July 3rd at Fraze Pavillion in Kettering (Dayton) Ohio. 71 piece orchestra. And 9 Star Wars characters from the 501st...including me. Lawn seats are still out there.
July 3rd at Fraze Pavillion in Kettering (Dayton) Ohio. 71 piece orchestra. And 9 Star Wars characters from the 501st...including me. Lawn seats are still out there.
You owe it to yourself to see him. Beyond excellent show. Imagine live action UHF, and you're only half way there.
OMG.
Living the dream!
(Some of my earliest memories are of his music. From what I gather he is a genuinely awesome guy too)
I need me a sweet codpiece like that,
Appleseed said:You owe it to yourself to see him. Beyond excellent show. Imagine live action UHF, and you're only half way there.
Truth. Weird Al puts on a GREAT show, I've seen him a couple of times.
Everything about this is amazing. Can't wait to hear how it goes.
I've been a fan since 1985 high school and Dare to be Stupid, but have never seen him live. Funny thing is, chances are I'll be backstage the whole evening and STILL not see him. 
It was time:
Our changing room was that semi trailer you see behind us. Using shop lights since no one could figure out the interior lights until the end of the evening. We got there around 530pm and weren't expected to go on until at least 930pm. Which gave us time to practice the dance routine multiple times, harder than we expected it to be really. At least I knew "The Saga Begins" well enough to know the music cues and lyrics. (I'm waving.) We also had to decide the lineup, w/ Vader in the middle.
Ready to go out. I ended up next to Vader to his left, and multiple people told me chances were good Al would come over to me and lay his head on my shoulder, and sing to me (he does it every performance and usually my spot). I was quite hopeful!
The big event! I'm on the right of Vader here. The whole time I'm thinking "E36 M3 do I remember the routine???"! But I did it, and had the biggest freaking smile on my face the whole time. The crowd went nuts when we walked out, so many people. And so many cameras and lights in my face... AND YES, HE CAME OVER TO ME AND SANG TO ME WITH HIS HEAD ON MY SHOULDER! If I thought he could hear me (no electronics on) I would have whispered "I love you".
Afterwards he was going to do a group photo and individuals with each of us. I wanted to stay suited up but they told us the trailer needed to be emptied/loaded ASAP after the show so we all changed quickly. The manager hustled him through like ok next ok next, but Al was very gracious and friendly the whole time.
I really should have told him I loved him at this point. This will possibly be the best experience I'll have in the 501st. I love the hospital troops (another in a few weeks), the cons are alway fun with the kids, but I've been an Al fan since 1985. Everybody congratulated me on the solo experience, we joked there might be Al sweat on my shoulder bell. Sure enough, we saw a bead of sweat under those shop lights! Might have to frame that thing.
You have won at life. That's amazing.
What a guy. This is so awesome.
Very cool. Not everyone gets to be on stage with an artist we grew up with. Looks like it must have been a fun show. One of my kids has tickets to the show in Boston soon, too bad he's not a stormtrooper, he'd love to be on stage with Al. Congrats!
Great! My wife and I watched it and both of us saw that you were always right on the beat with your moves.
I thought he had to take the "see him hitting on the Queen" line out. Maybe he forgot? (Ha, right)
Supposedly Don MacLean accidentally sings Al's lyrics from time to time.
(Saga Begins is my all time favorite song of his, parody and original. It hits so many marks that it's perfection. Well that and Stop Draggin' My Car Around)
So awesome!
In reply to Floating Doc :
Thanks! Get any good photos?? Still trying to find one of him laying on my shoulder, SWMBO's phone's focus acted up right at that moment.
And he's playing Cleveland tonight, another group of Ohio Garrison is doing that show.
That so rules. Our next-door neighbor turned us on to Al. "There was this guy on Dr. Demento called Crazy Al or something--you gotta listen."
And it went all downhill from there.
What Fun!!
In reply to David S. Wallens :
That's pretty much how I found him in 1985.
My older sister's college professor grew up with Weird Al as a kid. Their parents used to get together and play cards as a kid, and he would have to hang out with a young Al. He said even as a kid, he was one strange motherberkeleyer
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