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RokofAges75:
Okay Mare, when we all meet in Philly for a BSB show some day, we are getting you a VIP so you can meet Nick!  That's a must!

I've never been to one of their charity events.  It seems like they did more of them years ago when I wasn't able to travel out of state to go to these things, and now, not so much.  I've been to a few Wylee parties; I sort of feel like that's showing charity to Leighanne LOL.

My favorite concert experience was their holiday show in St. Louis in 2013.  It was one of those radio station shows with several other artists, but they basically did their whole IAWLT tour set, plus the pandaskunk song (It's Christmas Time Again), which made my life complete.  I had true, actual front row for the first time in my life, AND because the meet and greets were different from their usual VIP deal, I got to get my picture taken solo with all five of them for the first time for about the same price as a silver VIP.  It was a great experience!

I've never really had a bad BSB concert experience either, but worst would have to be the first show of the IAWLT tour in Chicago getting shut down before the last set because of their stupid curfew and the fact that everything was running super late.  Everyone was so pissed, the guys included, but it was memorable, and at least I got to see them again the next night in St. Louis for a full show.

mare:
I remember that happening to you guys! Did they end up rescheduling that concert? I think they did but I don't recall if it happened or not.

I had most of my concert experiences before they made VIP a thing. Back in the days when to be able to get into a soundcheck, you had to win a spot in a lottery type draw. Remember when they used to do that? When they started the, anyone can do VIP for a price thing, I quickly figured out that was too much money for me to justify spending on five minutes with the boys.

They seem to have stopped doing all their charitable events. Those things I didn't mind spending money on because I knew it was going to a great cause. I've only done two but they were both pretty awesome experiences. Howie's bowling event is still one of my all time favorite things ever lol he's the best. And Brian's was pretty excellent too (minus Leighanne) and yes, I was being quite charitable! lol

Anyway...I wish they would do more of those and less cruises. It seems like maybe that's a thing of the past now.

KeepThisSecret:

--- Quote from: mare on January 25, 2017, 03:56:05 PM ---I've also enjoyed all the events I've gone to, although Brian's golf event, I had no idea what that was going to entail. All the walking and the intense heat and bad Leighanne encounter was maybe on the more negative side for me. I've never done a meet and greet or VIP and have never met Nick. Met all the others though.

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Ummmm what happened with Leighanne?? I'm sure everyone else around here knows, but I'm out of the loop! HAHA

I've never been to a charity event; mostly because they only do them in the States and I'm not about to cross the boarder and pay a ton of money on travel.

KeepThisSecret:
Okay, it was tough to determine my "best" concert experience. In all fairness, they've all been pretty great! I think one of the best ones was the Black and Blue tour that they played in Toronto the day after the September 11th attacks. All of the guys came out on stage before the show to pay tribute to the people who had lost their lives and to hold a moment of silence. It was a bit of a surreal moment; to have an entire areana full of teenage girls staring at the Backstreet Boys and being completely silent. I was sixteen at the time, and it was definitely a strange/uncertain time in the world. It was also the day that they debuted Drowning and we were the first audience to hear it live.

My friend and I had pretty good seats for that show and, for some random reason, the row in front of where my friend and I were sitting had been blocked off and was completely empty. So, at one point, we were jumping up and down to get Brian's attention and when he finally looked over at us my friend got so excited that she lost her balance and practically face planted over the back of the seat in front of her and into the empty row in front of us. Brian looked concerned for all of five seconds and then started laughing directly into his mic! Of course it was when he was supposed to be singing and he totally flubbed the whole verse. LOL Kevin swooped in to sing Brian's part (which was sweet) and then Brian made sure to acknowledge us every time he was on our side of the stage for the rest of the show. Teenage me was in heaven!!

Worst experience was the one and only This Is Us show that we saw. They played an open air venue in the middle of the summer and it was brutally hot! It had been close to 40C during the day with the humidex and at night it had only cooled by a few degrees. We were sweating just sitting in our seats! I actually felt bad for the guys being on stage in that heat; you could totally tell that they were struggling to cope and that they weren't feeling it. To make things worse, these two girls in front of us just kept screaming "Niiiiiiiick we love you!" for the entire show. It was all we could hear sometimes. They were acting like they were 12, but they were probably over 30. At one point, the girls sitting beside us were actually debating throwing something at them to get them to shut up. To top everything off, we had taken transit to the show to avoid the parking nightmare and, of course, the streetcar was shut down due to an accident when the show let out. So, we ended up waiting in the heat for hours until the accident cleared and the streetcars started running again. There was a crazy big crowd of people waiting and everyone started to rush the first streetcar that showed up; one girl got totally trampled and another one was bitten on the arm. Needless to say, we just hung back and waited for the next one. It was terrible!

mare:
Holy crap! Someone was bitten? Wtf is wrong with people?

I know I've told this story a few times, but during Brian's golf event, one of the friends I went with got overheated. It was an incredibly hot day. She had to go back to the clubhouse to cool down. In the meantime, my other friend and I were briefly sitting away from the crowd by a tree where Leighanne, Johnny Wright and their lawyer Jordan, were kind of just hanging around there too. They didn't know we were fans and were kind of oblivious to our presence and they were making fun of and talking crap about most of the fans who showed up at the event, calling my friend names because of her weight. Me being pleasantly plump as well, calmly shook my head and walked away and thus the hatred of Leighanne was born. To their faces she was nice as could be, but the way she talked after these people spent so much money for her charity spoke volumes to me. Horrible person.

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