St. Louis, MO 9-20-08
Here's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
Hey I'm freakin' out! Wow, what a night!
I really don't know if I can even tell you what an awesome night in we had! I'm really almost at a loss for words. I guess it would be best to just start at the beginning and see what develops.
My husband and I left for St. Louis at about 12:00 noon. After various stops along the way we got checked in to our hotel (4 blocks from the Scottrade Center-not 2 as the website told us) at about 3 pm. We got ourselves gussied up and walked over to tbsf's hotel (across the street from the venue-you lucky dog) at about 5. It was great to finally get to meet someone from our community here! After chatting for a while we decided it was time to go check out the venue and see if we could see anything happening over there.
The 5 star VIP experience.
At the venue there were just a few people milling about. Some looking for tickets even. I noticed that at every window there was a sign posted that said "No cameras or recording devices for tonight's performance." I thought, hmmmmmm, and promptly hid my camera as best as I could in the bottom of my purse. At about 6:05 our ILAA hostess came out and told everyone doing the 5 star to line up and we would be let in. We were first there, but another couple came up and walked in in front of us, the dogs. We got checked in, a guard checked my purse, (briefly, and no, he didn't find my camera!) and were told we could do some shopping first, if we wanted to, which was just inside the gates. We immediately picked out a t-shirt each and a program and went to wait with the group. After everyone was finished, our hostess led us to a private area where we were given our gift bags, served drinks and a wonderful meal. We had chicken parmesan, pasta alfredo, breadsticks, ceasar salad, and cheesecake. It was all very delicious. Yum! The gift bag had the leather bound journal in it and a discount coupon for the online store. Eh, ok. Husband was thrilled-not! Then the hostess came to each table and gave us our tickets-the moment of truth! Front row-seats 3 and 4, center section B! Ack! I'm sooooo hoping these are as great as they sound! (Yes, they were!) Then there was a raffle. T-shirts and a hoodie were the main things. Then someone won an autographed cd! I wanted it so bad. We didn't win anything, naturally! After visiting with several of the fans, there was about 30 in our 5 star group, (larger than I expected) it was time to go check out our seats. The hostess led the way past a windowed area where we could actually see backstage! Nothing happening there though. As we found our seats, we were absolutely thrilled to find ourselves smack in front of Joe's mike and a bit towards Glenn's! Oh man, we were pumped!
Show time.
You know I don't know if there are any words to describe this concert. I mean St. Louis ROCKED! From the beginning, when the guys came out onto the stage, the whole place was on their feet, dancing and singing along. Every moment from beginning to end was just awesome. Every song was near perfect. You couldn't ask for them to do anything different or better. I'm not going to go through and talk about each song. It's already been done. I really can't add much. Glenn did his usual jokes and everyone still laughed. The set list was the same. Yes, I got Take It Easy in the encore. Only one encore again. I checked out everyone's shoes. Don had on his boots. Glenn and Tim had on black dress shoes. I didn't manage to see Joe's.They all looked wonderful in their suits and with their jackets off. Each one of them were VERY hot, sexy and gorgeous!
I got eye contact and smiles with all four of them and even Scottie!
How'd I do that? I had made 2 signs and waved one of them every little bit! The first one said "I
THE EAGLES" and the other said "OH YEAH! When I got them out whoever happened to be singing would look at me and get this smile on their face. It was awesome! I even caught Scottie's eye when he was drumming! I had thought of doing this and wondered if they'd ever had a sign in the crowd? I got the idea at the Keith Urban concert I went to last spring. There were signs everywhere at that. I didn't see any more last night. I think they thought it was great!!
Pictures-a security guard was camped out right in front of me to my right. Bummer. Lots of people tried taking pictures. He would immediately jump up and tell them to put the camera away. I decided I would just wait till the end and try to sneak in a few shots. At least if he threw me out, I wouldn't miss very much. I didn't see them take anyone away or their camera away though. I finally traded seats with my husband and tried to stand a bit behind him and sneak in a few shots, but the guy saw me and told me to quit. I got a few, but not many. That's the only bad thing about having such wonderful seats, you cannot hide and take pictures! Oh well. I will post them as soon as I can, if they are any good at all.
I brought a notebook with me to write things down, but I never got it out. I just couldn't sit down! I just wanted to savor every moment, so if this seems a bit sporadic, I'm just writing what I can remember.
Just before Life's Been Good, Joe said "I'm freakin' out" and everyone laughed! He made lots of geetar faces. Of course, I waved my "Oh Yeah" sign at the appropriate time and I got on the hat cam! The guys all seemed to be in great moods and were smiling and laughing throughout the whole evening. They did the freeze bit during whichever song they do that on and Don did his jump at the end of Dirty Laundry.
The St. Louis crowd was so cool and danced during most of the show. I was dancing myself and it was actually nice to sit during the acoustic set and cool off. I'm sure Glenn spit on me several times, too! I could certainly see it a few times.
Don't anyone count Joe Walsh out either. He does many more solos than I thought throughout the entire show. He's there on most of the new songs, too. Glenn does more than I expected too. Yes, Steuart has his stuff, but he does NOT overshadow Joe at all. No doubt about it. Joe was absolutely blistering on LROOE and In The City nearly brought the house down.
During one of Glenn's songs Glenn held a note kind of like Don does on Desperado. I can't remember which song it was, but it was towards the end! He enjoyed the crowd's reaction a lot.
One cool thing, at the end they were waving goodby and I thought, I'm going to throw my sign up on stage and try to get their attention to sign it. Well, it landed at Tim's feet and he picked it up and held it up high for everyone to see. I tried to get his attention to sign it and give it back to me, but he didn't understand and took it with him! So, Tim, sweetie, you've got my sign. Would you please have the guys autograph it and send it back to me? PLEASE!
I guess that's about it. As my husband said on our way home today, The Eagles are the real deal. They don't miss a lick. They are a class act. That's exactly right. And we got our money's worth and I don't regret spending that much money one bit. It was all fabulous!
And one more thing, Eagles, all of you,
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Please let him go and get him to Chicago before Wednesday tbsf.
For some reason he suddenly switched seats with his wife (who was much shorter) 
Loved it when you threw the sign at Tim, Brooke 
He looked a bit startled - lol. I also saw you on the headcam. As you said, the audience was in great spirits. I did think the Security people were a bit hyper. They caught one guy near me with his phone camera and another guy who lit up a cigarette and ordered another couple (who were dancing in the aisle) back to their seat and then a security guy sat in the middle of the aisle to stop people from rushing down to the stage 
but other than that everyone was great.
) it took to get there. I just had one sour note - someone stole my Program
that just isn't right!! Some people have so little scrupples! Hope you can ride the "high" for awhile!!
