Okay! I get to tell my (really rather long) story. My other Eagles experiences sort of tie in to this, so I'll just put in quickly that I had seen the Eagles twice before this show, in Scranton, Pennsylvania and here in Toronto, Ontario, just under two weeks later. At Scranton's show, well, we had the little exchange which you see in my signature... And I do believe we got on Joe's Helmet Cam, LOL. At Toronto, which I decided to go to at the very last minute because I found a 10th row seat (!!!), well, that got interesting. I am very, very loud at concerts, and on "You Belong To The City" (my favorite Glenn song), I let loose this...*shriek*. I did this in PA too, but in Toronto, Glenn actually looked over his shoulder and grinned at me and sorta shook his head. Oops. This was right at the end of the piano intro, right before the sax comes in.
Later in the show, the people behind me were giving me grief about standing up and dancing, so I did what a lot of people were doing and went out into the aisle, as I was only the 3rd seat in. This was right before the band intros, and during the band intros, Glenn randomly decided, and announced to the crowd, that he wanted a martini. *shrugs* LOL...not a clue. So I yelled, "I'll buy you one!!!", to which my whole section started laughing and yelling, and Glenn looked over at me again and laughed. I got on Helmet Cam for sure this time because I was messing with Joe, haha, and he sorta pointed me out to the others (why I don't know, I hope it wasn't "hey, look at the freak!"). Right after that song, though, security came up and told me to return to my seat. I'm not, unfortunately, known for keeping my mouth shut, so I was trying to argue them down and point out all the other people who were dancing in the aisles around the arena, but to no avail. I got kicked back to my seat, but I looked up and all 4 Eagles were looking right at me, talking amongst themselves, and glaring at security. They all shook their heads, and Tim and Glenn shot sympathetic looks at me, with a little "I'm sorry" shrug from Glenn. (There's more to this story but that's for another time. ) So the man's seen me quite clearly. (He also caught my "I love you Glenn!" at the end, mouthed "Thank you" and blew me a kiss. *sighs...*)
A little while later, Casino Rama rolls around, and I dragged my roomie up there so that I wouldn't have to go alone, because...Casino Rama is known for being an easy place to meet whatever band plays there. So I figured hey, what the heck, it's not close to me and I don't work all weekend after it, I'm gonna try and cruise the bars and find them. I've also heard rumors that you can go down to the front of the stage near the end of the show, no matter where you are in the audience. I was in 3rd row!!!!!!!!, so I figured I'd probably be safe anyway but double-checked with security before the show began. 2 different guards said it would be fine, as long as I waited until closer to the end. So I figured, okay, I'm good.
Now as I've mentioned, I'm *not quiet*, right? Right near the beginning of the show, all I did was cheer...but it's a loud high-pitched noise, lol, and Glenn looked over (probably thinking, Lady, please, don't make me go deaf!), looked *right at me*, and gave me the HUGEST, most *adorable* grin I've ever seen! I sorta did a little in-seat bow, haha, which was returned by a nod. So already, I'm completely on cloud 9.
When we get to "You Belong To The City", I was distracted by something or other...I think the dude behind me kicked my bag over (I had a bag with The Allnighter album on vinyl in it...just in case...) and I turned around to say it was alright. It gets to the little lull between piano intro and sax, and I was sort of just anticipating the song, I wasn't really in full 'oh my God I'm seeing my favorite song' mode. Then I look back up at the stage, and Glenn's looking me *directly in the eye*. He cocked his head to the side a bit and raised an eyebrow. I shrieked, he laughed, and the song began with him smiling away at me. Me?
Ever so smooth I am...my jaw was hanging open so much it was probably resting in my lap.
Later on, I notice people starting to go to the stage during "Heartache Tonight". During this song, I also happened to have my phone on, not recording the show or taking pictures, I don't have a camera, but because it's my friend's favorite Eagles song and she wanted to hear it, so I had called her. Probably not smart but I had the phone low near my waist so security wouldn't see anyway, and it really wasn't recording anything. I start to run to the stage and some security lady grabs me, pulls me back and says I'm not allowed to go. "Why?", I ask. "Because you're in the side row, not center. Only center is allowed." "You have got to be kidding me, those 2 guys over there said it was fine!" "No, it's not fine, you go back to your seat!" I can't believe, at this point, that this is happening *again*. Some other lady ran right past me from further over than I was in my section, during this, and I about lost it, so they said "Well, alright, you can stand by the side of the stage." In this dark little spot behind all the backing musicians. Awesome. :P So I went to stand there, still holding my open phone. Security grabs me again and tells me they're taking my phone away for taking pictures. I inform them what I'm doing, then tell my friend I have to go and shut my phone and walk away into my little spot. By this point, Glenn's noticed (okay, so it was a BIT of a commotion...) and he's just watching me, smiling. I just shrugged and smiled and kept dancing.
We go into the next song, and I'm dancing away, with more people behind me now. I had the plastic bag looped over my arm, and it was uncomfortable so I reached to adjust it. Security, apparently now my nemesis, decides that I'm trying to cause a nuisance with it and *grabbed my arm to pull me out.* I shook them off and said I was staying, which they let me do. I turned back and Glenn was doing a guitar solo, *laughing his cute little butt off* at me, then shook his head and said, not too loud but loud enough as I'm standing right next to the stage, "You have NO LUCK with security do you???" I yelled back, "No, I don't!!!" and shrugged, and he mouthed "Poor thing!!" before going back to the mic.
That? Made up for *everything*.
There is more, but that will be a Part 2 because this post is long enough....
~*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..."