Duran Duran in San Jose

[Claire]

Originally Posted by Kels

4 hours and counting!! Wow Claire, 7th row...that's awesome. We've got 3rd level, almost dead center, front row right next to the aisle.

I'm way too excited.

I'm starting to freak out! We're going as a huge group in the 22nd and 23rd rows (friend works for KGW and got media group rate), then a few people started buying better seats, so I decided to look into it too....and man, I lucked out!!!

I'm scooting! They confiscated cameras last night in Seattle, so I'm just bringing a camera phone.

HAVE FUN!!!!!

[Kels]

What a fantastic show! DD sounded so great and our seats were excellent. I was a bit surprised to see that there were so many empty seats. Many more than I would have thought. There was even an entire section almost completely empty (near the back middle of the garden). Strange. A lot of people missed out on an amazing show.

Ima Robot was good. I like their sound but they didn't get a good response from the audience. The lead singer seemed extremely cocky for someone that I would guess most people in the audience hadn't ever heard of. They might have gotten a better welcome had they been hyped up a little more. I didn't even know there would be an opening act and if so, who it was going to be. I had to laugh though when the biggest applause/cheer they got was when they announced "this'll be our last song".

Saw many interesting wardrobe choices. There was a girl behind us who was wearing ankle boots with hot pink socks rolled over the top. Lots of glitzy shirts, big hair and even a few folks daring enough to wear the (tmi) leather pants.

When did going to a concert become like seeing a hockey game? There were so many vendors walking around screaming "popcorn, peanuts, red rope". I thought I should have been listening to some AC/DC watching my Winterhawks warm up. Haha. I was thankful for my Strawberry lemonaide thought.

Hey Claire, were with the group that had the "Portland Feeling So Nice" sign?

[Baileykat]

Speaking of Claire....where the heck is she? It's like 9:00am her time....

AND NO DISH YET? Come on!!!!


Don't tell me she ditched her hubby and ran away on the tour bus!!!

[jdramj]

She's probably just recovering! It is a great show.

I didn't know who that opening act was....I made our group go in to hear them and then I got teased the rest of the night because they sounded so horrible! LOL!

[Claire]

Oh. My. GOD!!!


That was the BEST show!!! Our seats were seventh row center, near the aisle on the Andy side, so Simon was directly in front of us!!!! My dream come true!! He looked so flipping HOT, that I was DYING. I jumped up and down, danced and sang the entire time!! It was really the most amazing show!!!

There were two guys in front of us who had four seats, so in the middle of Hungry Like the Wolf (second song?) they asked my friend and I to join them and they were a lot of fun--totally into it and really cute!!! Small world--they knew our friend Adam (who was in the third row) and ended up joining all of us for drinks after the show--weird!!! Portland is so freaking small! So then we got to talking when we joined the larger group and we pretty much knew allllll the same people from high school, college and beyond.

That banner was directly in front of me, but luckily didn't block our view! The people in the 4th row were NOT happy! I still thought it was pretty cool, though!

I started crying a little during Come Undone.....reminds me of my friend Doug who was a Duranaholic in junior high and high school and used to have this THING for Nick Rhodes (he once told me he orally pleasured Nick!! ). He was a roadie for them one summer--his parents knew someone at Duran's label, so he got an "internship" that pretty much consisted of doing drugs with them. Anyway, Doug died of AIDS-related cancer 6-7 years ago, and the song made me come unglued.

I was SO afraid they wouldn't play Reflex--it wasn't on the playlist--since they'd sang it the night before in Seattle and they were supposedly singing it every other show. We got lucky!!! That was the best!!!

They finished up with Rio and Girls on Film and everyone went nuts! It was an awesome ending. Simon looked HOT in his 1978 shirt. Damn, that man looks SOOOOO good!!!

Roger also looked great. Nick looked scary, Andy had that damn cigarette hanging out of his mouth and dark glasses (and why didn't I know the man was like 3 feet tall? ) and John looked botoxed with a scary hair color and hair line. Other people thought he looked great, but I've always been a Simon girl.

I got a great picture of a girl at Cucina before the show....very funny. She was Madonna-ed out and let me take the pic. We hung out there for about an hour and had a few glasses of wine. We completely missed I'm a Robot....had heard that they sucked....and went in and took our seats right at 9 p.m.

Only one pair of panties was flung. And no, they weren't mine.

I sent dsnylndmom a text telling her how young and thin I felt!! The average age had to have been about 35, I think.

Afterward, we met up with our group, which ended up being large.....and headed to Cucina. It's just so nice when we all get together for this stuff!! It's so much fun! What was weird was that we saw another group of people our age from our neighboring hometown!! We took the Max downtown to Rock Bottom and this huge group was there from Astoria. We visited with them for a while. God, Oregon is small!!

I'm working on 4 hours of sleep.....I think I'm still a little drunk!!! I was supposed to work at Chloe's preschool today, but just as I walked in, Courtney's school secretary called to tell me that she was sick, so I ran to get her and now she's sleeping.....I should be, too!

[Kels]

Originally Posted by Claire

Oh. My. GOD!!!


Roger also looked great. Nick looked scary, Andy had that damn cigarette hanging out of his mouth and dark glasses (and why didn't I know the man was like 3 feet tall? ) and John looked botoxed with a scary hair color and hair line. Other people thought he looked great, but I've always been a Simon girl.

They all looked good from the stadium seats.

Sounds like you had a great time!

[Kim]

Sounds incredible!!! I'm totally jealous of your seats~how incredibly lucky! Very cool!!!!!!!

I knew you were just going to have a blast. Simon looked fabulous in the 1978 shirt~liked that better than the Armani.

Glad you got to hear Reflex. I loved that song live.

So, are you totally hoarse? It took me almost 3 days to get my voice back completely.

Simon was just incredible. I mean, the band was wow. But Simon was just....wow.

You didn't miss anything with Imarobot. They were soooooo bad.

I thought half the fun was hanging out with the people that I hadn't hung out with since high school. We were all such diehard Duran freaks.

My daughter is still running around in her DD t-shirt telling anybody who'll listen who is who in the pictures. I've created such a little geek.

I'm so glad your show was incredible and you had such fun!

[Claire]

Yes! I've been hoarse all day! I lost my voice totally last night about 1 a.m., then I knew it was time to head home. I got it back sometime in the afternoon!