Meeting Stevie

[grace_face]

At her last solo tour in 2006, I was at the Brisbane and Gold Coast shows, which were amazing of course, and although at the Brisbane show I assumed we'd have NO hope of getting anywhere near her (huge venue), but the Gold Coast one, we came earlier in the day to see if we could hear a sound check (we couldn't), and scouted out the venue and located what we thought was the back entrance/exit she'd come from after the show...

So after the show finished, we went around to the back. There were a few people already there, and after about 30 minutes there was a group of about 30 people gathered there, all excited and pumped from the show.

I was sort of disbelieving that I'd ever get to actually meet Stevie, but also had butterflies at the concept...it WAS a possibility, you know?!

So...after about 45 minutes or so, she did come out as hoped, but she sort of slowed down to wave and blow us kisses, but didn't come any closer. She had 2-3 big guys around her and went straight into one of the waiting cars. As they drove off, she blew more kisses until she was out of sight. Awwww...I cried when we got home. I was just so overwhelmed and flattened that the "Week of Stevie" was over. lol.

My partner met her back on the Brisbane Tusk tour. She was 16 (my partner) at the time, and somehow managed to catch her (and the whole band for autographs, even Lindsey at one stage though he mainly stayed in the hotel room and wasn't overly chatty at the time) before I think the first show. They sat chatting for about half an hour!! Stevie was very talkative and lovely. They talked about Janis Joplin and Stevie said how she was just in awe of her and felt like such a lame sort of...like, she had her bra straps showing, falling down her arm and there was Janis, all cool and stuff. lol.

Anyway, then after the show there were a heap of people around, and the band walked through to get back to the hotel, and my partner was amongst the crowd and Stevie actually recognised her and called out to her by name! WOO!

Then at the last show, which my partner was also at, Stevie dedicated Landslide to her. OH MY GOD! lol. Some guy taped it on a tape recorder and gave it to my partner to keep. Lucky. They (my partner and her friend) didn't know anyone had taped it, so...yeah. That was really nice of the guy to give her the tape too.

So there you go.