Casino Rama in Orillia, ON, Canada 5-19-05

[PinkCoatGirl]

I'm so there with both of you!! It's a tiny little place, only 5000 seats, so you really can't get a bad seat. However, now I know for next time, my grandma is entitled to VIP seats and all for herself or her family, so I'm using Grandma Power. And the tickets were right cheap too...I believe I paid $65 and was in 3rd row for it. AND you can run right down to the stage for the end of the show. Imagine it: an inch from Glenn, if you can situate yourself right.

~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~

My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"
Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."
Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Not a problem - very bad things would have to happen to keep me away! Hey - I learned my lesson from Pebble Beach. I should've quit that stupid job then!


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I'm just a hired hand working on the dreams I plan to try. The days go by...

[sodascouts]

Sounds terrific. I'm getting all excited and it probably won't even happen! But it's nice to dream. Sigh.


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[PinkCoatGirl]

Part 1.5: Where we branch off into the Don Adventures!

So yah...like I said, all of the Eagles saw the little getting kicked back to my seat thing at Toronto. Don watched me 'til I sat down, and kept glancing over that way through the rest of the show. I was joking with the guy sitting next to me that he was probably going to dedicate "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" to either me, or security, judging from the expression he had on his face!

Well, I didn't turn out to be too wrong.

I stood up during Hotel California, and because nearly everybody else around me had stood up too, I didn't bother sitting back down. For that show, though, Hotel California had it's own little encore unto itself, and they left the stage after it so a lot of people didn't realize it wasn't over and left, including a huge group of people from in front of me. So I was much more visible even than I had been before. They came back out, and later on, went into All She Wants To Do Is Dance. The guy beside me laughed and said "Awwwww...no dedication!" Which I was laughing at too...'til the first chorus. Don turned around (I was in the section slightly off center to their right, which was in the raised seating so I was in 10th row and about eye-level with the stage), looked full-on at me, and sang the title right to me. I was shocked, thought I was seeing things, but sang the "And make romance!" part and pointed at him, to which he laughed. For "Nevermind the heat comin' off the street", he looked down at where the security guard was stationed that had booted me back to my seat, then looked back at me for "She wants to party, she wants to get down, all she wants to do is, all she wants to do is dance!"

Oh believe me, was I ever dancing. The guy beside me was flipping out, LOL, he couldn't believe it and neither could I! He sang the last "All she wants to do is dance...and make romance" at me as well, to which I couldn't resist screaming "Darn right I do!!!"

Skip forward a couple months to June, where I saw Don and Stevie Nicks at Holmdel, NJ with a couple of friends. Unfortunately, my friends and I weren't sitting together because we all wanted the best seats we could get, and the only way to do that turned out to be buying them separately, so I nearly fainted on total strangers during this one.

I wasn't quite as close this time, I was around 15th row or so, but during those shows, while Don was on it was still broad daylight outside so it was very easy to look around and see everybody, I mean I could see my friends from clear across the amphitheater. After screaming my head off because he did "The Genie" and scaring everyone around me, LOL, I tried to sit down and be quiet, but later on in his set people started getting up and dancing, so so did I. We get to "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" again.

He walks over to my side of the stage and looks around...at which point I'm jumping up and down and dancing and just in general going crazy, lol, if Glenn comes back and y'all come to Casino Rama with me, don't sit with me if you embarass easily... And he looks. right. at. me. during the title line and points, then *waves*!!!! I waved back and he smiled and walked back to the other side of the stage.

My watch fell off at this point for no apparent reason, which was a very good cover for falling to my knees on the ground. I popped back up again for the last repeat of the title and "and make romance", which was accompanied by a little grin and a little motion as though he was sort of...hugging himself, LOL, to which I laughed and nodded, and truly, I don't remember anything more about that song because I couldn't believe my luck.

On a whim, I decided to catch the Detroit Henley/Nicks concert as well...yay for having friends all over the place and/or willing to travel, LOL! This features my infamous shriek again...and will be continued in a separate post.


~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~


My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"
Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."
Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."

[sodascouts]

Girl, you must be memorable! lol Thanks for sharing - and there's more! Dang!


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[PinkCoatGirl]

Hahaha...I don't know, I really don't...I'm either memorable, or got lucky many many separate times. I've had this happen with a different band as well, though...so I don't know..! I am known as the Concert Queen simply because I have to be crazy-far back to *not* have concert experiences like this... I think it's because I am just loud enough to draw attention to myself...although, I still wonder if it wasn't just "Okay, that girl's weird."


~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~

My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"
Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."
Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."

[PinkCoatGirl]

Part 1.5...Part 2.

Okay, so Detroit! This is exactly 2 weeks later. And because this becomes important, this one and the other one were on Saturdays. For this one...here's where I admit to being a bad bad girl...I never even sat in the seat I had a ticket for. My friend is sort of the master of seat-hopping, so we started off in, ahem, well, 5th row in the pit, in some empty comp seats (this venue has little plaques on the back of the seats that are designated for company employees and things like that). Don comes out and does "The Genie", and, this being one of my favorite Don songs, at the end of it...well, the *shriek* rises again...except, dude, I'm in 5th freaking row..! LOL Don's eyes went a little wide and he sorta tilted his head to the side...sorry man, the shriek has a mind of it's own..!

So after "Witchy Woman", he mentioned something about his new motto being to open all his shows with an obscure solo album track nobody's really heard...to which I unloosed the shriek again, because I LOVE that song and I like that motto! He cracked up laughing and said "Oh, okay...maybe I really will then!" I yelled back, "Go for it, that's one of my favorite songs!!!" He didn't say anything 'cause he was introducing "I Put A Spell On You", but while this song was getting going, my cellphone fell out of my pocket. I stood up to put it back in there, and my friend just sort of tapped me on the arm and pointed up.

I looked up all confusedly...and froze. I think I honestly made this expression: Don was looking *right at me* with a slightly confused expression of his own, hahaha... (I honestly think, by this point, if he had any memory of me from the previous shows he was probably thinking "Okay, where on earth does this girl *live*??") And I...hello, Ms. Smooth, we meet again...stood there, hand on my hip, and stared right back. This lasted for a good 5-10 seconds or so before I dropped my cellphone, he grinned, I waved, and he started the song.

I sat back down, looked at my friend, and said "Please tell me I didn't look as stupid as I think I did." She looked at me and said "Deer in the headlights, man." Oh, dear God. Hahaha!

Now, unfortunately, right at the end of "Hotel California", the people who were supposed to own those seats showed up and we got kicked out of them (we'd befriended the security guard, so he literally told us to "find some other seats"...score!). So we trekked up to where my friend's seat was, and I noticed there were 2 more empty comp seats down her row...5th row outside of the pit, so 10th row really. There was a group of awesome ladies in front of me who were dancing and quite drunk, haha, so we sort of made a combined front and screamed "We love you Don!!!" a little bit later on...just before "Heart of the Matter."

I was telling one lady about my experience in Holmdel, while Don's introducing "Heart of the Matter". Then he said something like, "And incidentally...it's Saturday again." He had made reference to it being Saturday at the Holmdel show, too...something about it being a good day because it was Saturday...well everyone was a little confused and quiet-ish so I and the people in front of me just started cheering really, really loud and our whole section went up with us. I looked up and yep...hi, Don!

He sang. The entire. First verse. To me. The lady in front of me screamed her *head off*, LOL...she turned around to me and went "Did you f---ing SEE THAT!?!?! He sang that TO YOU!!!" I nodded and fell into my seat for a few minutes, in fact I think I finished out that song in my seat.

I did get one more "All she wants to do is dance" during that show, too. And by the way, Nancy, my friend later got us down to the front during "Edge of Seventeen" and I got to grab Stevie's hand!!!

So yes...thus ends my tale of my Eagles/Glenn/Don concert experiences from 2005. I am so so so hoping they do another tour, because although I'm very, very sure I could never repeat the same crazy luck I had for those shows, I'd love to give it a try!


~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~

My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"
Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."
Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."

[DonFan]

Wow, Bree, Don remembered you and sang directly to you! That is great!

Thanks for sharing!

[glenneaglesfan]

I'm a bit later to join the fun here, but welcome, Bree, and thank you so much for sharing your Glenn adventures. He does sound one heck of a man. I should write to him - I'm sure he would remember, and you might get that autograph. (I can't talk, I haven't plucked up courage yet!)

Thanks L&M and FP for the links to the review and picture.

Look forward to reading the next episode!

Edited - I've just read your Don episodes, as well. My post took ages due to a dodgy connection at my end! What a blast!


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This way to happiness...

[PinkCoatGirl]

I should write to him - I'm sure he would remember, and you might get that autograph. (I can't talk, I haven't plucked up courage yet!)

Hahaha...yeah, see, I can say "Oh you should write him too!!" but I can't talk either, 'cause I haven't gotten the courage yet either and it's been almost a year since Casino Rama!

No problem about the sharing of the adventures--I am more than happy to tell the stories, and it's always good to find people who not only have I not bored to death with them already, but who actually share my obsessions!

Intense! I would have been "deer in headlights" too, lol.

Oh man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one. That's why I related so well to your inability to talk at certain moments while meeting Glenn...! We'd be great at Casino Rama...living it up through the whole show, then manage to meet him somewhere after it and just stand there and stare.


~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~

My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"
Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."
Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."