April 9, 2016- Duran Duran Casino Shows- Part 3

    It is so bad that I couldn’t even remember if Nile was on stage with them during “Pressure Off”. I read the review of this show today and it mentioned that he was. Of course he would be- he did this song with them.

   He performed with them during “Notorious” also. I wish that I hadn’t been afraid to go out in the aisle during that one, if only for a little while.

   I had to look in between the two people in front of me off and on during the show. It was so annoying when they got closer to one another to talk for a bit during songs. I had either go out into the aisle or get closer to Carrie then.

   Carrie had tried going up to the stage to take a photo of her Nick 3 times but was stopped by a security guard. The first time she had said that I should go with her to try to get closer to John. I was too afraid and embarrassed to even make such an attempt.

   After the show, she bought me water, soda, and a yogurt. That was very kind of her. The yogurt really didn’t agree with my stomach, unfortunately.

  I don’t really remember what Simon was wearing at this concert. Or what type of button down shirt that John had on with the smile t-shirt. Was he wearing the same pants as at the PA show? Sure, I can look at photos of both events online, but it is upsetting that these images are not in my memory.

   Carrie had wished that they would perform “Careless Memories” or “Friends of Mine”. I told her about the Port Chester encore incident and how I had missed out on the former song and “Girls on Film”. She and the 1^st time DD concert guy agreed that they would have thought that the show was over like I had then.

   We heard “The Reflex” when we were on the elevator going up to her room. While I was waiting in the bus lobby area in the morning, I heard “Rio” and Hungry Like the Wolf”.

   Throughout that day, I had been worrying that I might find a ticket on my car when I got back to Linden station. I left a note on the dashboard explaining that I had tried paying the full meter amount but it didn’t accept my second $5.00 bill. Luckily, they didn’t ticket me.

   If I had just not been afraid to call for a cab to take me to the station, I wouldn’t have even had such a worry on my mind.

 

 

Both photos are from the internet

 

April 9, 2016- 2 Duran Duran Casino Shows-Part 2

    Despite being tired the next morning, I took my brother to the bank. He found out that I had been at the Bethlehem show because Jenny tagged me in a Facebook photo of her ticket from it. I made up a cover story that her mother had to cancel out so she said that I could use her ticket.

   My story for Thursday was that I had won tickets to an Alan Jackson concert at the Mohegan Sun. He would be very critical of me if he knew that I went to 2 DD shows in one week. The obsessed word would definitely be used. I really don’t need to hear such negative comments.

   That casino is huge; it’s a real gambler’s paradise. It seemed almost maze-like to me. I mostly sat around journaling and doing a couple of circle-a-word puzzles. I daydreamed and observed people. I did some DD fan spotting too.

   I overheard the salesperson in the Farmer’s Almanac Store asking a couple of them what their favorite DD song is but I couldn’t hear their responses. I saw 4 people with DD t-shirts on before 4:00.

   My seat turned out to be even better than I imagined. I was on the floor level, second section. The row was E and the seat #1. I eventually moved up to the one in front of me to be next to Carrie, the girl who started talking to me. Luckily, I was able to stay there during the show.

   She mentioned that she had just gotten the ticket for this show four hours earlier at the box office. I had thought about going there to see if I could do an upgrade if they had a seat in that front section. They probably didn’t.

    If I had been able to get such a ticket, I would have never met Carrie. Part of me is thinking this would not have mattered for being closer to the stage is much more important. That is so mean.

   She was so nice. When I told her that my bus wasn’t until like 9 a.m. she actually invited me to stay in her hotel room. I gladly accepted.  Prior to this day, I had had this hope that something like this would happen so it was pretty strange that it did.

   This was her 14^th DD concert. I have lost track of my number but I think that it is the same. Hopefully I will be able to add 2 more to that by the end of July. The guy next to her was at his first ever show of theirs. He’s been a fan since the early 80s. I was so pleased to see that he was enjoying himself thoroughly.

   Carrie seemed a bit surprised that I only got into DD in 1992. She has been a fan since the beginning. I forget what her response to my revelation was. I cringed on the inside when she asked me who my favorite is. After saying John, I mentioned my shame about this. Her guy is Nick.

   Once again, my bossy idiot side took control and made me dance around even more than I did at the PA show. I look like such a silly fool doing so, almost as bad as Elaine on “Seinfeld”.  I was singing a bit too.

   I had wanted to move out into the aisle to get a better view during parts of the first 3 songs but fear and shame kept me from doing so. I was afraid that I might get in trouble with the security guard if I did this. I did notice that other people were there and weren’t being told not to be but was still afraid that this might happen.

    Shamir, who had been the opening act at the PA show, was for this one too. We got Chic featuring Nile Rodgers also. This was so cool. I totally enjoyed their performance. It brought me back to my childhood and disco dancing in the basement with my brother and friends Cindy and Jessica.

   They did cover versions of 2 songs each of Diana Ross and Sister Sledge; Nile was the producer of these like he was for Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” which they also performed.

   DD did a Bowie song too- “Space Oddity”- right after “Planet Earth”. They did 3 more songs than at the PA show- “Too Much Information”, “Danceophobia”, and “Girls on Film”.

   Carrie didn’t like “Danceophobia”. I am not really that crazy about it either. Not too many people in the crowd seemed enthused about it. John was doing some dorky dance moves during it.

   She doesn’t know any of the songs off of the new album. I don’t think that she is familiar with their last 3 albums.

 

 

Note- The 3 concert photos are from the internet,