So everyone has been asking me how playing Red Rocks was. It was FRICKIN' AWESHOME!! We opened for the movie Purple Rain, so we decided to do Prince's entire album Purple Rain. That was quite a task! Prince is a BAD ASS, and that album is genius! We added members to The Pipe for that show and practiced our ass off!
Soundcheck was great, it was amazing singing to a blue sky, hearing the music bouncing off the rocks and just feeling the excitement of the band build! Backstage at Red Rocks, what can I say? The beautiful red rock serves as one of the walls of the dressing room, and not just a wall but you can crawl up on it!
Seriously, those rocks hold some great energy!
We're supposed to go on at 7 p.m. and play til 8:10 p.m. So, while I'm getting ready, I hear that it had started to rain! I hurry up and finish and run up to the side of the stage to find out that everyone lied!! It wasn't raining it was pouring!! There was a river in the middle of the stage and I think I saw Noah's Ark floating by in the front row!! Now, we had just had 21 straight days of temperatures over 90 degrees, and you're gonna tell me that on the most anticipated day of my life (thus far!) the weather is gonna come and mess with U.S.?
You know what though, I really wasn't upset! We had been treated like RockStars and I did get to sing (even if it was just during soundcheck) at Red Rocks on the same stage that music legends and many of my heroes have performed on! But what really made me smile was when I looked out, from the covered part of the stage (DUH, cuz i didn't want to get my hair wet!), was a big group of my friends partying up in the rain, getting soaked and waiting it out!!! THANK YOU-Ray Ray, Shane, Michelle, Mr. and Mrs. Hippy Mike, Jen, Sammy, Tracey and John, Joci, Tempa and Joseph, Elaina are just a few off the top of my head! I know I saw Alissa and Zach, Heidi and Cassie, Karen, Lori and Jerry, Dr. J, Alex, and Stacey as soon as the rain slowed down!
Yep, if you don't like the weather here in Colorado, stick around for 20 min and it will change, and IT DID! They broke out the squeegees to clear the water off the stage and said we were going on!! The place started to fill up after the rain stopped and the next thing I knew we were being introduced! As I walked toward my microphone I got a little choked up cuz this was the beginning of something I had dreamed about for a long time! It was surreal, amazing, magical and over way too soon! I didn't even mind the wet spots (on the stage you perverts)! Unfortunately, our set had to be cut short because of the rain delay, so we only got to do 2 original songs, but we we're gonna get to play til 8:30ish!
So, you know when things don't go your way and people use that dam saying "things happen for a reason" to give you hope that everything will turn out right in the end? Well all I wanted was to get to play Purple Rain after the sun had set and the lights came on at Red Rocks. I even googled what time the sun was supposed to set on 8-8-08! 8:05 and we were supposed to be done by 8:10, so it probably wasn't gonna be very dark! Well, guess what, the rain delay made that happen! What a great song to end with at Red Rocks, I could hear the whole crowd singing along! I just looked up and enjoyed that last song, trying to capture one last mental picture, it was unbelievable! I got choked up twice during the end of that song, I'll never forget it and I can't wait to do it again!!
I really wanna thank my friends again for being there, it meant alot to me and you were my "light shining through that cool Colorado rain!" I gotta share this lil' story with you. While the stage was bein cleaned up and gear was getting set back up, I walked across the back of the stage to the other side where Rick Gardner and his wife, Pat, were standing. When I did this everyone started cheering and whistling, just making a bunch of noise for me! When I got over to them, Rick asked me what was all the commotion goin on while I was walking across the stage, and I proudly got to answer that those were all my friends!!
I also wanna thank all my partners in crime that night! Ya'll rocked --Citrus, Azma, Murphy, Kurt, Scott, Sherryce, Ryan, Jamie, Ryan, Amanda, Denise, Rick, John, Damon and of course Laura!!
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