
I got to the venue at 4:30, so two hours before the opening of the doors. I was pretty close to the doors, which made me not regret having to stand for a few hours! Behind me was a girl and she was waiting for her friend so I chatted with her during that time. Her friend was only partially cookified before the show, but I think she left completely cookified after the show! They both didn't really know Ryan Star, but they loved him, and so did I. Getting ahead of myself here... when we got inside, we managed to get in what would approximately be the fifth row, right in the center, which was perfect. We saw that the balcony was closed, which made me think that the show was not sold out, but they ended up opening it after people complained. I don't think it was sold out, but the venue holds 2300 people, which is a lot. There were a lot of people though, it was probably better that they did open the balcony.
I think that for a lot of the crowd, it must have been their first show. The crowd was pretty diverse. Maybe a third were guys, lots of couples, ages going from 15 maybe to 60-something. Also, something surprised me: lots of French-speaking people. Well, I'm one of those French-speaking people, but I thought I was more the exception than the rule here in Montréal amongst the David Cook fans. Apparently not! I was glad because his music doesn't play on the French radio stations, but he still has a good following here. And thankfully, it was a well-behaved crowd, not too much pushing and shoving.
Ryan Star was incredibly intense and he got a great response from the crowd. I look forward to hearing more from him.
Then David and the band came out and the screams were defeaning. It was an incredible feeling and I felt a bit giddy I admit. I didn’t recognize Jeremy Taggart, but one of the girls I was with did (she’s a major OLP fan) and she had actually guessed it before the show that it might be him (without seeing David’s tweet). He was great. I mean, I can’t say I concentrated that much on the drumming, and I couldn’t see him that well, because from my point of view, David was right in front of him, but I think he did a great job. Andy and Neal were giving him instructions at at least one point in the show, but things went smoothly for the most part.
Of course, they seemed to try to limit the number of songs he had to learn, because we were treated to Acoustic!Dave. And what a treat it was! Avalanche: David by himself with his Hummingbird. Guh. The voice, so gorgeous, I was speechless. Then, Neal (with acoustic guitar) and Andy joined him for MITB and then LOTM. Monty and Jeremy then rejoined the stage.
I could talk about what songs I wanted to hear vs. what we heard, but seriously, the whole show was just so incredible that it didn’t matter that much to me that they didn’t play BBS or ADAM. IJDIYA brought so much energy, I was jumping up and down. IDIFY is most definitely my least favorite song on DCTR, but the live version is indeed amazing. And I don’t think I could say anything about the live version of Lie that hasn’t been said, but yeah, superb. And WOHWWS? I love that song!
All in all, I think the crowd was really responsive and David seemed really pleased to receive all this love from the Canadian folks. People were singing along to most of the song and he let us sing the first half of CBTM all by ourselves.
I met with vtlsc and her husband after the show and they were both awesome and I hope they were not traumatised by my tendency to “squee” a bit after the show, I was so hyper! I promise I’m not always like that!
We didn’t go to the buses, but after I left them to go take my bus to get home, I still had 10 minutes to wait. I saw that the tour bus was still there and I heard screams. I went to see and there he was, David, being super nice, signing autographs under the rain, at exactly the same time. There were some annoying people (mostly a guy with a camera asking him the most horrible questions), but the crowd was small and well-behaved. I thought that it didn’t matter if I didn’t get to him, but then, there was an opening, so I gave him my ticket to sign over a couple of heads. I was not expecting that at all and wasn’t even really planning to go there, so I got lucky in the best possible way (and didn't even miss my bus!). I didn’t even think of getting my camera out (which I didn’t take out at all during the show even), but I got a signed ticket, and mostly, an unbelievable evening.
OK, I’m done!
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LOL! Translation of the song titles:
MITB: Man In the Box (cover)
LOTM: Life On the Moon
BBS: Bar-ba-sol
ADAM: A Daily AntheM
IJDIYA: I Just Died In Your Arms (cover)
IDIFY: I Did It For You
WOHWWS: We're Only Honest When We're Sleeping
And DCTR is for David Cook: The Record.
ETA: Going back to read on what I missed tonight...
MITB: Man In the Box (cover)
LOTM: Life On the Moon
BBS: Bar-ba-sol
ADAM: A Daily AntheM
IJDIYA: I Just Died In Your Arms (cover)
IDIFY: I Did It For You
WOHWWS: We're Only Honest When We're Sleeping
And DCTR is for David Cook: The Record.
ETA: Going back to read on what I missed tonight...
Haha! Alphabet soup. I'm glad you provided a key, missaddicted for RTCF (ross the casual fan). Okay, seriously, I'm really glad it turned out so well, and I'm glad you got to see a kind of special show. I always like it when there's a little issue of one kind or another and a show has to be tweaked a little. I feel like I'm seeing a one of a kind thing. And now in NY you'll see something different. (What happened to the drummer, by the way? did you say? I'm rushing this morning and don't even have time to look at back posts.)
For some reason I feel compelled to comment about something I read on TWoP last night -- really it's not much. It was when somebody wrote they felt "embarrassed for" Slezak and Cantiello for their comments about that photo of Kris. Why?
If Lindsay Parker used the same words, it wouldn't be embarrassing. It's okay for a female reporter to say a guy's pics are cute, and to squee. Why not Michael and Jim? So is there some kind of homophobic undertone, here? Some kind of double standard? I mean, come on. They can squee all they want as far as I'm concerned. The more reporters who are Kris fans, the better. I don't care what makes them fans. That's their business. For a gay guy (Slezak) to say a guy is cute shouldn't be an an embarassment to anyone. Cantiello isn't gay, I guess, but he's allowed to freakin' SQUEE if he freakin' feels like squeeing.
For some reason I feel compelled to comment about something I read on TWoP last night -- really it's not much. It was when somebody wrote they felt "embarrassed for" Slezak and Cantiello for their comments about that photo of Kris. Why?
If Lindsay Parker used the same words, it wouldn't be embarrassing. It's okay for a female reporter to say a guy's pics are cute, and to squee. Why not Michael and Jim? So is there some kind of homophobic undertone, here? Some kind of double standard? I mean, come on. They can squee all they want as far as I'm concerned. The more reporters who are Kris fans, the better. I don't care what makes them fans. That's their business. For a gay guy (Slezak) to say a guy is cute shouldn't be an an embarassment to anyone. Cantiello isn't gay, I guess, but he's allowed to freakin' SQUEE if he freakin' feels like squeeing.
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Yeah, Kyle (he of the awesome flying hair) wasn't there because of personal reasons, we don't know the exact reasons, of course, but it's personal stuff. David posted something about it on Twitter on Thursday. I was a bit worried about how it would turn out, because Kyle is a great drummer, but I'm so glad we were treated to something special. A lot of the people who listened to the cellcast are like: "OMG that show was epic, I'm so jealous", so I'm happy that I got to witness the epicness!
No videos have turned up yet, but I'll post some if they ever appear (they must!!).
And yeah, I see no problem in Michael and Jim squeeing over the picture. Not embarassing at all. And that picture IS beautiful.
Well, some videos have finally surfaced, but not that many (yet!), but these are pretty good even if they're partial. I'm pretty sure I can see the back of my head in some of these!
Mr. Sensitive Part 1:
YouTube - David Cook performing Mr.Sensitive at Metropolis
Mr. Sensitive Part 2:
YouTube - David Cook performs Mr.Sensitive at Metropolis 2
Life On the Moon (acoustic):
YouTube - David Cook performing Life On The Moon at Metropolis
By the way, that last song is about the craziness of the Idol experience and its aftermath.
Mr. Sensitive Part 1:
YouTube - David Cook performing Mr.Sensitive at Metropolis
Mr. Sensitive Part 2:
YouTube - David Cook performs Mr.Sensitive at Metropolis 2
Life On the Moon (acoustic):
YouTube - David Cook performing Life On The Moon at Metropolis
By the way, that last song is about the craziness of the Idol experience and its aftermath.
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Nice quality videos. I think you were lucky to hear more acoustic stuff than usual (I like acoustic).
Ryan Tedder has always been an Adam fan. Is still an Adam fan.
We have to wait two weeks for stations to add LLWD? How can I stand it? I hope it makes a difference to sales.
It's too bad iTunes is the way to sell music now. I don't know that many people who buy singles. I myself never buy singles. I buy albums and that's it.
Ryan Tedder has always been an Adam fan. Is still an Adam fan.
We have to wait two weeks for stations to add LLWD? How can I stand it? I hope it makes a difference to sales.
It's too bad iTunes is the way to sell music now. I don't know that many people who buy singles. I myself never buy singles. I buy albums and that's it.
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It depends I think. I mostly buy albums, but I do buy some singles sometimes. Mostly singles from albums that I would never buy!
ETA: I still buy the albums on iTunes though. I haven't bought a physical CD in years! On iTunes, I have all that music right there available only with a click!
Where did you see the info about LLWD? And what's that about Jim?
I think SleepinIn said it was set to be added to playlists mid-October.
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Kris's office is just a wee bit dim. A light bulb, wouldn't hurt Kris.
and yeah the kangaroo thing? twitter went bananas. But, Ew.. yuck don't want to eat kangaroo. I guess he's still in London? Daniel sang the anthem at the game. I figured he would though.
I buy a lot of singles too. I actually bought my first actual hardcopy Cd in a long time today. The CD shelves looked scarce.
ETA: I just looked at the Amazon chart for Amazon.ca out of curiosity to see how the guys are selling here, and unless I'm looking in the wrong place for the chart.. the only person on that chart that is Idol related is David Archuleta's Christmas album and he's in the 90's
Kris's album on Amazon.ca is also labeled as LP#1 which I think is odd...
and yeah the kangaroo thing? twitter went bananas. But, Ew.. yuck don't want to eat kangaroo. I guess he's still in London? Daniel sang the anthem at the game. I figured he would though.
I buy a lot of singles too. I actually bought my first actual hardcopy Cd in a long time today. The CD shelves looked scarce.
ETA: I just looked at the Amazon chart for Amazon.ca out of curiosity to see how the guys are selling here, and unless I'm looking in the wrong place for the chart.. the only person on that chart that is Idol related is David Archuleta's Christmas album and he's in the 90's
Kris's album on Amazon.ca is also labeled as LP#1 which I think is odd...
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Oh, yeah that's right! I blame every thing I did today on last night's show. And every thing I didn't do!
So, Kris rides ostriches and eats kangaroo? Wow.
Still not that many videos from last night... sad.
For the first time ever, I'm about to listen to a David Cook cellcast. If the sound is good only though. Yesterday it was really good apparently and it's the same cellcaster tonight. We should have some acoustic performances tonight also, the OLP drummer is still there for this show in Ottawa.
missaddicted, those videos are just awesome. I'm a huge DC fan and have me a 2nd row ticket for Casino Rama in November. After seeing this, I cannot wait!!! The acoustic number was especially gorgeous. Thanks for the fabulous recap too -- your excitement is palpable and contagious!