What an amazing show!!! Don't miss this tour if you can help it!
I got out of work an hour and 1/2 early and headed over to Pabla's house to meet up with her and Marvina. The leather was donned on and accessorised and WOW I will toot our own horns and say, we looked smokin' hott! Pictures are posted on myspace if you like to see them.
We got to the venue about 6:45 and headed into the backstage entrance. Great evening in so. cal we saw some old friends, made some new ones which is always enjoyable. John "The Baron" and his lovely lady friend were the first people we saw. We hadn't seen him and Adrian Galysh, Roy Z and DJ Will since Uli Jon Roth shows. For those of you that saw the fantastic display of multicolored toms by DW at the 2008 Namm show, I did meet the guy, who's name escapes me, responsible for that, we were just chatting and I told him about this great display I saw and he's like "That was me!" We had a good laugh over that. Other peeps we saw Rob Zombie, Fred Coury (Cinderella drummer) thanks for taking a picture of us Fred! Ralph Rieckermann who will now be known as , panocha HAHAHAHAHA! Gregg from Rockline and Adam a friend of Pabla's who is the Guitar hero you all play. He does the facial and body movements for the game. We went inside to check out the merch quickly before Whitesnake takes the stage, handed out some Primal Fear flyers to a few fans. If you like Priest you'd like PF www.primalfear.de check them out.
VIP tickets and passes thanks to the ever wonderful Mr. T. Sky box vip, never been in there but what a view! Comp bar and snacks and the greatest feature... a private restroom! LOL We missed Pop Evil's set so I hope to catch some of their tunes Wed. in Costa Mesa. Whitesnake took the stage in a flash and we were up and rockin! Singing along and playing our air guitars,leaning on each other and during the slow jams of course swaying to the music with me and my girls! The guys looked great, sound was good, drums could've been turned up a bit more but overall very exciting and fun! OMGosh when Doug took off his shirt I swear everyone could hear me howling throughout the entire arena!!! LOL
whitesnake set list
1. Bad Boys
2. Fool For Your Lovin'
3. Love Ain't No Stranger
4. Slow An' Easy
5. Lay Down Your Love
*Guitar spotlight with Reb Beach and Doug Aldrich trading off solos*
6. Cryin' In The Rain (with extended Drum solo in the middle)
7. Is This Love
8. Give Me All Your Love
9. Here I Go Again
10. Still Of The Night
Outside at intermission, met some more great people, snapped some more pictures, though by this time I think the wine is starting to hit me and whoo hoo I'm feeling goooooood! T comes up and says "We saw you ladies rockin' out from the stage." That made us laugh. We took a picture with him and then Mark came out quickly since he's working and made sure we'd come back outside after Priest. I grabbed a new black with Pink Foil girly Tank top British Steel logo from Priest, sadly I didn't like the Whitesnake girly but would totally love to have Marks shirt made into a girly a much more metal logo for us serious metal chicks!!
We go inside for Priest and as we are walking up the ramp by the loge area we saw some open seats so we just jumped on in. Side stage view but we wanted to be a bit closer for Priest. A freakin' amazing show! We could've moved to another area and seats but once they kicked into Metal Gods we planted. Such a cool thing to hear British Steel complete it went over very well with the damn near sold out venue!
PRIEST SET LIST
1. Rapid Fire
2. Metal Gods
3. Breaking The Law
4. Grinder
5. United
6. You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
7. Living After Midnight
8. The Rage
9. Steeler
10. The Ripper
11. Prophecy
12. Hell Patrol
13. Victim Of Changes
Encore:
14. Freewheel Burning
15. Diamonds And Rust
16. You've Got Another Thing Comin'
In total amazement at this point! Back outside Mark comes up and asks who's going to Costa Mesa. I am! Then he asks Pabla and Marvina why they aren't going and both are like "NOW I want to go again!!" We make some arrangements to meet in CM, who's calling who and who is emailing who. We were having such a blast talking and meeting new people before you knew it you looked around and there is like 10 of us left. A quick photo of us all then it's time to head out. Ahhh another ending to yet another GREAT NIGHT OF ROCK N ROLL!!! THANK YOU WHITESNAKE AND JUDAS PRIEST!!!!
going again today!!!!:Smokin:
, so don't mess with beer prices.
