BlueIndigoSky' date='Jul 17th 2010, 12:38 AM
glitteronmyeyes
Tommy had a rainbow feather hair extension! He is such a dollface, so affectionate and sweet, got pic with him. So patient w everyone. <333
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glitteronmyeyes
Adam came out to sign and was freakin mobbed. Had tons of security around him. Got taylor and tommys autograph. Both r so presh.
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madamimadam' date='Jul 17th 2010, 12:45 AM
glitteronmyeyes Adam came out to sign and was freakin mobbed. Had tons of security around him. Got taylor and tommys autograph. Both r so presh.
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deniseneil Free at last! Farewell Cotillion!! Farewell all you mohawked glow stick Glamberts!!!
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madamimadam' date='Jul 17th 2010, 12:55 AM
A bit OT, but regarding the idjits from last night.... I think....
michaelsarver1 @brownfloor Adam will be fine because of all the amazing fans that love him far out weigh the haters!
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 1:20 AM
Hello, Fellow Skanks! I am back from the Wichita concert. I have witnessed beauty, and greatness, and I'm so tired, but had such an unbelievable time. I'm going to try to write up everything I can think of right now, In several posts, so I don't forget anything.
Everybody knows Adam did both MW and WLL, right? Okay, more in a few minutes. I took no vids, have no pictures, but I sure saw a lot!
I think this will all come tumbling out, in little order. The day was a very long one, as we got in line at 10 a.m. My first General Admission Concert! But based o this experiece, I'd do it again.
Ratbert and I were just talking about how we felt about the concert, and I said that I feel as if I've seen a work of art of such unutterable beauty that words cannot really explain its effect on me. I mean, how does one explain the Pieta or the works of Rembrandt or Van Gogh? There are no words. Adam falls into that category for me. I am awed.
Okay, first thing. I'd read many times how his voice is different in person, so I was prepared for that. He sang the first notes of Voodoo and I actually thought to myself: He sounds nothing like himself! That lasted for maybe four or five notes, and then my ears adjusted, and it was Adam again.
I was concerned because I'm not sure the venue was sold out, so I worried that we might not get WLL for an encore, or even that he might not have put himself fully into the concert (which is ridiculous, I know, because I get the feeling Adam would put himself full out for just twenty people!) Because we'd waited in line all day, we managed to get spots in front of the stage right in front of Tommy the second row back. Anyway, it seemed to me the crowd was wildly enthusiastic. There was a lot of screaming and hollering *during* his songs, especially in the beginning, even through Sleepwalker. Plus almost everybody sang along with him on just about every song...except Whole Lotta Love. I found myself just praying that he'd sing that because I wanted to just hear Adam! And I figured the audience wouldn't sing along with him on that. There were a lot of times when I could not really hear Adam as clearly as I wanted to because everybody around us was singing so fiercely with him!
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 1:31 AM
A few other times Adam reached for unbelievable high notes and there was so much shrieking going on that I had to really listen hard to sort him out from everybody else. For those looking for silent attention during Soaked, forget it. The crowd was hysterical and pretty much besides themselves. It did seem to me that the pause in Soaked was longer then usual, but Adam silenced everyone totally effectively with the way he raised the mike to sing again. Of course, a few seconds after that everybody was screaming again....
I will say that I listend to Soaked with my hands up to my face, pressing against my cheeks, because he was so amazing in that song. His voice like liquid gold, spun silver, gossamer silk. Then I forced my hands back down to my sides, telling myself I was being ridiculous, but then during Aftermath, I did it again, without thinking of it, because I was pretty much beside myself with such pleasure listening to him....
I was so close to him all through the concert! Maybe ten feet away max. He looked directly at me and Ratbert several times -- boy, does that man know how to work an audience! Talk about being in total command of the stage; I do think the stage is his natural environment, like my study is for me.
One thing that really struck me is that Adam smiled a *lot* during the concert. That quick, sincere smile he has, that never fails to make your heart stop? Yeah, that one. I saw that the whole concert long from him. He would just break into it even at unexpected times, for example during Aftermath, saw it often.
I've thought for a long time that a big part of Adam's success is his smile. It's so direct. Goes straight to your soul. And his eyes.... OMG, his eyes. Make-up tonight was amazing. Total glitter on the lids, eye-makeup just right, not overdone, and.... Blue hair extension on the left! Since the last time I saw him was at Fantasy Springs, where he also had his hair down and had blue hair extensions and feathers, I just about died, because I love this look on him. He looked.... duh, great! How can one man be so beautiful? I will say that there were times, just a few, when he would turn and I was really see his feminine side. Where his androgyny really was apparent. I love those moments....
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 1:36 AM
Oh, and during Music Again? I haven't watched a vid of that for several weeks, so I could remain "pure" for this concert, so I'm not sure if this is typical or not, but.... Adam was really *silly* during this song! He sort of skipped and danced in a really different kind of way, and the only way I can describe it is silly! Like short, skipping steps.... I really thought he was having a *wonderful* time during this song, and indeed throughout the whole concert.
Okay, more random observations.... During Aftermath, when he's sitting on the fourth step up, his left foot is on the third step and his right foot is on the second step. Well, about half the time, the toes of his right foot angled up (a lot like one of my daughters), at about a forty-five degree angle from if they were flat. It was the cutest, most adorable, dorkiest thing. I mean, here I am being totally floored by Aftermath (my least favorte track on the CD that I now love becuase of the way he does it in concert) and he's maybe ten feet away, and I keep looking at his toes.... So, I consider this toe information my vital contribuation to the Adam Lambert encyclopedia that somebody has got to be keeping....
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 1:42 AM
Have I mentioned that his eyes sparkled? Not the make-up, his eyes! He is so completely, vitally alive on stage, and especially when he talked to the audience. There was a nice contingent of young gay men (emphasis on the young, and it was great to see!) standing with us, and among them was a young man maybe early 20s or even younger with truly gorgeous eye-make up and a very long Mohawk that stuck straight up. Adam obviously spotted him in the audiene and commented on his hair, how he must use special hair-spray to get his hair to stay up like that, and that he had trouble with his own hair staying in place (and here he sort motioned towards where the hair extension was -- and have I mentioned that I loved that extension. Ded.) So then, the fellow actually pulled out his can of hair spray from his pocket and waved it at Adam and yelled: use this.
There was also a slightly older black gay man behind me, really nice, very loud voice, who vowed that he was going to go over the barricade and drag Adam home with him.... I encouraged him to give it a try, but, alas, it was not to be.
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 1:48 AM
My mind is in such a fog. I know there's loads more about the concert to talk about, but I mean, really, how does one explain an experience like this? The Glambulge was in evidence almost constantly from where I was standing, a little more during Music Again than other songs, I thought, not too obvious most of the time, but I looked, and I certainly saw. I was actually looking at Adam's crotch one of the times and then I quick looked up at his face and that was one of the times he seemed to be looked directly at me! I am sure my face burned red, and I still feel a little funny about it, but there you go. I'm a Skank, after all....
And that reminds me that I was interviewed by some guy from KWCH (I think), channel 12 TV in Wichita. He talked to several people in line, me first, because of course we'd been waiting in line for many hours. I wonder if that might be up on the website, and whcih of the several interviews they posted? An 18 year old girl from Texas that we were friendly with most of the day gave the best interview, I thought, explaining that Adam didn't believe in hating people back when they hated you, and obvious reference to the Westboro Baptist Church people.
And....We went out to the buses after the concert. I'm not much of an autograph person, but I didn't want to leave until the crowd had thinned out. Adam came out with a bunch of security people, and he went straight down the barricade signing. The crowd was at least six deep, quite a long line that actually looped around the buses. There was no possible chance he could get to everybody, so he just did that first row, and I watched from afar and pinched myself now and then to prove that, yes, I was really in the presence of such a beautiful man. With the amazing smile. I think more than anything else I'll take home with me the memory of that smile....
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 1:59 AM
Okay, reaching the end of my energy now, but I wanted to tell you about the connversations I had with Monte, and just a little, with Tommy out at the buses. After Adam finished his move down the barricades, he immediately got into his bus. Which was the brown/tan bus, for those wanting to know. Liz from Allison's band was signing, and Taylor was sort of running back and forth and obviously having a great time signing and being recognized too.
Gradually the crowd thinned a bit, and then Tommy came out and started to sign. He was unbelievably sweet and patient with *everybody.* Men and women wanted their pictures taken with him, and he accommodated everybody. I do believe that he was out the longest by far of anybody from either band who was signing, and of course there were a *lot* of people who wanted to talk to him. Ratbert was waiting patiently at one end when he was at the other end. I wasn't really interested in an autograph, as that's not my thing, and neither is having my picture taken with anybody. I like to *talk* to people instead. Well, I went up to the other end where Tommy was, and Tommy was so thorough in signing there and having his picture taken, that there was this big gap that developed, oddly enough. And i was right there, like two feet away from him. And he looked up at me just as I realized that he was going to expect me to ask him for something, so just as he was opening his mouth to say something to me, I hauled out my ticket and said, somewhat diffidently: Gee, I guess....would you sign my ticket?
Which he did. And I figured I'd give it to Ratbert if she didn't manage to get time with him, but thankfully he did. But.... much later in the evening, when almost everyone was gone and there were just a few at the barricades left, Tommy had been talking to one of the security guys who then walked off. I was literally the only one in the vicinity, so I went up to Tommy and tried to think of something he was interested in to ask him about. So I (probably inanely) asked him: So explain to me why you like horror movies. I don't get it.
He got all alert and interested, you could see it in his eyes, and he said that he's always like them from when he was a little kid. That he really can't explain it, but it's something he's always been interested in. So I said: Do you like being scared? And he shook his head and said No, that's wasn't it, because he didn't look at the movies from the perspective of the person who is being stalked or whatever, he watches the movies differently.
Anyway, that was my Tommy encounter. Early in his time at the barricades, a young woman gave him a rainbow hair extension on a clip, it was sort of narrow. He very sweetly thanked her for it, the way he was so sweet in talking to everybody. Then another woman said, put it on! So he did, clipped it to his left side, up high, and then he signed more autographs and had more pics taken like that.
Okay, next my convo with Monte, which was more extentive.
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 2:09 AM
Oh, boy, really tired, but I've got to type about Monte. Whom I love. He's my favorite in the band. I was just sort of hanging by the barricade, up front because the crowed had really thinned by then, when I realize that Monte is literally directly in front of me. He is really short, by the way. Anyway, I sort of startled and said, Monte! So good to see you! And I shook his hand and told him I'd also shaken his hand at Fantasy Springs. He sort of peered at me and then claimed to remember me, which I doubt, but I did remind him that I had taken pictures of him with a lot of other fans, one after the other, because I didn't care about having my photo taken with him, but was willing to snap others.
Anyway, I told him again that I loved seeing him on stage, and even such a simple statement seemed to really pleased him. I told him I thought he was so smooth.
Then I told him I was really sorry he wasn't able to get home to see Lisa and the kids this last time. And he agreed that it had been a totally aggravating day but that he was going to get home on...I think he said Sunday, which makes sense. He seemed really happy about that, and relaxed, not tense like I had thought he might be about the subject. And he said it was going to be a really good visit because he would get in early in the morning, maybe around 7 or 8 or so, and be able to stay....I can't quite remember how long he said he would stay, but many hours. He said this was so much better than other times he'd tried to get home, because other flights had gotten him home more like noon or 2 p.m., so he was going to have more time with the family than usual.
Then I said to him that I had thought it was very professional of him, how he had paid the extra money to get himself back to Kansas City so he could play in the concert last night, instead of just saying, the heck with then, and persisted in trying to get home. He really, really seemed to appreciate me saying this and thanked me very sweetly. He said that, truthfully, he wouldn't have got home until time to tuck the kids into bed, so by then it wasn't worth it for him to keep going, and he had a committment to return for the concert.
More in a minute....
JHS' date='Jul 17th 2010, 2:16 AM
Okay, more about Monte. I asked him how the family was doing, and he said okay, and then I asked him if Lisa had much help. He said her parents lived not too far, and did drop in a little, but not all that much. That she was really pretty much on her own. I expressed my shock and dismay. And then I said that he needed to ask Adam to give him a big raise so that he could afford to get live-in-help for when he was away on tour. He sort of smiled at that, but then got serious and said that he was sure that would happen as soon as Adam "takes off." I am pretty sure that is the exact term he used. He said it as if that was an inevitability, though at the same time I thought to myself: Hey, he's already taken off!
Then I told him that I had contributed to the baby shower, and he was so, so appreciative, and reached for my hand to shake it again and very sincerely thanked me for it. I told him I hadn't done it for him, that I'd done it for Lisa. That I was a mother, and I knew what she was going through with small children.
And that's about it about Monte. A genuinely nice man. We parted with him telling me that he would see my again, he hoped, and he actually said it as if he meant it. I responded by saying he certainly would.
Now, I'll try to come up with something coherent about Whole Lotta Love.