Some 14 year-old girl comes up backed by madly giggling girls and asks, "Steve? Can you sign my bra? .....I'm wearing it." Steve says "Sure! heheh... I'm not shy!!"
They leave and the group standing up there is snickering. I say, "ya know, I'd ask ya to sign mine, but uh, it's black." Steve laughs and says "DAMMIT! I HATE it when that happens!" Marty has to one up me and say "oh yeah, Sara? Well I'm not WEARING a bra!!" Steve smiles, but isn't really looking at her. I'm laughing. Marty continues, "I could REALLY one up you and get signed there anyway!" I say, "COOL! I'll take a picture of it!!" But she's walking away... dammit, I thought it'd be funny!
Somebody who got left behind the barrier when security decided that there was enough people up there yelled "Hey! You shoulda played Irish Whiskey!!!" Steve responded, "We almost did! We redid it, with a new drum break, it's really cool! But we decided we wouldn't play it... next time!"
A lot of chatter that I don't remember. Steve signs my setlist and gives me a strange look while signing it. I don't know why, and I don't think I'm going to worry about it any longer because I DON'T KNOW and have no way of finding out without driving myself CRAZY! So I'm letting it go.
A Fan: "When are you playing here again?"
Steve: "We're going to be playing a buncha shows around here before we go on our big tour. Don't know where yet."
FAN: "When's the album coming out?"
STEVE: "We're about halfway done with it."
SARA (that's ME!): "Hasn't that album been due out for, like, years?"
STEVE: "um... well... yeah, actually. Well, we recorded 12 songs for it earlier and then wrote a bunch of stuff, which is what we're recording now."
SARA: "So how different do you think it is than if you were to have finished it a long time ago?"
STEVE: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE SAID.
I was in too much shock in the fact that I had remembered the question (I had thought of it before I left) and had actually asked it somewhat coherently. AND I MISSED HIS ANSWER!!!!!! DAMMIT!!!!!
FAN: "what's going to be on it?"
STEVE: "Buncha new stuff.... Soul Cadillac is the only song we played today that will be on it."
SARA: "Is there going to be a lot of soul on it?"
STEVE: "what's that?"
SARA: "I heard it's going to be a soul record....."
STEVE: "Well no, not really. I mean, Soul Cadillac is gonna be on it, but..." he's getting excited... "it's going to be a real mixed up album. It's going to have a lot of different stuff on it and....." continues talking excitedly about it.
SARA: "Yeah!" after hearing about it having a lot of weird stuff.
STEVE: pauses and smiles at me (!!)
SARA (batting her eyes and looking hopeful... a step above begging): "Is Pool Shark gonna be on it?"
STEVE: "uh, no."
SARA: sobs. "man, I'm gonna go crazy if I don't get that horn line outta my head!!"
STEVE: laughs
For some reason, I decide to leave. I think maybe it's because I see Venus and Katie and a lot of other people were starting to crowd around....
I go over to Marty and her friends that I don't know. She introduces (I forgot their names already) and they're looking for Sean's sister, because one of them worked with her once.
Tim comes out and I go over to him and try to get his attention. Actually, we're ALL trying to get his attention cuz I have a little voice. I hand him the note Katharine, his fan club prez, gave me to deliver. He thanks me, making sure he made eye contact, which kinda made me back away quickly. I'm shy, leave me alone.
I turn around toward the merch stand. There's only about 10 people left in the venue and most of them are around Steve and Tim. There's a woman in the merch stand who I hadn't seen earlier. I asked her, "hey, are you Spirit?" "Yeah!" "Coooool!! I'm Sara, from the BB!"
"Oh! Hi Sara! Nice to meet someone!"
"Yeah, no longer just electronic words..."
She laughs and we talk a bit more. She asks me if I mentioned the fan club to Steve, which I didn't and she said that I probably should have–he would have thought it was cool and really appreciated it. Oh well. I ask about Jason and am told that his entire family–aunts, brothers, grandparents and small children–is here. So my chances of saying hi to him are slim.
Sean comes out, "has anyone seen my mom? I can't find my mom? Can you help me find my mom?"
Marty and friends converge on him and talk, while I buy the 2:29 7". I go and get Tim to sign it for me ("hey, cool, something DIFFERENT!" he laughs. "What's on it?" I tell him the songs. "Ah, cool.")
Then I go over to Sean who is chatting with Katie and Venus. He's still looking for his mom. He signs my record and I ask him what that funny lookin' thing was he was playin. He looks confused for a moment, and then says "oh! That's a soprano!" I think I actually knew this, but I wasn't sure. "Cool. Ya know, even after 8 years of band, I don't think I've actually seen one of those before." "Really? Heh. At least you didn't make the joke that EVERYone makes after seeing it."
"Uh, what joke would that be?" I ask.
"Nah, I'm not going to tell you, cuz then the next guy you see playing one, you'll say it and drive em nuts."
"What joke?"
"OK, fine. Kenny Gee plays the soprano, so people ALWAYS come up and say ‘hey man, play me some Kenny Gee!' and they think they're real funny.... but they're NOT. So have you guys seen my mom?"
"Ummm... what's your mom look like?" we ask.
"Oh, well... she looks like a mom, and she's with some old people." We look around and don't see anyone fitting that description and after driving security nuts with "oh, wait. I think I might want a t-shirt. wait. no. something else. wait. no. not enough money." type stuff, and after we make fun of Dana, we leave. (Not to Dana's face of course, cuz I swear, as soon as he saw me, he took off.)
The group of us splits off after some really mean people stole the huge banner that WE were going to steal just as we were getting there. It said "LB Day Amphitheater welcomes CHERRY POPPIN' DADDIES" and it was about 20 feet long.
I catch a glimpse of Johnny and Dan standing behind a table placed in front of their cars and it looks like they're signing autographs. So I hurry to grab my backpack from my dad's booth, but when I get back, I realize I left the setlist and record with my dad. What am I supposed to get them to sign???? And by the time I get back again, Johnny's gone and when I get near Dan, he tells the kids taking his pic, "yeah, hurry up, I gotta go!" It was just Steve left, with a mob of people. So I leave him alone and just walk circles around the stadium until I have to leave an hour or so later. I think Steve saw me a few times when it got later, since I kept peering around the people at him and I saw him look up at me. Maybe he was just looking at the people standing in front of him, but my imagination has to have a little freedom.
And thus concludes my 5th Daddies show.
