Taylor Hicks concert...4/5/07!!!!!

[pick_pickler23]

My mom and I had the best night ever!
The place was right near the beach so it was pretty cool to see it because I hadn't been there in a while.
We ate dinner right across the street from it. We just had a quick dinner.
Then we went to the venue where Taylor was performing. When we got inside and I saw our seats...omg we were SO close!! They weren't regular seats. They were tables aligned the long way. I could touch the stage without getting up!!!! lol
His opening act, Toby Lightman...she's amazing!!!!! I bought her CD after and met her.
Taylor put on such an amazing show! He's so much fun and he's such a goofball! haha
Near the end of the show he came right to the end of our stage. I was one of the few that stood up and he shook my hand and nobody else's on our side!!!! My mom was so jealous. haha
Then after the show I really wanted to wait by the tour bus. The security guy said he didn't even know if that was the way Taylor was going out. I wanted to wait anyways and it was extremely cold (it was 11 when I started waiting outside) but my mom went to wait for me in the car. She kept calling me to tell me to come back to the car but I kept telling her a few more minutes. Finally it was 11:23 and she said if he wasn't out by 11:30 we were leaving. People kept coming in and out of the doors and everyone kept thinking it was Taylor!! A lot of the times it was some of his band members and backup singers. One of the band members was talking with a few of us and I got him to sign my set life. (I asked one of Taylor's crew members after the show if I could have one and he gave it to me.)
No lie...at 11:29 Taylor FINALLY came out!!! He went through the fans quickly signing things because I think he was cold. lol
He signed my set list twice because his sharpie ran out so I gave him mine. lol
I waited outside for 35 minutes and I'm not kidding if I waited any longer I would have gotten frost bite! When Taylor gave me my sharpie back I couldn't even hold it. I dropped it like 5 times! haha


Here are a few pictures I took at the show!!

My mom took this one of me waiting for the show to start!



Toby Lightman and I! She was Taylor's opening act. She was AMAZING!!!

Check out her MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/tobylightman



TAYLOR!!!!!!!











This picture is kinda scary but it's right before I got his autograph! lol



I have several videos to upload, too. They'll be in my next post!

[pick_pickler23]

Sorry about the bass. It's REALLY bad in all of them except when the singers are singing acoustic or unless there's not much bass but it's pretty bad in all of them.

Toby Lightman is an amazing singer! This song is one of my favorites. I took it in 2 parts because there was this guy I thought was coming up to me with a flash light so I turned it off. It turns out he was telling the people next to us to move because they took someone else's seats. haha

Part 1:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pru86v

Part 2:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wogcue

This is a really good one of Toby. You can hear her voice pretty clearly in this one.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nx8s8n

This one if of Taylor when he first came on to the stage!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ub905a

Taylor's playing the tambourine! haha

http://www.sendspace.com/file/t6xy41

Taylor dancing and singing...he comes pretty close in this one!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9qhgkd

Another one of Taylor...lol

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lfc5gp

Taylor plays the keyboard towards the middle/end of this clip! lol

http://www.sendspace.com/file/rpc1h6

Taylor singing "Runaround!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MFTZXXOF

Taylor rockin' on his guitar!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ojhi37

[CMROCK456]

Amanda you have some ABSOLUTELY wonderful pictures (and i cant believe you were really that close to Taylor!)ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I was in like the next to last row but the theater holds only abouut 2500 so i was still like 15 feet away Im so proud of you! Well done sweetie pie!

[pick_pickler23]

Originally Posted by CMROCK456

Amanda you have some ABSOLUTELY wonderful pictures (and i cant believe you were really that close to Taylor!)ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I was in like the next to last row but the theater holds only abouut 2500 so i was still like 15 feet away Im so proud of you! Well done sweetie pie!

Thanks Craig! I'm glad you still had a good time and I'm sure you'll have fun on Tuesday, as well!

[kellierox02]

I am not such a Taylor fan but it looks like u had lots of fun, congrats on that!!!!!!!!!

[pick_pickler23]

Originally Posted by kellierox02

I am not such a Taylor fan but it looks like u had lots of fun, congrats on that!!!!!!!!!

I definitely had fun! Thanks Sammy!

[Smarty]

Taylor is an awesome performance.I bet you had great time.

[pick_pickler23]

Originally Posted by Smarty

Taylor is an awesome performance.I bet you had great time.

I did! He put on a great show.

[i luv kellie]

woah! awesome glad ya had fun

[gemiz]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing Amanda! It's cool that Taylor is still hanging in there!