How to Rock Jennie’s World 101

So I went to a concert Tuesday night with my friend Laura to see a band I absolutely adore. It’s a Tucson/Boston local acoustic duo named Ryanhood with Ryan Green and Cameron Hood and I seriously love them. Think Beatlesmania… but less Beatles.

So before the show we’re waiting in line for tickets to what was supposed to be a sold out show but were told that there would be two separate shows if you didn’t get into the first show. As we’re standing there Cameron comes out and talks to a couple people in front of us, and then goes back inside, then he comes back out talks to some other people, at this point sees me smiles and waves then continues to talk to some people behind us, then, he walks by me, stops turns and says “Is your name Jennie?” at which point I pretty much died.

I think it’s silly that I have such a crush on this band that I actually got the butterflies. Its not like very many people that I know of have heard the band, but I just think they are amazing. So Cameron tells me thank you for being a fan and such and then I start babbling inconsistently and I look like a total dork. That’s okay, but my night gets better.

Tickets are sold out for the first show. Damn. So Laura and I go out for dinner and then come back for the second show. Finally we get in around 9:30 and the show starts roughly at 10:15ish, “opening act” kind of wasn’t something that imprinted my mind much; however the guest keyboard player was pretty good, that stuck out in my head.

We’re standing next to the backstage area of the stage and I see Cameron behind the curtains so I gesture for him to come over and he does and I ask him to play Born to Run To You because its absolutely one of my favorite songs. I love the lyrics (the writer in me is drawn to such things.) And he says, “Yea, we’re gonna play that because we didn’t at the first show.” So maybe it was good that we missed the first show?.

Finally Ryanhood came on and they play all the songs I love: old ones, new ones, a Beatles song and then as we’re coming to the end of the concert, born to run to you still hasn’t been played and I’m starting to lose hope in them actually playing it when all the sudden Cameron launches into a story about recording the song for the new album and how difficult it was. Then as I’m fiddling with my camera I hear “This is for Jennie.”

And then I died. I cannot even begin to describe these overwhelmed feelings of happiness… one might say I was extremely giddy and child like. It was like the backstreet boys craze all over again.

See people? It does pay to “observe from a safe distance”(read: Stalk) on myspace….