Joe was the second performer at about 12:30. I was using my binoculars to see it was that far away. Mainly I was watching Joe, but I also noticed Eman, and remembered seeing him on the E! Celebrity Profile. Not too long after I noticed him, my friend Mel leans over and says "Hey, look at his guitarist, on the right, he's hot!" (sorry Mel, had to include it!) Of course I agreed, then I told her who he was and how he had written a lot of the songs with Joe, and done so much other stuff on the album. So now we spent the rest of the concert watching both!
As soon as the performance was over, we grabbed our stuff and were gone. Joe was doing a signing, and we were not going to miss it. I had MJM in a ziplock baggie, so it didn't get hurt. We get all the way down there, and they're not letting people line up yet, so we just hung out. The rain had finally just stopped, so we were trying to make ourselves look human again. I used the bandanas they gave out for free to cover up the mess that was my hair. Then finally they decided to let people line up, and somehow we ended up near the back (we were like the first ones there, I have no idea how that happened). So, Mel and I had gotten Joe's autograph 2 years ago at the same concert, and my sister had missed it. So, I pulled out my MJM CD handed it to Jaci (my sister) then took her hand, pulled her up through the crowd we were in so that she was in front of me, then pushed her up a little more and told her not to move no matter what happened. I told her to get the CD signed.
We went and found ourselve a spot out of the way down the end of the tent, where we could see Joe walk by, but not get in anyone's way. Sure enough, he went by. So, we just kept standing there. Waiting, we took turns checking on Jaci, but she wasn't moving in the line. While I'm standing there, I look up and some of Joe's band is standing there a few feet away. Eman is one of them. He had walked up to say something to Joe at the table, and then was standing only a few feet away in the crowd, and no one seemed to notice them at all.
We took some pictures from a distance, and we wanted to go up, but he was talking to someone who was writing stuff in a notepad, and I did not want to interrupt or anything. Then, just before I was about to get up the nerve to do it, my sister comes running up screaming. She'd given up and gotten out of line because she was never going to get through and wanted to atleast see Joe. As she did, Dave, Joe's bodyguard (Jaci had no idea who he was) saw her with the CD and asked her if she wanted her CD signed. So he brought her right up to the front of the line. She got to have her name on it (something I didn't get from Joe the first time) but she spell's it differently, so he wrote something about it on the CD too. She was so excited, and all I'm thinking is, damn, that was MY CD!!! :) Oh well, had to go buy a new one!
Last Update: August 8, 2001